Car Rack
From Hang Gliding Wiki
Unless you are flying from an aerotow park and store your glider there, you'll need a rack for your car or truck. A typical glider packs in a bag that is 16 to 18 feet in length and 12 inches in diameter. Wills Wing recommends that their gliders be supported in a minimum of three places that span at least 13 feet.
One of the most popular means of transporting a hang glider is to mount a ladder on your vehicle using some sort of rack. If you buy a long extension ladder, you can mount both halves of the ladder , so that you can carry more than one glider. Your ladder can double as a support for your glider if you want to store your glider using a canoe hoist. (See the section on Glider Storage.)
You can make a lot of friends if you can carry more than one glider on your rack, so get a rack setup for two or more gliders if you can. Small cars can generally carry three gliders, larger cars and most SUVs and vans can carry four, and full size pickups can carry six. Since each glider will weigh between 50 and 70 lbs (22 to 32 kg), you want to make sure you don't make your vehicle too top heavy.
Some pilots enjoy taking on the challenge of engineering and building a custom rack. Here are a few examples:
- Rack Galleries
- Car Examples
- FormerFF's rack
- Boxter1221's sexy rack
- Vince's Rocket
- Dan Tuck's aluminum square tube rack
- Holger's rack
- Rodger's rack for his Subaru Forester
- Honda Accord Rack by flyhg1
- Spark's Subaru Forester Rack
- SUV Examples
- Truck Examples
- http://www.xmission.com/~srathbun/HGtruck4sale.pdf
- Red's "Truck Extender" rack, but note this: A warning from GTPowell
- Windlord's ice blue rack
- GT Powell's incredibly well engineered Toyota truck rack
- Van Examples
