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European HPV Championships 1992 in München, Germany.

Having spent an entire hot, sunny day at the Olympic Village without food --the only restaurant on site catered ONLY to the registered participants-- I elected not to brave it for the second day of the HPV races. Instead I went to the Technical Museum in München, which was too large for any single visit.... perhaps not as large as the "life- project" Science Museum in London, UK, but close enough.
    They had quite a nice collection of automobiles... I figure any automobile that is not out there on the streets, but gathering dust in a museum, is a GOOD AUTOMOBILE; also plenty of other high-iron- content products and vehicles. Among non- iron ones was the sole VTOL [Vertical Take- Off and Landing] cargo Boeing ever built, powered by four pivoting jet engines in the middle of stub wings, and now standing in the courtyard.
    At the other extreme, I saw this Musculair human- powered airplane, not exactly something, that I have much hopes for (other as strictly- daredevil, proof-of- concept projects). According to the information found on the Internet at http://iria.mines.u-nancy.fr/~fai/records/records_i.html in 1985 it set the hitherto-unsurpassed record of a 44.32 km/h air speed over a closed circuit and, apparently, managed to land still in one piece right there.

HPV-EM 1992 
Family trike
Cinderella knees  Dual mode
Start of faired race  A Bike of Quality
All cocooned up  Never too much oil
Tail spirit  Never too many holes
Heads down  My First Leitra!
Container land cruiser  Leitra secrets
Minimalist version  Musculair approach

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