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Sándor Farkas, “Sam” (Újpest, 2 January, 1936 –

Verőce, 27 June 2022) aerobatic pilot, test pilot,

instructor.

Career
Aviation has always been his biggest ambition.

His first experience with aviation was Easter

Monday, 1949, when he was allowed to sit in a

Vöcsök glider for the first time in his life.

He made his first aerobatic stunts in the spring

of 1955 under the supervision of Ernő Mandl.

From 1961 to 1964 he was Airport Commander

of Békéscsaba, Hungary. From 1964 he

worked at the Budapest Presidency of the

Hungarian Defense Association.

In 1967 he won the Hungarian National

Aerobatic Championship in Nyíregyháza. In

1968, together with Mihály Erdős, Pál Kovács,

Gyula Farkas and Jenő Durucz, he was a

member of the Hungarian team at the 5th

World Aerobatics Championship in Magdeburg,

East Germany.

As a result of a discussion in November 1968

at a training seminar in Győr, he decided to

leave Hungary: he left the country in December

that year. He began teaching aerobatics in

Germany. One of his students, Manfred

Strößenreuther, became multiple German and

then European and World Champion. Obtained

a test pilot license and worked at the

Messerschmit-Bölkow aircraft factory as a test

pilot. He later started his own business with his

private plane.

In the years 1969-1978, he used to be

alternately number 3 or 4 at the German

Championships. It was at this time he took part

in the European Championships in

Carcassonne, Rochford and Zadar, among

others, as well as in several other international

competitions.

In 1978, he was contracted to Africa as an

instructor to the Nigerian Air Force in Nigeria,

where he trained his apprentices for 4 years on

a Dornier Do 28D2 Skyservant. After returning

to Germany in 1983, he became the first

Hungarian pilot on Antarctica where he flew

with his special flying laboratory, Polar 2, a

Dornier Do 228, as part of an expedition by the

Alfred Wegener Institute, and was stationed

aboard the research ship Polarstern and in the

Neumayer I research station. While in

Antarctica, he often flew in very difficult

weather situations, measuring ice cracks with

radar equipment and making cartographic

images with special cameras. Later he worked

for the Grob Company as a test pilot, where he

did the flight tests of G112 and G115. He then

joined the German Federal Aviation

Administration (LBA), where, as a project

manager, he carried out type certifications and

test flights until his retirement age (65). In 2002

he moved back to Hungary.

Sources

 Magyar Szárnyak XXX. évfolyam 2003. 31.

szám Magyar János : Volt egy csapat.

ISSN 1416-6577

 Hungarian Wings XXX. grade 2003. No. 31

János Magyar: Once there was a team.

ISSN 1416-6577

 Gépmadarak a szabolcsi égen (Bp. 2005)

ISBN 963 460 6261

 Machine birds in the Szabolcs sky (Bp.

2005) ISBN 963 460 6261

 Népszabadság 1984. augusztus 5: Repülő

laboratóriumokkal az Antarktiszon

 Népszabadság August 5, 1984: With flying

laboratories in Antarctica

Hivatkozások[ szerkesztés ] References

 Neumayer I station [1]  Neumayer I station [1] Polar2.jpgaft called Polar 2 at the Dornier Museum in

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