wasn't there a story a few years back.. same idea.. the glider pilot
launched in the Ohio area in front of a fast moving storm and landed near
Cape Cod Mass.. he was going for distance... he got it.. and with no crew it
was time to rent a large Uhaul truck and fabricate a cradle to hold the
wings and fuselage to get it back home.

Not really a land out survival issue, but some technical issues to resolve

BT

"John W" wrote in message
om...
My memory is fuzzy but ... there was a story in a John Joss(?) book
called _Soar America_ (?) from the days of free distance tasks. Some
pilot in a comp near Chicago (?) got caught up in the leading edge of
a front or squall line and got swept along for some sort of record (?)
distance to a rainy landing in some unknown place, eventually
determined to be Indiana or Ohio (?). The distance he flew was the
result of survival decisions. Perhaps something like that could be
folded into a Wild West story.

John Joss had that excellent wild west soaring adventure book, _Sierra
Sierra_ , about a record distance flight from Seattle to Death Valley.
The moment I read it I thought it'd be a good movie. It sure had a
Top Gun feel to it. I saw this book for sale at Soar Minden in 2001.

I also recall some of the Joseph Lincoln writings, for example,
_Soaring for Diamonds_, having an exotic feel, like the record/badge
attempts around the Big Bend of Texas.

Good Luck,
John


"John Shelton" wrote in message
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Ladies and Gentlemen:

I have been contacted by a television production company creating a
series
on adventure sports. They were very impressed with the crappy media I
gave
them about soaring and would like to include an "expedition" if we can
meet
their parameters.

It is Friday afternoon and I have until Monday to come up with
something.

So, put on your thinking hats: Do you know of an expedition (they call
it)
conducted with a sailplane that went wrong and resulted in a survival
situation? It will be re-enacted. I have the actors. I have the
sailplanes.
I will get the camera ship.

I need the story.

This will not be someone losing their yaw string and having to hitchhike
to
a dress shop. It will not be JJ landing at a whorehouse with no money on
him. We are talking SURVIVAL. They will probably want to shoot in the US
but
I did not ask if the story had to be an American story.

I wish I was getting paid but I am not. On the other hand, the actors
will.

So either come up with an adventure or go out this weekend, land out in
a
frozen wasteland, survive by eating your parachute, hike out to
civilization, loose two fingers to frostbite and come home a wiser man
or
woman. (Do women get wiser or is that just they are?)

Thank you. And be quick.