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Jelmer Wassenaar, DG's head of Engineering and member of Team Netherlands, reached the podium during the National Championships in Terlet/Netherlands. He placed 3rd with his LS10 in 18m Class. Pilots on LS8 have been quite successfull as well! Robbie Seton and Sjoerd van Empelen placed 2nd and 3rd in "Combi-Class". Tjeerd Reitsma unfortunately missed the podium with his 4th place. Jeroen van...

Congratulations to Simon and Robert Schroeder for their double victory in Standard Class during the Hahnweide Competition 2017! After the second out of six competition days, they flew to the ranking's top and were able to maintain their position till the very end. Simon performed a great flight and was able to overtake his father on the last day. This secured the winner's trophy for Simon. We...

Many pilots regard the famous annual gliding contest in Klix as a kind of class reunion. Most participants have traveled there for many years and take advantage of the competition as kick-off for a new soaring season. Unfortunately this year the weather gods did not support the event. Very difficult conditions allowed for only one contest day. We are all the more pleased that Andreas...

1.5 Months of Soaring in the Club Class… …and pleasantly surprised! I have to admit that after an intense year of flying the „OLC“, a Discus2ct, I was a bit skeptical about switching to a club class glider. But after ten flights and some 40 hours in the cockpit of DG Flugzeugbau’s LS1-f Neo my skepticism was finally blown away by the joy of flying this wonderful ship. With their modified LS1,...

Congratulations to Przemyslaw Bartczak for winning the 15m class FCC Gliding Competitin in Prividza on his LS8-neo! He recently upgraded his glider with our new neo-winglets. With this victory the retrofit was a full success! Miroslav Cink became third with an LS8. All the best to the Pilots and many happy landings in...