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Sveiki, yra ir toks pasiulymas, tiesa labiau tinkamas ULO ir PPG:

Dear all

Below is a brief proposal from Brian Milton (1st around the World by
Microlight Etc) for a FAI Centenary event involving microlights.

This is an idea Brian has been working on independently for some
considerable time and it could work very well in the context of the
FAI centenary. As you can see, it involves hundreds of microlights and
Is very ambitious!

Brian has probably organized more events of this kind than anyone
else, for example the 80th Anniversary Bleriot flight of 1989 and the 75th Anniversary of the first commercial flight in the World from Hounslow Heath (now Heathrow) to Le Bourget in 1994. Both of these journeys were well sponsored, involved large numbers of microlights, and most importantly, the second seats were all occupied by Journalists which guaranteed excellent media coverage, all of which was good.

It is proposed that this event is basically set up in the same way as
A Championship, that is the organization is independent of CIMA, but
CIMA ‘sanctions’ the event and subsequently monitors the progress.

Obviously the difference between this event and a championship is
that it won’t have the benefit of the backing of a single NAC, it is also intended that there will be no entry fee and reasonable expenses will be paid. To do this, very substantial sponsorship will be required, but so long as a sanction from CIMA is given reasonably soon, Brian is fairly confident he will be able to get it. This is not just ‘hot air’ either, Brian is one of the few people in the World who has actually raised substantial sums of money in the past to pay for his Microlight projects.

Brian is under absolutely no illusions as to the work involved in
getting this project going, it is a massive job. For it to work it
will also require the cooperation and assistance of people in every
participating country. FAI is in a unique position to help in this
respect via its extensive network of contacts.

In my opinion this could be a really great event, it intends to celebrate the FAI centenary in a unique way by reminding everyone why the FAI was formed in the first place, and in action is certain to achieve the ambition of every CIMA sanctioned event: to “reinforce friendship amongst pilots and nations”.

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Brian’s proposal

FAI CENTENARY EVENT

The year 2005 is the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the FAI
– the Federation Aéronautique Internationale – created in Paris on
October 14, 1905 by delegates from France, Belgium, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. Celebrations are planned in all branches of aviation.

At that time, the masters of the air were the American brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were regularly making half hour flights, a year ahead of the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe, made by the French-based Brazilian, Santos-Dumont. This wonderful aviator was
fond in 1905 of flying his airship to a restaurant on the Champs-Elysées, parking it there while he lunched, and flying away afterwards. It was an innocent era in aviation; Santos-Dumont later committed suicide when the aircraft he pioneered were used for war.

My proposal is that we use 2005 to pay homage to the aviators who
made the great sacrifices before the FAI was formed by flying at least 675 microlight aircraft into Paris to camp out for three days on the Champs-Elysées.

Twenty-five microlights, the large majority of them flex-wing, the
type of aircraft most similar to those flown by the true “Father of
Flight”, the German Otto Lilienthal, will each come from countries including England, Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.

Pilots will leave from a part of these countries where detailed
research has identified a location associated with flying before 1905, and they will take in as many such places as possible en-route to Paris.

The whole event would begin with a flight by Paramotor off Mount
Oros, the alleged take-off site for Icarus and Daedalus in Crete 1500 years BC, to the airfield at Maleme, the fleet of Greek microlights then set route to Paris. Italian pilots start from Rome via a hill in Florence where Leonardo da Vinci wanted to fly his man-carrying hang glider. In England, we leave from Yorkshire, where in 1853 Sir George Cayley threw his coachman, John Appleby, off a hill in a flying machine (Appleby resigned). Individual microlights which make longer journeys, from the USA, South Africa, China and Australia, would be especially welcomed.

We all head for Paris, 675 of us arriving at four gateway airfields
on a selected day, to fly in on October 14 in an aerial spectacular that promises to be greater, as an art form, than Christo’s wrapping of
the Reichstag building.

Paris could consider staging a public festival over the three-day weekend, Friday to Sunday, to attract hundreds of thousands of tourists.

Copyright 2003: Brian Milton
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Regards;

Richard Meredith-Hardy

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rmh@flymicro.com
Tel: + 44 (0)1462 834776 FAX: + 44 (0)1462 732668

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