"1960 Speedway World Team Cup 1960 Speedway World Team Cup was the first FIM Speedway World Team Cup season. The final took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Champion title was won by Sweden team (44 pts) who beat England (30 pts), Czechoslovakia (15 pts) and Poland (7 pts). Sweden's reigning World Champion Ove Fundin went through the entire World Team Cup undefeated. This feat would not be matched until Australia's Jason Crump went through the 2001 Speedway World Cup undefeated. To honour Fundin's deeds in 1960, the winners of the current Speedway World Cup (which replaced the Team World"
"Frank Price. The first United States entry in a world aerobatics contest was a Great Lakes biplane that Frank Price of Texas took to Eastern Europe in 1960. During the 1960s Harvey Swack of Cleveland, Ohio, obtained the rights to the Sport Trainer design and all the factory drawings for it. Harvey then sold plans to homebuilders until 1990, when he sold off the plans business to Steen Aero Lab of Palm Bay, Florida. There have been a great number homebuilt Great Lakes Sport Trainers built over the years, which kept interest in this old biplane alive. In 1973 Doug"
"Charlie Hillard Charlie Hillard (March 22, 1938 – April 16, 1996) was an American aerobatics pilot, and the first American to win the world aerobatics title. Hillard formed the Red Devils aerobatic team in 1971 with fellow pilots Gene Soucy and Tom Poberezny. In 1979 the three re-formed as the Eagles Aerobatic Team, which they would fly as for more than 25 years, setting the record for the longest-running aerobatic team with the same members in the world. In 1996 he was killed at the Sun 'n Fun fly-in in Lakeland, Florida, when the Hawker Sea Fury he was flying"
"1960 NCAA Track and Field Championships The 1960 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held in Berkeley, California in June 1960. The University of Kansas won the team title for the second consecutive year. Ten NCAA meet records were broken, and one was tied. 1. Kansas - 50<br> 2. University of Southern California - 37<br> 3. UCLA - 31<br> 4. Oregon - 22<br> 4. Oregon State – 22<br> 6. Boston University – 20<br> 6. Houston – 20<br> 6. San Jose State – 20<br> 9. Illinois – 18<br> 10. Arizona – 16<br> 10. Grambling - 16 100-meter dash<br> 1. Charlie Tidwell,"
"Team 60 Team 60 is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Swedish Air Force. The team, at the time still unnamed, was formed in 1974 as a group of 4 SK 60 (Swedish Air Force designation for the SAAB 105) from the Air Force Central Flying School at Ljungbyhed AFB in southern Sweden. The year after another two airplanes was added, and in spring of 1976 the first display under the new name ""Team 60"" was flown in Gothenburg. The unofficial name of the group were, while they were based at Ljungbyhed AFB, ""En sexa Skåne"" which translate to ""six"
"of states that came to view the vaunted Sabres. Before the year passed though, another pilot was lost. Capt Antonio Roig had long wanted to join the aerobatics team. In one of the team’s rehearsal over Clark, he tagged along and from a distance followed the aerial repertoire. His engine flamed out. Roig’s right wing plowed into the field in a fiery crash. 1958 The team increased to eight aircraft and for the first time the use of smoke was introduced. Silhouetted against the sky, the smoke outlined the exact movements of the planes and greatly enhanced their appeal. 1959"
"World record loop The world record loop is the record for the highest number of aircraft to successfully complete an aerobatic loop while flying in formation. The current record is 22 aircraft. The record was set by the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Black Arrows, who successfully looped 22 Hawker Hunter jet aircraft every day of the September 1958 Society of British Aerospace Companies Farnborough Airshow, beating the previous record set by the Pakistan Air Force, who looped the 16 North American F-86 Sabres in February 1958. The record required the team to train pilots from other RAF squadrons."
"Aerobatic Club, organising aerobatic championship competitions. She also serves as a jury member for competitions, such as the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships. Madelyne Delcroix Madelyne Delcroix (born 30 January 1946) is a French former champion aviator and aerobatics pilot. Delcroix was born in Wattrelos, in Nord, France. In 1964, Delcroix participated in the Marcel Doré Cup. In 1966, at the age of 20, Delcroix competed in the World Aerobatics Championships in Moscow, finishing fifth in the women's section. In 1968, she won the women's division of the World Championships in Magdeburg, Germany, flying a Zlin 526 aircraft. With this"
"Rabii, Bahram Hooshyar, and Yadollah Sharifirad. Golden Crown The Golden Crown ( ""Tāj-e Talāyi"") was the first and national aerobatics display team of Iran and part of the former Imperial Iranian Air Force from 1958 to 1979. It was formed by Nader Jahanbani, an Iranian general, and it was mainly inspired by Sky Blazers, an American aerobatics team. During the cold war this team successfully performed in many competitions. The Golden Crown was officially founded in 1958. Fourteen Iranian pilots were sent to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, in order to learn aerobatics in jet aircraft. Nine of them returned to"
"International Aerobatic Club The International Aerobatic Club (IAC) is a division of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and the National Aeronautics Association (NAA). It promotes aerobatics and governs the sport of competition aerobatics in the United States under the regulations of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). The IAC was founded in 1970 as an evolution of the EAA's ""Precision Flying Division"" to provide an organized method for advancing aerobatic skills via a ""building block"" competition system. It is responsible for pilot selection of Advanced and Unlimited Power, and Advanced Glider aerobatic teams that represent the U.S. at World Aerobatic Championships"
"British Aerobatics Champion 1995 UK Freestyle Aerobatics Champion FAI WGP Championships – three 1st place medals, one 2nd place medal All FAI WGP results in the formation team category as the Sukhoi Duo/Matadors Legend: Steve Jones (aviator) Steve Jones (born 5 January 1960) is a British airline pilot and an aerobatics pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Series, flying a Zivko Edge 540. He is now the championship's head judge. Jones had his first flying lesson at just five years old, in 1965, in a Cessna, on the knee of a family friend. He became a"
"Hop, step and jump<br> 1. Luther Hayes, Univ. South. Calif. – 50 feet, 11½ inches<br> 2. Darrell Horn, Oregon State – 48 feet, 7½ inches<br> 3. John Kelly, Stanford – 48 feet, 5¼ inches 1960 NCAA Track and Field Championships The 1960 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held in Berkeley, California in June 1960. The University of Kansas won the team title for the second consecutive year. Ten NCAA meet records were broken, and one was tied. 1. Kansas - 50<br> 2. University of Southern California - 37<br> 3. UCLA - 31<br> 4. Oregon - 22<br> 4. Oregon State"
"269, 13 strokes better than anyone else and 19 strokes better than the best non-American, Bruce Devlin. 32 teams contested the event. Each team had four players with the exception of Ceylon and the United Arab Republic who were represented by only three players. Of the teams that competed in 1958, Iceland, Kenya and Spain were not represented. Ceylon, Denmark, Mexico, Peru, Rhodesia & Nyasaland and the United Arab Republic were represented for the first time. The following table lists the players on the leading teams. Source: There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores. Source: 1960 Eisenhower"
"In 1970 he competed in the Spinks Akromaster, an aircraft of his own design, and in 1972, won the World Aerobatics Championship, the first American ever to do so. Hillard formed the Red Devils Aerobatic Team in 1971, with fellow pilots Gene Soucy and Tom Poberezny. The Red Devils flew the Pitts Special aircraft, and were a popular draw at airshows around the country. In 1979, aircraft designer Frank Christensen invited the team to test fly a new aerobatic aircraft he had designed: the Christen Eagle. The Devils were so impressed that they switched their team aircraft to the Eagle,"
"the FAI World Championships in Debrecen, Hungary in 1966 and won the individual title in the F1D class. In the early 1960s the planes had a wing span of 900 mm (550 mm today) and were made from a balsa wood frame covered with a film of acetone lacquer. They were powered by a small rubber band wound to over 1,700 turns and could fly for over 40 minutes in large halls or airship hangars. The whole aeroplane weighed only 1.2 grams. Beck spent three years developing the figurines with interchangeable accessories that became Playmobil. He conducted research that allowed"
"all uneven years. Leading nations who have provided World Medallists are: Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Romania, Russia and Spain. The National Aerobic Championships is a competition of aerobic gymnastics started in 1984 in the United States. Founded by Sport Fitness International, it was the first major championships in the sport predating the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships by 11 years. From 1988 onwards the individual events were separated by gender. The sport became popular around the world after it gained popularity in the USA when major championships were aired on ESPN during the"
"Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. The competition was held at the Olympic Stadium on 31 August and 1 September. Sixty-five competitors from 48 nations entered, but 61 competitors from 46 nations participated. Since winning the 1958 European Championship, Armin Hary was a known commodity. His incredible reaction time supposedly had been clocked using high speed cameras at .03 of a second, while normal humans react from .15 upward. Some of his competitors thought he was using"
"Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres The 1500 final was much more of an endurance race than contemporary strategic races. Michel Jazy took the lead from the beginning and dared the field to stay with him. Arne Hamarsland and Jim Grelle struggled as the pack strung out quickly. With two laps to go, Herb Elliott upped the ante, taking the lead and pushing the pace. István Rózsavölgyi was the last to drop off with Jazy close behind Rózsavölgyi. But Elliott was gone, cleanly ahead going into"
"instructors from the Swedish Air Force. Team 60 Team 60 is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Swedish Air Force. The team, at the time still unnamed, was formed in 1974 as a group of 4 SK 60 (Swedish Air Force designation for the SAAB 105) from the Air Force Central Flying School at Ljungbyhed AFB in southern Sweden. The year after another two airplanes was added, and in spring of 1976 the first display under the new name ""Team 60"" was flown in Gothenburg. The unofficial name of the group were, while they were based at Ljungbyhed AFB, ""En"
"Empire and Commonwealth Games, Jamaica won a record haul of 4 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. Paul Foreman led a Jamaican one-two with Deryck Taylor in the long jump, Ernest Haisley won gold in high jump and Keith Gardner retained his 120yards hurdle title by setting a new commonwealth record of 14.0 seconds and won another gold in the 100yards. For the 1960 Olympics, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados entered a joint team known as the British West Indies Federation (BWI). The team won two bronzes from George Kerr in the 800 m and the men's 4 x"
"Championship. In 1971, Poberezny, Charlie Hillard, and Gene Soucy formed the aerobatic team The Red Devils (soon renamed the Eagles Aerobatic Team) and went on to perform at airshows until the Daytona Skyfest in 1995. This makes the Eagles the longest-performing aerobatic team with one group of members. Poberezny also appeared as a pilot in the movie ""Cloud Dancer"" in 1980. He was appointed to chairman of the EAA Convention and Fly-In (now known as AirVenture) in 1977. This annual event takes place in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and attracts over 750,000 visitors with 10,000 aircraft from 68 countries, making it the"
"Madelyne Delcroix Madelyne Delcroix (born 30 January 1946) is a French former champion aviator and aerobatics pilot. Delcroix was born in Wattrelos, in Nord, France. In 1964, Delcroix participated in the Marcel Doré Cup. In 1966, at the age of 20, Delcroix competed in the World Aerobatics Championships in Moscow, finishing fifth in the women's section. In 1968, she won the women's division of the World Championships in Magdeburg, Germany, flying a Zlin 526 aircraft. With this victory, Delcroix became the first French aviator to win an international aerobatics title. After retiring from active aerobatics, Delcroix worked for the International"
"Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans developed by Bill Orban and published in 1961 helped to launch modern fitness culture. There was a running boom in the 1970s inspired by the Olympics. Dr. Kenneth Cooper and Col. Pauline Potts, a physical therapist, both of the United States Air Force advocated the concept of aerobic exercise. In the 1960s, Cooper started research into preventive medicine. He conducted the first extensive research on aerobic exercise on over 5,000 U.S. Air Force personnel after becoming intrigued by the belief that exercise can preserve one's health. Cooper published his ideas in a 1968 book"
"1950 FIBA World Championship The 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50. FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympics basketball, the two best teams from South America, Europe and Asia,"
"United States Aerobatics Team. In 1978 he was a runner-up among 61 competitors worldwide, earning three Silver medals and one Bronze medal in the FAI World Aerobatic Championships staged in Czechoslovakia. Over the span of a dozen years, he placed in the top three in the world five times and won a total of 20 medals in World Aerobatics Championship competition. He has twice won the United States National Aerobatics Championship and has won several Invitational Masters Championships in worldwide competitions. During the late 1970s, Weeks started to acquire, restore and preserve vintage aircraft. By 1985 he had accumulated enough"
"Golden Crown The Golden Crown ( ""Tāj-e Talāyi"") was the first and national aerobatics display team of Iran and part of the former Imperial Iranian Air Force from 1958 to 1979. It was formed by Nader Jahanbani, an Iranian general, and it was mainly inspired by Sky Blazers, an American aerobatics team. During the cold war this team successfully performed in many competitions. The Golden Crown was officially founded in 1958. Fourteen Iranian pilots were sent to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, in order to learn aerobatics in jet aircraft. Nine of them returned to Iran after a couple of months"
"metres runner Tom Robinson was the only athlete to defend his title from the 1960 championships, although multiple former champion George Kerr topped the podium in a different middle-distance event. John Mowatt completed a double in the 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase. The versatile Jamaican Wellesley Clayton took both the 110 metres hurdles and long jump gold medals. Jamaica completed a sweep of the women's titles and had three double champions: Carmen Smith (100 m and 80 metres hurdles), Una Morris (200 m and 400 m) and Joan Gordon (shot put and discus throw). All the champions are known,"
"Aerobatic Glider Championship (WAGAC 2014) 2013 – Silver medalist in the World Aerobatic Glider Championship 2009 – Absolute Champion in the World Aerobatic Glider Championship 2007 – Absolute Champion in the World Aerobatic Glider Championship 2005 – Absolute Champion in the World Aerobatic Glider Championship 1999 – Russia champion in aeroplanes 1997 – Holder of first Cup “To the best Yak planes pilot in Russian championship” 1997 – Champion of the first world aviation games (which were conducted parallel with 1997 world championship) 1997 – Team champion in World Glider Championship in team scoring. 1988 – USSR champion in aeroplanes"
"exhaust or by the use of a dedicated device that can be fitted in any position on the aircraft. The first military aerobatic team to use smoke at will during displays was Fleet Air Arm 702 Squadron ""The Black Cats"" at the Farnborough Airshow in September 1957. Aerobatics are taught to military fighter pilots as a means of developing flying skills and for tactical use in combat. Many aerobatic manoeuvers were indeed developed in military conflicts, e.g. the Immelmann turn or Split S. Aerobatics and formation flying is not limited solely to fixed-wing aircraft; the British Army, Royal Navy, Spanish"
"cars and spectators. He won the National Aerobatic Championships eight times. Turvey was also a committee member of the South African Air Force Association (SAAFA) from 1963 until shortly before his death. Nick Turvey Roland Archer Nicholas Turvey (16 November 1931 – 26 March 2006) was a champion aerobatic and air show pilot in South Africa. Nick Turvey earned his flying wings in the South African Air Force in 1955. He later became Chief Instructor of the Johannesburg Light Plane Club, a popular flying club of that era. He was awarded Springbok Colours for aerobatics in 1965 and represented South"
"1960 Ibero-American Games The 1960 Ibero-American Games (""Spanish: I Juegos Iberoamericanos"") were held at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile, between October 11–16, 1960. A total of 31 events were contested, 22 by men and 9 by women. Medal winners were published. Medal tables for both male and female competitions were published. The placing table for team trophy awarded to the 1st place overall team (men and women) was published. Overall winner and winner at the men's competition was . won the title in the women's category. A total number of 325 athletes (278 men and 47 women) from 15"
"Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres The men's 200 metres was held on 2 September and 3 September as part of the Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, which were held in Rome. 74 athletes from 54 nations entered, but only 62 athletes from 47 nations ultimately competed. Livio Berruti was the first male 200 m Olympic champion who was not from the United States or Canada. The top two runners in each of the 12 heats advanced, as well as the next four fastest runners from across all heats. The first three in each quarter-final"
"not until 1958 that the tournament was started, three years after Delaunay's death. In honour of Delaunay, the trophy awarded to the champions is named after him. The 1960 tournament, held in France, had four teams competing in the finals out of 17 that entered the competition. It was won by the Soviet Union, beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a tense final in Paris. Spain withdrew from its quarter-final match against the USSR because of two political protests. Of the 17 teams that entered the qualifying tournament, notable absentees were England, the Netherlands, West Germany and Italy. Spain held the next"