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Fotografija Turulova balona iznad Zagreba
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Summary
Photograph of the Turul balloon over Zagreb
The flight of the balloon named Turul (after the raptor from Hungarian mythology) took place on April 24, 1905. The Turul balloon took off from Zagreb and landed near Mraclin with a crew of three. The night before, on St. George's Day, it was placed on today's Mažuranc, and the citizens' interest in the takeoff was so great that, despite the nightly cheers, the "aviators" - officer Johann Mannsbach, factory worker Bothe and our first motorist Ferdo Budicki - barely made it to their balloon. We transfer the description of the flight from the pages of the "Ferdinand Budicki" Automobile Museum:
"At 2 hours and 30 minutes, the balloon finally took off. The aeronauts flew towards Šestine and Gračani, but the air current threw them several times over Zagreb and Sljeme, so they circled the entire Zagreb area. The wind took them to the south and then weakened, so the aeronauts hovered over Velika Gorica all night. This lasted until six hour, when Bothe dropped the Croatian tricolor from a height of 2,000 m. It was found and brought by the railway watchman, who was on night duty in Velika Gorica. The balloon stayed in the sky until sunrise, and then the fliers decided that they would not be able to sail anymore with a fairly full plane. Pri there were minor problems with the landing when Mannsbach and Bothe jumped out of the basket, and the relieved balloon with Budicki soared into the air again, but in the end everything went smoothly."
The fact that it was an attraction is evidenced by the fact that three decades later, i.e. in 1935, the mention of a "rare sporting event" was also commemorated in the magazine Svijet, one of the best Croatian magazines, the real internet of its time.
Source: mraclin.hr
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