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    assistance of Wolf Hirth, Martin Schempp founded his own company in Göppingen in 1935: "Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp". In 1938, Wolf Hirth, mainly...
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  • with the assistance of Wolf Hirth. The company was initially called "Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp". In 1938, Wolf Hirth, mainly responsible...
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    engines respectively. Hirth was born in Heilbronn, the son of engineer and tool-maker Albert Hirth. He was the elder brother of Wolf Hirth who would go on to...
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    discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, above the Giant Mountains. They are periodic changes of atmospheric pressure...
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    less rounded rudder on same fin. Goevier III (aka Hirth-Hütter Goevier III) – Dipl.-Ing. Wolf Hirth/Wolfgang Hütter.Post-war production model, prototype...
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    medical school at the University of Kiel to become, at the invitation of Wolf Hirth, a full-time glider pilot/instructor at Hornberg in Baden-Württemberg...
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  • Catholic Bishop in German East Africa Wolf Hirth (1900–1959), German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer Hirth, aircraft engine manufacturer based in...
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    sailplane produced in Germany. It was designed by Martin Schempp and Wolf Hirth and was produced the year after their first glider, the Göppingen Gö 1...
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  • single seat glider that was designed by Alfred Vogt and produced by the Wolf Hirth Company. The Lo-150 was developed from the 10 m (32.8 ft) wing span aerobatic...
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    changes etc. It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider's ESG 31 of the previous...
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    at the Klemm company in Böblingen. It was during this time that he met Wolf Hirth, with whom he was to establish a close, lifelong friendship. Martin Schempp...
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    was built in West Germany by Wolf Hirth GmbH in the early 1970s, and dominated Championships for a brief period. The Hirth Hi 27 Acrostar is a competition...
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  • achieved in separate flights. The first recipients of the Silver C were Wolf Hirth and Robert Kronfeld on 15 February 1931. In 1932 the FAI recognized gliding...
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  • Berlin – (HFS Berlin) Hentzens Maikäfer HG-1 Tölpel Hirth-Hütter Goevier III – Dipl.-Ing. Wolf Hirth/Wolfgang Hütter. Hofmann Schloß Mainberg – H. Hofmann...
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  • classification with 456 points, with Reinhold Poss in second with 451 pts, Wolf Hirth in third with 450 pts and Robert Fretz (Suiss) in fourth with 448 pts...
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    became a research pilot. In 1934, he, Hanna Reitsch, Peter Riedel, and Wolf Hirth were members of Professor Georgii's South American Glider Expedition,: 65 ...
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    "first real thermal soaring" occurred in 1930 by A. Haller and Wolf Hirth, with Hirth using a variometer in his Musterle. Frank Irving states that Arthur...
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  • 1957. Wolf Hirth had followed its construction with interest and had hoped to manufacture it. Instead, the Phönix was produced by Bölkow and Hirth built...
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  • Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938) – aircraft engine designer, brother of Wolf Hirth Wolf Hirth (1900–1959) – sailplane designer, brother of Hellmuth Hirth Leonard...
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    by the well known glider pilot Wolf Hirth at the 1929 Rhön (Wasserkuppe) glider competition. Musterle was used by Hirth used to demonstrate the possibilities...
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    attended the meeting between 15 July and 15 September 1920, including Wolf Hirth and other gliding pioneers. (see also Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft.) Over...
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    Romeo Ro-5 biplanes (17.25 pts), then the rest. The best German pilot, Wolf Hirth, had 16.25 pts (12th place, Klemm L.25), but most Germans had a few points...
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    the United States. The first new-build aircraft was completed by the Wolf Hirth factory at Nabern being completed in 1968. Jack Canary was killed later...
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  • standing waves may be created. They were discovered by a glider pilot, Wolf Hirth, in 1933. These waves reach heights much greater than the original obstruction...
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    the Aero-Sport camping trailer built from plywood by the glider company Wolf Hirth in Kirchheim unter Teck. Until 1942 Bachem served as technical director...
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    have survived in museums. One is still operational in Germany at Schempp-Hirth GmbH. On June 30, 2018, Tilo Holighaus made a 74 km cross country flight...
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    and Argentina to help promote the sport in Latin America, along with Wolf Hirth and Heini Dittmar. While in Argentina, Riedel set a record for long-distance...
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  • The Hirth Hi 21 was a multi-purpose two seat side-by-side configuration training glider, designed and built in Germany during World War II. It had a retractable...
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  • for some of Germany's most prominent designers and pilots, including Wolf Hirth's "Musterle" and Robert Kronfeld's "Wien" and "Austria" (for many years...
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  • The Hirth Hi 20 MoSe was a German motor glider designed in the late 1930s. Based on the Göppingen Gö 4 side-by-side seat training glider, it had a foldaway...
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