soaring on screen

Unfortunately the cut of the newer "Thomas Crown Affair" shown on
regular TV does not have the gliding footage. I guess they cut it to
make room for commercials.


wrote:
I have started a webpage that will collect appearances of gliders in TV
programs and movies:
http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larso.../onscreen.html

So far I have five movies on the list, with more to come. I know of the
following:

Escape From New York
Dawn Flight
The Sky Trap
Skyward
The Birdmen
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (music video)
Freefall: Flight 174
The Longest Day
The Boy Who Flew With Condors

I would appreciate pointers to any others you know of.

Johan Larson

wrote:
I have started a webpage that will collect appearances of gliders in TV
programs and movies:
http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larso.../onscreen.html

So far I have five movies on the list, with more to come. I know of the
following:

Escape From New York
Dawn Flight
The Sky Trap
Skyward
The Birdmen
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (music video)
Freefall: Flight 174
The Longest Day
The Boy Who Flew With Condors

I would appreciate pointers to any others you know of.

Stormchasers

On TV I recently say an episode of "Dukes of Hazard" where Bo and Luke
Duke are flying around in a Blanik! I believe there is even a scene
where they car launch using thier Dodge Charger


wrote:
I have started a webpage that will collect appearances of gliders in TV
programs and movies:
http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larso.../onscreen.html

So far I have five movies on the list, with more to come. I know of the
following:

Escape From New York
Dawn Flight
The Sky Trap
Skyward
The Birdmen
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (music video)
Freefall: Flight 174
The Longest Day
The Boy Who Flew With Condors

I would appreciate pointers to any others you know of.

Johan Larson

wrote:
On TV I recently say an episode of "Dukes of Hazard" where Bo and Luke
Duke are flying around in a Blanik! I believe there is even a scene
where they car launch using thier Dodge Charger

OK, thanks for mentioning that. Unfortunately there are seven seasons
of episodes, plus change, which is a lot to plow through. Do you
remember anything else about the episode?

The show is he
http://www.tv.com/the-dukes-of-hazza...4/summary.html

Johan Larson

Jim wrote:
On 24 Nov 2006 07:27:18 -0800, "chipsoars"
wrote:


wrote:
I have started a webpage that will collect appearances of gliders in TV
programs and movies:
http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larso.../onscreen.html

So far I have five movies on the list, with more to come. I know of the
following:

Escape From New York
Dawn Flight
The Sky Trap
Skyward
The Birdmen
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (music video)
Freefall: Flight 174
The Longest Day
The Boy Who Flew With Condors

I would appreciate pointers to any others you know of.

Johan Larson

I wouldn't ignore commercials either. There is the current Ameriprise
Financial commercial (which ironically portrays the active baby boomer
retirement model) that is getting quite a bit of airtime for several
months. This has some great shots of a DG 1000 (?).

Toyota pickups had a commercial ground launching a glider.

Chip F.


I think that glider is either a DG500 or a DG505. I know,
nit-picking. One way or the other, a lovely ship.

Jim

I'm an AS guy so I guess it can be overlooked. At any rate, I'd love
to know why Ameritech picked Soaring.

chipsoars wrote:

I'm an AS guy so I guess it can be overlooked. At any rate, I'd love
to know why Ameritech picked Soaring.

You might well be able to set up a phone interview with the guys who
commissioned the ad and filmed it. Sounds like a good topic for an
article in Soaring.

Johan Larson

There was a one hour show called Free Flight on the Discovery Channel
in the early 90's. It was part of a series called Equinox. It was
partly about the prototype of the ASW-24 as well as other topics. Very
interesting and enjoyable.

There was an excellent short movie produced by IMAX called Silent Sky.
I say it in the late 80's but it was produced in 1977. I've tried very
hard to find a copy. IMAX says it's not avialable on DVD or video. We
should all bug them to do that.

Bob


On Nov 23, 7:25 pm, wrote:
I have started a webpage that will collect appearances of gliders in TV
programs and movies:http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larso.../onscreen.html

So far I have five movies on the list, with more to come. I know of the
following:

Escape From New York
Dawn Flight
The Sky Trap
Skyward
The Birdmen
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (music video)
Freefall: Flight 174
The Longest Day
The Boy Who Flew With Condors

I would appreciate pointers to any others you know of.

Johan Larson

wrote:
There was a one hour show called Free Flight on the Discovery Channel
in the early 90's. It was part of a series called Equinox. It was
partly about the prototype of the ASW-24 as well as other topics. Very
interesting and enjoyable.

There was an excellent short movie produced by IMAX called Silent Sky.
I say it in the late 80's but it was produced in 1977. I've tried very
hard to find a copy. IMAX says it's not avialable on DVD or video. We
should all bug them to do that.

Yes, this project has turned up a whole bunch of orphaned works: "The
Sky Trap", "Skyward", "The Boy Who Flew With Condors". They were made,
but just aren't available now, in any form. In many cases they never
made it to video.

It is teh sux.

Johan Larson

There is a glider aerobatic sequence in the Phish documentary (yes the
band) "Bittersweet Motel" and the 2-32 in Stormchasers is excellent.
Both are short.

-- dave

wrote:
wrote:
There was a one hour show called Free Flight on the Discovery Channel
in the early 90's. It was part of a series called Equinox. It was
partly about the prototype of the ASW-24 as well as other topics. Very
interesting and enjoyable.

There was an excellent short movie produced by IMAX called Silent Sky.
I say it in the late 80's but it was produced in 1977. I've tried very
hard to find a copy. IMAX says it's not avialable on DVD or video. We
should all bug them to do that.

Yes, this project has turned up a whole bunch of orphaned works: "The
Sky Trap", "Skyward", "The Boy Who Flew With Condors". They were made,
but just aren't available now, in any form. In many cases they never
made it to video.

It is teh sux.

Johan Larson

nimbus3jv wrote:
There is a glider aerobatic sequence in the Phish documentary (yes the
band) "Bittersweet Motel" and the 2-32 in Stormchasers is excellent.
Both are short.

Thanks, Dave. Pictures from "Bittersweet Motel" are already up on the
page. "Stormchasers" is on order from NetFlix; I should have pics up
sometime this week.

Johan Larson