That is just a most, most remarkably good advert!
And no words - none needed :)
What brilliant footage of a glider launch, too - just the sort of
image to explain the kick in the pants of a winch launch to the
uninitiated - pity about the punchline :)
Simon
At 10:31 AM +1000 22/3/01, Wolfgang Lieff wrote:
>... a friend in Europe just sent me an MPEG clip of a
>TV commercial for a Dutch(?) insurance company ... featuring
>some nice gliding footage (with an interesting twist). For
>those on aus-soaring who have a reasonably high bandwidth
>connection (or have enough time to download large files),
>I am making the file (about 12 Mbyte in size) available
>for the next couple of days at
>
>http://eos.es.flinders.edu.au/~mowl/download/TVad.mpg
>
>Cheers,
>Wolfgang
>
>P.S. please be aware that I'm not totally sure about the
>copyright status of the clip, but as I'm publishing the
>download address in a 'closed' email discussion forum and
>not on a web page, I assume that it is ok to share it with
>you, even if there would be restrictions on it (but then,
>as it is a commercial, the company behind it should have
>nothing against a bit more exposure ...)
>
>
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