No.6 -- Waynesboro, Virginia

17 September 1993

This landmark was erected on the 60th anniversary of a record flight made by Richard Chichester duPont in a Bowlus Albatross sailplane on September 21, 1933. DuPont was launched from the Afton Mountain near here and flew 121.6 miles to Frederick, Maryland. The marker is dedicated to the people of Waynesboro and Augusta County who helped to make these flights possible." Note: The duPont glider, the Albatross, is now hanging in our museum. [References]

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Souvenir cover, postmarked on 24 September 1935 in Wilmington, Delaware, and signed by Richard C. DuPont, who flew 121.6 miles in a Bowlus Albatross sailplane just about one year earlier.

The beautiful Blue Ridge mountain area over which DuPont flew on his record flight to Frederick, Maryland.

Souvenir glider-flown mail: Linn Buell, at the time President of the Vintage Sailplane Association, and Greg Reynolds carried the envelopes on a local flight above Waynesboro, Virginia.

The welcoming committee greeting the glider mail pilots and the nicely restored TG-4 (LK-10) upon their return to the airfield.

Richard C. Dupont in 1933.

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