Markus Feyerabend (born 1971) is a German

glider Glider may refer to: Aircraft and transport Aircraft * Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight ** Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of glidin ...

aerobatic Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...

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.Homepage of the Acro Team Weilheim-Peißenberg (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11 He started gliding in 1987 at the club SFG Weilheim (now: LSV Weilheim-

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e.V.). Before he obtained his aerobatic rating in 2001, he flew

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.German National Glider Aerobatics Team (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11 He has been a member of the

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national glider aerobatics team since 2005. He was the German National Glider Aerobatics Champion in 2006, 2008Results of the German Glider Aerobatic Championships 2008 (unlimited)
- accessed 2008-08-02 and 2010. In the FAI World Championships in 2007 he won the team silver medal with Olaf Schmidt and Eugen Schaal.FAI aerobatics: pilot profile
- accessed 2008-01-11 In addition, Markus Feyerabend came second in the unknown sequences category in World Championships in 2007BWLV (Gliding): German glider aerobatic team is World Vice-Champion (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11
- accessed 2008-01-30 and European Glider Aerobatic Championships 2008. Deutscher Aero Club
Mannschafts-Bronze für Segelkunstflieger
- accessed 2008-08-18 He was placed first by the Deutscher Aeroclub (DAeC) in 2008 in their ranking list of German glider pilots in the unlimited aerobatic category.2008 Baden-Württembergian glider aerobatics club: German glider aerobatic pilots ranking list of the DAeC (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11 For aerobatics he usually flies a

Swift S-1 The Swift S-1 is a single seat aerobatic glider manufactured by Polish company Swift Ltd. Design and development Edward Margański, Jerzy Cisowski and Jerzy Makula developed the Swift at Bielsko-Biała from the SZD-21-2b Kobuz 3. The prototyp ...

.Baden-Württembergian glider aerobatics club: Salzmann-Cup 2007, ... (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11 He works as a

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in a

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company. DAeC: competition results 2007, ... (in German)
- accessed 2008-01-11Baden-Württembergian glider aerobatics club: results of the Salzmann-Cup 2008 (in German)
- accessed 2008-06-30General Results of the German Regional Glider Aerobatic Championship 2009
- accessed 2009-12-12

Annotations: Nowadays, the Salzmann-Cup plays a similar role as state championships in Germany,Main-Netz: Keyword Salzmann-Cup (in German)
- accessed 2008-07-03 which usually take place as central championships in one federal state. The translations of the names of the German federal state championships ("Landesmeisterschaften" and "Blockmeisterschaften") are not strictly literal. This table contains no rankings in double seater competitions and no rankings in individual disciplines (known, unknown, free). The definition of the advanced category may vary slightly in different glider aerobatic competitions.

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