Aero Club Bamberg

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The Aero-Club Bamberg eV is an aviation club in the Upper Franconian city ​​of Bamberg . More than 150 club members fly in the Aero Club Bamberg in the areas of gliding , powered flight , motor glider and model flight . The club's home airfield is Bamberg-Breitenau airfield , which it operates as an operational operator in cooperation with the Bamberg public utility company. In addition to eight gliders, four motorized airplanes and one motorized glider, which are owned by the association, numerous gliders, motorized airplanes and motorized gliders from private owners and owner associations as well as a Cessna Citation and two helicopters from Brose are stationed here. The Aero-Club Bamberg flies in the German soaring league .

history

The Aero Club Bamberg was founded on June 8, 1949 under the code name Wanderclub Friesener Warte . The purpose of the association was to build gliders and a take-off winch behind closed doors and to do model flight. The club was renamed Aero-Club Bamberg shortly after gliding was legalized in 1951. After motorized flight was re-approved in Germany in 1955, the Aero-Club Bamberg acquired a Comte AC-4 and opened its motorized flight division. In 1983 the Aero Club Bamberg founded the club's own ultra-light division, which existed until 2019. In 1996 the Aero-Club Bamberg hosted the 55th German Glider Pilot Day , at which glider pilots from all over Germany gathered in the Bamberg Concert and Congress Hall to hear specialist lectures and gain knowledge of the latest research results in aerodynamics , flight navigation , aviation law and meteorology and their practical aspects Can be used in long-distance gliding. Manufacturers also presented technical innovations in aircraft construction and flight instrumentation . From July 28 to 31, 2011, the Open German Helicopter Championship was held by the Aero Club Bamberg. Since the US Army withdrew from Bamberg in 2012 , the Aero Club Bamberg has been operating the Bamberg-Breitenau airfield together with the Bamberg public utility.

successes

The first sporting success of the Aero Club Bamberg was recorded in 1955, when Albert Otto, Franz Dioszeghy, Adolf Haaß, Joseph Hofmann and Jean Weghorn completed the first long-distance gliding flights with a distance of more than 50 km in the history of the Breitenau and signed up for the FAI Achievement badge qualified in silver. They flew with a B-Spatz , a Mü 13 E and a Grunau Baby IIIb from Bamberg to Uffenheim , Haßlach , Edelsfeld , Bindlach and Nuremberg , respectively . In 1961 Rudolf Weigmann and Herman Welzel won on the club's Comte AC-4 in Germany flight to Burda Award of the air, a Piper J-3C . This aircraft became the basis of the club's own powered flight school. Only two years later, in 1963, Jürgen Eichelsdörfer flew the first long-distance glider with a distance of more than 300 km in the history of the Breitenau, thereby fulfilling one of the conditions for the FAI badge in gold. He flew with an L-Spatz 55 from Bamberg to Freiburg im Breisgau . In April 1981, Hans Jürgen Schmacht flew the largest FAI triangle with a flight distance of 841 km that had ever been flown in gliding in Germany at such an early stage in the year. In 1981, 1983 and 1985 he was Bavarian glider master and 1987 Bavarian runner-up in the 15-meter class . In 2012, the Aero-Club Bamberg was promoted to the German soaring league, in which it achieved fourth place in 2015, the best result in the club's history. In the summer of 2018 , the Bamberg glider pilot Maximilian Dorsch won the German junior gliding championship in the club class . In 2019, he and the German team won the team championship at the junior gliding world championship in the club class in Szeged, Hungary . In the individual ranking he reached the third place of the best glider pilots in the club class under 25 years worldwide.

Flight school

The Aero-Club Bamberg operates its own flight school ( ATO ) and trains glider, powered aircraft and powered glider pilots.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the association | Aero Club Bamberg. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bamberg-Breitenau special landing site. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Airplanes | Aero Club Bamberg. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bundesliga | Aero Club Bamberg. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Chronicle | Aero Club Bamberg. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Chronicle | Aero Club Bamberg. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Chronicle | Aero Club Bamberg. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Segelflugszene gGmbH: Bundesliga table 2015. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Dorsch wins the title. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ 2019 World Championships Juniors - Gliding Team Germany. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ What suits me? Accessed January 21, 2020 .