Ian Adams
Olympia Glider
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In 2006,
when I was at Kent, Ohio, I met a young
11-year-old boy named Ian Adams, from Chardon, Ohio. I clocked his plane twice,
and from a height of approximately 40 feet, he was turning a minute and thirty
seconds. The plane was trimmed to fly in a tight circle. On his helium
balloon, he had built a stand\rack to hold the plane level when it was launched.