The Sky is Their Limit

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In 1967, the US soaring community received a perfect storm of publicity
as three major mainstream publications printed articles about their
sport. Membership in the SSA shot up.

I am in the process of making these articles available on the web. Here
is the first, from the April 1967 issue of Reader's Digest:
http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/theskyistheirlimit.html

There's an email link at the bottom of the page. Drop me a line if you
spot any typos or other weirdness with the page.

Johan Larson

[BT]

"It glides 30 feet forward for each foot it comes down, so from our 2000
feet we can go almost 1200 miles before landing. You can go in smaller
circles in a sailplane and whence maneuver better in looking over places
where you might have to land."

30 to 1 L/d, 2000ft AGL is 12 miles? not 1200

I use nautical miles, or 30/1 = 5nm per 1000ft, or 10 nm,
statute miles, 2000ft agl x 30 = 60,000 divied by 5280 = 11.36sm

Bill

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> In 1967, the US soaring community received a perfect storm of publicity
> as three major mainstream publications printed articles about their
> sport. Membership in the SSA shot up.
>
> I am in the process of making these articles available on the web. Here
> is the first, from the April 1967 issue of Reader's Digest:
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/theskyistheirlimit.html
>
> There's an email link at the bottom of the page. Drop me a line if you
> spot any typos or other weirdness with the page.
>
> Johan Larson
>

[MickiMinner]

wrote:
> In 1967, the US soaring community received a perfect storm of publicity
> as three major mainstream publications printed articles about their
> sport. Membership in the SSA shot up.
>
> I am in the process of making these articles available on the web. Here
> is the first, from the April 1967 issue of Reader's Digest:
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/theskyistheirlimit.html
>
> There's an email link at the bottom of the page. Drop me a line if you
> spot any typos or other weirdness with the page.
>
> Johan Larson

Great article, great post, I couldn't get the links to show the other
two articles besides "The sky is the limit". Please fix it, I want to
read the other two!
I couldn't believe that in 1967 you could purchase a glider for that
small of an amount!...oh well, times they do change...but the article
shows that the love of the sport, and how you land doesn't change!
micki

[Jack]

Tim Newport-Peace wrote:

> "An airline pilot with 22,00 hours " Is that all??
>
> and again..
>
> "We are far behing Europe," ??


Tim,

I do not find these "typos" in my copy. Perhaps your download was damaged?


Jack

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Jack wrote:
> Tim Newport-Peace wrote:
>
> > "An airline pilot with 22,00 hours " Is that all??
> >
> > and again..
> >
> > "We are far behing Europe," ??
>
>
> Tim,
>
> I do not find these "typos" in my copy. Perhaps your download was damaged?
>
>
> Jack

That's because the corrections are happening in Internet-time.

Johan Larson

[Roger Worden]

Is the author's name really "Bobert N. Buck" or should it be Robert?

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> In 1967, the US soaring community received a perfect storm of publicity
> as three major mainstream publications printed articles about their
> sport. Membership in the SSA shot up.
>
> I am in the process of making these articles available on the web. Here
> is the first, from the April 1967 issue of Reader's Digest:
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/theskyistheirlimit.html
>
> There's an email link at the bottom of the page. Drop me a line if you
> spot any typos or other weirdness with the page.
>
> Johan Larson
>

[BT]

Johan.. I missed that too... he's talking about the italics at the bottom of
the page..

BT

"Roger Worden" > wrote in message
t...
> Is the author's name really "Bobert N. Buck" or should it be Robert?
>

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Roger Worden wrote:
> Is the author's name really "Bobert N. Buck" or should it be Robert?

It is indeed Robert. Sometimes in our errors we catch a glimpse of the
world next door, and it is a far more interesting place...

Johan Larson