Rhön gliding competition

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The FVA-2 "Blue Mouse" at the Rhön gliding competition in 1921
Registration list for the Rhön 1920 in aviation
Willy Pelzner 1920 with his two-decker glider
A start of the vampire in the Rhön competition in 1922

The Rhön gliding competition was an annual air sport event on the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön from 1920 to 1939 . As part of this series of events, the participating aircraft designers, builders and pilots developed gliding into modern gliding .

Call for tenders and implementation

The initiative call for the first competition from July 15 to Aug 31, 1920 took place on March 24, 1920 in issue no. 6/7 of the magazine Flugsport by the Flugtechnischen Verein Dresden , which in 1920 led the Association of German Model and Gliding Clubs. The goals of the event were the “flawless, professional and comparable evaluation of gliding performance”, the “rational practice of gliding and studying gliding” and “solving the problem of gliding”. Oskar Ursinus was in charge of the organizational "management of the Rhön glider flight" at the first events .

The initiative was supported by the Reich Office for Aviation and Motor Vehicles , which also provided basic funding of 10,000  marks . Further donations from companies, associations and private individuals (e.g. Karl Kotzenberg ) covered the costs for the organization and the advertised prizes.

In 1920 prizes were announced for the longest flight route and the longest flight duration. The use of the glide angle or the lowest rate of descent should "be sought as a value indicator". A suitable assessment measure for gliding, the altitude reached above the place of departure, was not perfectly measurable in 1920. The time the sailor spent in the air without loss of altitude was therefore used as a measure.

In the following events, the advertised prices were further differentiated. They included e.g. B. “the longest flight time” on a flight, the longest total flight time for different flights, the “lowest mean fall speed”, the longest flight distance and prices available to the jury. In 1922, the aviation industry offered a special incentive with a high prize money of 100,000 marks for a 40-minute glider flight with return to the starting point and a subsequent 5 km cross-country flight in a straight line.

In August 1924, the Rhön-Rossitten-Gesellschaft was founded on the initiative of Oskar Ursinus and Karl Kotzenberg , which saw itself as a link between aviation and aeronautical research and development and, among other things, organized the Rhön competitions from 1925 to 1933. From 1934 the German Air Sports Association took over the competition and from 1938 the National Socialist Air Corps .

After the 20th Rhön competition in 1939, the Rhön competitions ended because of the Second World War . After the war, gliding was allowed again from 1951, but the area in the Rhön was no longer ideal for gliding because of its proximity to the inner-German border . In addition, there was the technical progress at take-off, which was possible anywhere with a winch or tow plane. The German gliding championships as the successor to the Rhön competitions were no longer tied to a specific location.

Achieved flight performance in the Rhön competitions

year description power plane draft pilot owner Remarks
1920 largest flight distance reached 1.83 km FVA-1 Kármán , Klemperer Klemperer FVA Introduction of the rubber rope start
1920 longest flight time 0:02:22 h FVA-1 Kármán, Klemperer Klemperer FVA
1920 largest flight distance achieved (glider weight-controlled) 500 m Pelzner two-decker Pelzner Pelzner Pilot school in Nuremberg
1921 largest total flight time Pelzner two-decker Pelzner Pelzner Pelzner
1921 longest flight time (on August 30, 1921, after the end of the competition) 0:13:03 h FVA-2 Klemperer Klemperer FVA
1921 largest flight distance achieved (on August 30, 1921, after the end of the competition) 5.0 km FVA-2 Klemperer Klemperer FVA
1921 longest flight time (on September 5, 1921, after the end of the competition) 0:15:40 h Vampire Madelung Martens Akaflieg Hanover Gliding endurance world record
1921 largest flight distance achieved (on September 5, 1921, after the end of the competition) 7.5 km Vampire Madelung Martens Akaflieg Hanover Glider flight world record
1922 Industry price (glider flight at the launch site followed by cross-country flight) 9.0 km, 1:06:00 h Vampire Madelung Martens Akaflieg Hanover
1922 Continuous flight 3:06:00 h Vampire Madelung Hentzen Akaflieg Hanover
1922 Soaring 350 m Vampire Madelung Hentzen Akaflieg Hanover
1923 Soaring 310 m S 14 Messerschmitt Hackmack
1924 Cross-country flight 12 km D-9 Consul Botsch , Spies Fox Akaflieg Darmstadt
1925 Remote glider price 21.0 km D-9 Consul Botsch, Spies Nehring Akaflieg Darmstadt
1926 Remote glider price 55.2 km DIY cone cone cone cone Thunderstorm flight
1927 Remote glider price 51.8 km D-17 Darmstadt people Nehring Akaflieg Darmstadt
1928 Continuous flight 7:54:00 h Rhöngeist Lippisch Kronfeld
1928 Remote glider price 71.2 km D-17 Darmstadt people Nehring Akaflieg Darmstadt
1928 Altitude record bonus 775 m Albert E. Dittmar
1929 Remote glider price 150 km Vienna Lippisch Kronfeld
1929 Long-term target flight price 10.1 km Lore Laubenthal Hirth Hirth
1930 Remote glider price 161 km Vienna Lippisch Kronfeld
1930 Long-term target flight price 14.5 km Vienna Lippisch Kronfeld
1931 1. Remote glider price 220 km Fafnir Lippisch Groenhoff
1931 2. Remote glider price 192 km Musterle Laubenthal Hirth
1932 Remote glider price 155 km Musterle Laubenthal Hirth
1932 Altitude research award 2185 m Pomerania Testaflieg eV Mayer Testaflieg eV
1933 1. Remote glider price 176 km Moazagotl Hirth Hirth Hornberg gliding school
1933 2. Remote glider price 164 km Fafnir Lippisch Riedel
1933 Long-distance flight Condor H. Dittmar Dittmar Dittmar
1934 Remote glider price over 300 km Sao Paulo Dittmar Dittmar
1934 Remote glider price over 300 km Moazagotl Hirth Hirth Hornberg gliding school
1935 Biggest score, furthest flight 502 km Rhön eagle Jacobs Oeltzschner Air sports regional group Dresden
1936 Biggest score, furthest flight 252 km Atalante disc Schmidt Schmidt
1937 Biggest Score 5954.5 pts. Mü 10 disc Karch / carpenter DVL
1938 Biggest Score 3855.9 pts. Heron i Jacobs Late DFS
1939 Biggest Score 2550 pts. Heron III Jacobs force DFS

Accidents

literature

  • Georg Brütting : History of the glider movement . In: Wolf Hirth (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Segelfliegens . 7th edition. Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Frank-Dieter Lemke, Rolf Jacob: Research - Build - Fly. The Academic Fliegergruppen (Akaflieg) in Germany until 1945. Part 1 . In: Flieger Revue extra . No. 29 . Möller Buch und Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH, 2010, ISSN  2195-1233 , p. 18-31 .
  • 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]).
  • Gerhard Wissmann: Adventure in wind and clouds. The history of gliding. Transpress, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00275-9 .

Web links

Commons : Rhön contests  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the glider movement , p. 12
  2. ↑ Aviation 1920 No. 6/7, March 24, 1920 , pp. 153, 154
  3. ↑ Aviation 1920 No. 9, April 28, 1920 , p. 200
  4. ↑ Aviation 1921 No. 3, February 2, 1921 , pp. 55-57
  5. ↑ Aviation 1922 No. 4, February 22, 1922 , p. 70
  6. ↑ Aviation 1934 No. 7, April 4, 1934 , p. 141
  7. ↑ Aviation 1938 No. 7, March 30, 1938 , p. 155
  8. ↑ Ludwig Bölkow (ed.): A century of airplanes: History and technology of flying . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-95775-8 , pp.  474-483 .
  9. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Klemperer, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 36 f. ( Digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Aviation 1927 No. 17, August 17, 1927 , p. 337
  11. ↑ Aviation 1928 No. 18, 29 August 1928 , p. 346
  12. ↑ Aviation 1928 No. 18, 29 August 1928 , p. 347
  13. ↑ Aviation 1928 No. 17, August 15, 1928 , p. 306
  14. ↑ a b Aviation 1929 No. 16, August 7, 1929 , p. 313
  15. ↑ a b Aviation 1930 No. 18, September 3, 1930 , p. 304
  16. ↑ a b Aviation 1931 No. 17, August 19, 1931 , p. 288
  17. ↑ a b Aviation 1932 No. 17, August 17, 1932 , p. 320
  18. ↑ a b c Aviation 1933 No. 18, August 30, 1933 , p. 390
  19. ↑ a b Aviation 1934 No. 17, August 22, 1934 , p. 380
  20. ↑ Aviation 1935 No. 16, August 7, 1935 , p. 351
  21. ↑ Aviation 1936 No. 18, September 2, 1936 , p. 427
  22. ↑ Aviation 1937 No. 17, August 18, 1937 , p. 459
  23. ↑ Aviation 1938 No. 17, August 17, 1938 , p. 445
  24. ↑ Aviation 1939 No. 17, August 16, 1939 , p. 427
  25. ↑ Aviation 1920 No. 16/17, August 11, 1920 , p. 366
  26. ↑ Aviation 1923 No. 14, September 12, 1923 , p. 132