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A Mountain High; Glider Pilots Mourn Crash Victims but Won't Stop Riding Winds
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Erich Carter wiggles into the cylinder-like cockpit of the German-
made glider and snaps four buckles over his shoulders and around his
waist. His father, Jimmy, pulls the fiber glass cover down over
Erich's head and locks it in place.
As son waits, father carries a 200-foot-long yellow rope down the
runway. One end is attached to Erich's glider, the other to the tail
of a 1950s-style Pawnee, once a crop duster, now a tow plane idling
its 235-horsepower engine while waiting to take off from Front Royal-
Warren County Airport.
With a thumbs-up to his 14-year-old son, Carter signals Dick Ault,
a ...
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