2010 CL World Champs

The 2010 CL World Champs will be held in Gyula, Hungary.

When there, I think you will hear it pronounced--Joolaw. I think I remember my Parents saying it like that.

It would be more like "diulah", the "d" sounding as in "duty".
Hungarian is a dificult and unique language. I know, I was born there but can hardly speak it!
A Brazilian author in one of his books said that "Hungarian is the only language that even the devil respects".
Cheers
Ferenc

Anyone know where their flying field is located? It looks like they have some large park areas from the maps I could find, but could not identify a flying site. I couldn't find a sat photo that would zoom.

I only wish I needed to know....

Dave Hull
LA_Flyer

Hi.

They have a CL stadium with 3 tarmac circles about 5km from town center. There is also a big sports center with several soccer fields some 2km towards the town. In 2005 ECh F2b practise and combat took place there.
Gyula is a nice place. L

Diulah--yes ,that sounds more like it.Its a sweet sounding language.My parents and relatives would speak it among themselves but when we kids were around, they went to English.I love it when I here it.

Hi.

I have several photos from Gyula if someone is interested. I just cannot put them in here because I can not. But Email is fine. L

Would love to see the pictures.Thank you. [email protected]

Hi, Gary.
Funny how things happen in like ways. My parents did almost the same thing, encouraging us to speak only Portuguese. And at home, even when talking to us in Hungarian (we are four "children", myself being the elder at 65), we always answered in Portuguese.
Nice to exchange notes, although not relating to Control Line!
Best regards
Ferenc

My dad's parents were both from Lithuania. They only spoke english around us, to my recollection, both with accents. However, my grandmother had a standing appointment with Mrs. Lubert, the Lithuanian lady next door to her, and every day, summer or winter, rain or shine, grandma and Mrs. Lubert would get together at the fence that divided their properties and converse in Lithuanian for about a half hour. I think that it was a great idea.

>Hi, Gary.
>Funny how things happen in like ways. My parents did almost
>the same thing, encouraging us to speak only Portuguese. And
>at home, even when talking to us in Hungarian (we are four
>"children", myself being the elder at 65), we always
>answered in Portuguese.
>Nice to exchange notes, although not relating to Control
>Line!
>Best regards
>Ferenc
Wow, cultural similarities. I also am the eldest of four and will be 65 in a few months. My parents were very "close to the vest" about their past in the "old country" Were yours? How is your name pronounced?

>>Hi, Gary.
>>Funny how things happen in like ways. My parents did
>almost
>>the same thing, encouraging us to speak only Portuguese.
>And
>>at home, even when talking to us in Hungarian (we are
>four
>>"children", myself being the elder at 65), we
>always
>>answered in Portuguese.
>>Nice to exchange notes, although not relating to Control
>>Line!
>>Best regards
>>Ferenc
>
>
>
> Wow, cultural similarities. I also am the eldest of four
>and will be 65 in a few months. My parents were very
>"close to the vest" about their past in the
>"old country" Were yours? How is your name
>pronounced?


Gary, my parents fled Budapest in December 44 and we (I was 2 and my sister one year old) ended up in Germany, luckily in the US occupied zone. We came to Brazil in 49 and my parents were adamant in that we (by that time I had TWO sisters, later a brother being born in Brazil - quite a globalized group I should say) should forget being Hungarians and strive to be Brazilians. However, they talked freely about the "old country" and kept in touch (by letter) with their relatives.
My name, Ferenc (meaning Francis in English), is pronounced more or less as Faerents (the e following the F sounding like the a in back).
Anyway, this was a most interesting exchange. If you (or any other control liner) wish to keep it up, I will be glad to. My private e-mail is [email protected]

>>>Hi, Gary.
>>>Funny how things happen in like ways. My parents did
>>almost
>>>the same thing, encouraging us to speak only
>Portuguese.
>>And
>>>at home, even when talking to us in Hungarian (we are
>>four
>>>"children", myself being the elder at 65),
>we
>>always
>>>answered in Portuguese.
>>>Nice to exchange notes, although not relating to
>Control
>>>Line!
>>>Best regards
>>>Ferenc
>>
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> Wow, cultural similarities. I also am the eldest of
>four
>>and will be 65 in a few months. My parents were very
>>"close to the vest" about their past in the
>>"old country" Were yours? How is your name
>>pronounced?
>
>
>Gary, my parents fled Budapest in December 44 and we (I was 2
>and my sister one year old) ended up in Germany, luckily in
>the US occupied zone. We came to Brazil in 49 and my parents
>were adamant in that we (by that time I had TWO sisters, later
>a brother being born in Brazil - quite a globalized group I
>should say) should forget being Hungarians and strive to be
>Brazilians. However, they talked freely about the "old
>country" and kept in touch (by letter) with their
>relatives.
>My name, Ferenc (meaning Francis in English), is pronounced
>more or less as Faerents (the e following the F sounding like
>the a in back).
>Anyway, this was a most interesting exchange. If you (or any
>other control liner) wish to keep it up, I will be glad to. My
>private e-mail is [email protected]
>
>
Hi Ferenc, since you have given a short history of your heritage on the world wide web, I shall do the same. Both of my parents families lived in Hungary near the Transylvania border. My mother said that the Dracula (Vlad the Impailler) stuff was no joke around there. Any evil event that happened was blamed on the evil of his lingering spirit.Though I'm not sure his Castle was near there. My maternal grandfather was conscripted into the Hungarian Army which was forced to merge with the German Army and fight for the Kaiser in the Great War.When the war ended in 1918 he returned to his little town as a losing soldier, (not popular) and by 1922 when things were terrible in the losing countries due to the Allied Reparation laws, the locals wanted to string up the losing soldiers. One night, my grandfather with his wife and two kids,(my mom and uncle)packed a few personal effects and with the clothes on their backs, fled in the darkness to the nearest seaport, Breman Germany and paid for passage to the United States on a tramp steamer named Susquehanna.That ship has quit a history and amazingly, I was able to Google it up and actually see the inside of the ship with some of the crew.It looks like a small version of the Titanic. The trip took more than three weeks as the ship stopped at some ports along the Baltic and then England. They landed at Ellis Island at New York. They went inland to Akron Ohio where they heard there was a large Hungarian community and a lot of jobs in the Rubber Factories. I learned all this from my mother, as her parents died when I was 8 or 9 and I barely remember them .My Fathers family came over before the War as war clouds were forming and ironically my Mom and Dad met here in Akron but only lived a few kilometers apart in the old country. My mothers name was Lengyel. I think it is an offshoot of the Magyar Tribe and they didn't change their name. My Fathers name was Tulcz and we have found that there is some Hungarian Jewish in their family. When they got here, they changed it to Tultz to sound German. Jewish was not popular even in the states at that time.I never learned a thing from my fathers family and I know now they were afraid to even mention the word Jew.They were wonderful people but wouldn't even tell my father his history. There's a lot more as in any family but thats the short version.

I really enjoyed the WC's in Pecs Hungary in '86. It was a little warm, but the people were very friendly. Lots of stories from that trip!

One nice thing that I saw in '86 that I hope is still there, is the garments that the ladies wore during the week. Lots of nice ladies in very thin white dresses (obviously for the hot weather) which all dissappeared on Sundays. Nothing on Sunday except for their mothers wandering around in very warm looking clothes.

The food there was GREAT. I changed $50 at the border, and couldn't spend it in nearly 2 weeks there. Dinner out (virtually every night) with wine and dessert was at most $2 US. I'm sure that's different now, but I bet the food is still great!

I would enjoy the opportunity to visit there once again if I was invited!

Note: Invited = Making the 2010 US Team

Hi Paul
Just curious how big can a plane box be to allow it to be carried on luggage?
Do all the planes have wings that split in half?
Hope you do get invited (team spot) to the 2010 world champs maybe you fly all four planes at the worlds if allowed.
Is that a new stunt news article for take apart planes?
Wish you the best
Gary Akers

See if you can get an invitation this summer.

Howard Rush
Bellevue, WA