John Shelton wrote:
Fellow soarists,

I did not make myself clear. My apologies.

The production company is not making a slasher flick. It is trying to find
EXPEDITIONS with an element of danger that might include a survival segment.

In soaring, we have plenty of possible danger. These guys are seeking
expeditions. What comes to mind is the distance attempts in South
America...except they are motorgliders.

I am afraid that if we show a Pratt-Read glider back in the Dark Ages when
even I had black hair (any hair), it will be nice but it won't get any kids
to come tromping out to the airport.

I apologize for being a glasshole but something where we can show off.
Kempton Izuno has been my model for the Kit Carson of soaring these days but
being a city boy and hiking in the dark, eating Powerbars after the
shelf-life date has expired while being scared of those scraggly little nags
out there is not going to hold up the next episode where a guy takes a 50
foot drop in a kayak into Class V water to save a burning child from a
sinking terrorist. (Sorry, Kemp, but that IS a little bit too urban.)

How about the expedition by the two Germans from Houston to Alaska (one
to Nome!) and back in their ASH 26 Es? Quite a story, lots of potential
danger, and history could be revised so they aren't Germans! It was
written up in Motorgliding International magazine before it folded.
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