Word: schweizer
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...efforts to get man off the ground. After World War I, the Versailles Treaty denied military aircraft to the vanquished and the Germans trained some 50,000 glider pilots. Americans began picking up the gliding habit in the late 1920s; in 1939 three brothers, Ernest, Paul and William Schweizer, set up the Schweizer Aircraft Corp. in Elmira, N.Y., which is still the principal American manufacturer...
Leisurely Speeds. Schweizer turns out over 100 sailplanes a year. About half are the two-seat model 2-33, used primarily by flying schools and clubs for training (cost: $7,750). Schweizer also produces the popular single seater in this country, the medium-performance 1-26 (about $6,000). Competition flying is still dominated by German fiber-glass models, such as the AS-W 17, Nimbus, Kestrel and Cirrus, featuring long, albatross-like wings for higher performance. They fetch between $11,000 and $20,000. A beginner usually spends $400-$500 on lessons, though membership in a club...
...ridge or cliff. Waves are formed when a steady wind blows over a mountain and forms vast smooth currents of undulating air that may lift a glider to an altitude ten times higher than the mountain. The altitude record was made in 1961 when Paul Bikle soared in a Schweizer 1-23E from 3,964 ft. to 46,267 ft. in a wave over the Mojave Desert...
...Friars managed to place Chris Schultz and Dennis Swart in the next two spots, but Harvard's Howie Foye and Max Schweizer were ninth and tenth...