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ELMIRA [[?]] STAR-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY,JULY 5,1939.

SLEEK CRAFT AND ZOOMS AWAY TO RECORD ALTITUDE

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ned [[?]] from Page 1. From the left: 1. His craft completely assembled, Cadet Stanley receives last minute pointers from Meteorologist Wiggin. 2. The tail flippers of his own design, unique in aircraft control [[?]] A differential gear like the rear axle of an automobile gives them a complicated motion. 3. The wings are spread. The starting signal will soon be raised. Clouds in the northeast have become dense and ite. [[?]] 4. Parker Leonard of Cape Cod, himself an altitude flyer, adjusts Stanley's 'chute straps preparatory to the airplane tow. 5. He's off! The most spectacular ship in the 10th annual Soaring Meet skims over the treetops to a new and successful assault on the American altitude record for sailplanes. 
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oars [[?]] Plane
Ft. Mark
New [[?]] Record

gathered on Harris Hill, soaring [[?]] 
ry[[?]] at points beyond the range 
Tuesday [[?]] afternoon.
record [[?]] for motorless craft was
within a week by Aviation
en [[?]] he piloted his sailplane 16,300 [[?]]
release [[?]] while flying over Rich [[?]]
,900 [[?]] feet the record he set last 
Harris [[?]] Hill in a thunderhead.

Stanley's performance [[?]] was the 
outstanding of many spectacular
experiences Tuesday, including that of the Udo Fischer who abandoned his sailplane [[?]]

week, a pilot must soar at least 9,820 feet above his point of release and must make a distance flight of at least 186.4 miles. Robinson flew 205 miles from Wichita Falls, Tex., to Buffalo, Okla.

His flight Tuesday carried him about 13,000 feet above Harris Hill when he cut loose and during his own and three-quarters hour flight to gain altitude drifted approximately 20 miles north of Elmira.

He cut loose in a clear sky but gained a 30-foot-a-second lift in a forming cloud. He left this cloud and flew to another and higher cumulus cloud, circling steadily upward until he struck a light hail which forced him out. Two altimeters on his ship showed more than 11,000 feet above Harris Hill he cut through the cloud to descend.

HIS ENCLOSURE fogged over shortly after he entered the cloud and he was unable to see until shortly before he landed. He flew from near 90 degrees [[?]]