Alfred Vogt (designer)

Alfred Vogt (born August 12, 1917 in Lundenburg ; † May 12, 2002 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) was a German designer of gliders .

Professional background

Vogt passed his engineering examination at the Brno University of Technology in 1940 . From 1955 he worked alternately at Schempp-Hirth (Kirchheim), Binder-Aviatik (Donaueschingen) and Wagner-Helikopter (Friedrichshafen). He also worked as a freelancer to deal with the motorization of gliders.

Lo-100, D-0546 "Alfred Vogt"

Constructions

The brothers Lothar and Alfred Vogt developed and built the Lo 105 in the Sudetenland from 1935 (first flight in 1936, the airfield of the Brno glider group). The type abbreviation "Lo" is intended to remember brother Lothar, who died of pneumonia in September 1938, the type number "105" stands for the span (105 dm / 10.5 m). After the war, Alfred Vogt developed the Lo 100 "dwarf heron" from the lost prototype - the prototype was completed in 1952 in Peißenberg (Upper Bavaria). On this basis, the flap airplane Lo 150 was developed by extending the wing . From around 1960, the performance glider Lo 170 was built with a 17 m wingspan in a composite construction.

literature

• Dietmar Geistmann: The gliders in Germany. ISBN 3-87943-618-5 .
• Georg Brütting: The most famous gliders. ISBN 3-613-02296-6 .
• Martin Simons: Gliders. Volume 2: 1945-1965. EQIP, Königswinter near Bonn.
• Peter Mallinson, Mike Wollard: Manual of glider aerobatics. EQIP, Königswinter near Bonn.
• Eric Müller: Upside Down The fascination and technology of aerobatics. ISBN 3-517-01212-2 .
• H.-J. Fischer: types of aircraft. Volume 1: Gliders. 1. Modellsport, Baden-Baden, ISBN 3-923142-00-5 .

Web links

• Alfred Vogt, memories of the development of the Lo-100
• The website of the Lo-100 D-0546 "Alfred Vogt"