The Schleicher Rhönadler , DFS Rhönadler or Jacobs Rhönadler is a high performance, single seat competition sailplane built in Germany in the 1930s. More than 65 were built.
17-491: T13 or T-13 may refer to: Aviation [ edit ] Slingsby T.13 Petrel , a British glider Vultee BT-13A Valiant , an American military trainer Rail and transit [ edit ] Lines [ edit ] Île-de-France tramway Line 13 Express T13 line , of the Stockholm Metro Locomotives [ edit ] Prussian T 13 ,
34-408: A Rotherham trolley-bus. Only one Petrel, BGA651, the final aircraft, remains airworthy in 2013. It was restored by its owner, Graham Saw. It flies regularly at Vintage Glider Club meetings and has been displayed at Old Warden on Shuttleworth Collection open days. The second Petrel, BGA418, has been restored back to its original varnished look. It is flown at various glider meets throughout
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68-493: A shorter rudder balance and its tailplane raised. This sold well, though production numbers are uncertain. The 1935 version's alterations included a fully enclosed transparent canopy. Schleicher built sixty-five of them, making it the top selling German high performance glider; several were exported. A measure of the popularity of the Rhönadler is the number at the 1935 Rhön competition, twenty-three out of sixty contestants. In
85-450: A span of a little under 18 metres, built of wood with a mixture of plywood and fabric covering. It had high cantilever gull wings , though the inner section dihedral was modest. They carried straight taper to fine and rounded tips and ailerons that extended over more than half the span. There were neither flaps nor airbrakes. The fuselage had its maximum diameter near the nose, where the long, multipiece canopy blended in smoothly, ending at
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119-696: A tail bumper. The Petrel prototype first flew in December 1938. This aircraft crashed at Camphill, Derbyshire in the British National Championships of July 1939, killing its pilot, the speedway rider Frank Charles . Two more were built and flew for several decades after World War II with clubs in England and Ireland . One of them was a competitor at the 1953 British National Championships, held again at Camphill, by then known as Great Hucklow , after being bowled over in transit by
136-530: A version of the thick Göttingen 652 section, modified by a reduction of its high camber ; further outboard this turned into the progressively lower camber Göttingen 535 and Clark Y airfoils. Dihedral was constant, to avoid the constructional complication of the Fafnir's gull wing . The ailerons were very long, occupying more than half the span. Though neither the prototype nor later production aircraft came with spoilers or airbrakes such devices, opening above
153-503: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Slingsby T.13 Petrel The Slingsby T.13 Petrel was a British single-seat competition glider built by Slingsby Sailplanes just before World War II . The Slingsby Petrel was a development of the German Schleicher Rhönadler designed by Hans Jacobs . It was a single-seat high-performance sailplane with
170-689: The RRG ( Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft ) on the Wasserkuppe , for a glider design that, like the RRG Fafnir designed by Alexander Lippisch , would be capable of making long cross country flights by travelling quickly between thermals but could be put into series production making it cheaper to build. Jacobs responded with the Rhönadler (in English, Rhön eagle), ready for the 1932 Rhön competition. The following year both Jacobs and Lippisch had to transfer to
187-594: The U.S.. It can be seen on display, at the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) in Hood River, Oregon, United States. Data from Ellison 1971 , p. 183 and The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge der Welt:Les Planeurs du Monde General characteristics Performance Related lists Schleicher Rh%C3%B6nadler About 1931 the glider manufacturer Alexander Schleicher went to Hans Jacobs , then at
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221-573: The state owned DFS ( Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Für Segelflug ) at Darmstadt , where Jacobs continued to refine the Rhönbussard, hence the DFS Rhönadler name. The Rhönadler was a wood-framed aircraft with plywood and fabric covering. In plan its high wing wings were straight tapered with a torsion-resisting D-box formed by ply skin ahead of the single spar . Aft of the spar the wings were fabric covered. The Rhönadler wing root used
238-399: The wing leading edge. Behind the wings the fuselage tapered and became slender at the tail. The fin and the tailplane were both small in area; the rudder was large, aerodynamically balanced and extended down to the keel. The elevators were tapered, with a cut out for rudder movement. The undercarriage consisted of just a main skid from below the front of the cockpit glazing to mid chord plus
255-399: The wing root aerodynamic interference that the Fafnir's gull wing was intended to avoid, the Rhönadler's wing was mounted just above the fuselage on a low, narrow neck or pedestal which placed the leading edge level with the top of the canopy. The high aspect ratio , all-moving horizontal tail was of similar construction to the wing, with most of the taper on the trailing edge where there
272-429: The wing, were often retro-fitted. The Rhönadler's fuselage was quite slender and entirely ply covered, including the fin , the balancing part of the rudder and a small tail bumper. On the original version, even the cockpit canopy was a ply structure, with small, unglazed apertures for vision. This was progressively modified with increasing glazing into the 1935 variant's multi-framed conventional canopy. To avoid
289-480: Was a deep cut-out at the root. The tailplane was low set on the prototype but raised just above the dorsal fuselage line on production aircraft. The broad chord, balanced rudder was also fabric covered. Landings were made on a sprung skid. At the 1932 Rhön the Rhönadler, flown by Peter Riedel , did not win but impressed enough to go into series production as the Rhönadler 32, with the prototype's wing span slightly shortened, its vertical tail leading edge smoothed by
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