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The Sunship Game (6x20)

: 28, 1972

To be free and alone above the earth; to be like a bird using the winds to take you ever upwards and on; that is the ambition of man to which only gliding can come near. But when one. man sets out to beat another, to strain his every nerve to fly his sunship higher and further than the next man, then this gloriously exhilarating pastime becomes a fiercely competitive game. The Sunship Game follows the fortunes of three of the leading glider pilots in America as they compete against each other in the National Sailplane Championship of the USA. It shows how the whole man, his state of mind, even his personal life becomes focused on his ability to use the winds more skilfully than his competitor; and how, when the competition is in world class, a man's every thought condenses itself into the will to win.