SOARING 1975

For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) GORDON LSAMB, IN BUSINESS SUIT, WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA, AMID THICK CROWD, ON NEW YORK'S BUSY WALL STREET. FACE SHOT OF GORDON IN COCKPIT OF SAIL-PLANE, SOARING IN SKY. GLIDER CRUISING IN SKY HIGH ABOVE GREEN PASTURES BELOW. 00:36:59 GORDON WHO BUILT SAIL-PLANE FROM KIT PULLS IT INTO PLACE ON GRASSY FIELD. LS SAIL-PLANE BEING PULLED IN SKY BY PIPER CUB AIRPLANE. AS SEEN FROM PLANE FOLLOWING BEHIND. LINE IS RELEASED, SAIL-PLANE SOARS IN SKY. 00:37:19 MONTAGE SHOTS OF SAIL-PLANE SOARING SERENELY IN SKY PICTURESQUE GREENERY BELOW 00:37:46 SAILPLANES SCATTERED ALONG GROUND AT SAIL-PLANE MEET. PAN TO PEOPLE ON ROOF OF CONTROL TOWER WHERE PILOTS LAY OUT COURSE FOR COMPETITIVE MEET. MEN WOMEN OF ALL AGES TAKE NOTES. 00:37:59 CU PILOTS ADJUST THEIR SEAT BELTS, PULL DOWN PLASTIC COCKPIT COVER, TAKE OFF AT THREE-MINUTE INTERVALS. GLIDER WITH WIRE ATTACHED SOARS OFF GROUND. MONTAGE SAILPLANES SOARING IN SKY, SCENERY BELOW. 00:38:59 GORDON'S SON, WIFE, WATCH FROM GROUND WITH BINOCULARS, AS HE SOARS ABOVE, DROPPING HIS BALLAST OF WATER BEFORE LANDING. SON RUNS OUT TO MEET HIM AS HE UN-STRAPS SEAT BELT, CLIMBS OUT. WIFE GIVES HIM KISS.