DFS hawk

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DFS hawk
DFS Habicht E D-1901 (Christoph Zahn)
Type: Glider
Design country:

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire

Manufacturer:

DFS

First flight:

1936

Production time:

1936-1945

Number of pieces:

~ 70

The DFS Habicht was designed in 1936 by Hans Jacobs as a fully aerobatic glider .

history

Hans Jacobs designed the aircraft and the German Research Institute for Gliding carried out the most important calculations. Just in time for the 1936 Summer Olympics , four copies of the wooden single-seater were completed. Above and sometimes even in the Olympiastadion Berlin , the hawk cast a spell over the audience during aerobatics.

Use until 1945

DFS Habicht, 1938 Kassel-Waldau major flight day with Hanna Reitsch and flight captain Knoetsch

Hanna Reitsch was also enthusiastic about the flight characteristics of the Habicht . B. 1937 at the IV. International Zurich Flight Meeting and in July 1939 in Brussels entertained the audience. In 1939, the French test and aerobatic pilot Marcel Doret won the first world championship in gliding aerobatics with a hawk, which he had already shown at Flugtage in 1938.

During the Second World War in Germany a. a. Versions of the hawk with reduced wingspan are used to train future pilots of the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 interceptor .

After the Second World War

Few hawks survived the Second World War.

In September 1947, Göppingen glider pilots acquired various brand-new gliders from the Reich Sailing School Teck in Nabern - including a hawk . After the re-authorization of civil flight operations in Germany, the Habicht was christened with the registration number D-8002 in 1952 and used for aerobatic training and flight days. On January 12, 1963, an aircraft hangar in Innsbruck collapsed under the snow load and destroyed the Göppinger Habicht parked there .

Technical specifications

Parameter Data D-8002
crew 1
length 6.58 m
span 13.60 m
Wing area 15.82 m²
Glide ratio 21st
Preparation mass 235 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 350 kg
Top speed 250 km / h

Received aircraft

Original planes

The only original preserved hawk , Marcel Douret's airplane, is on display in the Aviation Museum in Paris .

Replicas

DFS Habicht E D-1901 (Christoph Zahn)

After extensive research, the drawings, some of which had been lost, were collected by Josef Kurz and others and a copy was built by the Wasserkuppe classic glider club in 1987. After a longer exhibition period, the DFS Habicht D-8002 (with the historical registration number of the Habicht mentioned above) is back in the club's aircraft fleet.

Another airworthy goshawk (D-1901) was copied by the Zahn family and successfully completed its maiden flight in 2001. Meanwhile, a third new Habicht building (D-6868) is flying at the aviation club Vaihingen / Enz.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : DFS Habicht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Simons: Sailplanes 1920–1945 , pages 233 ff. ( Googlebooks online ), accessed on October 14, 2019 (English)
  2. ^ Zurich International. (PDF) The End of a Great Flying Week. In: Flight, August 5, 1937. Flightglobal.com , August 5, 1937, pp. 142-143 , accessed on January 3, 2018 (English): “Her last dive took her down to a steep turn at no altitude over the parked Furies . "
  3. ↑ Presenting the prototypes. (PDF) Mid-show demonstrations at Brussel. In: Flight, July 27, 1939. Flightglobal.com , July 27, 1939, p. 81 , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English): "Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch in her special Habicht sailplane"
  4. ^ The Gatwick Display. (PDF) Accent on Aerobatic. In: Flight, June 30, 1938. Flightglobal.com , June 30, 1938, pp. 644–645 , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English): "[...] Marcel Doret's gull-winged sailplane [...]"
  5. ↑ a b Planeur DFS «HABICHT». In: Collections. Musée de l'air et de l'espace , accessed on January 3, 2018 (French): “L'appareil exposé est celui du pilote français de haute école Marcel Doret, qui remporta avec lui la coupe du monde d'acrobatie pour planeurs en 1939. "
  6. ^ A. Mirsky: Glider Training for Fighter Pilots. (PDF) German Wartime Experiments: Initial Instruction on Towed Aircraft. In: Flight, August 8th. Flightglobal.com , August 8, 1946, pp. 131-133 , accessed January 4, 2018 .
  7. ^ FG Göppingen (1929-1959). In: history. AeroClub Göppingen-Salach eV, July 2, 2014, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ FG Göppingen (1960-2001). In: history. AeroClub Göppingen-Salach eV, July 2, 2014, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b DFS Habicht. In: Airplanes. Rhönflug Oldtimer Segelflugclub Wasserkuppe, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2018 .