Akaflieg Berlin B5

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B5
Akaflieg Berlin B5 Rhoen.jpg
Role Sailplane
National origin Germany
Manufacturer Akaflieg Berlin
First flight1937
Number built1

The Akaflieg Berlin B5 was a glider built in Germany in the late 1930s. It featured a high-wing, cantilever sailplane configuration of all-wood construction, with cantilevered gull-wings, retractable landing-gear, all-moving-tail, dive air-brakes. [1]

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Specifications (B5)

Data from , [2] Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehör-Industrie 1944 [3]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. "Segelflugzeug B 5". Flugsport (in German) (16): 416–418. August 1937.
  2. Wefeld, Hans Joachim (1995). 75 Jahre 10 NI AKAFLIEG BERLIN 1920 - 1995 (in German). Akademische Fliegergruppe Berlin e.V. pp. 48–49, 60–61.
  3. Schneider, Helmut (Dipl.Ing.) (1944). Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehör-Industrie 1944 (in German) (Facsimile reprint 1986 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 282. ISBN   381120484X.