SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. —
A gasp escaped my lungs as the motor-less glider dipped suddenly over Malpeque Bay. High above the water, I was flying in a glider, behind a cadet pilot.
I wouldn’t normally climb into a small, motor-less aircraft to be towed 1,800 feet in the air and released to fall back to Earth with a 16-year old in charge, but on Saturday, May 25, that’s just what I did.
The glider, a Schweizer 2-33, was at the Summerside Airport for the weekend, taking Island air cadets on demonstration flights.