Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area,
Michigan, USA
From the "Images of Aviation" series
Author: Jeffery P Sandman and Peter R. Sandman
Paperback, 128 pages, Hundreds of photographs (black & white)
Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.35 inches (165 x 235 x 9 mm)
Copyright 2006
Table of Contents
Back Cover
A wonderful collection of soaring photos
with captions describing the people and gliders and locations in the
photos. This book does not have a plot, but it does succeed
greatly at taking you back to a time when soaring was new and exciting.
It also introduces you to many of the people and gliders from those
times. The photos are reproduced in excellent quality.
To fly as the hawk and eagle has been mankind’s dream for centuries.
Modern sailplanes make soaring and gliding flight possible, and with
them, humans can fly higher, faster, and farther than the greatest of
birds, using only an invisible force of nature to stay aloft. The terms
soaring and gliding are used interchangeably, and the sport is appealing
to pilot and spectator alike. Sailplane enthusiasts have always been
explorers, always looking for a more ideal site that will provide the
intellectual challenges of soaring as well as the sheer beauty and
relaxation the sport can offer. Michigan-based glider pilots and
designers found their soaring paradise in the early 1930s when they
ventured north to the Sleeping Bear Dunes area. The explorers began to
promote the sport to national and international prominence, and many
came to make up a veritable who’s who of American aeronautics. Over a
century after Octave Chanute discovered motorless flight on the Lake
Michigan dunes, sailplanes, hang gliders, and paragliders still fill the
skies.
Author Bio: In Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National
Lakeshore Area, historian Peter R. Sandman, recipient of soaring awards
from the National Soaring Museum in Elmira, New York, and the Los
Angeles–based Citizen Savings Athletic Foundation, joins forces with his
son, Jeffery P. Sandman, who has written extensively on soaring in the
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore area relative to early tourism
promotion in northwestern Michigan. |
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