- Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:45 am
#403273
Three Days in a (Really) Stinking Airplane
The diesel engine that commanded an endurance record for more than 50 years:
https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of- ... 180968358/
For years Pete Lehmann wrote the annual report in HG magazine on the region 9 hang gliding cross country cumulative competition (which, if memory serves, he won on several occasions). Lehmann's contributions to the magazine were always action-packed, illuminating, and often hysterically funny. The Air & Space article, in comparison, is a bit stodgy in my view, but I am sure that is because its subject is not hang gliding. Nonetheless, the article describes some serious and tragic events from the days of aviation development between the two world wars.
At first I thought it might be another Pete Lehmann (pronounced Layman...) but check the 'About the author' page:
https://www.airspacemag.com/author/pete-lehmann/
The diesel engine that commanded an endurance record for more than 50 years:
https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of- ... 180968358/
For years Pete Lehmann wrote the annual report in HG magazine on the region 9 hang gliding cross country cumulative competition (which, if memory serves, he won on several occasions). Lehmann's contributions to the magazine were always action-packed, illuminating, and often hysterically funny. The Air & Space article, in comparison, is a bit stodgy in my view, but I am sure that is because its subject is not hang gliding. Nonetheless, the article describes some serious and tragic events from the days of aviation development between the two world wars.
At first I thought it might be another Pete Lehmann (pronounced Layman...) but check the 'About the author' page:
https://www.airspacemag.com/author/pete-lehmann/
Pete Lehmann is a semi-academic derelict hang-glider pilot who has logged 4,000 hours. He also tows sailplanes and flies airplanes full of dogs.