Word: rastorgeff
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Until this year slope soaring has been the principal technique for record-making in the U. S. But when a Russian named Victor Rastorgeff went up over the perfectly flat country of central Russia last May and on successive flights soared 335, 374, 405 miles (previous world's record: 313 miles), U. S. soaring experts began to wonder if the hills around Elmira, N.Y. and on the edges of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley really are the best places in the country for their sport. Richard Chichester du Pont, Paul du Pont, and Lewin Barringer of the Soaring Society...
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