Sails in the Sky

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The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
any typos or problems with the page.

http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html

The article was originally published with five photographs. If anyone
could scan them in for me, I would be happy to include them. I
unfortunately don't have a scanner.

Johan Larson

[Tony[_1_]]

very cool

wrote:
> The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
> is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
> any typos or problems with the page.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html
>
> The article was originally published with five photographs. If anyone
> could scan them in for me, I would be happy to include them. I
> unfortunately don't have a scanner.
>
> Johan Larson

[Sarah]

Very nice (again). Thanks for posting these. Perhaps writers among us
will be inspired to write an updates and submit to the main-stream
media.

One typo:

"The last 15,000 feet coming down are the hardest," said the boy's
father, laughing...."

Maybe 15 feet? 1500 feet? Either would make more sense.

Sarah Anderson


wote:
> The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
> is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
> any typos or problems with the page.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html
>
> The article was originally published with five photographs. If anyone
> could scan them in for me, I would be happy to include them. I
> unfortunately don't have a scanner.
>
> Johan Larson

[mattm]

wrote:
> The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
> is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
> any typos or problems with the page.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html
>
> The article was originally published with five photographs. If anyone
> could scan them in for me, I would be happy to include them. I
> unfortunately don't have a scanner.
>
> Johan Larson

Hey! I recognize that aircraft!

Sadly enough, the 2-22 kit the scouts were working on turned out to be
too difficult for them to complete. They abandoned the project and the
kit was put into storage. One of the scouts grew up and bought the kit
and attempted to finish it, but again it was too difficult.

Finally, my original instructor, Joe Perrucci, bought the kit and
finished it. It was the 4th glider he had built from a kit. I have
several flights logged in my first logbook in that glider, N222CK.

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mattm wrote:
> wrote:
> > The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
> > is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
> > any typos or problems with the page.
> >
> > http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html
>
> Hey! I recognize that aircraft!
>
> Sadly enough, the 2-22 kit the scouts were working on turned out to be
> too difficult for them to complete. They abandoned the project and the
> kit was put into storage. One of the scouts grew up and bought the kit
> and attempted to finish it, but again it was too difficult.
>
> Finally, my original instructor, Joe Perrucci, bought the kit and
> finished it. It was the 4th glider he had built from a kit. I have
> several flights logged in my first logbook in that glider, N222CK.

Thanks for the info. May I append your message to the story, as a coda?
And is Matt McKrell the name I should use?

Johan Larson

[mattm]

wrote:
> mattm wrote:
> > wrote:
> > > The second of the soaring articles from 1967 is now available. This one
> > > is "Sails in the Sky", from Boys' Life. As before, please notify me of
> > > any typos or problems with the page.
> > >
> > > http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/sailsinthesky.html
> >
> > Hey! I recognize that aircraft!
> >
> > Sadly enough, the 2-22 kit the scouts were working on turned out to be
> > too difficult for them to complete. They abandoned the project and the
> > kit was put into storage. One of the scouts grew up and bought the kit
> > and attempted to finish it, but again it was too difficult.
> >
> > Finally, my original instructor, Joe Perrucci, bought the kit and
> > finished it. It was the 4th glider he had built from a kit. I have
> > several flights logged in my first logbook in that glider, N222CK.
>
> Thanks for the info. May I append your message to the story, as a coda?
> And is Matt McKrell the name I should use?
>
> Johan Larson

Sure, that's fine. Yes, that's me.

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Sarah wrote:
> One typo:
>
> "The last 15,000 feet coming down are the hardest," said the boy's
> father, laughing...."
>
> Maybe 15 feet? 1500 feet? Either would make more sense.

15,000 feet is what it says in the original. Doesn't make much sense to
me either.

Johan Larson

[fbrahic]

I think it may be that the boy's dad was a paratrooper... At least if
he was the scoutmaster introduced earlier. In that case, he could be
making a joke about jumping out of a plane with a parachute at 15000
feet...

On Nov 13, 5:50 pm, wrote:
> Sarah wrote:
> > One typo:
>
> > "The last 15,000 feet coming down are the hardest," said the boy's
> > father, laughing...."
>
> > Maybe 15 feet? 1500 feet? Either would make more sense.15,000 feet is what it says in the original. Doesn't make much sense to
> me either.
>
> Johan Larson