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More Gliders. Against Glider, Inc., Detroit's motorless plane manufacturer, last week developed a competitor, American Motorless Aviation Corp. President is Colonial Airways' president, Major General John F. O'Ryan...
...anyone can keep a glider, i.e., a motorless airplane, in the air for 20 hours, he can win a $3,000 prize and kudos; for ten hours, $2,000 and cheers. Such were the offers made last week by Edward S. Evans, Detroit manufacturer and founder of the National Glider Association...
...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...
...glider, as everyone knows, is a small, motorless, extremely light-weight airplane. It usually takes the air by coasting down a hillside to gain sufficient momentum. A more modern method is to hold the glider steady, attach to its nose a shock cord made of rubber bands. Tension is applied to the shock cord and, on a given signal, the glider is flipped suddenly into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around...
...cars. As the flying train passes over a city, the rear plane is uncoupled. It circles noiselessly to earth. Passengers alight. Their train has vanished down the sky to leave other passengers at other cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing very little velocity to stay aloft, several gliders would be no great drag on a multi-motored ship, the chief problem lying in getting them off the ground...