Wed May 23, 2018 10:14 am
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Like @johnm said, destroy the lift and you then only need to restrain horizontal movement. AIUI you can make or buy wing-covers that incorporate profiled foam strips to modify the profile. Racing-cars have long-used aerofoil "spoilers" to strongly push down and thus stick the vehicle very firmly to the deck. much better, safer and less strenuous than carting weights and/or spikes around. There have been cases of aircraft taxiing and taking-off, trailing their "tie-downs"
Not rocket-science to understand that an aircraft that will legally carry 2 people at ~10,000 feet (thin air, remember? ) and fuel., will actually carry a damned sight more (C150? AIUI, virtually all school-machines are operated overweight)
So, you need the weight of about 6 persons to have any hope of restraining even a small machine.
(around 1/2 a ton! )