Nov 20, 2024
Gliders are a dying breed. Don't see too many of them around anymore, especially at airports with other general aviation traffic.
Gliders were fairly prolific in CONUS in the late 1960s, when I was just starting to learn how to fly. And it seemed like everybody was flying gliders during the original "Arab Oil Embargo" in 1972—even me.
So to save gas, I would fly my airplane from Auburn, Maine to the gliderport in Franconia, New Hampshire; where I'd take pictures and do a fifteen-minute hop in a 2-33 (pictured above), doing maneuvers logged as dual instruction in my now long-lost glider logbook.
I got some dual, and they got some photographs, plus a cover photo in SOARING magazine (April or May of 1973, I think).
FLY NAVY !