inspirational soaring literature...

Originally Posted by Martin Gregorie[_5_]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:02:44 +0000, tienshanman wrote:

I am looking for some really good, inspirational soaring stories; short
stories, books, whatever. What's the very best out there?

Two that may not be all that easy to find in the US, but....

"The Leading Edge" by Dick Georgeson, the first pilot to do all his Gold
legs in NZ and a pioneer of xc flying in wave.

"On Being a Bird" by Philip Wills, who set the first xc distance record
claimed in the UK and was 1952 World Champion.

And two that should be quite easy:

"Once upon a Thermal" by Dick Wolters. Tells his story from deciding to
take up soaring to winning his first contest. He tells a good story.

"I learned to fly for Hitler" by Joe Volman. Not so much gliding
inspiration, though there's a lot of gliding in it, but a fascinating
take on WW2 through the eyes of an all-American kid who spent his war in
Germany.


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Thanks Martin, will see if I can find them.

On Nov 22, 1:55*am, tienshanman tienshanman.
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;712780 Wrote:

The "Four-On-the-Floor-Gang" Story written by Streideck at al and
published in Soaring. *IMO, the all-time best story ever written about
X-C soaring.

A second story written by Schuemann et al and published in Soaring
about X-C ridge running in snow storms is also excellent. * *The
"unsantized" version of the story is even better.

Thanks! Any idea where I can find copies on the net?

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tienshanman

You can buy old copies from the National Soaring Museum or you can
wait or someone may scan a copy. There is an SSA project to put all
old Soaring copies on the web.

A Soaring index search is here
http://soaringweb.org/Soaring_Index

Four on the Floor Gang is Nov, 1986

Not sure about the Schuemann article, may be indexed under another
name.

Frank Whiteley