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In Recess

Sep. 22, 2017

License to Glide

Criminal defense attorney Donald R. Hammond started flying gliders before he could drive a car.

License to Glide
Attorney Don Hammond, member of the Civil Air Patrol, sits in a glider plane at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos.

When criminal defense attorney Donald R. Hammond pilots a glider, he’s always on the lookout for hot air.

“You’ll sometimes see a little cloud develop right where the lift is,” Hammond explained, describing the rising thermal air currents glider plane pilots use to gain altitude.

“You can tell by the type of cloud it is whether it formed from rising air,” he continued. “And that’s when glider pi...

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