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Show ; HOW TO FLY. j The Germans seem to have started j 19. something with then air Kllding eon Hi tests, in which one flier remained In i the air three hours in an airplane H Kl A gilding craze now it- sweeping j England, progressive Loudon papi rs H ottering big I And it is a safe bet that (he gliding j craze will Invade America and fur , .1 nibb thrills or the cautious who pre- , fer to 6tay on the ground and "let ! 91 George do it" in the air. M A glider Is a inaxhine that irateh; Hi on "air waves" about the same as a I sailboat travels on water. It has ai M rudder for steering, also "control sur- faces" which the pilot tilts to make1 the craft rise or descend and to bal ' wL Alice the glider if it gets lopsided and to Bj FirbL you have to master "aerial 1 Hl balance," same as you learn to bal ''JaB ance on a bicycle. All depends on the I 1 - sk.H He Imf o learn to use j?;e. hi? artificial w nga hs a ouns b d B nBlenrns H Ik You Sit In the car. preferably on nside H' lpeis grasp a lon rope. Lhed to the glider, and ruu with M H tn Mi.- v no r rhes under the W,Haa.nrt ou ; kl,e- AlSrle? giiui-'-. oi tie- r sed ly Ht Hentzen, (jenuan gliding ' haHlI,loi.tnoves forward K, feet loi ch toot4eS(.ndR aI,,r lak,ng off j Torn a hiu ovi(Jed thor, a0 , I;, .rp-fufts ot l0 nc)0 move th0 I ra" upward f,,ir i r'frH,Ur(, HHII li) iun? f nil hWk- "fWnow. n flish: I expert aM n, lhus figured out the curves and irlcks used by souring birds. t hief obstacle to glui ng b man is that the pilot is apt at any second to strike a new air current or hole German observers discovered that birds "instinctively scent" new air cuiTents wi'h thej;- heads. So ih- rmanq are trying to develop a similar, simi-lar, "air sense." The are helped by a secret chemical skin-coating which makes their faces sensitive to the least touch of vvind. As you probe bl stispeci. the ".ei man general staff began quietly to investigate in-vestigate gliding as far back as 1915, This was learned recently by French spies. The peato treaty forbids Ger nianv making high power airplane So she turns to planes without motors mot-ors ' nn |