Sunday October 30 2011                      www.soaring.eu

 
pictures; clouds over Holland in the summer of 2011; courtesy Bert Kuijper.

Hello dear readers/friends,

When I checked the new FAI site, which is still under construction,  I noticed under the title awards, a Fund I had not yet heard of–the Prince Alvaro de Orleans Borbon Fund.

It says;

—The Trustees of the Prince Alvaro de Orleans Borbon Fund for Technical Advances in the field of Sporting Aviation (including Simulated Flying) invite nominations from any source for high-calibre candidates who may be suitable recipients of prizes from the Fund.—

You can download the regulations at the FAI site www.fai.org  as well as an application form to make nominations for suitable candidates.

Of course I was curious to find out more about it and though Idid not know about the Fund , I do know Alvaro, so I straight away wrote him a mail and he was so kind to reply by return. Thank you Alvaro!

— the Fund bears the name of my father; my family established the fund to honour his memory. The Fund’s main objective is to promote and recognize technological innovation in sports flying.  My father, an industrial engineer graduated at the ETH in Zürich, was instrumental, among other things, to bring to Europe the American solid rocket fuel technology in the 1950s, to a company that still today is the sole manufacturer of all the boosters of the Ariane European space launcher.  FAI most kindly has accepted to host and manage the Prize Fund. FAI also kindly informs me about the details of the Fund’s activities.—

”]Hope you like this  new format created in dialogue with Bill and Rand. We all agreed, there was TOO much Ritz  “in the soaring Cafe ” and though I like bubbles, this is better. One special topic and the link to my blog once a week for two posts.

Cheers, Ritz

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