Hármashatárhegy
Windswept hilltop with a nineteen-forties glider hangar, panoramic city views and hiking trails.
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This guide to Hármashatárhegy in Budapest follows engineer Lajos Rotter, who answered officials wanting to ban gliders from this hilltop by staying aloft for a full hour off its ridge. It traces the hangar raised here by 1940 and Rotter's masterpiece, a sailplane named Nemere, which in August 1936 flew more than 320 kilometers from Berlin to Kiel during the Olympics. Stand on the treeless summit where Rotter once proved the hill could fly, and where the wind still rakes the ridge today.
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