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...pilot-training schools, and fewer than 200 gliders. By summer's end, the Navy had contracted for 14 experimental gliders, including four to carry troops. A score of Army pilots had entered glider training. Marines were training glider troops, flyers and ground crews. Last September a prominent U.S. gliderman, Philadelphia's lanky, shy Lewin B. Barringer, was appointed civilian director of the Army's training program...
...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack...
...Felix Jr. he is an able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared...
...glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile...
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