Our #S2 E3 – with Marie-Sophie, Ingo and (little) Anton Maier

“And then came Anton… three days before his birth we flew to Locarno (Italy) to eat some pizza and ten days afterwards we went again!” – Ingo and Marie-Sophie Maier

Marie-Sophie and Ingo are becoming, if not already, a legendary flying German couple.
Both south-west Germany natives from the beautiful Black Forest region, Marie-Sophie first discovered aviation thanks to her father as they lived several years in Canada during her childhood. Back in Germany and now a 17 year old finishing highschool where she already met Ingo, Marie-Sophie got the unique opportunity to get her PPL and support her father in his position as CEO of Haas Schleifmaschinen GmbH in flying the company’s Beechcraft Bonanza F33A.  
This was the birth of a common burning passion for aviation followed by Ingo’s PPL, instrument ratings, Marie-Sophie’s CPL and not to mention successful university studies in mechanical engineering. For more than a decade, Marie-Sophie and Ingo are working for
Adelbert Haas GmbH (formerly Haas Schleifmaschinen GmbH), a family owned business, leader in grinding technologies.

In this episode, Marie-Sophie and Ingo share with us their personal family story which got them into aviation and transformed their life. From flying the company’s Beechcraft Bonanza in all kinds of challenging VFR and IFR conditions to upgrading to the twin turboprop Beechcraft King Air and finally discovering backcountry and bush flying in Europe. 
Marie-Sophie and Ingo finally achieved their dream of owning not only one taildragger Zlin Aviation Savage but two, since last year came a second one so that little Anton could travel with his parents in more comfort and fun of course. From very long cross-country navigations in the different company airplanes on business trips as well as delivering support in Ukraine (https://multigrind.com/en/blog/detail/support-for-the-ukraine-air-rescue-comes-from-trossingen) up to participating in STOL competitions in France, those two symbolise the essence of aviation at its bests.

If you are interested in engineering, do not forget to visit the family’s company website https://multigrind.com/en/haas-schleifmaschinen to learn more about their leading grinding technology and much more.

As usual, don’t hesitate to shoot me an email to let me know what your thoughts are about the show and if you have any questions.

Music credits: “Slowly”, Amon Tobin – Supermodified, 2000

Cover picture: Ingo Maier
Cover design: Maxime Compagnon – The STOL Collective

TSC Artist of the episode: Zane Jacobson – Impulse Coupling
TSC song of the episode:  “We Seek The Unknown” – Impulse Coupling, 2020
https://soundcloud.com/impulsecoupling/we-seek-the-unknown-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

TSC Books of the episode:
– “Ferry Pilot – Nine lives over the North Atlantic”, Kerry McCauley – 2022
https://books.google.de/books?id=yF46zwEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&redir_esc=y

Cover picture: the Maier family