Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 5, 6-New York Glider Carnival; at Bayside...
visiting in Carmel Valley, Calif., taught socialites how to fly a glider. Among his pupils: J. Cheever Cowdin, poloist. Also seen fiddling with a glider's controls (but not gliding): Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor...
...Department of Commerce prohibited, last week, the towing of aircraft by other aircraft, except by special permission of the Secretary of Commerce. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, said that the rule was aimed specifically at the now popular practice of towing gliders behind airplanes, subjecting them to high-speed stresses which they have not been designed to withstand. Permission will be issued if the glider is structurally sound, if the undertaking will further aviation...
After weeks of practice and preparations, which, in passing, provided glider licenses for both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, the combined Lindbergh and William Hawley Bowlus forces brought forth a record last week. At San Diego, Bowlus, in his slender, wide-winged, motorless plane soared into the wee hours of the morning for 9 hr. 5 min. He failed to break the German world's record of better than 14 hr., but established a new U. S. mark. Later he helped his famous friend into a brand new glider, saw him take off at La Jolla, watched...