Word: updraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrinkle: kits from which amateurs can design and assemble their own mobiles ($7.50, MobiProducts, Bloomington, Ind.). Experts' advice to automobilists: models that are balanced too carefully will not move easily; a good mobile should sway in the updraft from any mild cocktail party argument or even the softest gurgle from the crib...
...steep angle, Pierre was drawn aloft. He let loose the cable when the Air 102 had climbed hundreds of feet above the field. Skillfully flitting from updraft to updraft, he zigzagged and roller-coastered around the triangle. He sewed up the grand championship for himself by whooshing the distance at an average speed of 35.8 m.p.h., a French record for his class of glider. Unable to speak German, Pierre grinned his gratitude on being awarded the top trophy. "Pierre is an excellent and very clever flyer," said Germany's Runner-Up Ernst Haase. Then he added thoughtfully...
...Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later. "But when I tried to start the engine, it wouldn't catch. Was I embarrassed...