The Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) or Rhön-Rossitten Society was a German gliding organization, the first one in the world that was officially recognised...

including Wolf Hirth and other gliding pioneers. (see also Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft.) Over the next decade, this grew in importance to become an...

Walter Georgii. It was formed by the nationalisation of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) at Darmstadt.: 76  The DFS was involved in producing training...

Tfd›German: Der Untergang). Biography portal Germany portal Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft The Luftwaffe order differs in different sources: Beevor states...

into a state funded research organization. This started the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft and as a result, the Wasserkuppe now had a gliding school, workshops...

arrived at the Wasserkuppe and worked in the workshop of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft building sailplanes. He also learned to fly, and in 1926 won...

the Siebel Si 204. Also in 1933, the glider schools of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft were incorporated into the Hitlerjugend, while its construction...

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took an interest in gliding and saw the competitions of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft as an opportunity to advance in aeronautics. Kármán engaged Wolfgang...

Julius Hatry. In 1924 the local gliding school became part of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft, predecessor of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug...

growing reputation saw him appointed in 1925 to director of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG), a glider organisation including research groups and construction...

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competition was held in 1920, and from 1924 they were organised by Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft. Over the next decade, the contest grew in popularity. As many...

generally uncontrollable, the project was transitioned to the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG). The design was further evolved into the Lippisch Delta...

At this time Lippisch was leading the technical branch of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft. Shenstone spent the winter of 1930/1931 working with Lippish...

absorption of the Martens gliding school on the Wasserkuppe into Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) at the end of 1925. Martens chief instructor Fritz Stamer...

Professor Walter Georgii, an academic meteorologist and head of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG), began studies of thermals, previously assumed to be too...

Segelflug (DFS) at Darmstadt, after the closure of the RRG (Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft) on the Wasserkuppe in 1933. In 1936 there was more recognition...

("black devil" in Aachen dialect). Klemperer, competing at the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft gliding competition with this glider, scored a distance record...

Falcon, which was a British version of the RRG Falke, built by Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft and designed by Alexander Lippisch. In 1933, Slingsby started...

Professor Walter Georgii, an academic meteorologist and head of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) asked Alexander Lippisch to design a glider for meteorological...

record. Groenhoff was overall winner at the 1931 Rhön competition. He was killed in the Fafnir at the 1932 Rhön in another rudder related launching accident...

Répliques Avions Anciens) RRAA Mosquito 0.75 (RRG – Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft – Rhön-Rossitten Society) RRG Storch V (Ernő Rubik – father of the Rubik's...

still at school, he took to helping out in the workshops of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft gliding organisation during his summer vacations. He teamed up...

Storch V Role Powered glider Type of aircraft Manufacturer Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) Designer Alexander Lippisch First flight 1929 Number built...

into the forward fuselage line. The Fafnir 2 took part in the July 1934 Rhön competition on the Wasserkuppe, from where it set a new world distance record...

training glider Type of aircraft National origin Germany Manufacturer Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (RRG) Designer Alexander Lippisch First flight 1930...

Forschungsanstalt Für Segelflug) at Darmstadt, after the closure the RRG (Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft) at the Wasserkuppe in 1933. The Rhönsperber was not unlike his...

manufacturer Alexander Schleicher went to Hans Jacobs, then at the RRG (Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft) on the Wasserkuppe, to seek a design for a glider more advanced...

Yorkshire. The Falcon was constructed from plans supplied by the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft (the controlling body for gliding in Germany). Originally designed...