Aviation Technical Association Dresden

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The Flugtechnische Verein Dresden ( FVD ) was a German glider manufacturer from which Akaflieg Dresden was founded in 1924 .

FVD Stand Up (1922)

history

The association was founded in 1919 or 1920 at the Technical University in Dresden by students who were enthusiastic about flying. After Wolfgang Klemperer from Dresden called for the first Rhön competition in the aviation sport on behalf of the FVD , the Dresden Aviation Technology Association provided the necessary personnel for the event.

In the following year, the FVD took part in the competition with an in -house construction designed by Horst Muttray, Reinhold Seifert and Rudolf Spies . Professor Pöppl provided work rooms and a workshop for the construction at the TH. The double-decker configuration was chosen for reasons of strength and for rail transport, which allowed the maximum dimension of the cargo to be 4.20 m. The first flight took place on August 23, 1921 on the Wasserkuppe . The three designers were 1500 Mark awarded prize money and the engineers obtained the qualification for the glider passes number 13, 14 and 15, your rock-solid aircraft was given the nickname Stehaufchen and pork belly .

For the 3rd Rhön competition in 1922, Horst Muttray and Reinhold Seifert designed the shoulder- wing FVD Doris with wing control, which, however, was broken during the technical inspection. Stehaufchen won first prize for flight duration and a second for a distance of 2.7 kilometers.

The FVD Falke was developed for the next competition in 1923 . With a wingspan of 10.6 meters, it was between the first two aircraft. However, the three FVD machines broke during the acceptance flight.

The club had its own airfield near Geising in the Ore Mountains . On April 14, 1924, members of the FVD founded the Academic Aviation Group Dresden ("Akaflieg Dresden"). Akaflieg named their designs with DB for “Dresdner Baumuster” and began in 1924 with the number 4, whereby the FVD constructions were symbolically included in the Akaflieg numbering.

Drafts of gliders

FVD stand-up (Rhön, 1922)
  • FVD Stehaufchen , 1921 - double-decker with 8 and 9 (1922) meters span, glide ratio 8.
  • FVD Doris , 1922 - monoplane with 12.2 meters wingspan, glide ratio 14.6.
  • FVD Falke , 1923 - monoplane with a wingspan of 10.6 meters.

literature

  • Karlheinz Kens: Historic German aircraft until 1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-923142-39-2 , pp. 58-67 .
  • Frank-Dieter Lemke, Rolf Jacob: Dresden: After dissolution, the first 500 km flight . In: Research - Build - Fly. The Academic Fliegergruppen in Germany until 1945. Part 1. In: Flieger Revue Extra . No. 29 . Möller, March 2010, ISSN  0941-889X , p. 57-59 .

Web links

Commons : FVD Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Also abbreviated to FVD.
  2. ↑ German gliders. Flightglobal.com, September 21, 1922, accessed July 1, 2016 .