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"At 9000 feet, nat getting started, I ran into tur- IN A GLIDER balance which shook my glider just like a dog shakes a rat. I couldn't control it. (Continued Cron Page 33) Then 1 got into the Wave, and it was wQodcrfulJy smooth up to 38.000. feet of it racing back toward tbs airport, where 1 ran into something 1 still can't squandering another 2000 in an almost explain. It was a kind of rumbling vi- vertical dive for an exultant loop, using .fapbon all through my shi>p; it had ttl^w what waa left over for a panw-hawfcy*ou**$ Ind feel of dnvutg a car over a plunge to within 200 feet of tbs ground. lmjftroy road. At 42,000 I ran into And then we went skimming along a turbiftence that tmrd my glider about andy path right up to the hangar door, as if it were a rowboat in a choppy a * Why go to the trouble of climbing a Last March was the first ti*** Wave mountain when you can let the wind do pilots began to think about using the all this work for you?** It waa a point of Wave as a means of elevating tourists view, of course, but I waa inclined to to heights previously considered the agree with Symons. exclusive adventure land of crack pi Soaring in the Wave k something of lots. Dr. Joachim Kuettner. Germany's a paradox. You go down to go up. You veteran of wave soaring, came to Bishop fly your glider into the steep face slope for a look at " the big one.'* and waa in of the Wave and then ooee down in a vited by Symons to take a ride with moderate dive. You are dropping. But him in his two-place soarer, the sail at the same time the air ia rising faster plane in which I flew. Two hours later than you faiL So up yon go. It is hard to oomprehond the power of tbs sir rushing, up the fans of the * - Sr * Wave, but an experience Symona had a whila beck will give aotne idea of it. He had bean assdrng cteoda with his P-38 above the Sierra to harvest additional BLACK ROC MAINE SHOnE mow and rain for the water-hungry generators of California Electric Power Mm Mmmtmi SisrS* Company. Returning, his fuel low. be found Bishop, and all tba eastern half of Owens Valley as far as be could aee. blotted out by a violent dust storm. Wind was tearing the valley topeoU loose end then shooting it up in an opaque, vertical curtain into the base si There r* an order in this stand-- The stark rocks that >iU oot retreat. The full green armies of the land Have placed their poets for wave* to meet. a bug, angry cloud hanging 30,000 feet above the valley floor. Higher still, at around 50,000 feet, floated a lenticular cloud. To Symons it The tide goes out and leu them rest; The gulls come down to ero^n had all the beauty of e life ring thrown each head. to a drowning man. Surveying the The kelp-strewn shoulders now spectacle at a bare 13,000 feet, be ex attest perimentally kilted the left engine of his To what bard buffets they have fighter end. as be might have done in bed. hie sailplane, edged into the face of the Wave. With only one engine running, it rose like a balloon. Then he cut the The thundering surf knows no detours witch of his right engine. To day be is amansd at what It comes with salt-exploding blast. happened--and riding with him m the Te hare no fear, for we are sure tiny noee cabin was an equally aston The guard-rocks will stand fast, v ished friend. BUI Partridge. In tea than fifteen minutes tbs P-38, eight tons of metal and both propeller* motionless, was op to 32,000 feet and still climbing as fast a an airliner taking off from an Symona and Kusttasr were back on the airport with full power. ground, joint poaaeaaors of a new two- " It wsa like riding a yo-yo,** Symona place international altitude record. aid. "We went up sad down three Their barographs showed they had tunes between 13.000 and 30,000 fat risen to 38.650 feet. " It's the only ad- v before Bishop's weather cleared enough venturous sport I know in which one for me to start the engines and come in can get so much for eo little effort," for a landing." Symona remarked. What is it like up in the region where1 / Is there danger is the Wave? It ia a sailplane shrinks to a tiny speck in loaded with it. You can get the bends, the sky and then vanishes? Flier* who the same that a deep-eea diver suffer*, have been there describe it variously. and have to come down quickly. You'll A World War II bomber pilot came be safe from them, though, up to 30,000 down exclaiming that he'd never bo- feet, and may not get them even higher fore really lived. up. Stomach gaa from an unwiae meal Paul MacCready, Jr., of San Marino. can swell you up like a balloon. If a California, who was United States na sailplane hasn't been specially worked tional soaring champion in 1948 and over for Wave flying, the intense cold 1949. told me. "You feel all alone in a may shrink its control cables until they mighty unfriendly world." tear loose from their fitting*. Thia has Symona puts it this way, "When 1 happened. If a plastic canopy hasn't ret up there, 1 can't help feeling that been aet to move freely in channel I'm mighty dose to God and a long mountings aa it shrinks with the cold, it way from everybody else." may shatter with a cannonlike bang, But it takes William S. Ivans. Jr., a xposing pilot and passenger to the thirty-year-old guided-musdlee engi deadly high freeze. neer of La Mesa, neer San Diego, to tell Other interesting booby traps are what a really high soaring flight is like. waiting up there. Just before sliding Last winter the Wave carried him to aboard the elevator your aoarer may 42.100 feet, a new world altitude record encounter turbulence like none ever re for single-place sailplanes. corded in the heart of a thunderstorm. "You're awfully lonely up there, al It ia interesting to realize that there ways wondering what ia going to hap- (Cnnlimcrl on Pee %) C-LP33490