Christopher Reeve...RIP

[Stewart Kissel]

I had a chance to meet him after his horse riding accident...and
we chatted about soaring. He had a very positive attitude
about the direction things were heading for him.
http://acro.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/awards.pl

[Shawn]

Stewart Kissel wrote:
> I had a chance to meet him after his horse riding accident...and
> we chatted about soaring. He had a very positive attitude
> about the direction things were heading for him.
> http://acro.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/awards.pl
>
>
>
RIP Superman.

[ZASoars]

When I lived in the U.K. for a period during the late 70's I remember a
newspaper headline to the effect that "Superman Makes a Forced Landing " -
Christopher Reeve had made an outlanding in a glider at a military airfield
somewhere in the middle of England if I remember it correctly. He did what so
many of us still love doing .

[Ralph Jones]

On 12 Oct 2004 12:47:24 GMT, (ZASoars) wrote:

>When I lived in the U.K. for a period during the late 70's I remember a
>newspaper headline to the effect that "Superman Makes a Forced Landing " -
>Christopher Reeve had made an outlanding in a glider at a military airfield
>somewhere in the middle of England if I remember it correctly. He did what so
>many of us still love doing .

Chris borrowed our Astir-CS on a visit to Black Forest the year after
"Superman I", because it had the only 6-foot-4 cockpit on the
field...made a bloody good wave flight in it, too.

rj

[Nimbuskull]

Ralph Jones > wrote in message >...
> On 12 Oct 2004 12:47:24 GMT, (ZASoars) wrote:
>
> >When I lived in the U.K. for a period during the late 70's I remember a
> >newspaper headline to the effect that "Superman Makes a Forced Landing " -
> >Christopher Reeve had made an outlanding in a glider at a military airfield
> >somewhere in the middle of England if I remember it correctly. He did what so
> >many of us still love doing .
>
> Chris borrowed our Astir-CS on a visit to Black Forest the year after
> "Superman I", because it had the only 6-foot-4 cockpit on the
> field...made a bloody good wave flight in it, too.
>
> rj

So, Where did superman learn to fly?

[Ralph Jones]

On 21 Oct 2004 06:17:12 -0700, (Nimbuskull) wrote:

>Ralph Jones > wrote in message >...
>> On 12 Oct 2004 12:47:24 GMT, (ZASoars) wrote:
>>
>> >When I lived in the U.K. for a period during the late 70's I remember a
>> >newspaper headline to the effect that "Superman Makes a Forced Landing " -
>> >Christopher Reeve had made an outlanding in a glider at a military airfield
>> >somewhere in the middle of England if I remember it correctly. He did what so
>> >many of us still love doing .
>>
>> Chris borrowed our Astir-CS on a visit to Black Forest the year after
>> "Superman I", because it had the only 6-foot-4 cockpit on the
>> field...made a bloody good wave flight in it, too.
>>
>> rj
>
>So, Where did superman learn to fly?

No idea, but he owned a couple of airplanes in California and a
sailplane based in England. He used his own biplane (a Stearman, IIRC)
in the film "The Aviator." There's a takeoff scene that starts as a
closeup of him in the cockpit, then dollies back to show him taking
off in one continous shot, making it clear that he's actually flying
the airplane.

rj

[Peter Wyld]

At 13:42 21 October 2004, Nimbuskull wrote:
>
>So, Where did superman learn to fly?
>

No idea, but he had a glider which was shared by a
buddy of mine, at Booker (EGTB) UK, for several years.
Nice guy.

[Mike Brooks]

Peter Wyld > wrote in message >...
> At 13:42 21 October 2004, Nimbuskull wrote:
> >
> >So, Where did superman learn to fly?
> >
>
> No idea, but he had a glider which was shared by a
> buddy of mine, at Booker (EGTB) UK, for several years.
> Nice guy.

I'm part owner of a Pilatus B4 that he borrowed to get his Silver C.
It was based at Rosamond, California at the time. I've got a copy of
handwritten correspondence dated 10/1979 that the previous owner gave
to me which says - " ... I'll probably be bringing my ASW19 home from
England next year, so see you around the skies of Rosamond."

Another article in Pacific Flyer (looks like a West Coast newspaper)
from November 1979 states that he owned an A36 Bonanza as well as an
ASW19B and had been flying for four years.

Mike Brooks