Re: Boy Who Flew With Condors - Dick Johnson? Other Comments

On Sep 4, 9:00=A0am, alc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Aug 27, 4:11=A0pm, alc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > * 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
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> > > exist or were they simply Hollywood actors? =A0If real, did they do
> > > their own flying (the Torres Pines beach takeoff especially).
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> > I found this link that mentions some more about Chris Jury. =A0He got
> > his diamond altitude at the age of 14 on Apr. 5 1964, =A0it says.
> > Sadly,
> > it also mentions he lost his life in a power plane crash in the 1970s.
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> > http://www.geocities.com/smpawl...@[EMAIL
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> That link did not copy correctly, it should have been:
> http://www.geocities.com/smpawl...@[EMAIL
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> I just received my copy of "The Boy Who Flew With Condors"
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> 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/1971/1971Feb_full.jpg

This dang thing keeps truncating that link - the truncated
part of the url smpawl...  should be "smpawling"