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A quick glance at the gross weight or wingspan of the Calif motorglider or sailplane should tell the enthusiast that the pair are not ordinary aircraft. With 66.9 feet of wingspan, the A-21SJ is the only production turbojet-powered sailplane in the world. It offers side-byside seating and all-metal construction. The engine retracts into the fuselage […]
DG300 DG600 DG800 DG1000 Gerhard Glaser, owner of a civil engineering business, and Diplom Ingenieur Wilhelm Dirks, founded the Glaser-Dirks Flugzeugbau GmbH company. In 1972, they built their first glider, the DG-100. Glaser-Dirks produced 105 DG-100 and another 222 units have been produced later at the Elan factory. In 1977 the 15-meter class sailplane DG-200 […]
The Katana X-Treme was born in Austria in 1990. The all-composite two-seater flies with 80, 100, and 115-hp Rotax engines, operating as both a sport plane (under the name HK36 Super Dimona in Europe) and as the Eco Dimona, a variant modified for surveillance and observation. This model features a movable Wescam camera and cockpit […]
The BJ-1b Duster is designed for amateur builders with an estimated construction time of 700 hours. Both plans and kit components are available. Its shoulder-type wings have a single wooden spar with plywood ribs and plywood covering. Wing features include washedout tips, trailing-edge flaps, airbrakes, and ailerons. The fuselage is also built from plywood, with […]
The biggest improvement for the G-103, the successor to the Twin Astir, came from modifications to the ailerons. Pilots reported a substantial improvement in feel (with the steel control pushrods) and overall roll re-sponse for greater aerobatic performance. The mains, which sits aft of the aircraft’s center of gravity in a fairing, features a hydraulic […]
Libelle 205 Kestrel Hornet 206 Mosquito 303 Glasflugel 304 Glasflugel was founded by Eugen Hänle in 1962 and carried the logo of a dragonfly (in German “Libelle”). In May 1975, financial problems lead to a co-operation with the firm Schempp-Hirth. Until 1979 GlasfluÌgel carried the name “Holighaus & Hillenbrand” and was then dissolved in 1982 […]
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