"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.larso...heirlimit.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