Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gliding Winch Launch

Gliding Winch Launch
Well maybe I'm biased because I know how exhilarating a winch launch can be, but this photo captures a lot of what gliding is about. A sleek fibreglass glider, being launched into an open sky, the pilot's face profiled though a clear canopy, and the wings flexing under a G and a half of acceleration &mdash; all this nicely composed within the frame. It could be beaten by an aerial shot of a tight group of gliders in a thermal, but those are really hard to obtain. Photograph by whiteplanes.com, and illustrating gliding. - Solipsist 21:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - Solipsist 21:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Photo is by someone else, he is simply friends with the sites owner and got permission.


 * Support. Nice picture, illustrates the article well (I would have had difficulty picturing winch-launching, and I wouldn't have pictured that much acceleration), beautiful colors.  Resolution not quite high enough to tell whether the pilot has a mustache, but I don't mind. --Andrew 02:03, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. You might see the moustache better if he was flying towards the camera. ;) Mgm|(talk) 20:53, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. That'd probably be bad news for the photographer. ^_^ Sango  123  00:22, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, in general the glider can't launch if anyone is in front of it. Every now and again the winch cable breaks and you would have half a mile of wire wipping towards you at ~60 mph. It would probably hurt if that hit you... -- Solipsist 10:09, 8 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Support, would be nice if the image was moved to commons (commons accepts that kind of copright, right?). BrokenSegue 02:14, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. - Ian 09:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Great photo --Fir0002 00:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. James F. (talk) 15:45, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. – ugen64 03:12, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

9 / 0 / 0 --Spangineer &#8734; 01:37, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

