The Astir hanging from the ceiling in the Smithsonian Aero Space Museum at the Dulles Airfield, Washington is the Grob 102 Standard Astir that Robert Harris set a World altitude record of 49,009ft in wave of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Central California on February 17th 1986.
Also among the other gliders in the museum is a Sisu 1A that Alvin H.Parker set a world record 1042 Klms on July 31 1964 from Odessa, Texas. I guess the grandaddy of the the museum's gliders is the space shuttle on exhibition. John O'Neill
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