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Like Dädalus and Ikarus, Stehle & Helmut
took their first flying lesson on the 19. July 1969
in a Rhönlerche at Quakenbrück Gliderport in Northern Germany.
Only one day later Neil Armstrong landet on the moon.
Both of us soloed in this two week training camp.
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Winch tows up to 200 meters were just enough to fly a pattern,
sometimes enough to fly a 360.
Each minute in the air counted. With her
first flight in the single seater Ka8 Stehle managed
to catch a thermal and
stayed in the air for 52 minutes!
Her flight instructor Günter
Hawickhorst was supervising her first C-Badge flight.
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Back in Munich they joined the Aeroclub Freising and flew at the
Lange Haken Gliderport
where they got their private glider pilot
license. Helmut was checked out on the Ka6!
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We never use the gun in anger
We always drive the same direction.
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NASA testpilot Einar Enevolson gave Stehle a basic
introduction on the F15 Eagle
at Edwards Airforce Base in California.
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