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The Ellehammer Challenge Cup from The
Danish Aviation Writers' Club. Presentation of
the Cup for 2018
18 AUG 2019
Randers Amtsavis
with
Ellehammerprisen til Anders Straarup 30 NOV 2018. The full text
with links. The same article in
Viborg
Stifts Folkeblad.
The Ellehammer Challenge Cup to Anders Straarup The
honour was presented by The Danish Aviation Writers' Club
PÅ DANSK
By
Knud
Mogensen knud@amtsavisen.dk in
Randers Amtsavis, 1 December 2018
See the cup and
Ellehammer's plane 1906.
 Photo
adapted by Anders Straarup. See it at the crash site and in the
article in Viborg Stifts Folkeblad, part
A+BCaption in this article: This photo from our archives is from the unveiling of the memorial stone at the Grønhøj Kro. In front of Anders Straarup is a Scotsman whose uncle was among the British airmen shot down over Denmark. Photo: Preben Madsen. |
At a gathering in Copenhagen on Friday afternoon Anders Straarup of
Randers was honoured with the Ellehammer Challenge Cup for 2018.
The Ellehammer
Challenge Cup was instituted in 1992 by
The Danish Aviation Writers'
Club.
Since then the award has been given away every year according to the
statutes “to a man or a woman –
for instance a pilot, an inventor or a constructor – who has continued
the pioneer work of
Jacob Chr.
Ellehammer for the benefit of the development and safety of aviation.”
Among former recipients of the award are Lieutenant General, later
Chief
of Defence |
Anders Straarup started using his skills on the internet and his
knowledge of history, when he had retired as a teacher at
For a start Anders Straarup put the
It is very well if this award increases the interest in the the efforts of
Allied airmen during the war, he states.
The prize was awarded at
Clarion Hotel in Copenhagen Airport. |