Who was your father? My dad and some of his friends who were there still go to Marfa once a year to fly gliders.

@@TexasPilotMX I knew your father and grandfather. Neil was a great guy and your grandfather had the coolest house/hangar at the Odessa airport.

I was there the following year for the World championships. My father, Jim, flew one of the tow planes. I did not know George or Gleb, but Wally Scott was a kind and generous man to me and my father. At that time he and Ben Greene held the world's distance record. A few years later I and Gary Evans flew the Odessa club's Blanik for a junior class out and return record of just 114 miles. The day was poor and lift had really ended. Wally was so worried and said, "Those kids have to be down by now out in the desert." I reality, we kept scratching, finally found the last thermal of the day and made it back to Odessa to a hero's welcome. Wally, the world record holder, was genuinely thrilled with our little flight. He took us all out to dinner and back to his house for a party. He celebrated like we just broke a world record. Like I said, kind and generous.

@@JimForeman Hey Jim. Thanks for the comment. We have a glider club down in central Texas (Hamilton). Feel free to come down any weekend. My dad, Gary, and Wally Jr are there most weekends.

That teacher is George Moffat, two time World Champion and the reason for this movie.

Welcome to cinema verite. It is very intentionally what it is,

Moffat taught at one of the best private schools in the country and was already a world class sailor in International 14´s. I was a newcomer at Wurtsboro, not yet soloed in power planes and Moffat was working on his HP-8. His natural instincts as a teacher kicked in and I learned about stuff like Reynold´s numbers and we argued boats since I had both a windmill and a thistle at the time., not quite equal to the international 14 but pretty respectable. Especially since the windmill used a crew of two and the thistle a crew of three but I often sailed alone.

@@wingswheels I was a student at that school (The Pingry School, then in Hillside, NJ) when Prof Moffat taught English. I was not in his class but those who were thought he was great. I recognized some of the students shown in his class (probably the class size was about 10) in the trailer.

@@jamesrobinson7586 I took his class; great teacher. Remember the trailer that carried his glider in the parking lot of the school?