GLIDING FEAT
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, Ist February. The first glider ever launched from an airship slipped off the tail of the dirigible Los Angeles cruising at 3000 ft altitude. Seated in a 30011) monoplane glider. Lieutenant Ralph Bamby, the only licensed glider pilot in the United States navy, gracefully circled Luke Hurst, crossing and rccrossing the field a dozen times, and landing fifteen minutes after he left the airship.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1930, Page 5
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