HB flight technology
| HB flight technology | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1988 |
| Seat | Ansfelden , Upper Austria |
| management | Eva Brditschka (managing director) |
| Branch | Aeronautical engineering |
| Website | www.hb-flugtechnik.at |
The HB-flight technology (formerly HB Brditschka ) is a developer, manufacturer and maintenance company for light aircraft based in Ansfelden (district Haid), Upper Austria .
Today the company specializes in the inspection and maintenance of light aircraft. She is the type supervisor for all HB aircraft and makes kits for self-construction. She is also the owner of the Hofkirchen airfield , where she runs a flight school for glider pilots and private pilots .
The HB-3 formed the basis for the world's first manned electric aircraft .
Company history
The origins of the company can be found in HB Brditschka GmbH , which specialized in the manufacture of jewelry : In the 1960s, Heinz W. Brditschka began to make some of the Raab Krähe himself. In addition, he manufactured individual parts for other amateur builders in the family business. From 1967 to 1969 he and his son Heino Brditschka further developed the crow to the HB-3 . After he had completed his engineering training, he became head of the newly established aircraft construction department in 1970. The following year, development began on the HB-21 , which went into series production four years later.
In 1973, in collaboration with model maker Fred Militky, the world's first man-carrying electric aircraft was created: an HB-3 was equipped with an electric motor and nickel-cadmium batteries . The first flight of the aircraft designated as MB-E1 on October 21, 1973 was still listed in the Guinness Book of Records many years later . The aircraft has been presented in the Graz-Thalerhof Flight Museum since 2017 - supplemented but restored but not airworthy.
In 1977 the Hofkirchen airfield was built and put into operation as a works airfield .
In 1981 an HB-21/2400 and a Schleicher K 8 - according to the company - carried out the first aircraft tow with a motor glider as a tow plane . In fact, the HB-21 was already approved for towing in Austria in 1983 - 15 years before the Samburo in Germany. In the same year development of the HB-23 began .
1986 began the development work on the HB-202 . In addition, HB-Aircraft AG was founded for the purpose of outsourcing the serial production of the HB-23 , while the aircraft construction department of the family company itself primarily served as a maintenance, repair and development company. The latter was split up in 1988: From now on, jewelry production was carried out by HB-Brditschka GmbH & Co KG , which still produces jewelry today (2015) under the brand name Lorena . The aircraft construction department became HB-Flugtechnik GmbH under the direction of Heino Brditschka . The HB-Aircraft AG was closed a short time later for economic reasons.
In the 1990s, the company initially concentrated on the repair and maintenance business and developed the HB-207, the first low-wing aircraft in the company's history, the series production of which began in 1996 as a kit. The HB-208 followed later , which is also available as a kit. In the 2000s, the airfield and the company building were expanded, and in 2008 the company was certified according to EASA guidelines.
Trivia
The HB-23 is known to a broad population as Radio OÖ ORF Überflieger . On behalf of ORF and the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor , he has been taking off every morning from Hofkirchen airfield since 1999 to monitor the traffic situation in the central area and to deliver information to the broadcasts of ORF Upper Austria and Ö3.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Chronicle. (No longer available online.) In: hb-flugtechnik.at. HB-Flugtechnik, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Imprint. (No longer available online.) In: hb-flugtechnik.at. HB-Flugtechnik, archived from the original on February 8, 2012 ; Retrieved January 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ HB flight school. (No longer available online.) In: hb-flugtechnik.at. HB-Flugtechnik, archived from the original on February 8, 2012 ; Retrieved January 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Ron Moulton: An electric airplane . In: Flight International . Volume 104, No. 3378 . IPC Transport Press, London December 6, 1973, p. 946 ( available online (PDF) [accessed January 19, 2012]).
- ^ Pierluigi Duranti, FAI : Electrical and Sun Powered Gliders: Do They Require a Definition of New FAI Classes? Presented at the XXV OSTIV Congress, St. Auban, France. In: Technical Soaring . Volume XXII, No. 3 , 1998, ISSN 0744-8996 , p. 66-73 .
- ^ The Guinness Book of Records 1994 . Bantam, 1994, ISBN 978-0-553-56561-4 , pp. 328 .
- ↑ Franz Zussner: Photo report from the second rollout of the world's first electric aircraft austrianwings.info, October 27, 2017 accessed November 12, 2017.
- ↑ European manufacturers exhibit at Aero 83 . In: Flight International . Volume 123, No. 3849 . IPC Transport Press, February 12, 1983, ISSN 0015-3710 , p. 451 ( available online (PDF) [accessed January 23, 2012]).
- ↑ How it all started ... In: samburo.com. M&D Flugzeugbau, accessed on January 23, 2012 : "At the beginning of 1998 the Samburo was the first German motor glider in Germany to be approved by the LBA for towing gliders."
- ↑ Imprint. In: lorena.at. Retrieved January 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
