This week (in 1957)

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 This week (in 1957) 

• This week in 1957, glider pilot Bob Moore of Richland made the first crossing of the Cascade Mountains by a sailplane, using Wenatchee as a base.

VITEK

[jmac]

Here's the archived TOWLINE issue from October 1957 that reported that flight.

JMAC

[*Eric Greenwell1*]

Bob's flight occurred 20 years before I began flying, and Towline began even before that. I miss Bob, and I miss Towline, but neither of them is likely coming back. Thanks for the link to both of them.

Eric

[*Eric Greenwell1*]

And Fancher Field isn't coming back, either. It was still in operation in 1976 when I landed my Ka6e there during a contest, but turned into a subdivision a few years after that.. It was about 5 miles NW of EAT, and was where the gliders flew from.

[Sharon Austin]

As of our trip to revisit Fancher back in 2008 all that was left was the big storage barn, now surrounded by tall fence and used for RV storage. Both Norm and I were pretty choked up seeing the loss of that site…

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