Hungarian „Naval” Success
Szöveg: honvedelem.hu | 2013. július 10. 9:04On the first Sunday of July, the Norwegian contingent of the Strategic Airlift Capability Heavy Airlift Wing (SAC HAW) arranged the SAC international cardboard regatta cup for the fourth time at the HDF Pápa Air Base.
The annually arranged traditional cardboard regatta cup, which is a multinational team-building championship, offers the national teams of the SAC member nations an opportunity to match their construction and navigation skills while competing with each other and the staffs of Boeing Field Services and NAMPO stationed at Pápa Air Base.
During the competition, the teams are to build a boat out of a given quantity of cardboard and duct tape in two hours, decorate it, and take it across the Lake Malom of Pápa as fast as they can along a pre-set route marked off with buoys. On many occasions, the task of taking these cardboard boats to the finish line is already a challenge in itself…
One of the reasons why the Hungarians entering the race chose this name for the boat was that the warship “Szent Istvan" sank to its watery grave after an Italian attack 95 years ago, on June 10, 1918. The “Szent Istvan" was a Tegetthoff class dreadnought in the Navy of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the only one built exclusively by the Hungarian Ganz-Danubia Co. between 1912–1914. Its construction was funded from Hungarian budget, under a bilateral agreement.
Photos: HAW
