TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @KrajciTom@universeodon.com
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For the glider's ground support equipment, there is good news and bad news in the first photo.

The good news is that the eScooter has more than enough pulling power to move the glider about on a smooth, level paved surface.

The bad news is that this version of the red tow bar means that any sideways push against the tail of the glider is transmitted to the eScooter...and makes it extremely difficult to keep the scooter from toppling over.

I had to re-design the tow bar.

The second photo shows what I've come up with. Now the wheel on the yellow tail dolly carries the weight of the glider's tail and reacts to any sideways loads. The eScooter merely needs to provide the pulling force and doesn't have to deal with those sideways forces. That should be much easier and safer for the driver.

The next time I assemble the glider at the airport, I'll give this towbar a final test with the eScooter.

Side view of an assembled glider on the parking ramp of a local municipal airport. A yellow tail dolly is clamped around the aft end of the tail boom. The dolly has a castering wheel. A red tow bar is connected to the tail dolly's wheel axle, and it carries the glider's tail wheel...and all of this is connected to the aft end of an eScooter. It's a sunny day and the sky is mostly blue with distant cirrus along the horizon. Ahead of the glider's nose is a red ramp that allows the fuselage to be loaded into the aft end of a transport trailer. A closer view of the glider's tail wheel, yellow tail dolly, and a re-built red tow bar. This is a view of the inside of a garage shop. The tow bar no longer lifts the glider's tail. Instead, the tail dolly carries the weight of the glider tail. Beyond the rudder's trailing edge (rudder not seen in this photo...it's been removed) the tow bar extends upward vertically to the correct hight to attach to the back end of the eScooter (not shown in the photo).
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