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JP THE MEETING WITH TRADITION
Text/Pictures: Wolfgang Semler, Franz Hruby
Pictures: Franz Hruby, Kim Contento, Werner Leidel

Nitro Days

Continuation of a success story

With its 730 m long and 30 m wide asphalt track, the course
offers the ideal conditions for the meeting. The queue at the
flight line proves that the interest in the event is unbroken.

The origin of the largest Austrian jet meeting is more than a
quarter of a century ago. In the small town of Punitz in Bur-
genland, a handful of courageous pilots met every year to de-
monstrate their noisy models with the new combustion-impel-
ler technology of the time to an astonished audience. The na-
me "Nitro Days" comes from the fact that at that time the
engines did not deliver the required performance without ad-
ding 30 to 40 % nitromethane to the fuel. Peter Cmyral was the
organizer at that time and is still active in this function today.
The original venue Punitz is long gone, but the Nitro Days live
on and have been held at the large Niederöblarn airport for se-
veral years now. The number of participating pilots has remai-
ned constant over the past few years. So on the first weekend At the Flightline visitors have the opportunity to view the
of October from 4 to 6 October, 57 pilots with 90 models from models and ask questions to the pilots.

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