Turkish version of " Flight of Fancy"
2005 april the 26 th
Dear Jean Pierre,
My name is Murat Cakan and I have the honor to write you these lines from Istanbul
Technical University Mechanical Engineering Department where I teach fluid dynamics,
turbomachinery and experimental methods in mech. engineering as assistant professor
since year 2001.
I came across your name in either 1996 or 1997 in Brussels. A British friend
of mine who was doing PhD in the von Karman Institute for fluid dynamics had
brought to me a small present from California: "Flight of Fancy".
He was from aeronautics department and I was from turbonachinery doing my doctorate
in gas turbine cooling. Von Karman Institute prepared the ground for many academicians
and researchers like me coming from NATO countires. Anyhow... What I wanted
to tell you as a matter of fact is that receiving that present Iimmediately
fell in love with the adventures of Archibald Higgins. Myself being an aquarelist
appreciated your talent in art and your wiz in education. Then as a leisure
time activity I rolled the sleeves of my shirt and started translating Flight
of Fancy in turkish, thinking one day I would use them -with your permission
of course- to teach some fluid dynamics concepts in a better way to my pupils.
This was, as I said before, some 7-8 years ago. Since then both the translations
and the "present" dwell in my library.
Today out of the blues it fell in my mind to search for Archie and I found your
web site. With my poor french I read the lines you wrote. Now, apparently you
are looking for some benevole action. I am more than ready... Tell me what I
can do with the already existing turkish translations. Could they be included
in a CD for instance? Could I see the turkish flag and better "clickable"
in your site, etc.
By the way, although not as talented as you are I would like you to visit my
site (unfortunately only in turkish for the moment) and see my watercolors.
To be able to do that you must click on SULUBOYALAR which means watercolors.
Here is the address: www.mkn.itu.edu.tr/~cakanmu
Best regards,
Dr. Murat Cakan
ITU Mechanical Engineering Faculty
34439 Gumussuyu Istanbul
TURQUIE
telephone: +90.212.2931300/2137
+90.212.2525497
GSM: +90.532.2503080
From J.P.PETIT : If somebody wants to help Murat Cakan to translate other books devoted to the adventures of Archibald Higgins, contact him. I hope more and more books will be translated in as manu tongues as possible.
Long life to Archibald Higgngs ! ( Anselme Lanturlu )
Presently, this is the album "Flight of Fancy" ( " Si on volait ? " in french ), translated by Murat Cakan.
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