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On August 18, 1929, Ralph S. Barnaby became the first American to win an International Soaring Certificate with a 15-minute, 6-second flight from Corn Hill. That flight was the first to exceed the American record for motorless flight, 9 minutes, 45 seconds, set by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on October 24, 1911.
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