Hawaii Cap Soaring (Excerpt, 1970s)

but uh you're doing real well on your air workor everything's smooth everything's coordinated you've got full control of your toes your Landings are a little picky in that you're not picking your altitudes and you're not picking your speeds correctly okay we're going to start working on Precision now everybody knows you can fly this thing aahu Hawaii this man's name is curry Lee the rest of the time he's a cop right now he's an instructor teaching kids to fly gliders the young woman he's with is Wendy hunt she's a student during the winter and a student right now she's learning to fly a glider darl extrom 15 years old a future pilot he's taking his first step this summer and he aims to solo a glider major Ned Worthy United States Air Force he's a c135 pilot stationed here in Hawaii at hickham Ned believes in the future of Aviation that's why like many other military and civilian Pilots he gives his free time to help these young men and women to learn to fly with the Civil Air Patrol Larry Lewis a major in the Civil Air Patrol and Commander of this twoe encampment how you doing darl he sells insance Insurance you could say for these two weeks he's still selling Insurance his job is to make certain that young men and women have everything it takes to learn to fly gliders and if they're good enough to [Music] solo okay everybody up let's go come on turn on the lights okay everybody up come on let's get out of sack let's go turn on the lights [Music] bir 60t leaves it's so ABD from up here you should see the view such a lot of space for me and you oh you like lighting around your off the ground it do you with so [Music] much know how it feels to have W all my he to take a stroll Among the Stars get a close look at planet Mars you like it around the ground you like it do [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music]