"How cool does that look like?" That asks anyone who sees the Andreoli-Spitlight, the largest slide in the world. The same question must have once made its inventor and Builder, of the Swiss engineer Gianni Andreoli.
Of Mark Ofner, restored the 13.6-Meter-long Behemoth currently. "Andreoli aircraft engineer. The shape of the Spitlight owes so Andreolis profession. The fans of the projector, for example, are wings in the stub. To these fans, Andreoli mounted rear red flashing lights. Awesome!"
Olympic-Logo built to a majestic wall
at the beginning of the fifty years, had the Spitlight his greatest Moment in 1956, at the Olympic winter games in Cortina d'ampezzo. The largest Olympic was projected Signet of the story on a dolomite wall (833 m wide, 340 m high).
presented Nearly 30 years later, Andreolis widow of the cumbersome slide projector to the Winterthur Technorama. This Mark Ofner gave the good piece later to Repair – and now the Spitlight p.300.5 so, Clearly a Garage in Winterthur, where you can see these days.
""surgeon Lüthy told me that a bird that was five meters in front of the headlights flew by, ended up as a chicken."Mark Ofner
What it is actually with the serial number, which is emblazoned on the side of the Spitlight? Ofner: "Gianni Andreoli also received orders from the Swiss army, and nothing is known without number. I studied the folder way documents the Spitlight, have Interviews with the former Chief surgeon Werner Lüthy. But no one knows how Andreoli came to this number. It's not like that, it would be the fifth Version. There is only one."
a picture of A square kilometer diameter
Ofner says that while he is insane, but not to the same extent as Andreoli. The goal of his current Work is, the burner of the projector. The Spitlight more or less working, but the bulbs would be enough only for four hours. In a Show of caution would also be warranted, says Ofner. "Surgeon Lüthy told me that a bird that was five meters in front of the headlights flew by, landed as a chicken".
thanks to the exceptional performance of the Spitlights could throw light images actually in the clouds. From six kilometres distance, an image of a square kilometre or more in diameter. And what of the Radio-TV-electronics master Ofner would play best with the Spitlight? "The top of the mountain, from the Zürihorn, at the Züri-Fäscht in the year 2022."
mon 25.3. to Wed 27.3. — 18 hours
workshop Mark Ofner
Winterthur St. Gallerstr. 182
visit to the workshop and conversation with Mark Ofner, admission: CHF 25
registration: www.digitalbrainstorming.ch
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Created: 21.03.2019, 11:46 PM