Edward Makula
Edward Makula | |
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Born | 4 July 1930 |
Died | 15 January 1996 |
Nationality | Polish |
Edward Makula (4 July 1930 – 15 January 1996) was a Polish glider pilot and engineer.[1]
He won the 1963 World Gliding Championships in Junin (Argentina) in a SZD-19 Zefir 2[2][3] and established 7 world records.[4] In 1965, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) awarded him the Lilienthal Gliding Medal.[5]
World Gliding Records by Edward Makula[4] | |||||
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date | category | achievement | course | glider | |
16 August 1955 | single place gliders | speed over a triangular course of 200 km: 67.304 km/h | Lisie Katy - Przepalkowo - Zblewo - Lisie Katy (Poland) | SZD-8 Jaskółka | |
31 July 1972 | two place gliders, crew: John Serafin (USA) | speed over a triangular course of 300 km: 113.72 km/h | Douglas County, NV - Bridgeport, CA - Rawhide, NV - Douglas County, NV (USA) | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 | |
4 August 1972 | two place gliders, crew: John Serafin (USA) | speed over a triangular course of 500 km : 101.18 km/h | Douglas County, NV - Susanville, CA - Old Lovelock, NV - Douglas County, NV (USA) | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 | |
6 August 1972 | two place gliders, crew: Hugo G. Taskovich (USA) | speed over a triangular course of 100 km : 130.73 km/h | Minden, NV - Dayton, NV - Valley View, NV - Minden, NV (USA) | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 | |
8 August 1972 | two place gliders, crew: John Serafin (USA) | out-and-return distance: 718.2 km | Douglas County, NV - Darwin Airport, CA - Douglas County, NV (USA) | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 | |
20 July 1974 | two place gliders, crew: Adèle Orsi | speed over a triangular course of 500 km : 114.86 km/h | Douglas County, NV - Chalfant, CA - Gabbs, NV - Douglas County, NV (USA) | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 | |
24 August 1974 | two place gliders, crew: John Serafin (USA) | speed over a triangular course of 300 km : 122.06 km/h | Minden, NV (USA) - ... | Caproni Vizzola Calif A-21 |
Edward Makula was an uncle of the glider aerobatics champion Jerzy Makula.[6]
References
- ^ Obituary by Jan Kaczmarek & Małgorzata Makula Archived 2007-06-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish) - accessed 2001-01-21
- ^ World Soaring Champions listing by the SSA Archived 2008-01-15 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ SSA: World Soaring Championships 1963 Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ a b FAI: records by Edward Makula Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ documentary WNIEBOWZIĘTY (in Polish) - accessed 2008-01-11
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Recipients of Lilienthal Gliding Medal
- Tadeusz Góra (1938)
- Per-Axel Persson (1948)
- John C. Robinson (1949)
- William S. Ivans (1950)
- Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard (1951)
- Charles Atger (1952)
- Victor Iltchenko (1953)
- Philip Wills (1954)
- Joachim Küttner (1955)
- Paul MacCready (1956)
- Don Luis Vicente Juez Gomez (1957)
- Wolf Hirth (1958)
- Richard Schreder (1959)
- Pelagia Majewska (1960)
- Adolph Gehriger (1961)
- Paul Bikle (1962)
- Heinz Huth (1963)
- Alvin H. Parker (1964)
- Edward Makula (1965)
- Anne Burns (1966)
- Lennart Stahlfors (1967)
- Alejo Williamson (1968)
- Eric Nessler (1969)
- Hans-Werner Grosse (1970)
- Karl Striedieck (1971)
- Jan Wróblewski (1972)
- Ann Welch (1973)
- August Hug (1974)
- Adela Dankowska (1975)
- Louis A. de Lange (1976)
- George B. Moffat Jr. (1977)
- Helmut Reichmann (1978)
- Hans Wolf (1980)
- George Lee (1981)
- Hans Nietlispach (1982)
- C.E. Wallington (1984)
- Sholto Hamilton Georgeson (1985)
- Dick Johnson (1986)
- Juhani Horma (1987)
- Ingo Renner (1988)
- Fred Weinholtz (1990)
- Raymond W. Lynskey (1991)
- Franciszek Kępka (1992)
- Bernald S. Smith (1993)
- Terrence Delore (1994)
- Thor Johannessen (1995)
- Manfred Reinhardt (1997)
- Oran Nicks (1998)
- Hana Zejdova (1999)
- Klaus Ohlmann (2000)
- James M. Payne (2001)
- John Hamish Roake (2002)
- Piero Morelli (2003)
- Janusz Centka (2004)
- Ian Strachan (2005)
- Alan Patching (2006)
- Derek Piggott (2007)
- Roland Stuck (2008)
- Ross Macintyre (2009)
- Reiner Rose (2010)
- Giorgio Galetto (2011)
- Bob Henderson (2012)
- Loek Boermans (2015)
- Rainer Wienzek (2016)
- Patrick Pauwels (2017)
- Richard 'Dick' Bradley (2019)
- Gisela Weinreich (2020)
- Eric Mozer (2021)
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