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1-26 Championship Rules (2020)
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To Soar Poem
By Joan Moos, 1997 My passion is to fly…… To touch the deep blue sky With silver wings, ‘neath puffy clouds, and soar. My heart begins to pound When I hear the sound Of the tow ship’s engine roar. “Sl...
Splash Down
Saturday, December 4, 1965, I was towed up to mountain level, and what was to be my most memorable flight since solo in October, a splash down. Almost paralleling the mountain, a light breeze sustaine...
In Memoriam for Dudley, 1-08-02
The Eagle and I So calm and quiet, high in the sky; Together we soared, the eagle and I. Our wings outspread, smooth and free The two of us have seen things That many men will never see. In a day all ...
Soaring Soliloquy
Life is but a beach of sand, Some billion grains of play. An endless, magic wealth of choice, How swift life sifts away. So search, so seek, so reach for stars, Fear not you’d go astray. Life’s spoils...
1-26 Poem
By Russell Hornsby (14 years old) Sleek and Sturdy, Gleamy and not dirty, Fast, sleek, smooth, and clean Can’t help to look without a gleam, It is my favorite glider, I flat out love to fly her, Enjoy...
Course Syllabus
by Jim Foreman Updated 03-05-97 At a time when every soaring pilot was saving his coins to buy a “Supership with 30:1 L/D,” Paul Schweizer dropped the 1-26 bomb. Bomb was almost the result at first as...
The 1-26 From A to E
by Jim Foreman Updated 03-05-97 At a time when every soaring pilot was saving his coins to buy a “Supership with 30:1 L/D,” Paul Schweizer dropped the 1-26 bomb. Bomb was almost the result at first as...