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Show NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS WW WWommAWiMl JSif VGfZain liennaAd Btookel BASIC FLIGHT INSTRUCTION LESSON NUMBER THIRTEEN GLIDERS AND GLIDING It Is late afternoon and Hank has Just brought his "trainer" plane In solo flight. He climbs out Utter and sees Robinson coming In with ' another student, whom he has had up on an Instruction flight Hank watches the other plane land and then runs over to Robinson, just as be has climbed out and sent his new-ts- t student, Jimmy, off until next jnorning. Hank Hey, Bill! Robinson (turning at the sound of What's bothHank's call) Yeah? ering you now? Hank Bothering me? Nothing. Just wanted to ask you something. Robinson The best thing you do, young fellow, is ask questions but go ahead. That's what I'm here for to take the flying game to pieces and put It back together, so you youngsters can see what makei it tick. Hank It's about gliders. Robinson And what about gilders? saw something in the papers Hank this morning something about gliders tnd the Germans and all and say, Bill, did the Germans invent gliders? Robinson (leans back against the plane, plants his feet firmly, rams his hands deep In his pockets Indications that he knows he's in for a "session" before Hank's appetite for Information will be satisfied) You want to know, Did the Germans Invent the glider? The answer to that is. In a manner of ipeaking, they did. And It's about the only thing they ever worked out for themselves. Tanks, armored cars, even the airplane, all started in America, and all were used before the Germans adopted them. Got to give 'em credit. Somebody comes along with a brand new Idea, the Germans look It over, find out what use they can make of it, add a few little adaptations or improvements, and suddenly the rest of the world wakes up to find that something they ereated has been found useful and generally deadly by somebody else, while we've gone off after some new Idea. . . . But back to this glider business. In a manner of speaking, development of the glider can be jump into the air. If he takes off from a low position and wants to rise he flaps his wings, and the h of the disturbed air raises him. He repeats the flapping until he has reached any height he desires, and then he begins to soar. Birds are seldom still in the air; they are usu-allcircling or doing intricate figure eights. Some intelligence teaches them that when they lift one wing higher than the other and hold their wings steady, the air currents will swing them 'round in circles. And the take-oi- l and flight processes of birds established the principles on which the glider was conceived and up-rus- y God-give- n developed. Hank But how come Germany went M out for gliders and nobody else did? Robinson That statement is not altogether correct that Germany went all out on gliders and nobody else did. Of course the situation in Germany was The peculiar. treaty provisions after the World War forbade the Germans to develop an air force, to which they didn't pay much attention. But quite within the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles they could go in for glider building and glider flying, and that s glider piloting was a way of training future pilots of airplanes. ... first-clas- Hank Oh, 1 see start something. getting ready to Robinson Let's not get into that ws might start something. But ever-prese- credited to a German, Otto Lilien-tha- l. He'd been experimenting with gliders for several years, and had learned to glide for something like a thousand feet and to manipulate his glider into perfect circles, when In 1896 he crashed in an attempted take-of- f and was fatally Injured. Hank But what kind of glider had ke worked out? Robinson Oh, like all early experiments in flying, it was pretty crude. He put some slender willow rods and some waxed cloth together to form a reasonable, large reproduction of a pair of He fastened them to his body, and by kicking his legs and shifting his weight he could, with fair accuracy, bird-wing- manipulate them. Hank But was Lilienlhal the first and only one to try that? Robinson When you begin to ask about first and only ones, Hank, you run back a long way, and always the farther back you get the dimmer the record Is. Man had been trying to conquer the air for a great many generations before the Wright brothers down In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, proved definitely that man e could fly by means of a contraption, . . . And as for that, the Wrights got a lot of pointers from what Lilienthal did and they experimented first with gliders a number of the first airplane designers worked on making and flying gliders before they went in for motor-drive- n airplanes. The Wrights, however, were the first men to develop an effective glider, which they demon- Greater Hank Gee! I can't help wishing that same American had been doing something about it. Robinson Some Americans wert. By 1932 we had some very accom- plished glider pilots. There was the pioneer Lewln Barrlnger, and Richard Du Pont, and Jack O'Meara, who were doing things that equaled if not surpassed any German record. Then there was Ralph Barnaby, who 'way back glided oft from the dirigible Los Angeles, and Frank Hawks, who In a glider was towed by an airplane clear across the continent Hank Well, that does look as though we were keeping up with the procession. Robinson We were keeping up. And don't forget, Hank, that wherever and for whatever reason America drops out of the line of march. It doesn't amount to so much in the long run. We're sprinters, we Americans, and if ever we temporarily drop out of the march, we make a sudden sprint ahead and before anybody knows what we're up to, America is the drum major heading the show, and everybody else is trailing behind What woke all the world up to what the glider means in war, was the German performance. In 1940 they used gilders over Belgium and Holland, where gliders came down from great heights and landed as far as 20 miles behind the Allied lines. Each glider spilled out ten or more men armed with machine guns of warm air will lift the glider. Glider pilots, prolong their flights by riding these J'lfll'l Down Currents of air occur over areas of water or over land conditions that absorb the heat of the sun rather than reflect it. They Increase the normal sinking speed of the glider. 1 1 1 whatever they had in mind, they went a long way with their experiments. The first manipulation of a glider necessitated that it take off from some high elevation. The glider catapulted off the hill, the air currents surged under it, and the pilot like the bird, knew that If he shifted weight and one wing above the other, he could have a wonderful time floating about ... It was discov- and grenades, to promptly attack a It was predetermined objective. more than effective. . . . But when it came to the attack on Crete in 1941 the Germans had greatly improved their technique, so much so that glider pilots were able to land at almost the exact spot where they intended to land. . . . Why, one of them dropped down In the garden of the Royal Villa, and the only reason they didn't carry out orders to capture King George of Greece was that the king wasn't there. He was in the safety of a' mountain hideout Hank But what was the reason the It k $tm).s xsrV'a l. ska-- n3 1 monds" radiate from the center rose. To obtain complete crocheting Instructions tar the Heirloom Dolly (Pattern No. send 20 cents in coin, your name, 51) address and pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time Is required in fillinR orders for a tew of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: ai ronnrtfl ThA prac- - I J K No Name Address tically sure to set e count at an HEARTBUR all-tim- Pattern No. the Tigers not too far away. 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So probably will the Louis Conn intermingling at the Yankee stadium in June. The Rush to Sport We have been asked to explain this overwhelming rush to sport. After all, we have few who can match in ability and color the headliners of the Golden Age following the First World war. I am referring again to Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Man 0' War, Bill Tilden, Tommy Hitch-cocDevereux Milburn, Walter Earl Hornsby, Hagen, Rogers Sande and Red Grange. We have no such galaxy of famous names with which to conjure, although Williams, Nelson, Hogan, Arcaro, Blanchard, Davis and a few others may be just as good. It may be that the glamour of past years takes on too keen a hue and glint. But that Golden Age of Sport produced a pretty fair collection of talent and color. No such talent has been proved in this present postwar era up to date, but it may happen later. It may be that the coming season in various sports will give us champions that can match the Old Guard of the lost and golden era. We don't believe so. But we know that sport will give us greater crowds than ever were known in the past. We know that there will be more money than ever before wagered on the races through the mutuels and a total surpassthp bookmakers ing 2 billion dollars. New York alone will pass 500 million through the mutuels. In this era of peace following the blackness of the world's greatest war, there are two details that make this possible: (I) the reach the excuse for taut for release nerves and (2) more widespread cash than this country has ever known previously. It is the same in England, even more so. This is no knock against the human race. It is only a natural reaction, even If it isn't the wisest and the sanest reaction. When was the human race ever sane or wise? anti-aircra- ft ... W'& by f, pre-cisi- oa CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK New York, N. Y. (or pattern. 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It would not be surprising to see the newly bedecked Yankee sta dium, under the operation of Larry crowd MacPhail, ered that gliders, or sailplanes as they came to be called, mechanically catapulted Into the air same Idea as the bird's dart Into the air if the operator had an understanding of air currents or wind breaking against Germans went in for dropping gliders Some loaded with soldiers after they had been Big Questions hills, mountains and cloudbanks, so successful at dropping parachute The season will soon begin to uncould rise to unlmagined heights, troops? roll a number of answers to variand still greater heights, until they Robinson They found the glider were above all cloudbanks. Then process was far better for the simple ous Important questions. No. 1. How will the Yankee pitchthere was nothing to do but circle reason that a glider, being motor-les- s, staff make out? Will It be conto . . ing That got about or come down. . is actually soundless. The hum be monotonous and It wasn't get- of a motor warns even the unaided sistently good enough to be even close to the pitching strength ting anywhere no development, no human ear of its approach, and the fairly Red Sox or Indians? Or utilitarian or military purpose was detector system gives abundant time of Tigers, Senators? the . But the Germans . served. forces being warning for the No. 2. Can the Tiger Infield hold weren't the only people trying out to go into action. That gives everyup well enough to give Steve The record motorless flying. for the "alert" parachutists. body crack pitching staff the strated at Kitty Hawk In 1902. That Orville Wright made nine minutes . . . But the glider comes down from O'Neill's win chance tto air-stagain? ood in the seconds glider was the basic design for their and forty-fiv- e ten or twelve thousand feet quickly No. 3. Can Leo Durocher find until 1920 and was broken by irplane. They added a motor and enough pitching to keep his Dodgers who propeller, and the airplane was the Austrian Robert Kronfeld, with the Cardinals and Cubs? uf 85 miles chieved. by 1930 had made a flight of the Cubs. Especially of feet 7,500 a height Hank But I still don't understand and reached No. 4. How far will the Cardinals distances the on this ilider business. I can't see how it From that time be In front by the first of August? flights steadily inof No. 5. Will the Giants' someunder of Robinson I know. All your exJust record a until creased what jittery defensive play crowd perience has been with a motor 500 miles was made. Mel Ott's team out of the first divithe which you control and which cre-at- u in Pas anybody Hank Vyf sion? the lift on the wing surface to States giving any attention to fibers? No. 6. What about the season's definitely. Robinson-O- h. yes, maintain heavler-than-aflight. . . . impending pitching duel between ten years a number of last Well, a bird hasn't the exany motor, Bob Feller and Al Newhouser? In cept his fluttering little heart, and glider clubs had been organized No. 7. Also the A. L.'s all around and the of country he does t different parts magnificent Job of take-ofbatting championship among Ted and competiexhibitions held soaring, circling and landing. they a sport-In- g Tachometer indicates peed Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Dick tions. But glider flying was HnnkYeah, I know, but a bird Wakefield? revolutions of motor seriit took Robinson A bird's different. He's proposition. Nobody No. 8. How many home runs can different only because God gave him ously. No, that's wrong. The memand with uncanny Hank Greenberg deliver to offset and silently, it take did clubs wings and man has had to make his bers of the glider Parachutists come down the natural and expected deficit in were own. And It was the flight of birds seriously. They believed they be singly nd may land hi comparative- foot speed? that made the pattern and idea for developing something that might No. 9. To what ball clubs are a But ly widely separate spots. Glider flying. And especially It was the useful in the future of aviation. land all together. Hence, they few of the Cardinals' pitching surwere troops as bird that made the they minds, pattern for the the practical are less liable to capture, and can plus headed? elider. Ever watch a bird take off regarded, were not interested. No. 10. How will Pesky and up better fight minds put of nd fly? the practical Hank-- But Hank Looks to me like the glider It Doerr of the Red Sox compare with interested! H'mk-- No, I don 't think I ever did. RobTnson-- An Rizzuto and Gordon of the Yankees? eminently practical a pretty important part of air warfare Robinson That's probably beRobinson It has proved that, and No. 11. What are the odds on cause you're what we farm the Germans, Goering. head Gerthe people, that remember boys when you Phillies or Athletics leaving either "sed to call a "town kid." Every boy of the German air.force. picked up 1938 he had mans have perfected the technique and moldy te"r? and the ancient by who has lived Ideas, beand worked ufder a lot of who had of towing a whole fleet of gliders No. 12. How will the old New Pfn skies has watched birds take 300,000 qualified air pilots can see their training hind a single airplane, you York - Boston argument concerning 1 and seem to hover high in the practically all of how very important it Is. the ability of Joe Gorb'u sky, and wished he could do S glider pilots. One of the biggest don and Bobby Doerr work out? from Kronfeld. the thatwa, he got deas Watch a bird next time No. 13. How far up will Billy had proved tte you have the chance. You'll see Austrian who usefulness (Ed. 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