On Sep 6, 8:43 am, Doug Hoffman wrote:
It gets worse. Yesterday Yahoo News carried a story (AP origin?)
about how treacherous the downdrafts in the area could be. They cited
the death of Clem Bowman, "whose glider was thrown to the ground
shortly after launch", as an example.

Regards,

-Doug

right, and then they casually mentioned that the wind in Nevada on
Monday was CALM