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The DG-1001’s electrically operated landing gear
Here comes a small video to describe operation of the DG-1001's electrically operated landing gear.
AK-X Flying Wing first introduced at the AERO
The Akaflieg Karlsruhe’s project AK-X which is supported by DG Flugzeugbau and DG Composites was now first introduced to a broad audience at the Aero 2017 in Friedrichshafen. Visitors were invited to marvel at the fuselage’s mockup and the unique glider’s failure-test wing on display. Last year DG had milled all full-size molds needed to fabricate the “fuselage” and the wings. In addition to...
Congratulations to Simon Schroeder
Simon Schroeder is the proud winner of Pribina Cup 2017 (Nitra) with his LS8-neo in 15m class! Dennis Huybreckx and Jeroen Jennen became second and third, also flying with LS8. In total, the first 5 ranks are covered with pilots on LS8! We wish all pilots a great season 2017 and many successfull flights! ...
Innovation – Emergency Bailout Aid “NOAH”
The World Gliding Championships in Benalla/Australia showed how important an emergency bail-out is during a crash. Michael Eisele shares his thoughts after this crash. Additionally we'd like to remind pilots about the NOAH-System. Therefore we modified our article about the NOAH....
Aero 2017 – Review
The Aero 2017 has gone into the books and we would like to thank all our visitors who stopped by at the DG booth! For the first time ever, glider products were shown in hall B5; a setting that before the event many exhibitors had been skeptical about. Especially glider pilots had gotten used to find their favorite brands in hall A1. However the new location was very well visited and our booth...
