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TIME'S Wilmott Ragsdale wasn't sure you could do a loop in an Army glider until he went up in one at the new glider school at Twentynine Palms, California suddenly felt his safety belt tighten and saw the desert above him.
He wasn't sure how you get down, either until his pilot banked the wings almost vertical, fell off into swooping circles and came out at 90 m.p.h., 400 feet above the ground.
Probably you didn't know any more about these things than he didso...
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