Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 89

UNCLE SAM Takes to the GLIDER Col. Lindbergh’s Latest Air-Sailing Exploits and the Successful Flight of Glider Released From Diri gible Los Angeles Stimulate Interest in Sport and Thrills Af- forded by Motorless Plane. ' 'BY JAMES W. BOOTH. MERICA is rapidly developing a new qut——the most thrilling of all— thousands vocates. Col. g:.‘:ue are among the latest to become glider enthustasts. b2 Lindbergh’s recent flight over the Mojave Valley nearly endedlnMMthm: less ship lost an aileron, but the “fiying colonel came through smiling—just another at a definite spot. dirigible commander the ground to crew These motorless planes are seldom purchased by individuals, for the simple reason that one person alone could get about as much use out vancement of gliders which the world is now witnessing and which, in turn, were made possible by the wartime evolution of the power responsible aviation that is fast becoming & world-wide sport. The world récord in duration was established in Germany wher Lieut. Dinort remained in the air 14 hours 43 minutes in his Another German established & altitude when he went 2,715 feet aloft. Ameri- can records do not approach theae figures, the THE SUNDAY -STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, MARCH 9, 1930. One of the new giant motorless ships being tried out in the Rhone Valley, Ger- many, where gliding has become a national sport. Col. Charles Lindbergh and Hawley Bowlus (in insert), champion American glider pilot, who has recently - assisted the “Lone Eagle” in his numerous flights in a sailplane. longest flight here being a little better than six hours, made by Hawley Bowlus of San Diego, Calif. . Previously, at Highland Light, Cape Cod, Hesselbach established a new American record while performing for movie cameramen. He stayed up 58 minutes and thereby eclipsed the This is imperative, for to gain and maintain e sively encouraged by an indulgent mother.in their early experiments. It is to Otto, how- ever, that the chief credit goes for development wing with Lilienthal, 200 He soon Ral moved thenow, rising RIS i g mark set by Orville Wright, who in-1911 at Kitty Hawk, N. C,, remained in the air 9 min- utes 45 seconds in a box-glider. Hesselbach's craft was a monoplane, built on a far more scientific order than Wright's primitive, kite- like ship, hence the comparison of Hesselbach's modern feat with Wright's early effort is hardly iate. One of the most attractive features of gliding lies in the fact that the hazard is virtually nil. Less than a dozen men have lost their lives in the 11 years of Germany's soaring Four of these were caught in sudden, terrific windstorms and dashed down into forests. It rare that a motorless plane is “cracked up.” because of the slow, easy manner in returns to earth—wafted down .8 leaf that descends in a lasy of building a glider, the fact nothing to operate, its utter the exhilarating thrill that the ether in a soundless ship able to converse with the earthlings e irresistible inducements to persons the air. te & glider must have th a velocity of less than 15 is useless for.soaving. A 20-mile altitude the soaring »ilot must hop from hill to hill and win full advantage of rising air currents over each hill, Every glider landing is a forced landing. witi. the early history of powered heavier-- than-air craft, It is the saga of man’s at- . It began, naturally enough, by an innate desire to emulate the flight of birds.