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Old 09-01-2013, 06:25 PM
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Scott speaks truth. I've been flying gliders since 1968 and have suffered a few "Red Baron's". I believe that the phrase came from the Peanuts comic strip where Snoopy would yell, "Curse You, Red Baron" after his imagining being a World War One flying ace. A deployed streamer from a hung up pod would bring the glider down at an angle like it had been shot down and was trailing flames.

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