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Post by Chicawolverina on Apr 23, 2009 19:21:30 GMT -5
OMG This is great! It's a 30 minutes film-short from 1968 about freeflight rubber powered aeromodels and a young boys dreams of becoming a champion in the international Wakefield competition of the FAI. Very rarest of all stuff, they should to a PBS NOVA restoration of it and or something. THE LONG FLIGHT (1968) "The Long Flight" is a 30 minute film, shot between 1966 and 1967 at various locations in Massachusetts. It was written, produced and directed by H. Henry Franck (1934-1992) and premiered in 1968 in Boston. "The Long Flight" dramatizes the experiences of building and flying model airplanes. A young man while preparing his Wakefield for an aero-modelling competition, recalls the chance meeting in his boyhood with a former world champion who revealed to him the magic and challenge of the sport." www.myspace.com/thelongflight><Tomasina Chicawolverina!
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