Silent Wings of Freedom
This is from the early days of flying in Ellenville, that was posted on the old Yahoo groups, but newer pilots may not have seen how it was back in the day(1978) 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8-Eo6jiPP4
The opening quote:
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Awesome. I still marvel at the fact that we actually survived the Rogallo Standard. I last flew mine in 1977, in the Yosemite foothills, shortly before leaving California for a six-year stint in Germany. I flew once in that entire time - using a borrowed glider that seemed light years ahead of my Eipper Formance 18-footer. Later, Jeff Nicholay (RIP, Jeff) at Morningside refused to sell me a glider unless I surrendered my Standard, which he later (according to him) burned in a bonfire.
Those were the days. Great memories.....