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Last week came first results. Tall, tan Lewin Barringer wedged himself into the small cockpit of the German-built, Du Pont-owned sailplane Minimoa, was towed into the sky by an airplane at Wichita Falls, Tex., cut loose at 10:45 a. m. Six hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont...
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