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...make a start in military spacecraft, the Air Force hopes for a 1964 launch of the Dyna-Soar, the manned space glider, which will be the forerunner of more sophisticated vehicles that will be able to maneuver while in orbit...
...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...
Peter Lanyon, 43. Living in the harsh hills of Cornwall, Lanyon studies land and sea by foot, car and snorkel, but his passion is to float silently overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...
...never faster than 60 m.p.h. But Ryan has swift, high-flying hopes for its slow, primitive-looking contraption. The wing is extremely light; it can be folded into a small package and spread out swiftly. This makes it attractive for use as a steerable parachute or a glider. With an engine attached, the handy Flex Wing may serve for military cargo-carrying, wire-laying and other quick-transport jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds...
...Ancient Glider. Dr. Colbert recognized the importance of the discovery. The age of Granton's black shale is known quite accurately; it formed as silt on the bottom of the great lake that covered the Jersey meadows 175 million years ago. In that dim age, the famous flying reptiles, the pterosaurs, had not yet evolved. Yet here was a reptile equipped with something like wings. Dr. Colbert took the fossil to the laboratory, where skilled technicians spent months clearing shale from around the delicate bones...