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1936
1936 - 2218.PDF
AUGUST 13. IQ36. FLIGHT. OLYMPIC AERONAUTICS Rallies, Aerobatics and Ballooning in Germany SOME striking glimpses oi aeronautical events held in con nection with the Olympic Games appear on this page Apart from a balloon race and air display at Tempelhol. two rallies were held, one open to foreign pilots and the other for Germans. For the first, 57 entries were received from 16 countries, of which 47 arrived at the rallying point at Rangsdorf, the new airport situated 20 miles to the south of Berlin As reported in Flight last week, tnere were four English par ticipants Messrs Henry Deterding (Miles Falcon), Geoffrey Linnel (D.H Hornet Moth), William Humble (D.H. Leopard Moth) and Roger Frogiey (Stinson), and they were among the first to arrive. In the rally competition two Pragas from Czechoslovakia gained the highest points. The conditions for the national rally were more difficult than for the international one, the competitors being required to land at a large number of aerodromes, many of a small and difficult nature. The winner was Capt. Speck von Sternburg in a B.F.W. Me. 108. Fourteen competitors took part in an international aerobatic contest, which was won by the German pilot Stor who, flying a B.F.W. M.35, won from one of his countrymen. In the " free style " section of this competition Stor was only sixth, the winner being Count Hagenburg (Focke-Wulf F.W.44), who had not done better than eighth place in the obligatory Section of the competition Obsolescent but picturesque—the Olympic balloon race at Tempelhof Airport (Above) Historical interlude at the Tempel hof display—the Grade monoplane of circa 1910 (Right) The German pilot Achgelis with the Focke-Wulf FW 56 in which he took second place in the Rangsdori aerobatic competition (Below) A new lightweight, made by Bock of Hamburg and fitted with a 20 h.p. Ilo engine, seen at the Tempelhot meeting (Bottom right) Part of the crowd at Templehof
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