DLG Explained

To launch a Discus-Launch Glider (DLG), the pilot holds a wingtip and rotates the glider around by hand before releasing it. Using this method of launching, the average flier can achieve launch heights of greater than 140 feet (43 m), with the more powerful throwers exceeding 200 feet (61 m)! The discus method of hand launching a glider has in effect replaced the older javelin-style launch, where a hand launched model glider would be launched overarm, like a javelin would be thrown. The discus launch is far easier, more efficient. and less physically demanding than the javelin launch. Most DLG models use aileron, rudder and elevator control, with the ailerons also being used as flaps for different modes of flight and also as air-brakes for landing. A modern DLG model weighs approximately…

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Model Airplane News (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2022

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