A RAF veteran Gen Miroslav Standera and members of the Cz Airmen Association arrived by bus from Prague. Col Jan Horal - owner of a DUO hotel at the Prague Strizkov District - came by car together with the Fajtls and Perinas. It was raining now and then. A replica of a Metodej Vlach monoplane was shown to the attendees at flight despite the odds..It had been manufactured by Mr Vaclav Vondrasek during the previous year. Powered by an car engine as well as a original monoplane built in the 1910 - 1912 period. Mr Vaclav Vondrasek had also manufactured a Wright Flyer III replica. Attention of the attendees was drawn by a one of a Sopwith Pup biplane too. It was made by Mr Peter Svoboda at the scale of eighty percent. He also manufactured an Aeronca C-2. replica. Both airworthy.
Then the attendees left for the Mlada Boleslav Car Manufacturer´s Museum.
More about the above mentioned replicas :
www.letecke-muzeum-metodeje-vlacha.cz the Exponaty Section
www.akmb.cz/nadace-metodeje-vlacha
The captions :
- an 65 hp Skoda Favorit car engine powering a replica of Mr Metodej Vlach s monoplane
- L to R : Mrs Anna Perinova, Gen. Frantisek Fajtl DFC, Gen Frantisek Perina, Mrs Hana
Fajtlova
- replicas of L to R : Aeronca C-2, Sopwith Pup, Wright Flyer III
- an Rotax engine of a Wright Flyer III´s replica
- an 80 per cent size replica of a Sopwith Pup biplane
- Aeronca C-2 replica
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