Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mansfield (Y) defeated G. G. Glidden, 6-8, 6-2, 6-3; Stevens (Y) defeated G. S. Franklin, 6-1, 6-1; McMurtry (Y) defeated J. A. Roberts, 6-2, 6-4; G. F. Robertson defeated Ellis (Y), 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; R. W. Glider defeated Greene...
...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...
While performance during the first days of the meet did not approach that achieved in Germany, Austria and Honolulu, where records of 283 mi. 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...
...Massachussetts Institute of Technology which loaned its famed Dr. Karl 0. Lange, an authority on soaring. Each day at 5 a. m. a plane climbed to 13,000 ft. with M. I. T.'s special instruments for recording weather data. At 7 a. m. Dr. Lange directed the glider pilots to the best ridge for the day's soaring, told them what currents to expect. Then pilots & crews started for the ridge, dragging their craft on trailers...
Novelty of the meet was the entry of two two-place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...