Videos
Additional Historic Videos Related to California Gliding and Soaring
Videos Courtesy San Diego Air and Space Museum and others on YouTube
Soaring at Torrey Pines (circa 1948)
Charles Lindbergh in a Bowlus sailplane at Lebec, California (1930)
Glider meet at Arvin, California in the late 1930s
The 1958 Pacific Coast Midwinter Soaring Championships (Part 1)
Gliding at the 1949 Torrey Pines Meet
The 1964 Pacific Coast Midwinter Soaring Championships at Torrey Pines
Soaring at Torrey Pines (circa 1950s)
(See 4:44 in the video)
"Goofy's Glider" a Walt Disney animation from 1940
Capt. Frank Hawks lands the Texaco Eaglet glider at New York City after a transcontinental glider tow from San Diego (1930)
Gliding competition at Pacific Beach in San Diego (1929) (video starts at 6:34)
Glider meet at Arvin, California in the late 1930s
A glider train of three gliders (two Bowlus sailplanes and a Franklin Utility glider) on one aerotow at an airshow at Glendale's Grand Central Air Terminal (1933)
The 1958 Pacific Coast Midwinter Soaring Championships (Part 2)
Willam F. Crawford's motor glider at Seal Beach, California (circa 1930)
One of the two Pacific Beach Glider Meets of 1929 on the south side of Mt. Soledad
The 1941 glider meet at Arvin, California
More views of one of the 1929 Pacific Beach Glider Meets
A novel amphibian primary glider flown by William Van Dusen near College Grove in 1930