Draft:John Robinson (glider pilot)
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John Robinson is an American aviator and pioneer of gliding in the United States in the mid-20th century. Robinson won the Edward S. Evans trophy at the U.S. National Gliding Championship in 1940, 1941, and 1946, and was the first pilot in the world to earn the FAI Diamond badge.[1]
During WWII, Robinson was a glider instructor pilot for the USAAF in Twentynine Palms, California.
Robinson was a pilot for the Sierra Wave Project in Bishop, California, flying instrumented gliders in mountain lee waves generated by the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1951 and 1952.[2]
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