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Max Schuh (born December 20, 1916 in Innsbruck ; † March 8, 2008 ) was an Austrian pilot , glider pilot and Tyrolean entrepreneur in the aviation industry.
biography
Max Schuh attended secondary school, wanted to become a pilot, but could not finance a corresponding training. After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and physics. He was physically active, practicing mountaineering with the extreme mountaineer, his friend Hias Rebitsch . In ski jumping as a so-called "young man" he was trained by the Norwegian Olympic champion Birger Ruud . He was already jumping 76 meters on the Olympic hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
During the Second World War he worked as a radio operator in Poland and suffered a severe vertebral fracture there in 1939. After a year in hospital in Berlin , it was written as "AV" (usable for work) unfit for war and was able to continue working at the university. As a scientific assistant at the university's chemical institute, he received a research assignment from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at the University of Innsbruck on nylon fibers. In experiments on an incinerator, a product caught fire and the shoe was burned all over.
He bought a glider of the type Ka8 , with which he and his wife Anneliese flew the international needle of a Gold C (over 300 km flight).
Max Schuh was involved in the initiative of an instrument landing flight system for the runway extension that became necessary. This was the prerequisite for the landing of larger aircraft in Innsbruck.
Aircraft International
In 1958 he and his wife Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf founded the company Aircraft Innsbruck Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH und Co KG , which operated taxi, round, school and ski flights. He carried out supply flights for the various Alpine Club huts with a ski landing plane, if the landing site was available, later with a helicopter, which was mainly used for cargo flights.
On July 5, 1976, he carried out his first ambulance flight with a Cessna Citation 500.
His company Aircraft received the international line rating, although the state AUA issued a negative opinion. The then governor Wallnöfer offered a default liability, but you did not need to take advantage of this support.
In 1978 Max and Anneliese Schuh sold their flight company to Gernot Langes-Swarovski , who took over the fixed-wing aircraft, and Christian Schwemberger-Swarovski, who took over the helicopters.
literature
- Tanja Chraust: Innsbruck Airport: from the beginning until 2010 . Tiroler Flughafenbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02475-5 .
- Herbert Völker, Sigi Angerer: Sigi and the Flying Bulls . Red Bulletin GmbH, Fuschl am See 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02089-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shoe, max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pilot, glider pilot and Tyrolean entrepreneur in the aviation industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2008 |