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Sundance Aviation – On Location

$89 for 30-Minute High-Performance Glider Flight ($151 Value)

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In a Nutshell

Gliders soar over the desert as they ride thermal columns of air; pilots turn over controls for a few minutes to intrepid passengers

The Fine Print

  • Expires Nov 27, 2013
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Limit 1 passenger per flight. Subject to weather. Extra $30 fee for upgrade to 45 minute flight. 250lb weight limit per person.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

There are few things as liberating as being able to fly, which is why humans invented airplanes and why penguins constantly try to sabotage them by climbing into their jet engines. Feel the freedom of the skies with this Groupon.

$89 for 30-Minute High-Performance Glider Flight ($151 Value)

A small plane lifts gliders into the air before releasing them to sail over the New Mexico desert. Then passengers ride the high-performance Grob 103 fiberglass glider through thermal-air columns, and pilots turn over cockpit controls to passengers for a few minutes. Customers are advised to call ahead one week in advance to schedule a flight.

Sundance Aviation

At Sundance Aviation, shimmering fiberglass gliders soar up to 18,000 feet above see level as they cruise over the New Mexico desert. Pilots navigate gliders high above the air, riding thermal lifts in the summer and mountain wave lifts in the winter. Pilots offer easy-going, scenic tours as well as more acrobatic flights that take passengers on a series of multiple loops, wing-overs, chandelles, and deep stalls. Passengers can take to the skies in a modern fiberglass Grob 103 or the historic Schweitzer 2-33 that’s powered exclusively by a furnace of handlebar mustaches.

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The Groupon Guide to: Famous Hats

Every historical figure of any significance wore a now instantly recognizable hat, synonymous with their name:

  • The Napoleon Hat: Military bicorn, worn side to side or "athwart" to serve as a better perch for enlisted falcons
  • The Benjamin Franklin Hat: Small brass beanie with a large conductive spire jutting out of it, topped with a small eyelet for tethering a kite
  • The Davy Crockett Hat: Famously a strict vegetarian, Crockett's "coonskin" was actually just a matted blob of reeds and buffalo chips that he moistened hourly from his canteen
  • The Hercules Hat: Just a minotaur skull

Honorable Mention: Jughead's "hat" from the Archie comics is actually a crown (?) made of gray paper (?) with miscellaneous shapes affixed to it. Details remain vague because it is proven that overscrutinizing Jughead's hat makes you go insane.

Which historical figure had the most famous hat? The answer may surprise you.

Sundance Aviation