SOARING FLIGHT. By Terence Horsley.

(1944) 1946 1st US edition. 8vo (152 x 233mm). Ppxii,326. B/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, tables and charts, drawings of contemporary sailplanes. Blue cloth, dark blue titles to spine.

A war-time manual manual of gliding and soaring. Includes a detailed history of gliding as a sport in Britain. In this American edition, the history of gliding in the USA is recounted in six special appendices. A good read with much practical instruction. Chapters: Introduction; Immortality?; Airborne; The aircraft; Technical; Launching; Soaring sites; First lessons; The breath of soaring flight; Learning through failure; Some more failures; Cross-country soaring; The standing wave; The Great Mother; Cloud sense; Non-gliding weather; Blind flying; Airmanship; Forced landings; Instructing; The evolution of British soaring; Going west. Appendices include: Gliding in the United States; American gliders and sailplanes; American gliding clubs; American soaring sites; Rules and standards of American gliding; Current soaring flight records (January, 1946). The Appendices were contributed by Roel I. Wolfson, editor of Flying Age. The author was killed in a glider crash near Buxton in 1949.