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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerry A. Brinkman, whose elaborately elevatored glider (see diagram) lasted 9.4 seconds. Distance awards went to Berkeley Physicist Robert Meuser (89 ft.) and Stewart-Warner Corp. Engineer Louis W. Schultz, whose 11-in.-long delta wing, made of graph paper, flew 58 ft. 2 in. before skidding to a stop. Pioneer Naval Aviator Ralph S. Barnaby, 74, took the aerobatics prize with a stabilizer-equipped glider that gracefully floated through two complete outside loops. Brown University Anthropologist James Sakoda folded his way to the origami award; his swept-wing craft proved air-worthless, but the judges admired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Big Boys at Play | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

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