Thank you very much for this video. I was stationed in Goeppingen in 1967-68 with some time in Nuremberg, Furth and a bit east. First time I ever saw a glider was a small one being hand launched from a hilltop near Hohenstaufen. A beautiful craft. I never knew the Go 4 was constructed in Goeppingen. While on R and R from VietNam my First flight in a glider not far from Sidney, Australia. Instructor was German and I believe was former Luftwaffe.
@8:30 a youngster begins a flight in a higher-performance (as opposed to an SG-38) glider, and really masters the knack of soaring on ridge lift. His buddies are impressed.
I knew an elderly physician whose brother had designed the first two seat glider. Richard was present in 1922 when it was preparing for its first flight and his brother was told to get in the back seat as a sign of confidence in what he had designed. The family was Jewish and another brother was a Captain for Lufthansa flying a few passengers back from Spain when the weather turned bad and they landed in a Swiss mountain meadow where the Captain told the proprietor of a chalet to put the passengers up for the night and bill Lufthansa. The next morning it was clear and they continued on to Germany.
They had the time of their life! How sad that they were all burned up in the war. Building motorized planes was forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. The only way to train pilots was by glider planes. That’s what we see in this video.
They didn't used thermal winds. The "Wasserkuppe" is a hill, so you have an upwind component there in the winds from any direction. At that time the glider planes were aerodynamically not good enough for anything else than "hang gliding".
If the pupil's first flight was solo, and if he had never been up with an instructor, then how could they be sure he wouldn't stall or spin? I know the very low wing loading must be part of the answer, but even so..?
It is a Göppingen Gö 4 glider, designed in the late '30s, side-by-side seating with dual controls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ppingen_G%C3%B6_4 www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Goppingen-Go-4-II/2398140/L
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Thank you very much for this video. I was stationed in Goeppingen in 1967-68 with some time in Nuremberg, Furth and a bit east. First time I ever saw a glider was a small one being hand launched from a hilltop near Hohenstaufen. A beautiful craft. I never knew the Go 4 was constructed in Goeppingen. While on R and R from VietNam my First flight in a glider not far from Sidney, Australia. Instructor was German and I believe was former Luftwaffe.
@8:30 a youngster begins a flight in a higher-performance (as opposed to an SG-38) glider, and really masters the knack of soaring on ridge lift. His buddies are impressed.
Amazing to see, thank you!
私も学生時代に長野県の霧ケ峰高原でプライマリーでの滑空の経験が有ります。5回目に最高高度直線滑空の科目で飛ばせてもらいました。50年前の記憶が甦りました。有り難う御座いました。 Bocianより
I knew an elderly physician whose brother had designed the first two seat glider. Richard was present in 1922 when it was preparing for its first flight and his brother was told to get in the back seat as a sign of confidence in what he had designed. The family was Jewish and another brother was a Captain for Lufthansa flying a few passengers back from Spain when the weather turned bad and they landed in a Swiss mountain meadow where the Captain told the proprietor of a chalet to put the passengers up for the night and bill Lufthansa.
The next morning it was clear and they continued on to Germany.
Glider school on outskirts of Bamberg Germany is pretty good if still open and in business.
They had the time of their life!
How sad that they were all burned up in the war. Building motorized planes was forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. The only way to train pilots was by glider planes. That’s what we see in this video.
How they ever managed to find updrafts/thermals without the instruments that we have nowadays to find them... wow!
They did so using the "magic" sensory power of their "Popometer" (Butt-Meter) - they just had to feel the upward draft with their backs.
They didn't used thermal winds. The "Wasserkuppe" is a hill, so you have an upwind component there in the winds from any direction. At that time the glider planes were aerodynamically not good enough for anything else than "hang gliding".
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If the pupil's first flight was solo, and if he had never been up with an instructor, then how could they be sure he wouldn't stall or spin? I know the very low wing loading must be part of the answer, but even so..?
What is the glider at @6:56?
Most likely a Grunau Baby
A Grunau Baby II, which was built over 6000 times by clubs or plants. It is still flowns today in few examples.
What glider is at 12:17 with side by side cockpit?
Slingsby T-21
@@ScaleSoarer You wished! At that time in England, they were still running down hills with brooms between their legs! ;-)
It is a Göppingen Gö 4 glider, designed in the late '30s, side-by-side seating with dual controls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ppingen_G%C3%B6_4
www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Goppingen-Go-4-II/2398140/L
@@ScaleSoarer No, a Göttingen 4, made by Schempp-Hirth near Stuttgart, South Germany. Double seater side - by -side.
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What a shame that the timecode and watermark ruin the image area.
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.
@@PeriscopeFilm Well explained - inhibitions accepted !
Great preparation for the Battle of Britain.
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