Word: meara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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") O'Meara...
Back in Elmira Dick du Pont took off again, climbed 6,500 ft. for a new U. S. altitude record. Previous record (4,780 ft.) was made by O'Meara in 1932. World's altitude record (8,494 ft.) is held by Robert Kronfeld of Austria, which, with Germany, has long led the world in the art of soaring. Developed in Central Europe after the War because of treaty restrictions on military aviation, gliding has only recently come into...
...Sailplanes stunting in formation, led by crack Pilot Jack O'Meara...
...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 a new sailplane to 4,334 ft.-the meet altitude record, only 456 ft. short of Jack O'Meara's U. S. record. At the end of the Elmira meet Dick du Pont called a group of crack pilots together. He had been studying maps and he was certain the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia offered an ideal soaring site. The Blue Ridge Mountains, a great wall from Pennsylvania...
Although barographs had yet to be calibrated for exact measurements, youthful John K. ("Jack") O'Meara of New York and Martin Hermann Schempp of Pittsburgh shone as individual stars. In their sailplanes both pilots soared 68 mi. into Pennsylvania, O'Meara landing in the midst of a Girl Scout camp. The previous U. S. airline distance record was 10.9 mi., held by famed Hawley Bowlus. The world record of 136.8 mi. is Germany's. For altitude O'Meara's apparent 5,000 ft. was surpassed by Schempp's 5,400 ft. (world record: Austria...