In 1976 Silvia Wagner, a young chemist, was very interested in general aviation. Her first skydive was followed by another 600 with quite some athletic success. She won a 4th place at the Austrian championship in Relative-Work, as best woman in the general rating and she is still holding the record for the biggest formation. For ten yaers now she has been an Instructor for skydivers.
As a natural consequence, she started to fly aeroplanes and was very eager to carry on
with her training. The final result was the ATPL. Now she is organising international
meetings for skydivers, called Pink Boogies and also flying the "Pink Skyvan
", a twin-turboprop aeroplane all over Europe. In 1985 she discovered balloon flying
as a new hobby. Right from the beginning she was again very ambitious, and has meanwhile
reached an eperience-level, that some of her male collegues needed years to achieve. She
has also taken the eamination for the ballooning-instructor and is now the first female
instructor in Austria. Beside flying and organizing for skydivers, she is working for the
Austrian Balloonclub.
Together with her partner Thomas Lewetz they have joined several Gasballoon-Races:
| 1990 | Gordon Bennet | 1990 from Lech am Arlberg/A to Foppolo/Italien | 9. rank |
| 1991 | Gordon Bennet | 1991 from Lech am Arlberg/A to Brünn/CSFR | 4. rank |
| 1992 | Gordon Bennet | 1992 from Stuttgart/ to Krakau/Polen | 7. rank |
| 1992 | World Championship | 1992 Obertraun/Sbg 2 races in Austria | 5. rank |
| 1993 | Gordon Bennet | from Albuquerque/NMto North Platte/Nebraska | 4. rank |
| 1994 | Gordon Bennet | 1994 from Lech am Arlberg/A to Savona/Italien | 3. rank |
| 1994 | World championship | Albuquerque | 2. rank |
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