Word: towing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tow plane started up before we were sitting down. A young lieutenant, settled on the benches running fore & aft on both sides of the glider, checking parachutes, barely got out in time. He lit running as the big 15-man glider, suddenly an amazingly skittish, lightfooted creature, lifted off the runway. To a glider novice the take-off was startling; we were airborne and climbing on the rope while the heavier tow plane was still soaring down the runway, picking up speed for its own takeoff. We climbed rapidly to 700 feet, circled to get into formation...
Controlling the flying boxcar on the end of the tow cable is not easy. Our pilot worked hard at it, carefully keeping us above the tow plane and out of its jolting prop-wash. He gripped the control wheel tightly, several times took one hand off to stretch his cramped fingers...
...were less than five minutes from our target-"Z-field," a meadow near Lafayette, Tenn., where the divisional command post was to be established. Ground mists had kept us fairly high. Ahead and below we could see other tow planes flitting along. Now gliders were cutting loose, swinging off to land in the little tree-bordered fields ahead...
...result, when the Army recently disclosed that it had temporarily suspended primary glider-pilot training, some conclusion-jumpers assumed that the whole glider program was being quietly washed out. Actually, the Army had done some realistic figuring on how many transport planes it could get to tow its gliders this year, and how many airborne infantry men could be made ready to fly in them...
...There is about as much chance of the Solid South going Republican in 1944 as of Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune turning New Dealer. I hereby proffer and promise to swim from Key West to Cuba, and tow a loaded barge in the bargain, if so many as three states of the South go Republican next year...