Klaus Ohlmann
German aviator
Klaus Ohlmann (born 1952 in Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany[1]) is a German glider pilot who has established 36 world records approved by FAI. Among these is the record for a free distance flight with up to 3 turn-points by flying 3,009 km from Chapelco Airport at San Martín de los Andes (Argentina) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM on 21 January 2003[2] with his co-pilot Karl Rabeder.[3] On 9 January 2003 at El Calafate in Argentina he made a flight of 2,247.6 km in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM. This set a new world free distance record, breaking the record set over 30 years earlier by Hans-Werner Grosse.[4]
On 1 February 2014, he became the first–ever pilot to fly over Mount Everest in a glider.[5]
He is a member of the Mountain Wave Project of the meteorological section of OSTIV.[1] Flying in wave conditions are his forte. Klaus lives in southern France, near Serres.
Solar-powered pending claim at FAI
Claim number : 16110 Sub-class :CS (Solar-Powered Aeroplane) Type of record : Free out-and-return distance Course/location : _to be advised Performance : 155.8 km Pilot : Klaus OHLMANN (Germany) Aircraft : ICARE 2 Date :22.09.2010 Current record : no record set yet
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References
- ^ a b )"Mountain Wave Project". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
- ^ "Klaus Ohlmann (GER)". Retrieved 2018-09-03.
- ^ "FAI World Records by Klaus Ohlmann". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
- ^ "FAI free distance world records (glider)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
- ^ "Klaus Ohlmann Pilots First Glider Flight Over Everest". Retrieved 2014-03-27.
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Recipients of Lilienthal Gliding Medal
- Tadeusz Góra (1938)
- Per-Axel Persson (1948)
- John C. Robinson (1949)
- William S. Ivans (1950)
- Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard (1951)
- Charles Atger (1952)
- Victor Iltchenko (1953)
- Philip Wills (1954)
- Joachim Küttner (1955)
- Paul MacCready (1956)
- Don Luis Vicente Juez Gomez (1957)
- Wolf Hirth (1958)
- Richard Schreder (1959)
- Pelagia Majewska (1960)
- Adolph Gehriger (1961)
- Paul Bikle (1962)
- Heinz Huth (1963)
- Alvin H. Parker (1964)
- Edward Makula (1965)
- Anne Burns (1966)
- Lennart Stahlfors (1967)
- Alejo Williamson (1968)
- Eric Nessler (1969)
- Hans-Werner Grosse (1970)
- Karl Striedieck (1971)
- Jan Wróblewski (1972)
- Ann Welch (1973)
- August Hug (1974)
- Adela Dankowska (1975)
- Louis A. de Lange (1976)
- George B. Moffat Jr. (1977)
- Helmut Reichmann (1978)
- Hans Wolf (1980)
- George Lee (1981)
- Hans Nietlispach (1982)
- C.E. Wallington (1984)
- Sholto Hamilton Georgeson (1985)
- Dick Johnson (1986)
- Juhani Horma (1987)
- Ingo Renner (1988)
- Fred Weinholtz (1990)
- Raymond W. Lynskey (1991)
- Franciszek Kępka (1992)
- Bernald S. Smith (1993)
- Terrence Delore (1994)
- Thor Johannessen (1995)
- Manfred Reinhardt (1997)
- Oran Nicks (1998)
- Hana Zejdova (1999)
- Klaus Ohlmann (2000)
- James M. Payne (2001)
- John Hamish Roake (2002)
- Piero Morelli (2003)
- Janusz Centka (2004)
- Ian Strachan (2005)
- Alan Patching (2006)
- Derek Piggott (2007)
- Roland Stuck (2008)
- Ross Macintyre (2009)
- Reiner Rose (2010)
- Giorgio Galetto (2011)
- Bob Henderson (2012)
- Loek Boermans (2015)
- Rainer Wienzek (2016)
- Patrick Pauwels (2017)
- Richard 'Dick' Bradley (2019)
- Gisela Weinreich (2020)
- Eric Mozer (2021)
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