pkoszegiSeptember 8, 2013, 10:42am
Just a view on the Hungarian UL life.
In our less than 10M people country there are over 60 Flying clubs. We have a major trike and UL manufacturer called Apollo or Halley Ltd , manufacturing Trikes, Gyros, and Kitfox derivative called Apollo Fox.
They are located in Eger, this is a town north of Hungary known its Baroque styled city centre. The city is inhabited since stone age, the first documents goes back to the early 1000. But the most known thing about this city when the Ottoman (Turkish) empire tried to invade Europe, it was one of the castle where 2100 man, women and children held the 200.000 troops back in 1552. Eger was fallen to Turkish hands only in 1596, and stayed here for 150 years.
In the morning we had the fly-in with about 50 trikes, 30 fixed wing , a couple of helicopters and gyros. Engines ranging from 912 to motorcycle conversions, homebuilts and all sort of nice bells and whistles. Food and beverage was provided. We went into the city centre with my club and had a couple of beers and very good hand made ice creams.
Morning flight from our airport (70 miles away) was very smooth, but the late afternoon flight back was rather bumpy. It was nice to see that UL aviation is popular and once in a year we see each other.
In our less than 10M people country there are over 60 Flying clubs. We have a major trike and UL manufacturer called Apollo or Halley Ltd , manufacturing Trikes, Gyros, and Kitfox derivative called Apollo Fox.
They are located in Eger, this is a town north of Hungary known its Baroque styled city centre. The city is inhabited since stone age, the first documents goes back to the early 1000. But the most known thing about this city when the Ottoman (Turkish) empire tried to invade Europe, it was one of the castle where 2100 man, women and children held the 200.000 troops back in 1552. Eger was fallen to Turkish hands only in 1596, and stayed here for 150 years.
In the morning we had the fly-in with about 50 trikes, 30 fixed wing , a couple of helicopters and gyros. Engines ranging from 912 to motorcycle conversions, homebuilts and all sort of nice bells and whistles. Food and beverage was provided. We went into the city centre with my club and had a couple of beers and very good hand made ice creams.
Morning flight from our airport (70 miles away) was very smooth, but the late afternoon flight back was rather bumpy. It was nice to see that UL aviation is popular and once in a year we see each other.