Edward Makula

Edward Makula

Edward Makula (4 July 1930 - 15 January 1996) was a Polish glider pilot and engineer. [ [http://www.szybowce.enter.net.pl/nav_em/notka_em.htm Obituary by Jan Kaczmarek & Małgorzata Makula] (in Polish) - accessed 2001-01-21]

He won the 1963 World Gliding Championships in Junin (Argentina) in a SZD-19 Zefir 2 [http://www.ssa.org/UsTeam/ust_champs.htm World Soaring Champions listing by the SSA] - accessed 2008-01-11] [http://www.soaringmagazine.net/UsTeam/adobe%20pdf/1963%20WGC.pdf SSA: World Soaring Championships 1963] - accessed 2008-01-11] and established 7 world records. [http://records.fai.org/pilot.asp?from=gliding&id=2759 FAI: records by Edward Makula] - accessed 2008-01-11] In 1965, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) awarded him the Lilienthal Gliding Medal. [http://www.fai.org/awards/recipient.asp?id=747 FAI Lilienthal Gliding Medal] - accessed 2008-01-11]

Edward Makula was an uncle of the glider aerobatics champion Jerzy Makula. [http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/4212749 documentary WNIEBOWZIĘTY (in Polish)] - accessed 2008-01-11 ]

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