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Technical University of Darmstadt Akaflieg Darmstadt D-28 Windspiel
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Technical University of Darmstadt Akaflieg Darmstadt D-28 Windspiel

German single-seat glider, 1932

Overview

The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-28 Windspiel was a single-seat, high-performance sailplane designed in Germany in the early 1930s. Intended to exploit a growing understanding of thermal soaring, it was small and manoeuvrable, with a 12 m span; silk-covered for lightness, it weighed less (empty) than its pilots. It held the world straight-line distance record for a time in 1934.

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