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...breezy day near Torrey Pines, Calif., the air over the beach and cliffs is filled with man-made wings. A ten-year-old boy strapped to a purple and gold hang-glider-a huge swatch of fabric, a metal frame, a trapeze-like seat -leaps from a cliff and circles toward the sand. A middle-aged businessman in a stiletto-winged sailplane, or conventional glider, weaves figure eights. They have plenty of company aloft, flying a variety of craft that come in a rainbow of colors...
Just as surfers roam the world in search of the perfect wave, glider people seek the perfect updraft-a magical surge of rising air that bestows a feeling of buoyant freedom. Thousands of Americans, from the mountainsides of Hawaii to the dunes of Cape Hatteras, are yielding to what Richard Bach calls "the real Jonathan Livingston Seagull who lives within...
...himself. The $2,000,000 light comedy grossed $3.5 million in its first four weeks. Brut, named after a Fabergé men's fragrance, has completed three other films and put four more into production; it aims eventually to turn out six a year. Grant, who took a glider ride at a Sun Valley film festival last week to plug the movies, insists that he plans no acting comeback. "I'm really interested in the economics of it," he says. He points out that in addition to any profit, "each time one of our films is mentioned anywhere...
That claim may not be as high-flown as it sounds. Dr. John Nicolaides, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a former NASA official, also became a believer after Kline sailed a model of his new glider practically the length of Notre Dame's practice football field. In subsequent wind-tunnel tests, the scientist confirmed what Kline already believed: that his wing was a true breakthrough in aerodynamic design, one that greatly resists stalling. Exactly why that is so remains a mystery...
...space-shuttle vehicle, called an orbiter, looks like a puffed-up jet fighter, vaults into space on rockets and lands like a glider. Its first test flight is scheduled for 1976. As designed, it can be reused several times and can ferry up to ten passengers between the earth and orbiting space stations. These stations will be used for astronomical and environmental earth surveys and will be launched in the late '70s. Next year NASA will also award contracts to companies for the shuttle's cigar-shaped rockets and fuel tanks. In addition, North American will need...