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...false starts characterized by high pressure promotion (gliding was once touted as the "salvation" of the U. S. aircraft industry), soaring is just beginning to get a foothold as a U. S. sport. In the third annual meet of the Soaring Society of America Inc. which ended at Elmira, N. Y. last week, flights were made which far surpassed previous U. S. records, but were still far short of Germany and Austria...
...months before gathering at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the Third Annual National Soaring Meet, an enthusiastic little group of glider pilots had prayed that the winds of the Chemung Valley would not fail them, as they did for a fortnight last year. Perversely, on opening day last week, for the first time at an Elmira meet, the wind was too strong for soaring. Nevertheless a crowd of 28 pilots and some 300 spectators climbed Big Flats Ridge, northwest of the town...
...distance, 8,494 ft. altitude, 21 hr. 34 min. duration have been made, it was in all respects the most successful glider meet yet held in the U. S. The entry list of 50 pilots surpassed previous years. Hard-up pilots camped in an apple orchard adjoining Elmira Airport. Three youths pedalled bicycles from La Porte, Ind. just to look...
When a pilot lands out of sight of his take-off he gets to a telephone, calls headquarters at Elmira Airport. Headquarters flashes his position by short-wave radio to the crew atop the ridge, and off they go with the trailer to retrieve the ship...
...radio now finds its way to publishers' purses. The Columbia system estimates that 35 of its 90 stations are affiliated with newspapers. The Federal Radio Commission says "about 100 newspapers have stations or arrangements with stations." Last week Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett bought a small station at Elmira, N. Y., was reported in the market for more. Last week there were rumors that William Randolph Hearst was seeking a full day's time on N. B. C. or Columbia, that he sought to have his WINS station's power increased from 500 to 50,000 watts...