Word: glider
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After functioning for a year and a half, the club now has five members and owns two gliders. Of these, one is a high-performance sailplane of English design and the other is an all-metal utility glider, or trainer...
...somewhat pressed financially, especially since hope for a government training program subsidy has dwindled, the club plans to sell the utility glider, preferably to some members of the University in order to foster the sport here...
Thus Nazi Germany last week paid last honors to Ernst Udet, World War I ace, once best of the international aerobats, exponent of parachute troops and glider warfare. He had developed the dive-bombing tactics of the deadly Stuka after observation of U.S. Navy planes ten years ago. Adolf Hitler gave him sole credit for Luftwaffe efficiency, "which has made it the best air arm in the world...
...known as the Ace With Nine Lives, and he knew flying in all its phases -from production and planning to fighting and stunting. In a profession steeped in superstition his luck was legendary, and he was his own most faithful believer. When only 16 he launched a glider from a hill near Munich, crashed ingloriously in a cabbage patch. To gaping villagers, he cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron...
...Glider-borne troops were used by the invaders...