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Egon Scheibe (born September 28, 1908 , † September 26, 1997 ) was a German entrepreneur and aircraft designer.

Life

He attended high school and studied aircraft construction at the TH Munich . After graduating in 1933, he worked for the glider organization in Bavaria until 1935; from 1935 to 1937 he was flight construction supervisor at the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL). In 1937 Egon Scheibe passed the master flight engineer examination. From 1938 until the end of World War II he worked in aircraft development.

After the war, he bought a barrack in the former Telefunken factory on Theodor-Heuss-Straße in Dachau, where gliders were built from 1951 onwards.

He ran the company until his death; his gravestone in the Dachau forest cemetery is decorated with an airplane.

Services

In the 1930s he was active in the young group of Akaflieg Munich and founded the so-called Munich School , which had a lasting influence on glider construction.

After the re-licensing of gliding in 1951, he founded the company Scheibe-Flugzeugbau in Dachau. Here he developed and produced gliders and motor gliders until the late 1990s, starting with the “Scheibe Bergfalke” model series.

Works

Mü 10 "Milan"

The two-seater glider was designed by Egon Scheibe and completed under his supervision. The aircraft, which was structurally trend-setting, received the Rhön Construction Prize in 1934.

Mü 13 "Merlin"

The construction by Egon Scheibe with the participation of Kurt Schmidt had taken over the tubular steel fuselage and tail unit arrangement from the Mü 10 . The single-seater was one of the best performance gliders before World War II with a glide ratio of 28. Kurt Schmidt achieved overall victory in the 1936 Rhön competition with the Mü 13 "Atalante" .

Mü 13 E "Mountain Falcon"

With this construction, the successful Bergfalken series and commercial aircraft construction began in 1951 in the newly founded company Scheibe-Flugzeugbau .

Slice of sparrows family

With the "Spatzen", Scheibe provided the clubs with a robust and inexpensive single-seater performance aircraft that is still flown by classic car enthusiasts today. With the SF24 “Motorspatz” variant, he made a significant contribution to the success of the emerging motor glider movement.

Motorhawks

With the SF 25 series, Scheibe created the most successful light aircraft in Europe. It should not be missing on any airfield and, in addition to its original design as a touring motor glider, is used as a tow plane, for training and for overland briefing. Despite the emerging plastic motor gliders, these of the SF25 could never dispute their role as robust "workhorses" in the clubs. The exact number is not known, but over 1500 "motor falcons" must have been built.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Brandt: A life for aviation. merkur-online.de, September 26, 2008, accessed on July 30, 2016 : "A life for aviation."
  2. ↑ Mü 10 "Milan" (1934). In: Old Projects. Akaflieg Munich e. V., accessed on September 3, 2019 : “The 'Milan' is the first aircraft in which a tubular steel fuselage was successfully used. It establishes the so-called 'Munich School'. "
  3. ↑ Mü 10 Milan. Deutsches Museum, accessed on August 14, 2016 : "The Milan was created under the construction management of Egon Scheibe as a single piece and had some remarkable technical features,"
  4. ↑ Disk Mü 13 E Bergfalke. Deutsches Museum, accessed on August 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Disk, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1908
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1997