How Do You Build A Hang Glider Rack?
“Hi this is David Duke. In this clip I’m going to be talking about building a rack for hand gliding. We have to get to the top of mountains for most of our flying. Though there are other things like aero tow and truck towing where we can do it on the ground pull it up like a kite. This is a typical hand gliding vehicle. Often it’s a truck, usually four wheel drive, but for people that aren’t going to the top of mountains I’ve seen hand gliders on the top of porches and little Acura?s and things like that. But hand gliders a pretty long device. This is it all folded into a tube like a tent and this one’s about eighteen feet long so you’ll need a front rack to support it’s nose. Because you don’t want your equipment bouncing and bending and getting beat up. And you’ll need a rear rack back there. If you have a shell, that’ll suffice for the rear rack, but you’ll want some padding in between the top of the truck and the glider. This rack here I made out of a pipe that I bolted together, a
