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(Ateliers Aéronautiques de Suresnes)
(Aéro Club du Bas Armagnac)
(Aéro-Club des Montagnes Neuchâteloises)
(Ronald Hamilton Adair, Clifford Gurr and H. Zechner)
(Aircraft Designs Inc / Martin Hollman / Winther-Hollman Aircraft Inc.)
(Aerial Experimental Association)
(Hermann Aecherli & Willy Farner)
(Aerbul s.r.l. / Horacio Bulacio Campos)
(Aeronaútica del Jaén SA)
(AeroXpert, Hennopsmeer / Peter Cellier & François Jordaan)
(Ahrens Aircraft Corporation)
(Aviation Industries of Iran)
(Aircraft Disposal Company)
(Émile Dewoitine / Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.)
(FFG Berlin / Akaflieg Berlin)
(Akademische Fliegergruppe T. H. Danzig)
(Akademischen Segelfliegergruppe Graz)
(for Hannoverische Waggonfabrik gliders see:Hannover)
(J. Akerboom & J. Schmidt / Nijs & Van Driel)
(Club Argentino de Planeadores Albatros / Alberto Rosmarin, Vito Antonio Ernesto Vignera & Jorge Ubaldo Pallich )
(Albini, Cella, Facciolo, Moltrasio)
(Juan-Pablo Aldasoro-Suárez & Eduardo Aldasoro-Suárez - Real del Monte, Estado de Hidalgo, México)
(Albert W. Mooney / Alexander Aircraft Co, Colorado Springs (Colorado, USA)
(Alisport srl, Cremella, Italy)
(Aeronautical Engineering Society, New-York / E. Allen & E.P. Warner)
(Allstar PZL Glider Sp. z o.o.)
(Alpla-Werke / Alpla-Werken Alvin Lehner OHG)
(Raúl Altinger & Theo Altinger)
(AMA - Andrzej Anczutin, Henryk Malinowski & Rościsław Aleksandrowicz / Université Technique de Varsovie & Ateliers de Construction aéronautique d'Antoni Kocjan)
(AmEagle Corporation, aka* AmEagle American Eaglet)
(L. Lergier & Blaser / E. Amstutz, H. Belart & H. von Travel, Bern)
( Pytor Almurzin, Nikitin & Bogatov)
(A.J. Andersson / Augsburger V.L.)
(W. S. SHACKLETON / Air Navigation and Engineering Company)
(N.D. Anotchenko a.k.a. Anoschenko ND Macaque)
(Oleg K. Antonov / Antonov Design Bureau(OKB))
(Agence Rethéloise d'Aviation)
(Atelierele de Reparatii Material Volant-2 – Pipera)
(All Reinforced Plastic Mouldings / Leuvense university Aero Club)
(Arsenal de l'Aéronautique)
(Arup Inc (fdr: Cloyd L Snyder), 231 Lincoln Way, South Bend IN.)
(Advanced Soaring Concepts / Jensen Tor)
(Ugo Abate & Giovanni Pirelli / ASUP / Fratelli Visco, Somma Lombardo)
(Aurora Training Sailplane Project)
(Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota - Air Fleet Academy)
(Ateliers vosgiens d'industrie aéronautique)
(Azionaria Vercellese Industrie Aeronautiche – Francis Lombardi)
(Aviad Francesco Di Martino)
(Aviamilano Costruzione Aeronautiche)
Contrary to the methods used by the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) for the allocation of aircraft designations, the designers and manufacturers of sailplanes and gliders in Germany enjoyed the freedom of choosing their own designations for their products up until 1945.
The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs24, nicknamed Phönix, was a glider designed and built in West Germany from 1951.
Akaflieg is an abbreviation for Akademische Fliegergruppe, groups of aeronautical engineering students from individual German Technical Universities, pre and postwar, who design aircraft, often gliders.
The Akaflieg München Mü5 Wastl is a glider that was designed and built in Germany in 1924.
Flugwerft Schleissheim is an aviation museum located in the German town of Oberschleißheim near Munich, it forms part of the Deutsches Museum collection and complements the aviation exhibits on display at the main site. The museum was opened on 18 September 1992. Many aerospace exhibits are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines. The main display hangar is a restored glazed building, visitors are able to view exhibits undergoing restoration.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-5 is a German single-seat Standard Class sailplane designed and prototyped by students of Brunswick University. More than 100 were built to their design, in several different variants.
The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-6 Geheimrat, often shortened to Darmstadt D-6 Geheimrat, was an early competition glider with a single seat and high cantilever wing, designed and built by German University students in 1922.
The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-28 Windspiel was a single-seat, high-performance sailplane designed in Germany in the early 1930s. Intended to exploit a growing understanding of thermal soaring, it was small and manoeuvrable, with a 12 m span; silk-covered for lightness, it weighed less (empty) than its pilots. It held the world straight-line distance record for a time in 1934.
The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-40 is an experimental variable geometry single seat sailplane, fitted with almost full span, camber changing flaps for optimum aerodynamics in weak thermals and integrated into the wing so as to minimise flap tip drag. One flew successfully but the D-40, like other variable geometry sailplanes, was not commercialised.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-11 is an experimental, single seat, variable geometry sailplane designed by aeronautical students in Germany. It won the 15 m span class at the World Gliding Championships of 1978 but its advances over the best, more conventional, opposition were not sufficient to lead to widespread imitation.
The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs31 Ferdinand Porsche is a tandem seat, dual control training glider designed and built in Germany between 1977 and 1981. The aircraft was intended to have high performance, yet to be robust enough for student use. It was not intended for production and remains in service with the Akaflieg after almost 40 years and 7,100 flying hours.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus is a Standard class glider designed and built in Germany in the 1960s. It was one of a series of mixed glass fibre and wood designs from the students of Akaflieg Braunschweig.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-8 is an experimental, single-seat, high performance glider built in Germany in the 1960s, constructed largely from glass fibre skin over built up balsa wood structure. Two were built; the second of which was later fitted with a high aspect ratio (30:1) wing, becoming the Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-9 Stratus.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus was an experimental tailless, single-seat, Standard Class glider designed and built in Germany in the early 1990s. Though it performed as well as its conventional contemporaries, it did not offer sufficiently improved performance to compensate for its difficult handling characteristics.
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-6 Nixope was an early (1961) GRP high performance single seat glider designed and built in Germany by aeronautical students from Brunswick University. It competed in the 1961 German National gliding competition, coming sixth, and led directly to two further GRP aircraft.
The German Glider Museum, situated on the Wasserkuppe in the German state of Hesse is the national gliding museum, opened in 1987.
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