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unusual facts about amateur-built aircraft



1994–95 Belarusian First League

Santanas Samokhvalovichi, who finished 8th, withdrew to the amateur level after the season due to financial troubles.

Águilas de la UPAEP

In 1975 the club played in a local amateur league in Puebla, winning the Copa De Barrios.

Akron East Ends

Its primary rivals were the amateur Canton Athletic Association (which eventually evolved into the professional Canton Bulldogs), the Shelby Blues, and later the Massillon Tigers.

Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

Beverley Ground

The social scene was an important part of the festival; some cricketers formed the Canterbury Old Stagers to provide entertainment in the evenings of the Cricket Week and they claim to be the oldest extant amateur dramatic company in the world.

Bob McFarlane

For those achievements, he was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete of 1950 and the winner of the Norton Crowe Memorial Medal as Canada's top amateur athlete.

Charles Coe

When he died, the Rocky Mountain News quoted a Castle Pines golf club member saying, "Charlie Coe was an amateur at everything except life."

Chikayo Nagashima

Instead of continuing her amateur wrestling career in a university, Nagashima took part in an audition held by professional wrestling promotion, Gaea Japan, which she passed with flying colors.

Clinton McKenzie

McKenzie represented England and Great Britain throughout his amateur career which culminated in representing Great Britain at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Corinthian Chamber Orchestra

Formed in 1995 under the musical direction of conductor Alan Hazeldine, it rapidly developed into one of the best orchestras of its kind and its membership consistently includes the very best amateur players available.

D. A. Points

He also won the pro-am portion with amateur partner Bill Murray.

Dean Spratt

He then took up his hobby of amateur radio, propelled by the internet, and joined the W0KIE Satellite Radio Network where he hosted a weekly music/tech/comedy show, Thursday Night Potpourri.

Errol Christie

Christie was listed in the Guinness World Records, then known as The Guinness Book of Records, for notching up the most amateur title wins.

Eternal Daughter

Eternal Daughter is a freeware action-adventure game created by amateur developers Derek Yu and Jon Perry and released on June 21, 2002 under the label Blackeye Software.

Eva Castillo

In her teenage years, Castillo used to compete in various amateur singing contests with Regine Velasquez.

George Cotterill

This time, Cotterill was selected as part of a predominately amateur team (most of the players were members of the Corinthian club) to play against Wales at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, and was one of only three players in the side who had previous international experience.

George Zahringer

George Zahringer III (born April 23, 1953 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an amateur golfer and stockbroker from New York, New York.

Gordon Juckes

Today, each year the Gordon Juckes Award is given by Hockey Canada to a person who has made exceptional contributions to the development of amateur hockey.

Gregory Charvat

He built amateur radio equipment in high school, a radio telescope for which he won second place at the 1997 International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, KY, and developed many radar sensors in college.

J. R. Black

The newspaper's in-house photographer was the Austrian, Michael Moser, but Black, an amateur photographer himself, supplemented Moser's images with his own.

Joan Roget

According to the Catalan optometrist and amateur historian Simon de Gualleuma, Juan was married to Juana of Malaville and migrated to the Catalan town of Girona, Spain, where he worked as a master spectacle maker.

Lamont Pearson

After four wins he was held to a draw in 1999 when he fought Philadelphia lightweight Anthony Washington (also 4-0 and an experienced amateur) in a six-round bout on an ESPN2 Friday Night Fights but received glowing remarks from ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas, who scored the fight for Pearson 57-56.

Leckhampton

It provides a base for community activities, amateur dramatics (Leckhampton Players) and dance classes (Leckhampton Tappers).

Lucas L8

The Lucas L8, also called the L 8 and L-8, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Emile Lucas of Lagny-le-Sec.

Luka Kovač

He speaks of having a joyful, though financially modest, childhood, with at least one brother, and he keeps in contact with his father, who is an amateur painter and engineer working in Croatian Railways in Zagreb.

Luna de Xelajú

A fairly notorious rendition by amateur musician Jared Smith was made famous by its use in the "software toy" Jared: Butcher of Song.

Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era

The Championships at Wimbledon, the US Championships, the French Championships, and the Australian Championships were typically the top events, where amateur players could compete for the title, albeit without prize money.

Manila 10s

While the tournament is technically an amateur tournament the cup division often features ex-professional or internationally capped players such as former Welsh Captain Colin Charvis, former Australian Captain Jeremy Paul, world cup winner Joel Stransky and former British Lion John Bentley, featuring as 'guest' players for the tournament.

Marchant

Stephen Marchant (1912–2003), Australian geologist and amateur ornithologist

Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge

Nancy Drew - Nancy is an eighteen-year old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States.

Nathaniel Colgan

A keen amateur botanist, he later became interested in Mollusca and recorded the marine Mollusca collected during the Clare Island Survey.

Nuno Sociedade

In the 2010 summer, after only four second level games in the campaign, 31-year-old Sociedade left his main club and signed for Santiago Futebol Clube, an amateur side in the island of São Miguel, in his birth region.

Nyrölä Observatory

Discoveries: asteroid 22978 Nyrölä that was the first asteroid discovered by Finnish amateur astronomers, Harri Hyvönen, Marko Moilanen and Arto Oksanen.

Praxoula Antoniadou

As an amateur musician she has participated in the television charity show 'DanSing for You' in order to help children battling cancer.

Progression of England association football goalscoring record

This affects Vivian Woodward, who scored 29 goals 23 in full internationals and a further 44 in amateur internationals.

Samuel Cohen

Sam Waley-Cohen (born 1982), English amateur jockey and businessman

San Luis High School

Germán Altamírano, a two-time Arizona amateur champion and an undefeated boxer signed to Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions

Skalnaté Pleso

a shorthand for the Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso 1950.0, a popular sky atlas for amateur astronomers that was compiled at the observatory.

Sreten Mirković

In 1979, as a member of the Mladi Radnik Sports Society from Požarevac, he won the silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.

StudSat

The Ground Station NASTRAC (Nitte Amateur Satellite Tracking Centre) which is established in NMIT was inaugurated by Dr K. Radhakrishnan, the current chairman of ISRO.

Thomas Bridges Hughes

His football career included appearances for Oxford University (when he played against Cambridge University in March 1874), Swifts and Old Wykehamists, but he achieved notability for his exploits with the Wanderers amateur club, who won five of he first seven FA Cup finals.

Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts

The new opera company employed both professional and amateur performers and entertained the Tibetan refugee camps and staged numerous performances of the folk Lhamo operas.

USA Wrestling

When amateur wrestling, especially freestyle wrestling, gained prominence as an amateur sport after the Civil War, the Amateur Athletic Union first began to regulate it, sponsoring national tournaments and local athletic clubs in amateur wrestling.

Venus series

:For AMTOR, the amateur radio RTTY protocol , see AMTOR.

Vintage amateur radio

There is considerable interest in vintage military and commercial radio equipment among EU amateur radio operators, especially gear from British manufacturers such as Marconi, Racal, Eddystone, Pye, and a variety of Russian, German, Canadian, British RAF and British Army equipment, such as the well known Wireless Set No. 19.

Warren Humphreys

He had a successful amateur career, winning the 1971 English Amateur and playing on that year's winning Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team.

Winnipeg Lucania FC

Winnipeg Lucania Football Club is an amateur soccer club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Zakir Mammadov

His poetic play titled ‘Friendly help’ was staged by amateur team of Agdam Pioneer House in 1955 and by amateur team of Barda Pioneer House in 1956.

Zelman Symphony

The Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra (Zelman Symphony) is the longest-running amateur orchestra in Melbourne, Australia.


see also

Van's Aircraft RV-3

The architect of the line of Van’s aircraft, Richard VanGrunsven, designed the RV-3 in the late 1960s after experience flying the Stits Playboy amateur-built aircraft.