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...bought their planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet of the Soaring Society of America...
...soaring. Soaring is three-dimensional sailing whereby, to achieve altitude and distance, an expert has his choice of four types of air current: 1) hill-deflected winds, 2) thermal currents from warm spots on the ground, 3) upcurrents under cumulus clouds, 4) explosive updrafts preceding a thunderstorm. At Elmira, long ago selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing west winds are deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker...
...Bendix prize for the meet's longest distance flight went to Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J. On the last day of the meet he took off from Elmira, climbed to 5,500 ft., found a "street" (chain of cumulus clouds). Swinging beneath it in long, irregular parabolas from cloud to cloud, he proceeded to Ottsville, Pa., where he glided down - 146 miles from Elmira. His flight narrowly missed the U. S. record of 158 miles...
...Said Jay Buxton, glider builder of Haw thorne, Calif.: "We'll start and go as far as we can." That was a month ago when Manufacturer Buxton & Daughter Lucretia were starting out with three associates to tow their two-seated glider Transporter to Elmira behind a 1925 Rolls-Royce. They arrived in five days. On the second day of the meet, Daughter Lucretia and Associate Fred Barnes climbed into Transporter, took off from Harris Hill at 10:27 a. m., soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with...
...Rand, returned to try another ballot. On the strength of some 400 votes the company declared the plant open a week after the closing. Less than a half-dozen workers got through a double file of 900 pickets. Meanwhile machinery was being shipped out of Syracuse to Elmira and Ilion...