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