Fly Like a Bird

Gene says: Laurie wanted me to take a ride in one of those things! I'm not sure if they would take me. I'm better at watching from the ground others that want to float around over the ocean.
Laurie says: I want him to do it because I can't! It looks fabulous, but I have this thing with heights and it would be physically impossible for me to do it. Anyhow, if I did do it, I would have a heart attach before I got in the air. All I can think of is that during the civil war in Spain, in order to save ammunicion, they lined up the opposition and forced them to jump off an amazingly high rocky cliff.