Berlin wall glider
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Berlin wall glider
Watching a programme about the Wall last night and was intrigued to learn one of the more innovative crossings was in a glider.
Now the programme showed a more contemporary type for obvious reasons, but I am curious if anybody knows the actual type that made this crossing please?
Getting a retrieve crew could have been a shade problematic if he'd made a field landing......
Now the programme showed a more contemporary type for obvious reasons, but I am curious if anybody knows the actual type that made this crossing please?
Getting a retrieve crew could have been a shade problematic if he'd made a field landing......
Reminds me of the Pieniążek "Kukułka" - a homebuilt made using parts from a number of crashed gliders and the engine from a dead piper cub:
[img]http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/katalo..._tytul/145.jpg[/img]
It was built to escape from Poland. It's quite a story (see The Story). I stumbled across it in the Kracow aviation museum.
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[img]http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/katalo..._tytul/145.jpg[/img]
It was built to escape from Poland. It's quite a story (see The Story). I stumbled across it in the Kracow aviation museum.
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Watching a programme about the Wall last night and was intrigued to learn one of the more innovative crossings was in a glider.
Now the programme showed a more contemporary type for obvious reasons, but I am curious if anybody knows the actual type that made this crossing please?
Getting a retrieve crew could have been a shade problematic if he'd made a field landing......
Now the programme showed a more contemporary type for obvious reasons, but I am curious if anybody knows the actual type that made this crossing please?
Getting a retrieve crew could have been a shade problematic if he'd made a field landing......
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However articles in the press seldomly mention the plane used. Here is one from 1979 I found.
SZD-30 "Pirat". This type is considered to be the Ka6 of the soviet zone.
Some more aviation related stuff:
Ikarus VOX II
The venerable AN2 of course
DIY hot air balloon
Engineer abducting a SU-7M. Not being trained on type, he decides on ejecting instead of trying to land.
Flight by highjacking
This guy was imprisoned before he could try his "experimental"
Nautically there are also have been a lot of intresting things going on.
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In the 70ies there were so plenty of them that the GDR prohibited sport flying for some time until they had installed the resources to snoop on the aviators and guard the airfields:
(Fixed Link)
However articles in the press seldomly mention the plane used. Here is one from 1979 I found.
SZD-30 "Pirat". This type is considered to be the Ka6 of the soviet zone.
Some more aviation related stuff:
Ikarus VOX II
The venerable AN2 of course
DIY hot air balloon
Engineer abducting a SU-7M. Not being trained on type, he decides on ejecting instead of trying to land.
Flight by highjacking
This guy was imprisoned before he could try his "experimental"
Nautically there are also have been a lot of intresting things going on.
(Fixed Link)
However articles in the press seldomly mention the plane used. Here is one from 1979 I found.
SZD-30 "Pirat". This type is considered to be the Ka6 of the soviet zone.
Some more aviation related stuff:
Ikarus VOX II
The venerable AN2 of course
DIY hot air balloon
Engineer abducting a SU-7M. Not being trained on type, he decides on ejecting instead of trying to land.
Flight by highjacking
This guy was imprisoned before he could try his "experimental"
Nautically there are also have been a lot of intresting things going on.
However, it's the quote above I found of particular interest.
I flew a Pirat, once !......and a contributor on here offered some "helpful advice " as I floated past the launch point It would be fair to say my preference would be a Ka6E or Ka6CR. Sorry about the digression.
I have to say this piece in the programme did attract my interest due to my involvement with gliding because so many factors had to be in his favour on the day. It wasn't exactly a cross- country flight where you can land in a field when the lift stops working.
The rest of the programme was equally interesting....and sobering viewing