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    Why Fly A Sailplane
    Why Fly A Sailplane
    Why Fly A Sailplane
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    Why Fly A Sailplane

    By Joseph Dobronski SR.

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    Nearly everyone is curious about what makes sailplanes fly with confidence-giving predictability. Joe Dobronski has risen to the challenge with this master work that will satisfy many aspects of your curiosity. His prose is in a fun-to-read storyteller style, while introducing you to what makes a glider fly and how modern day gliders, now called sailplanes because of their high performance that permits them to fly many hours and extraordinary distances. Joe tells how he got involved in soaring in 1956 and the advantages of belonging to a Sailplane Club to get the required training. He explains how a pilot can utilize the awesome forces of nature to his/her advantage, resulting in shear pleasure. He covers lift created by thermals, ridges and mountain waves. These challenges are rewarded with the issue of Badges by the Soaring Society of America in the interest of the Gliding Commission of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and are awarded for tasks ranked in the order of increasing difficulty. Record flying and contest flying for the more experienced pilots is also explained, which includes non-powered as well as auxiliary powered sailplanes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Dobronski SR.
    Release dateMay 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476270043
    Why Fly A Sailplane
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    Joseph Dobronski SR.

    J.F. “JOE” DOBRONSKI graduated from high school in western Pennsylvania and entered the NavyV-5 Program in 1945. He attended Worchester Polytechnic Institute and Cornell Univ. prior to preflight. He was designated a Naval Aviator 1947. Joe flew in VA-1L and VX-3 prior to discharge in 1949 and then the Naval Reserve until 1954. After graduation from Northrop Aeronautical Institute in 1951, he worked as a Flight Test Engineer at McDonnell Aircraft in St Louis; became a production test pilot in 1953 flying the F2H Banshee, and was promoted to experimental pilot after graduation from the USAF Test Pilot’s School in 1954. As an experimental test pilot, and later Chief Test Pilot in 1966, he helped develop the Demon, Voodoo, Phantom II, Eagle, Harrier, Hornet and other experimental aircraft and a three jet helicopter. Joe became Director of Test Operations in 1972 and Director of Flight Test and Operations in 1976. Following retirement in 1984, he became Chief Pilot for Wings of Hope, a humanitarian organization where he worked for fifteen years. He flew medical missions in Central America, and also delivered aircraft for missions in Belize, Botswana South Africas, and the Galapagos Islands. With over 1700 hours instructing, he was awarded the FAA Central Region Flight Instructor of the Year 2000 Award. He is a Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and was granted an Honorary Doctorate Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is actively instructing aerobatics and sailplanes in which he holds the Diamond C award. In 1998, he self-published the book titled “A Sky Full of Challenges” (web page www.omnishops.com/TestPilot). Joe married Virginia Hausmann in 1957 and lives at 1008 Cla-Ter-Ri Drive; Ballwin, MO 63011. Joe and Ginny have four children, nine grand-children and five great grand-children.

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      Book preview

      Why Fly A Sailplane - Joseph Dobronski SR.

      WHY FLY A SAILPLANE

      by

      Joseph Dobronski

      EBook published by Joe Dobronski at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Joe Dobronski

      Smashwords Licensing Note

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Chapter Title

      1 - Introduction To Soaring

      2 - Club Flying

      3 - Training

      4 - Soaring Awards

      5 - Record Flying

      6 - Contest Flying

      7. - Touring

      References

      Note of explanation: This table of Contents consists of hot links which are computer-code to allow readers to instantly move to a specified point in the book by a simple control-click (or double-click) of the mouse or touchpad. There are no page numbers listed because the paging will be a variable function of the display device (e.g., desktop, laptop, let, phone) and the font size and even the orientation, whether portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) orientation of mobile devices. Page numbers have no use in this scenario, and thus the Bookmarks and Hyperlinks in this eBook file are provided for convenient orientation.

      The name Ref_TOC was chosen as the name of the hot link for this page to comply with computer syntax rules, and you can always return to this page by displaying the list of Bookmarks (the F5 key on PC computers) and then choosing TOC from the list.

      PREFACE

      DR. Kent Hermsmeyer, a sailplane friend of mine, helped me to format my book A Sky Full of Challenges, into an E-book version. I originally wrote this book a number of years ago, not only as a biography of my experiences in aviation, but it is a history of McDonnell Aircraft Flight Test where I worked for 32 years. That career started as a Naval Aviator, then fighter test pilot, volunteer missionary pilot, instructor, artist and sailplane pilot. Kent helped me format my book to satisfy the demanding EBook format requirements, and encouraged me to to learn more about e-books in order to publish a book about soaring. My initial comment was: There are so many books on soaring; I don’t think we can come up with anything new and interesting. The more I thought about the subject however, I finally came to the conclusion that a book was needed to let the general public, especially young people know: the freedom and relaxation of silent flight, the joy of accomplishment, the comradeship of pilots and crews, and to learn the basic knowledge dependency of airmanship along with the atmosphere to stay aloft. People will often become interested enough about gliders to visit a glider port and take an introductory ride that may last 15 or 20 minutes and then say that was nice, but never do they realize the full story about soaring. The terms sailplane and glider are used interchangeably. Any airplane becomes a glider if the

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