This feature film documents more than 15 years of history and development of hang-gliding and skydiving. The spectrum reaches from the very first beginnings with round canopies and kites from the bamboo and plastic era until the knowledge of the late 70th. Breathtaking gags and stunts between heaven and earth, music by Michael Lloyd, movie with narration (english language).

Skydiving: Lots of exits from Huey-helicopters, DC-3s and Antonovs, style, slapstics and comedy, slow motion parachute openings, melon in freefall, newspaper-delivery out of the main container, landing into power lines, glacier jump above the Swiss alps, small and large formations of the first US National Team Jerry Birdīs All Stars, night formations, first skydiving world championship at Bled/Yugoslavia, first 26-way-star with Americans and Russians.

Hang-gliding: Many daring self-constructions and their first flight trial, breathtaking high-altitude and long-distance flights above California and Hawaii, dramatic single and mass-crashes, fence landing, water kiting, snow kiting, balloon launch, towing behind cars, motorcycle kite, head-down flights, skydive from a kite, 4-way-kite-flight, Francis Rogallos first flight, endurance record (8 hours, 24 minutes) and much more...

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