Word: schweizer
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...five U.S. teams, flying single-seater, all-metal Schweizer sailplanes, might have done even better in the air, had they not been so fouled up on the ground. Glider pilots from Britain and France, who were backed by government " funds, came equipped with their own weathermen and radio crews that promptly dispatched retrieving trailers to landing points. But the U.S. team, forced to pay its own way, had no radios and had to rely on the strictly unilingual Spanish telephone system to trace its pilots. Some of them, down in isolated spots, waited hours before getting back to Madrid...