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...Larry Bowlus...
...Teeple '87-'88 2:56.55 Steven C. Papkin '89 3:12.33 Robert F. Cunha '87 3:13 Steve Mullery '89 3:15.09 Gina Anderson '87 3:15.32 Adam Cotsen '85 3:17 Ian Huschle '88 3:22.30 Brian R. Barringer '88 3:28.24 Judith Marson '87 3:30.45 Larry Bowlus '90 3:34 David G. Yu '88 3:42 Nicholas Katsanos '87 3:42.37 Chuck A. Veley '87 3:45 Patty H. Diker '87 3:46 Jim Connolly '88 3:47.57 Diana L. Murphy '87 3:50 Amos Gelb '87 3:51.21 Doug Cohen '89 3:51.56 Jerry Geripechauer...
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack...
...able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared a new sailplane...