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I remember an episode of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (WWII Pappy Boyington
series, with Corsiars being the main stars...Robert Conrad in a
supporting role) where they used a glider to search for a Radar
ship...then the "command glider" vectored in the Corsairs to destroy
the radar ship...

Thanks for the pointer; I will investigate.

They made the guy who'd experienced the most recent dead-stick landing
fly the glider... I think it looked pretty much like a 1-34...time
travel in Hollywood is abused to an extreme.

I can't offer any "vectors" to figuer out which episode, etc., etc.

What was the movie about the POW's in the Colditz Castle on the
mountain that fabricated a glider to escape in? Wasn't there a drama
AND a documentary?

I know of one TV movie, titled "The Birdmen". I have it on the list.


James Bond MUST have flown a glider somewhere in that series...

Hmm. I think I remember parachuting, but not gliding...

There was a TV show in the '80's about a parapalegic girl who went on
to take flying lessons (if you call power "flying"), and (against her
parents' wishes) soloed in a Stearman...I thought the title was
"Skyward..." Short bit of two gliders zooming over the buildings in
the teen's new home town. Bette Davis was her instructor...Howard
Hessman the washed up mechanic...

Indeed. "Skyward". On the list.


Christopher Reeve and Hugh Downs have both displayed some of their
soaring skills on one off TV shows...

OK. I'll have a look.

Wow...there's more silver screen soaring than I thought!!!

-Pete
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