Childhood Dreams
The childhood dream of Andreas
In the early 1970s Andreas did not miss one episode of "Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt" on the Western German Television (WDR). This German cult TV show based on the bestseller of Boy Lornson. The story is about a little roboter, called Robbi, who built the flying machine invented by a little boy, named Tobbi. The particular of this machine is, that it can fly (Flie...) swim on water (...wa...) and drive like a car (...tüüt). Together they have to find answers for Robbis exam questions during their flight adventure.
Since those days Andreas dreamed of an allround mobility vehicle like the Fliewatüüt. As a grown-up he saw with "Little Nellie" something familiar in James Bond´s "You Only Live Twice". But finally with the gyrocopter Xenon he has found his real Fliewatüüt. As a child he flew with the Fliewatüüt and its license plate FWT1 in his dream. Today he is realising his Jamesflight together with his wife, Melanie, incl. the license plate for an ultralight D-M and the ending FWT. Together they will be the first married pilot couple in a gyrocopter on such an adventurous flight.
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The childhood dream of Melanie
 | Her first career aspiration as a child in the former GDR was to become a
cosmonaut. On October 1989 she and her father crossed as refugees the
green border to Prague (CZ) to enter the the first refugee trains, which lead to the Western Part of Germany, where her Mom already waited after her last visit without return. Twenty years later Melanie is closer than ever to her childhood dream. She passed as the first woman the sport pilot licence for the gyrocopter Xenon. Together they start their round the world trip. Jamesflight will be the first leg of their voyage. The altitude of the Gyrocopter puts Melanie close to becoming a cosmonaut. |
The legendary lecture about "Childhood dreams" by Randy Pausch († 25.07.2008)
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