This year, it was finally time again for the Idaflieg Cross-Country Flying Camp. From June 1st to June 8th, we enjoyed a fantastic week in Bartholomä. A total of 15 trainees with 11 gliders and seven experienced trainers participated, only the weather could have been better. Students from Berlin, Braunschweig and Karlsruhe participated alltogether with…
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The lights are still on in our workshop as the hours of the warm summer night pass by; we’re building an experimental wing spar and reaching the next small milestone in our fs36 project! Many hours of planning and preparing the workshop have passed as we finally get to building the parts. However, before we…
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After three years of design work, the time had finally come: at the end of January, a decisive milestone on the way to the maiden flight was reached with the shell construction of the flying fuselage of the fs36 FlyByWire. As already mentioned in connection with the introduction of the fs36 (https://akaflieg-stuttgart.de/projekte/fs36/), we decided to…
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Accidents can happen anytime and anywhere and it is always good to be prepared.This week, we were able to take part in a first aid course organized by the university.Under the guidance of Mrs. Slavik, eleven of us went through all the possible emergency scenarios in the morning, starting with reaching the scene of an…
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This year we again able to fill up the firewood stores for our house in Bartholomä. Under the leadership of Gimli, logs were carried out of the forest until dusk, sawn up and driven to the airfield in the trailer. There we cut them into manageable pieces and piled them up in front of and…
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This year we participated for the first time at the German Aerospace Congress (DLRK) in Dresden. There we had the opportunity to present our current project, the fly-by-wire glider prototype fs36. We were also able to view exciting presentations on the latest developments in the aerospace industry and make new contacts. The DLRK is a…
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On our first workshop afternoon this semester, we had four larger group tasks in addition to some smaller ones.Under the guidance of Schrumpf and DiBiDi, 4 guests started with the winter maintenance of the fs33. This involved washing the surfaces, checking for paint cracks and removing the ailerons.Carlos and another small group started the construction…
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Our long-time member Fridolin „Fidde“ Wohlfarth passed away on 12.04.2022 after a tragic work accident at the age of 93. Not only being a great flying companion, Fidde was also the motor and soul of our airfield, indeed without him we would not have our Bartholomä-Amalienhof (EDPU) home airfield. With the purchase of the site…
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We have received sad news that our alumnus Richard Eppler passed away on Thursday, November 25th 2021. Richard was an acknowledged expert in both aerodynamics and calculation of structural and mechanical problems and as such had a very influential position in the development of sailplanes. Besides the variety of profiles that he developed for model…
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This winter we carried out the tailplane modification that had been planned since the first flight. This is necessary to prevent aerodynamic flutter in this region at high speeds and therefore to be able to increase the maximum permissible airspeed from the previous 180 km/h to 210 km/h and finally to 280 km/h after a…
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