On Sep 4, 9:00*am, wrote:
On Aug 27, 4:11*pm, wrote:

* While I am sure that many of the soaring types shown in the movie
are the real deal, did the two teenagers (Chris Jury and Margaret ???)
exist or were they simply Hollywood actors? *If real, did they do
their own flying (the Torres Pines beach takeoff especially).

I found this link that mentions some more about Chris Jury. *He got
his diamond altitude at the age of 14 on Apr. 5 1964, *it says.
Sadly,
it also mentions he lost his life in a power plane crash in the 1970s.



That link did not copy correctly, it should have been:


I just received my copy of "The Boy Who Flew With Condors"

I have another piece of "Boy Who Flew With Condors" trivia from the
far
reaches of my remote memory -
Who knows the name of the flag man
in the winch launch scene from the Torrey Pines sequence?

Hint: He is also in this beautiful picture on the cover or "Soaring".http://soaringweb.org/Soaring_Index/...71Feb_full.jpg

It's been over a week and nobody has answered, so I'll tell you - His
name
is John Dickson. He was an instructor for the AGCSC club at Torrey
Pines
and Elsinore. Sadly, I understand
he is among the list of those in the movie that are no longer with us.
A cool
guy, he later got more into Skydiving at the Elsinore Paracenter -
probably not
enough adrenaline to satisfy him in Soaring. I was one of his
students. One
day at Elsinore, I drank a grape soda and ate a chocolate ice cream
cone
and then went flying in the front seat of the 2-22 with him in the
back. I got
sick and barfed up the partially digested mixture of the grape soda
and chocolate
cone. We had no sick sack, so I had to open the canopy and let it
go over the side. It made a nice pattern as it flowed down the side of
the 2-22. Quite a mess to clean up later. It spite of that, he
eventually soloed me.