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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...
...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...
Rounding out the Harvard team were Tom Spengler, John Enscoe, John Heyburn, Erik Roth, Howie Foye, Peter Dennehy, and Max Schweizer. Dennehy ran a good race although hobbled by a knee injury...
Junior Erik Roth trailed Heyburn for ninth, and Dartmouth's Dave Rouse edged a game Pete Dennehy for tenth. Max Schweizer was the final Harvard finisher, loping in for fourteenth place...