Word: orlinghausen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange, graceful birds, fashioned of metal tubes and plywood or canvas, were again hovering over Orlinghausen Field, a heather-dotted plot of land in Westphalia which most Germans know well. There Germany took to the air in gliders, after the World War I victors had decreed that the conquered must not fly powered planes. There future pilots came to train, in a kind of Luftwaffe kindergarten. After World War II, the victors prohibited flying again, but lifted the ban on gliders two years ago. Last week Orlinghausen was the scene of Germany's first postwar gliding championships...
...German fans seemed as enthusiastic as ever about the flyers whom the father of modern gliding, Germany's Otto Lilienthal, used to call "the birds' apprentices." Since the lifting of the allied ban, 840 gliding clubs have sprung up in Germany. Average age of the Orlinghausen meet's 25 pilots...
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