anyone know the name of an old sailplane short film

On Jan 14, 2:38*pm, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote:
But it is not about the sailplanes, it is about the passion of the
pilot.
It's a wonderful film.

No one says it isn't. But it's, as you say, not about sailplanes. It's
of dramatic interest, historical interest.

I think I'll go watch it now, then "The Sun Ship Game" (1969),

This one too. I have the recently remastered version. It's of great
interest to us old dogs. But if a 40 year old movie is the best thing
you've got for recruitment then there's something very wrong.

Unless your target market is purely middle aged white male academics,
maybe.

I wasn't even born when "The Sun Ship Game" came out and I still
think it's the best film about soaring ever made (and I've watched a
hell of a lot of them!). It's like "The Endless Summer" with wings.
If you get a renowned, prize winning documentary filmmaker interested
in soaring, get people to invest a few million dollars (knowing
they'll never get back more than a few percent of it) you could
probably produce a film as good as it today. The music, fashion and
the gliders would be different but the essence would be pretty much
the same.

Hagbard Celine wrote:
I wasn't even born when "The Sun Ship Game" came out and I still
think it's the best film about soaring ever made ...


That's absolutely a great film and is in a class by itself. But,
personally, I've watched "A Fine Week of Soaring" way more times than
"The Sunship Game".

Tony "6N"

"Tony V" wrote in message
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Hagbard Celine wrote:
I wasn't even born when "The Sun Ship Game" came out and I still
think it's the best film about soaring ever made ...


That's absolutely a great film and is in a class by itself. But,
personally, I've watched "A Fine Week of Soaring" way more times than
"The Sunship Game".

Tony "6N"


OK, but they should have named it "A Fine Week of Soaring -- But No
Babes in Bikinis"


Zero One