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Dialogue with Soaring Friends

 

 

On "Cowboys of the Sky" - 

David G. Jones, Jr.....8/12/2002..."Mine is close to the "Sunship Game" vision of Marfa, thunderstorms and elegant exotic German flying machines.  In my vision there are no real pilots, they are only implied.  I guess that kind of obviates the "cowboy" part.  I guess I find the life of summer soaring so evocative, but it is not any one person.  It is not even like that so much in the present as it was in the Marfa Worlds or other early Hobbs and Minden days. "

D. Purtell...My friend David Jones of Aspen, Colorado along with West Texas soaring legends, Jim Crisp and Werner Birkelbach, were all three towed by Bill Shurley's famed Ag Wagon in a simultaneous triple tow in Marfa, Texas.  The moment was captured on film by the world renowned soaring photographer, Sandor Aldott.  The triple tow image is displayed in the Marfa Museum.  

 
 

 

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