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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937  THE ELMIRA ADVERTIS

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Two-Seater from Utica at Soaring Contest; 1936 Champ Fits Wings for Distance Hop
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[[image caption]] THE FIRST TWO-SEATED side-by-side glider built has been entered in the Eighth Annual National Soaring Contest by the Utica State Ground Aviation School. Pictured, above, with their ship are, from the left, Clifford Sanger, Acee Acee, George Tindall, Stanley Smith, designer of the ship, and Floyd Samson, all of Utica. Below: Anxious to be off on another cross-country hop, Chester Decker, 1936 soaring champion, second for left, fits the wings on his Albatross while Peter Bonotaux, at right, and an ad-
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