Hans Jacobs
Hans Jacobs | |
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| Born | 30 April 1907 |
| Died | 24 October 1994 |
Hans Jacobs (30 April 1907 in
The DFS Olympia Meise was selected in 1939 as the glider for the 1940 Summer Olympics, but the games were cancelled. The design was taken up after the war and produced in large numbers in the UK by Elliotts of Newbury, in France by Nord Aviation, in the Netherlands and in Switzerland.[4]
When the prohibition on German aviation under the Allied occupation ended in 1951, Jacobs designed and marketed a significantly different, updated version of the Kranich.[5]
In 1932 Jacobs authored a seminal work on sailplane design, Werkstattpraxis für den Bau von Gleit- und Segelflugzeugen ("Workshop Practice for the Construction of Gliders and Sailplanes"). Updated in several editions, this "became and remains the standard work" on the construction of wooden gliders.[6] In July 2016 the Vintage Sailplane Association published an English translation of this work.
Jacob's glider designs
From Sailplanes 1920-1945[7]
- Hols der Teufel (1928-9)
- Poppenhausen (1929)
- Rhönadler(1932)
- Rhönbussard (1933)
- Rhönsperber (1935)
- Kranich (1935)
- Sperber Senior (1936)
- Sperber Junior (1936)
- Habicht (1936)
- Seeadler (1936)
- Reiher (1937)
- DFS 230 (1937)[citation needed]
- Weihe (1938)
- Meise (Olympia)(1939)
- DFS 331 (1942)[citation needed]
- Kranich 3 (1952)[5]
References
- ^ "Pioniere des Segelfluges: Hans Jacobs". Segelflugmuseum.de. 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ISBN 3-9806773-4-6.
- ISBN 1853672629
- ^ Simons (2006). Sailplanes 1920-1945. pp. 128–130.
- ^ ISBN 0-7110-1152-4.
- ^ Simons (2006). Sailplanes 1920-1945. p. 130.
- ^ Simons (2006). "Chapter 10". Sailplanes 1920-1945.
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