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.
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