STEVE!
It's Glenn Norman - your "Nothing By Chance" "co-star" <vbg>.
I've been trying to find you for decades!
Searched all over L.A. for you a few years back (do you know how many Steve Youngs there are in L.A. ??? <vbg>.)
Then - got a forward to this site from a friend this a.m.
How wonderful to know you're still alive and kicking ... and flying??? CAPTAIN Young???
Re the rest of the NBC cast ...
I'm sorry to have to tell you that Jack Brown was killed in a plane crash - not all that long after we shot NBC. The story I heard was that he was ferrying a Seabee for a friend when the controls jammed. He tried to nurse the plane home with power - but was heading for a school ... so he stood on the rudder and put it in. A true hero ... but then we all knew Jack - our old original Barnstomer - was a very special man. His son still runs the family Seaplane base at Winter Haven, FLA.
I'm afraid we also lost Spence Nelson in the late 70's. He was dead-heading home on that jet that mid-aired a 172 over San Diego ... I was sitting in a restaurant when I read that and started crying out loud ... such a wonderful man. I'm so glad we have his memory on film.
I lost touch with Stu Macpherson and the magnificent Chris Cagle over the years.
But I still exchange E's with Russ Munson several times a year (He's still "A wild and crazy guy" - and as wonderful as ever ... and did you know there are pictures of all of us barnstorming for "Nothing By Chance" in Russ's book "Airborne"?)
Wrote back and forth to Hugh Downs for a while (Remember him playing his banjo with our "Nothing By Chance Orchestra," out under the stars - at that airstrip in Pecatonica, Illinois?)
Re Richard ...
Steve, correct me if I'm wrong, but - between the lines - I sense a touch of lingering hostility <vbg>.
Could it possibly be because of "the fire scene?" <vbg>.
Sigh ... Richard has always been - well ... Richard <vbg>. But he's a good guy, Steve.
We've had our ups and downs over the years (mainly becuase we're both equally stubborn <g>,) but we stay in contact and he's always been a wonderfully supportive friend to me ... especially over the past three, brutal years.
What else can I tell you? so much has happened ...
We almost lost ME in an ultralight crash back in 81. I built a foot-launched Easy Riser - flew it about 75 times - then one day, it quit flying, tipped over and went into a vertical dive from 600 feet! I KNEW I was dead ... but JUST before impact, the thing went inverted, skimmed the ground and crashed - ever so gently <g>. The prop cut off a fingertip on the way down, but as it was still attached - BARELY - I put it back where it was suppoed to be, drove to the hospital and had them sew it back on <vbg>.
I was back in the air two days later <g>.
I still barnstorm - mostly in old biplanes borrowed from The Tiger Boys Flying Museum in Guelph, Ontario, Canada ... but over the years, I evolved from an aviation writer to a Screenwriter (and I've written so many TV shows, I can't remember most of them <g>.)
I'm still with my beautiful partner, Michelle Goodeve (this is year #37 for us!) She became a pilot and bought her own Pietenpol Aircamper (which she's flown for the past 25 years!) She has an airstrip out back (behind our rural Ontario home,) but the Piet is currently in our dining room - getting a complete rebuild.
Michelle became famous acting as teacher "Ms. Avery" on the series "Degrassi Junior High." (It's the most successful TV series in Canadian history, ran on PBS in the States, and is STILL on every day in reruns!)
Michelle also started writing about 15 years ago (one of our more recent projects was the "Redwall" cartoon series on PBS.)
As we both evolved into screenwriters and pilots, we tried to create a TV show that would incorporate both, and - I'm so glad you turned up right now - because we are days away from achieving that dream.
Last month, we shot the pilot for a new TV series for Canada's Outdoor Life Network. It's called "Barnstormers" and premieres on Friday, Feb 4th at 9 pm EST. Michelle stars in the show and flies our old 1937 Thruxton Jackaroo in the pilot (that's me flying the 1942 DH Tiger Moth <g>.)
If the series gets a green light, next summer, they'll shoot 13 one hour episodes of Michelle and her co-star Barnstorming coast to coast across Canada.
Anyway - I'm going on too much - and we should talk ... so CONTACT ME!
You can E me at:
fearwidg@compuserve.com
Really looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers till next time,
Glenn "Fearless" Norman
Ontario, Canada
PS Do you have a copy of "Nothing By Chance?" If not, let me know and I'll send you one.
PPS: Although we were the "young 'uns" in the movie, I guess you look a little older than the last time I saw you. Let me see - you were our 19 year old Sky Diver ... and we shot NBC in 1973 ... so that would make you ... WH... WHA... WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? OVER 50????? God! ... But then again, I'm 56!!!!! Tempus Fugit <g>.
PPPS To the rest of the good folks in this forum, my apologies for taking up too much space - but I really wanted to find my old friend, Steve - and he didn't leave an address. So thank you for this ... I was going to say "chance" ... but as we all know, there is "Nothing By Chance" <vbg>.
All of us will be there to show what Mr. Bach was and is like..
The man will not respond to his fellow workers or friends.
We have many people who can not wait to see what ever happened to Jack Brown, Steven Young, Chris Caggle, and best of all..Glen Norman.
The boys from "Nothing By Chance".
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