On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:04:37 PM UTC-5, Martin Gregorie wrote:

Eric 'Winkle' Brown (test pilot)

I'm not sure how much gliding he did, but, judging by his comments on
'Desert Island Disks' he certainly did enough to understand the joys of
soaring.

Audio file

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nvgq1