Hi Kevin,

I don't know anything about "The Sky Trap", but a Google search found:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/1290...-Trap/overview
"In this suspenseful drama an adolescent glider pilot and his assistant are
falsely accused of smuggling drugs by the Hawk's evil henchman. Naturally it
is the enigmatic Hawk who is behind it all. "
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348049/plotsummary
"Plane crash. A cargo of illegal narcotics. And the mysterious disappearance
of an infamous drug smuggler called "The Hawk." The stage is set for a
dangerous cat and mouse game as young Grant Stone (Marc McClure) stumbles
into "The Hawk's" domain. Grant and his girlfriend (Kitty Ruth) become the
targets of a pair of bloodthirsty smugglers on the ground... and in the sky
where "The Hawk" is ready to swoop!"

Skyward by Ron Howard is the one you mentioned below. It is mainly about a
teenage girl in a wheelchair learning to fly in a Christen Eagle (not
recommended for new pilots...) and has a few scenes showing gliders. She is
drawn to the airport by a pair of Schweizer 2-32s flying in formation and
landing at the local airport. She later gets a ride in one of them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081526/plotsummary
"An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a
young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she
decides she wants to learn how to fly. Davis teaches her to fly with some
special controls compensating for her handicap. Howard Hessman is a aircraft
repair service trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air.
The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air."

I have Skyward on a copyable DVD... I think. It's not a perfect copy
though.

Paul Remde

"KevinFinke" wrote in message
...
I remember a one hour TV show from the late 70's early 80's about a
boy in a glider. It seemed to be a Grob Single Seat Astir. He and a
girl drove around with the glider in tow behind a red pickup, and then
she would give him an automobile launch off a desert lake bed. I
thought it was on the Sunday night Disney show. Is that title "The Sky
Trap?" Does anyone else remember such a show? Any clue what the title
was?

Also, is "Skyward" the film with the young girl in a wheel chair, and
Bette Davis is the cranky flight instructor? I think we watched that
film in School...

-Kevin