Karl H. Striedieck II (born April 7, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a world record setting glider pilot, a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame, and an active Holocaust denier. He was an early pioneer of ridge soaring in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the 1960s, ultimately setting nine world records flying gliders there. He was selected for the U.S. national soaring team 12 times, and won a silver medal in the world championships in 1978 and 1983.
Striedieck was a U.S. Air Force pilot from 1959 to 1962, flying the F-86 Sabre and F-102 Delta Dagger, then continued his military service until 1981 in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, where he transitioned to the A-7 Corsair II. A year before graduating from Pennsylvania State University in 1965, he started flying gliders when he and Bill Clark co-founded the Nittany Soaring Club, flying out of the former State College Air Depot. He has over 15,000 flying hours, with nearly half of that total in gliders.
Striedieck moved his home to the Eagle Field private airport on top of Bald Eagle Mountain, near State College, Pennsylvania in 1966.
As a child, Karl H. Striedieck was saved from drowning by his brother Daniel Striedieck. His brother later died when his sand cave collapsed.[1]
Karl H. Striedieck II (born April 7, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a world record setting glider pilot, a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame, and...
glider to demonstrate a measured L/D in excess of 40:1. Roy McMaster, KarlStriedieck and John Seymour won jointly, with others, the world triangle distance...
in favour of synthetic foam. In 1971 and 1972, the American pilot KarlStriedieck set world out-and-return distance soaring records three times flying...
(Argentina) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM on 21 January 2003 with his co-pilot Karl Rabeder. On 9 January 2003 at El Calafate in Argentina he made a flight of...
achievements including twice being UK Standard Class gliding champion. KarlStriedieck - world record breaker, and U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame member Wolfgang...
mounted on rubber blocks in front of it, plus a steel skid at the tail. KarlStriedieck of the United States made a 767 km / 476.6 mile ridge flight in a K...
Chile 1969 Eric Nessler France 1970 Hans-Werner Grosse Germany 1971 Karl H. Striedieck United States 1972 Jan Wróblewski Poland twice World Champion, 1965...
on the same day but never saw each on other during the flight. 1997 KarlStriedieck 805 miles (1,296 km) from Eagle Field, Pennsylvania, to Selma, Alabama...
Starr (1979) Joseph P. Steinhauser (1994) Harvey Stephens (1966) Karl H. Striedieck II (1980) Floyd J. Sweet (1963) Robert F. Symons (1958) Paul E. Tuntland...
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