sentences:  At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he competed in gliding (which was a demonstration sport), finishing a respectable 12th as the only representative from Romania.This earned him an invitation to an aerobatics competition in Los Angeles.Papană accepted the offer, and he and his plane, a Bücker Bü 133B "Jungermeister" (one of only two versions of that variant ever produced) with the registration YR-PAX, were flown from Frankfurt, Germany to New York, New York aboard the "Hindenburg" airship in August 1936.