Product Details

• Actors: Paul Hamilton
• Directors: Paul Hamilton, NA
• Format: Color, Full length, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1999
• Run Time: 22 minutes
• ASIN: 1929795122
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,418 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Director

The best part of this project was meeting all of these fantastic women. Many of these women are good pilots, and smart competitors. Their equipment is state-of-the-art and very complete - the latest wings, harnesses, flight decks and flight computers. Typically, competitors would spend 5 or 6 hours on course, flying out-and-returns, or triangles, or races to goal - racing the clock and each other for position. I tried to capture, on film, what it was like for these women to compete day after grueling day to achieve the final reward.

To say these competitors are go-for-it types is to understate. A couple of moments were heart stopping. One pilot, realizing at the last moment that she reached the day's goal, but approached it from the wrong direction, had to make a very low 180 degree turn to properly cross the finish line. She does, but it was a slow turn, leaving her landing downwind with little airspeed. She took the resultant crash philosophically, saying if she's not willing to take risks, then she shouldn't try to compete.

I came away from this project incredibly inspired to recognize my own strengths, to just go for it, never give up, and always dare to achieve.

From the Back Cover

Join 46 women hang glider pilots from around the world to challenge the skies of Lake Chelan, Washington. Feel the risks and achieve the rewards with these high spirited women. Fly with the best in the world to achieve the ultimate reward - winning the Woman's World Hang Gliding Competition.

Let these daring women inspire you to push the physical barriers with bold tenacity, reach inward to call up needed strengths and qualities of daring and courage, maximize intellectual prowess with elegant competence. The rewards? Winning the day! Gaining the admiration of your teammates! A feeling of accomplishment few ever experience! Success measured not by the fastest time, but by new and renewed friendships!

Loretta Hamilton introduces you to these inspiring women and guides you through your adventure. Paul Hamilton takes you into the air in a hang glider, to challenge the skies and give you a bird's eye-view of the action.