Just kidding it is another article from the Modern Mechanix that bring the hottest news in aviation for 1936!
I just thought that the entausiasm over cloud jumping is a little funny so it is worth the qoute:
Everybody cannot learn to fly gliders. Many a person is unable to get the hang of making turns and landings and sensing the wind currents. It has been found that among groups of 30 normal people between the ages of 14 and 40, about two of them cannot learn to fly gliders well enough to be turned loose. Some people get terribly frightened after leaving the ground. But two people out of 30 is a ratio of the normal number of people who probably should not be allowed to drive automobiles. Every automobile driver of experience knows that at least two or three people out of 30 on the highways are absolutely dangerous drivers. These are the slow, wobbly people who can’t make up their minds on what to do. They are the same people who can’t learn to fly gliders and airplanes.
I wonder if this observation as to the people that can and can’t learn to fly gliders is true.
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