The 17 m. Kestrel features camber-changing flaps that operate in conjunction with the ailerons, airbrakes, drogue chute, water ballast and retractable gear. The fuselage is a fiberglass monocoque (not sandwich) for greater resilience and pilot protection. The cockpit has room enough for a 198 cm / 6 ft pilot and features a control stick that…
The all composite T. 65 was the first sailplane designed from the outset with a carbon fiber mainspar. It first flew in 1977 and conformed to the then new 15 m. racing class rules. The flap and trailing edge airbrake system are operated by a single cockpit control. Trim setting is adjustable by flap setting…
The 15-meter Ventus (not to be confused with the later completely redesigned Ventus 2) has all- carbon fiber wings. The strength of this material permitted use of a very thin airfoil developed by F.X. Wortmann, Dieter Althaus and Ventus designer Klaus Holighaus. The stiffness of carbon fiber prevents wing twist at high speeds such as…
The Ventus 2, despite its names, is substantially changed from its similarly named predecessor. It has a complely new Discus planform wing and comes in a number of different configurations. The unpowered sailplane comes in three different varieties, the short fuselage 15 m. Ventus 2a, the larger fuselage 15 m. –2b, and the convertible tip…
A powered self-launching derivative of the widely used LET L 13 Blanik, the Vivat uses a rear fuselage and wings very similar to the L 13. The wings do not, however, incorporate the flaps of the L 13, but retain the DFS type airbrakes. The center section and cockpit area are widened to make room…
One of the classic pre-World War II designs, the Weihe first appeared in 1938 and became the standard high performance sailplane used throughout Europe. Produced first by the Deutches Forschungsinstitut fur Segelfug (German Research Institute for Soaring Flight) ( D.F.S.) and then in large numbers by the Jacobs Schweyer factory and elsewhere in Germany before…
The White Knight was designed in 1963 while Posnansky was a student in Switzerland, but later has been substantially modified. It has a faired fixed landing gear and speed limiting dive brakes on both upper and lower surfaces, a center of gravity tow hook and a side-mounted control stick. The ship’s similarity in looks to…
The 1200C is a flapped aerobatic (+9/ -6g) self- launching sailplpane which also has good soaring performance. The 3-cylinder 2-cycle engine is fitted with a variable pitch featering propeller. It has Schempp-Hirth type upper surface airbrakes. It also is available in an unpowered version.
Aeronaves e Motores (Aeromot) acquired the production right to the Aerostructures (Fournier) RF 10 side-by-side two-place self- launching sailplane and built a slightly modified version under the name AMT 100 Ximango with a 80 BHP / 60 kW Limbach L 2000 E01 engine driving a Hoffmann 2 blade 3 position propellor with electric starter. The…