Glider crash

In a financial situation which enables it to bearly stay afloat, the Romanian Air Club, the only air club in the world where people can fly for free, suffered another hit today, when a IAR IS-28B2 two-sweater glider crashed.

The IS-28B2, a very successful product, exported in countries like United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Australia, is the main glider in usage today, in the Romanian Airclub.
Each local airclub has several such gliders stationed there, some have more than others. The crash of this one, and the deaths of its pilots, will most certainly delay even further the flight activity for this year, which was already lagging far behind schedule.
Romania. Such a small country. Such a Global Strategic position on Earth. Among the last 3,000yrs, many wars happened around this area because in each diffrent century of history, one or more big empires of the time wanted this teritorry, these mountains, these waters, this land and these skilled people and their work. As they never succeeded to conquer them completley, among the centuries, they managed though to steal the work that has been done here. As the story goes, if you can't do it, then steal it from the neighbour and say it's yours.
They say that the first men who flew were the Wright Brothers. How wrong, it was Traian Vuia, just a few years before the americans. Of course, nobody except Romania and France admits that.

Copyright ©2000 by Sorin A Crâsmarelu
march 2000