Rhine west flight

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The Rhein-West flight Fischer & Co. (RWF) was a German aircraft company that in 1954 in Cologne Westhoven of Hanno Fischer and Bernhard was founded Schulze-Wilmert. Rhein-Westflug operated aircraft developments and marketed license rights for series production until the end of the 1950s.

Development office

Hanno Fischer and Bernhard Schulze-Wilmert had already worked together on the marketing of the Fischer-Boretzki FiBo 2 . In 1954, when the motor flight ban in Germany was loosened for the first time, Hanno Fischer began developing a larger motor glider for two people. Instead of FiBo 2, Fischer and Schulze-Wilmert intended to market this design, called RWF RW-3 , as soon as the motor flight ban in Germany was to be lifted. In 1954, the two founded Rhein-West-Flug Fischer & Co. (RWF) in Westhoven (Cologne) to develop and market their designs .

As part of the RWF, aircraft designs should be implemented up to series production including the construction of prototypes. The finished and tested developments should then be passed on to other aircraft construction companies as part of a license for series production. A separate series production was not planned at RWF.

activities

RWF designed the RWF RW-3 in 1954. The prototype construction began after the motor flight ban was lifted in July 1955. Since RWF did not have its own workshops, construction was carried out at Gomolzig Flugzeugbau in Wuppertal. After irreparable accident damage to the first prototype, RWF later ordered a second prototype from Gomolzig. After the successful first flight on September 7, 1955, RWF presented the prototype at various aviation events in order to offer the design to potential licensees for series production. Fischer and Schulze-Wilmert secured their development in various patents (including patent number DE1034037B, "Motorplane with T-tail" from September 5, 1956) before it was marketed in 1956. In autumn 1956, Krefeld-based Rhein-Flugzeugbau GmbH acquired the license rights from RWF for the construction and marketing of 25 RW-3s. Under the license agreement, RWF undertook to acquire the German and American traffic approval for the aircraft type.

The technical verification for the RW-3 took place from the spring of 1957 at Cologne-Wahn Airport , where RWF had meanwhile rented an indoor space. The RWF was renamed Rhein-West-Flug Porz-Wahn at the same time . The documentation for the type certification in Germany and the USA was completed in 1958. On August 20, 1959, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Aviation Office) issued type certification 509 / SA for the RW-3. RWF acted as sample holder. On November 7, 1960, the FAA type certification followed, which was no longer held by RWF, but by the licensee RFB.

From 1958, RWF supported the establishment of series assembly at RFB. While the parts were manufactured and pre - assembled for the RW-3 at the RFB plant in Krefeld , the main groups were assembled at Mönchengladbach-Neersen airfield from 1958 . This is also where the aircraft produced were entered. In order to incorporate the experience from series assembly as directly as possible into the development, Hanno Fischer also relocated the RWF headquarters to the airfield in Mönchengladbach and traded there as Rhein-Westflug Fischer & Co. in Neuwerk.

At the end of the fifties, RFB began to consider building a STOL touring aircraft, which Hanno Fischer considered from the developmental aspect at RWF. At the same time, Hanno Fischer took over the technical management at RFB and continued this development work under the name RFB RF-1 within RFB. No further aircraft types were developed by Hanno Fischer at RWF. RWF continued to exist for some time as a licensor and sample holder and was dissolved in the early 1960s.

Patents

  • Motorized airplane with T-tail , DE1034037B from September 5, 1956
  • Process for the production of aircraft wings and tail surfaces , DE1059770 of January 23, 1957
  • Airplane with a propeller in a ring jacket , DE1096761 from October 16, 1958 (granted to RFB)

Aircraft types

  • RWF RW-3 , two-seater light aircraft from Rhein-Westflug, license production at RFB

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exhibitions. Poller Heimatmuseum, accessed on May 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ostheim Air Base. In: koelner-luftfahrt.de. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Interview recording with Hanno Fischer, June 2016
  4. ^ Federal Aviation Office: Device identification sheet RW-3 of the Rhein-West-Flug. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Google patent search: RWF patent DE1034037B. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ FreePatentsOnline: RWF patent DE1059770. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Google patent search: RWF / RFB-Patent DE1096761. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .