During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another new weapon, the glider was first overlooked, then overdramatized, later overdisparaged.
As a 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...
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