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Letter To The Editor
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XXX Spanish National Gliding Championship
From : Angel Casado
Folks,

There are still some vacants for non-spanish gliding pilots for the XXX Spanish National Gliding Championship here are the data:
When:July 3rd till July the 11th.
Where: Santa Cilia de Jaca, in the southern side of the Pyrinees, a brand new airfield. Two runways (asphalt & grass)
Competition area: Pyrinees and to the south.
Organize: Club Nimbus
Entries: up to 10 non-spanish gliding pilots, entry fee 15.000 pts. (~$100) plus aerotow fees 3.000 pts. (~$20).
Lodge and camping: Available on the field.
Classes: Open, 15M, Std, world & club.
Rules: A specific set of rules (available in spanish on request), but very close to the Annex A.
Contact & registration: Antonio Ibars
Arquitecto Ramírez 90
50720 La Cartuja (ZARAGOZA)
tel/fax (+34) 976-500172
E-mail aibars@encomix.es
Let's fly on this wondeful spanish area.
With my best regards.
Angel Casado

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Gustave Weisskopf
From : Pierluigi Duranti
Dear friends,

I have recently learned a very interesting story about the german Gustave Weisskopf, a guy who, in 1901, two years before the Wright brothers, is proven to have flown with a motorized aircraft. Unfortunately the pictures which demonstrate that evet went destroyed and the withnesses available at the time have died.

Nevertheless there are good proofs that he actually did the job. A group of citizens of his german home-place (Leutershausen) have been working thirty years to collect documents for demonstrating his world record. I visited their newly established museum and I guarantee it is something amazing. In order to prove that he was a "serios" inventor and aircraft designer, they have now built a full scale replica of his aircraft, which has successfully flown a few weeks ago.

This event is of great interest for the restoration and aircraft homebuilders environment, but also for anybody interested in aviation history.

I believe that this story actually deserves to be known by our public and the efforts of those supporters deserve more popularity. I have recently written a long article for our italian aeronautical magazine. It is written in italian and it would take me a lot of time to translate it in (bad) english.

If you believe that it is worth, I can send you this article ,but you should take care of having it properly translated. Otherwise I could do it, but it would take long...

Please let me know your intention about.

Best regards and many compliment for the quality of your excellent job in this new shape of the magazine.

Pierluigi Duranti
President C.I.A.C.A.

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