Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Score--Harvard 4, Union Boat Club 1. Glidden (H) defeated Wakeman (UBC), 3-2; Sargent (H) defeated Bowditch (UBC). 3-0; Glider (H) defeated Cross (UBC), 3-2; Delano (UBC) defeated Haskins (H), 3-1; Thom (H) defeated Wheeler...
...over Florida's Biscayne Bay one day last week flew an airplane towing two gliders. In one was Sportsman Pilot Harold Bowen, in the other Warren Edwin Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), co-holder of the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute...
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...
...days later Gilbert Baker, 24, of East Orange, took off in his glider from a field near Basking Ridge, lost a wing, plunged 100 ft. to his death...
...controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he built a glider and wrote a thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell put his education to practical use by becoming chief of the propeller division of Curtiss Airplane Co., then Chief of the U. S. Army Propeller Service for ten years. Since 1928 he has been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary of United...