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...wings of the wind he had soared 155 mi., broken the world's distance record (136.8 mi.) made by the late Guenther Groenhoff in Germany's Wasserkuppe three years ago. Previous U. S. distance record (121.6 mi.) was made by du Pont last autumn in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, Elmira's rival as a U. S. soaring centre. Belittling his achievement, du Pont told newshawks: "All there was to the flight was finding clouds and going for them. ... I used a mountain only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer...
...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, 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...
Soaring over the ridge an hour and a half gave Dick du Pont an idea. Year ago his father offered $3,000 for the first motorless flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map nor parachute was a risky business. But the opportunity might not come soon again. Southeast, without a second thought, young du Pont pointed the nose of Albatross II. Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along...
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...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. last week upped its dividend rate from $2 to $2.60 annually...