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5 days agoGliders battle thunderstorms and wildfire smoke at women's world championship | Emma John
Anne Soltow's glider was leading the field all day. Now it is in an actual field and a kilometre short of the finish. The single-seater sailplane looks like a giant alien bug: long slender fuselage, a canopy encasing the cockpit like a single eye, epic wings, 15 metres tip to tip. They were all that was keeping Soltow's engineless aircraft in the sky until 10 minutes ago.
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