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"At 9000 feet, just getting started, I ran into tur IN A GLIDER bulence which shook my glider jiMt Like a dogshakes a rat. 1 couldn't control it. (Continued from Page 33) Then I got Into the Wave, and it was feetof (tracing back toward theairport, squandering another 2000 in an almost vertical dive for an exultant loop, using what was left over (or a sparrow-hawk plunge to within200 feet of the ground. And then we went skimming along a sandy path right up to the hangar door. "Whygo to tbe troubleof climbing* mountain when you can let tbe wind do wonderfully smooth up to 38,000, when I ran into something I atiU can't explain. It was a kind of rumbling vi bration all through my ship; it haa the sound and feel of driving a car over a corduroy road. At 42,000 I ran into turbulence that toeeed my glider about as ifit were a rowboat in a choppy sea." Lest March was the first time Ware p3ot began to think about using the allthiswork foryou? "It wasa pointof Wave as a means of elevating tourists view, of course, but I was inclined to to heights previously considered tbe agree with Symons. exclusive adventure land of crack pi Soaring in tbe Wave is something of lots. Dr. Joachim Kuettner, Germany's a paradox. You go down to go up. You veteran of wavesoaring, came to Bishop oTiheV&ve and then noee down in a fora look at "tbe big one/' aod was in vited by Symons to take a ride with moderate dive. You are dropping. But him m hie two-place aoarer, the sail at tbe same time the sir is newg faster plane in which I flew. Two hours later than you fall. So up you go. It w hard to comprehend the power of tbe air rushing up tbe face of tbe A* Wave, but an experience Symons had a while back will give some idea of it. He had been seeding clouds with hia P-38 above the Sierra to harvest additional BLACK ROCKS, MAINE SHORE snow and rain for the water-hungry generators of California ElectricPower Of Smv /E Company. Returning, his fuel low, be found Bishop, end sU the eastern half e( Owens Valley as far as he could see, blotted out by a violent dust storm. Wind was tearing the valley topsoil loose and then shooting it up m an opaque, vertical curt*in intotbe baseof There la an order in this stand-- The stark rocks that trill not retreat. The full green armies of the land Have placed their posts for vates to meet. a long, angry cloud hanging 30,000 feet above the valley floor. Higher atitt, at around 50,000 feet, floated a lenticular cloud. ToSymone it had all the beauty of a life ring thrown to a drowning man. Surveying tho spectacle ai a bare 13.000 feet, he ex The tide goes out and lets them resit Tl>e gulls come down to crown each head. The kclp-slrewn shoulders now attest perimentally killed the leftengine of hia To vhal bard buffets they have fighter and, as be might have done in shed. his sailplane, edged into the face of the Wave. With only one engine running, it rose like a balloon. Then he cut the switch of his right engine. To this day be is amazed at what The thundering surf knows no detour; It comes with salt-exploding Most. happened--and riding with him in the We have no fear, for we are sure tiny nose cabin was an equally aston The guard-rocks will stand fast. ished friend, Bill Partridge. In fees than fifteen minutes the P-38, eight tons of metal and both propellers motionless, ** was up to 32,000 feet and still climbing se fast as an airliner taking off from an Symons and Kuettner were back on the airport with full power. ground, joint possessors of a new two- " It was like riding a yo-yo/' Symona piece international altitude record. said. "We went up and down three Their barographs showed they had times between 13,000 and 30,000 feet risen to 38,650 feet. "It's the only ad beforeBishop's weathercleared enough venturous sport I know in which one for me to start the engines and come in can get so much for so little effort.'' for a larding.'' Symons remarked. What is it like up in the region where' '[ Is there danger in the Wave? It is a sailplane shrinks to a tiny speck in loaded with it. You can get the bends, the sky and then vanishes? Fliers who the same that a deep-sea diver suffers, 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 be feet, and may not get them even higher fore really lived. up. Stomach gaa from an unwise meal Paul MacCready. Jr., of San Marino, can swell you up like a balloon. If a California, who was United Stale na sailplane hasn't been specially worked tional soaring champion in 1913 and over for Wave flying, the intense cold 1949, told me, "You feel all atone in a may shrink itscontrol cables until they mighty unfriendly world.'' tear loose from their fittings. This has Symona puts it this way, "When I happened. If a plastic canopy hasn't P-t up them. I can't help feeling that been set to move freely in channel ro mighty close to God and a long mountings as it shrinks with the cold, it way from everybody else.'' may shatter with a cannontike bang, But it takes William S. Ivans. Jr., a exposing pilot and passenger to the thirty-year-old guided-miseilea engi deadly high freeze. neerof La Mesa, near San Diego, to tell Other interesting booby traps are what a really high soaring flight is like. waiting up there. Just before sliding Lost winter the Wave carried him to aboard the elevator your soarer may 42,100 feet, a new world altitude record encounter turbulencelike none everre for single-place sailplanes. corded in the heart of a thunderstorm. "You're awfully lonely up there, al It is interesting to realize that there ways wondering whnt is going to hap ((itnlimtcd on I'uge 96) CLD33490