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Hans Jacobs - glider designer; Sabrina Jackintell - Women's World Altitude Record Holder; Dick Johnson - 11-time U.S. National Champion, glider distance record setter and Soaring Hall of Fame; Sebastian Kawa - most wins (5+3) in World Gliding Championships; Joachim Kuettner - atmospheric scientist and gliding record breaker
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held roughly every two years by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are always held in the summer in either the Southern Hemisphere or Northern Hemisphere .
June 11: The Women Soaring Pilots Association (WSPA) is founded in Tucson, Arizona, to support women in gliding. [191] December 30: Beverley Bass captains the first all-female crew in the history of commercial jet aviation, on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Dallas, Texas. [192]
Chinese gliders (X-Xianji – glider) Jie-Fang 1; Shenyang HU-1 Seagull (Chen Kuiwen) Shenyang HU-2 Petrel; Xiangji X-5A; Chengdu X-7 Jian Fan (Xiangji X-7)
Gliding made an appearance as a demonstration sport at the 1936 Olympics. There was also the prestigious Barron Hilton Cup, which was an invitation event for the top pilots. There are now six classes open to both sexes, plus three classes just for women, and two junior classes (See Glider competition classes).
Doris Grove is an American world record breaking glider pilot, flight instructor, and a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame.She was an early pioneer of ridge soaring in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the 1970s, ultimately setting three world records flying gliders there, and becoming the first woman to earn the FAI 1000 km Diploma.
While the knot is commonly used in aviation and other contexts as an abbreviation of nautical miles per hour, in soaring the knot is also used to describe lift (and sink conditions). Using approximations, one knot of upward velocity in a thermal equates to roughly 100 feet per minute of climb.
The sport of gliding is managed in each country by national gliding associations, subject to governmental aviation authorities to varying degrees. Internationally the sport is co-ordinated by the FAI Gliding Commission. Australia - Gliding Federation of Australia; Canada - Soaring Association of Canada; New Zealand - Gliding New Zealand