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That weird first night, 27 big C-47 transports hauled their double tows of gliders up to a rough, gullied clearing in the jungle. The glider pilots, Colonel Alison among the first, cut loose, hoped for the best as they headed down for the clearing.
Hot Talk. The really fantastic talk is on what gliders can do. Glider tows can at least double, sometimes triple the carrying capacity of towing planes. And a plane need not necessarily land to pick them up. By a new secret device, pickup can be made from the air without...
In this crisis, many an oilman pinned his faith on a dull, devious, plodding form of transport that could never compete with pipelines or tankers for the coastal trade in times of peace. Barge tows of the inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the...
Several schools have opened this year with top-flight foreign and native instructors. Hannes Schnelder has been teaching at Blandford, where several tows are in operation. The facilities there were developed by the Springfield Skiing Club. This town is on Route 23, called the Hill Top Trail by the Pioneer...
Skiers who like to ride up and slide down will be interested to know that the New Hampshire State Planning Commission in a recent bulletin stated that there are now 47 ski-tows in operation, an increase of fifty percent. Furthermore, an Owners' Association of operators has been formed to...