Word: glider
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...your article [TIME, April 7] about Mr. Pentecost's Hoppi-copter, you say that gliders are "only half the ticket" in fulfilling man's desire to fly like birds. You may be right- but there are over 1,000 sailplane and glider pilots in America who, in order to forgive you this grave error, must assume that your Writer (poor man) probably has never experienced the thrill of "motorless flight." These pilots will tell you that there can never be a motor-powered craft that will replace the sailplane and glider as aids in achievement of the mortal...
Only in a sailplane or a glider does a man actually fly. A sailplane pilot needs and wants only the power that thermals (masses of hot air forming at the earth's surface and rising, to give lift) and air currents provide. With this power, sailplanes have soared to an altitude of almost 23,000 feet, and a Russian woman, who holds the international distance record, sailed non-stop for 465 miles...
...story as fresh as the news on Page One, Caniff shamelessly picks the brains of his pals, and even copies their faces. Colonel Phil Cochran, an old college chum, gave him a correspondence course in flying-and won more fame as Colonel Flip Corkin than for leading the glider invasion of Burma under his own name. Red Cross and Army nurses midwifed Caniff's yellow-tressed Nurse Taffy Tucker. Caniff had been to Britain, Europe and Africa, but never to the Orient, where all the action in Terry took place...
...Gallant Journey," the second feature, is a tribute to the pioneer of glider flight that makes him seem much too slogging and dreary a person to have envisioned flight, or to have enchanted Janet Blair so consistently...
...keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...