WA The Life of Soaring Legend Wally Scott (Softcover)

Table of Contents

• FOREWORD by Ben Greene
• PREFACE

Part 1 – THE FIRST LEG: 1924 – 1946

• Chapter 1… Forever Plus Two Days
• Chapter 2…First Came Dixie
• Chapter 3…Hollywood Be Thy Name
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, February 4, 1985
• Chapter 4…22 Short
• Chapter 5…Foundations of Faith
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, February 20, 1995
• Chapter 6…Bud, Barnstormers and Ballyhooing
• Chapter 7…Second Natur
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, February 28, 1995
• Chapter 8…WA – Whiskey Alpha
• Chapter 9…The best Job in the Whole Wide World
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, March 14, 1995
• Chapter 10…Chug–a–lugging
• Chapter 11…The Scott Special
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, April 20, 1995
• Chapter 12…The Almost P–38
• Chapter 13…War and Bravado
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, June 25, 1995
• Chapter 14…Dum Dum
• Chapter 15…Chiang Kai–shek
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, August 5, 1995
• Chapter 16…India Hogyah

PART 2 – THE SECOND LEG: 1946 – 1974

• Chapter 17…We Meet for a Good Life
  Boots Scott Interview Odessa, TX June 16, 2005
• Chapter 18…Sailplanes and Soaring
  Wallace Scott, Personal Journal, October, 1961
• Chapter 19…Cross – Country
• Chapter 20…Breaking the Distance
  Adapted from: Wallace Scott, “443.5 Miles by 1–26 N8606R” Soaring Magazine 1963
• Chapter 21…Rooftop Tradition
• Chapter 22…The Growing Expert
  Wallace Scott, Excerpt from a 1963 speech in Hobbs, NM
• Chapter 23…Making Things Happen
• Chapter 24…MOJO
• Chapter 25…Soaring Game
  Adapted from: Wallace Scott, “the Preparation and Execution of Long–Distance Flight”, Soaring Magazine, June 1982
• Chapter 26…Master of the Barringer
• Chapter 27…The roughest Hours
  Adapted from; Wallace Scott, “The Second 500” Soaring Magazine, November 1967
• Chapter 28…King Kong vs. the Big Bad BS–1
• Chapter 29…Showdown over Gila Bend
  Adapted from: Douglas Lamnt's adaptation of Wallace Scott's account of his world record 605–mile goal distance flight, Soaring Magazine, January 1970
• Chapter 30…The World Comes to Marfa
• Chapter 31… Double Record
  Adapted from: Wallace Scott and Ben Greene, ‘The Big One’ Soaring Magazine, February 1971
• Chapter 32… From Sea to Shining Sea

PART 3 – THE THIRD LEG: 1974–2004

• Chapter 33… Matters of the Heart
• Chapter 34… Hog the Days
• Chapter 35… Suspend in Air and Space
• Chapter 36… Attack on Aconcagua
  Adapted from: Wallace Scott and Guido Haymann, Soaring Magazine, May/June 1986
• Chapter 37…Go Like Hell
  APPENDIX 203
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 219

Forward by Ben Greene

When I stopped by Al Parker's soaring school at Odessa, Texas in the summer of 1962 to sample West Texas soaring, I did not imagine that it would be the beginning of a series of summers that would become the most enjoyable part of my soaring career. The hospitality of Wallace and Boots Scott, Re Wright and Al Parker, Combined with the West Texas soaring weather, soon made it apparent that this would not be a one–time visit.

The following summer found me back in Odessa with a Schleicher Ka–6 sailplane that proved to be a good performance match with my new friend Wally Scott's Schweizer 1–26. we began a series of friendly competitions, and, on days when we did not fly cross country, we flew locally, having last man down or shortest landing distance contests. I was impressed when I learned that Wally carried a recording barograph, on even our local flights, and that he analyzed the trace to determine how he could have improved his performance that day. Here was a man who was serious about improving his flying skills and, hence, his flight.

As our soaring skills improved, our friendship grew and, as the summers passed, I became the east–coast member of the Scott family, with visits in the evenings to Wally at the Scott Theater often preceded by a delightful meal prepared by Wally's wife Boots. Sailplane performance was improving dramatically with the advent of fiberglass construction, and Wally and I moved up periodically as newer models became available. The summer of 1970 arrived with both of us flying Schleicher ASWndash;12s, a German design with excellent performance for its time. Our world record flight that summer to Columbus, Nebraska was probably the highlight of my soaring career, But Wally, who tells the story of our flight in this book, went on to accomplish many outstanding distance flights in the years that followed. I remember him as a great friend, a fine soaring companion, and a superb pilot who confronted the challenges of flying sailplanes long distances and conquered them with skill an grace.

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