Edward Makula
1930–1996 (age 66)
Biography
Edward Makula (4 July 1930 – 15 January 1996) was a Polish glider pilot and engineer.
He won the 1963 World Gliding Championships in Junin (Argentina) in a SZD-19 Zefir 2 and established 7 world records.
In 1965, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) awarded him the Lilienthal Gliding Medal.
Edward Makula was an uncle of the glider aerobatics champion Jerzy Makula.