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The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.
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The Flying Dutchman was designed in 1927 at the University of Detroit by professor Peter Altman. [2] The aircraft was originally marketed by the Niles Aircraft Corporation as the Williams Gold Tip, powered by a three cylinder Anzani engine. The rights were purchased by Szekely to produce the aircraft using its own engine design. [3]
The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the International Flying Dutchman Class Organization. [32] [33] The Flying Dutchman was an Olympic sailing class in double-handed dinghies from 1960 until 1992. [1] [2] Due to its complexity, the design's cost has been a barrier to its wider acceptance. [6]
The old legend of the Flying Dutchman (a legend, by the bye, possessing all the rich materiel which a vigorous imagination could desire) is worked up with so many of the pitiable niaiseries upon which we have commented, that few persons of disciplined intellect will derive from the medley any other impressions than those of the ridiculous and ...
The Flying Dutchman was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Enoshima. Seven races were scheduled. 42 sailors, on 21 boats, from 21 nations competed. Seven races were scheduled. 42 sailors, on 21 boats, from 21 nations competed.