Word: glider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says he: "I have stood up-stood up-in a glider, climbed the outside of a house, gone 10,000 feet up in a cable car with no bottom, driven a 1932 Austin Seven with no brakes...
...tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by Northrop's Norair division and turned over to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a series of test flights. M2-F2 is a wingless glider, called the Manned Lifting Body Research Vehicle, designed to be used eventually to ferry astronauts back from space to a dry landing rather than an ocean dunking...
...spirit of the E.A.A. is Paul H. Poberezny, 43, of Hales Corners, Wis., whose constituents mostly call him "Poop Deck" because who can manage "Poberezny"? Poberezny, who is deputy commander of matériel, 128th Air Refueling Group, Wisconsin Air National Guard, learned to fly at 14 in a glider, flew both fighters and bombers in World War II and Korea. He has built five planes himself. In 1953 he founded the E.A.A. with a group of like-minded friends. "Aviation is one of the last frontiers of individual thinking," he says, "where a man with a few hand tools...
...tank-killer rocket that was adopted by the German army, was sold to Denmark and Italy, and got Bölkow into antitank and antiaircraft rocket research with France's Nord-Aviation. Bölkow today produces a popular helicopter trainer, two light sports airplanes, a glass-fiber glider, thrust-measuring devices, micropumps and a digital data-processing system. It is also one of three firms working on the third stage of Europe's ten-nation commercial satellite program...
Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England...