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Old 8th Dec 2010, 20:08
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Jan Olieslagers
 
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Jan Olieslagers was a famous early aviator and a WW I ace. He has a statue at the entrance to Antwerp Airport EBAW where I hung around in the rosy days of long ago. There's solid self-irony too, as he was nicknamed "the Antwerp daredevil" whereas myself used to scream in turns beyond 30° during my first lessons; not to mention straight-ahead stalls that scared me out of my wits as soon as I lost sight of the horizon. I'm not keen on them even today, though I have demonstrated them on several tests.
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