"Pardon me," said an uninitiated Argentine housewife, pointing up at the slender, long-winged aircraft that swooped like hawks over her home on the pampas 160 miles west of Buenos Aires. "Couldn't they stay up longer if they had engines?'' They could indeed. But to the 63 competitors from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit,...
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