RRG Professor
| RRG Professor | |
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| Type: | Glider |
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1928 |
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The professor was a single-seat glider that was designed by Alexander Lippisch for the Rhön-Rossitten-Gesellschaft (RRG).
construction
With a deliberately simple design, a high-wing aircraft supported by V-shaped struts with a three-part wing with a span of 16 meters was created. The fuselage with a hexagonal cross-section had a normal tail unit.
use
On August 8, 1928, Robert Kronfeld won the 1928 Rhön gliding competition on Rhöngeist , the professor's prototype, with 7 hours 54 minutes, the endurance price.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | 1 |
| length | 7.00 m |
| span | 16.10 m |
| height | |
| Wing area | 18.60 m² |
| Wing loading | 13.0 kg / m² |
| Wing extension | 14th |
| Wing profile | Gö 549 |
| Glide ratio | |
| Slightest sinking | |
| Payload | |
| Preparation mass | |
| Flight mass | 246 kg |
| Top speed |
See also
literature
- Flugsport - illustrated aviation magazine for the entire flight being . In: Carl Oskar Ursinus (Ed.): Flugsport . Verlag für Flugsport, Frankfurt am Main 1920 ( Flugsport in the luftfahrt-bibliothek.de [accessed on March 5, 2020]).
Web links
- Professor in the glider database J2mcL Planeurs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Georg Brütting : The most famous gliders . 1st edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1970, p. 32 f .
- ↑ Aviation 1928 No. 18, 29 August 1928 , p. 346
- ^ Günter Brinkmann, Hans Zacher: The evolution of the gliders . 2nd Edition. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-6119-5 , pp. 58 .