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...wind he had soared 155 mi., broken the world's distance record (136.8 mi.) made by the late Guenther Groenhoff in Germany's Wasserkuppe three years ago. Previous U. S. distance record (121.6 mi.) was made by du Pont last autumn in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, Elmira's rival as a U. S. soaring centre. Belittling his achievement, du Pont told newshawks: "All there was to the flight was finding clouds and going for them. ... I used a mountain only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer du Pont stayed...
Germany boasts 10,000 licensed glider pilots, Russia 30,000. In all the U. S. there are less than 200. Last week most of them were gathered on a high ridge in Elmira, N. Y., for the fifth annual gliding contest of the Soaring Society of America. For two days unfavorable winds kept the impatient birdmen on the ground, but on the third day conditions were ideal. Over the flat top of Henry Harris Ridge, newly cleared at a cost of $10,000, floated fleecy cumulus clouds with their promise of thermal currents. Beyond the Chemung Valley 900 ft. below...
Soaring over the ridge an hour and a half gave Dick du Pont an idea. Year ago his father offered $3,000 for the first motorless flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map nor parachute was a risky business. But the opportunity might not come soon again. Southeast, without a second thought, young du Pont pointed the nose of Albatross II. Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along...
...bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Plotkar Slavickas of Glotz, Lithuania. He came to this country as a young man and after a preliminary education in the public schools . . . entered Elmira Penitentiary after successfully passing the entrance requirements. Mr. Slavickas graduated on parole with the class of 1932. While at Elmira he was quarterback on the football team...
Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900) founded in Elmira, N. Y. one of the first "institutional churches'' in the U. S., complete with gymnasium, library, theatre, dancing and billiard rooms. One of his jobs was to regulate the Elmira town clock...