This movie was my family favorite and we watched it together times without number. Had they not been forced to sell their farm I could well imagine my dad having made a safe but Rube Goldberg catapult to launch a glider from their 20 acres and bring it to a safe, albeit brisk stop on the property. And had they lived those last years like Duvall and Caine and decided on a whim to bucket together it would have been my mother piloting, with the greatest flight instructor in the world in the rear seat.