Wolf Lemke
Wolf Lemke is a designer of
DG Flugzeugbau GmbH
.
He was one of the student members of the
D-36 "Circe" in the period 1962 to 1964. This team also included Heiko Fries, Klaus Holighaus and Gerhard Waibel.[1]
While the members of the Akaflieg built the D-36 (V1), a common friend of the students – Walter Schneider – built a second D-36 (V2) in his shutters factory. Walter Schneider almost killed himself in it when he took a winch launch with a disconnected elevator but he parachuted to safety. Soon after the success of the D-36 Walter Schneider asked Wolf Lemke to design and build gliders professionally in his shutters factory – which then became a glider manufacturer as well.
His most significant design was the
Rolladen Schneider Flugzeugbau GmbH
.
Two LS 1 prototypes flew in the German Championships in 1968: Helmut Reichmann and Walter Schneider placed first and second out of 44 competitors in the Standard Class.[2] All gliders designed by Wolf Lemke to date have the designation LS (Lemke and Schneider), including the
Akaflieg Köln
.
References
- ^ a b Schwarz, Ernst. "Hessischer Luftsportbund e.V.: Nachruf für Walter Schneider". segelfliegen. http://hlb-info.de/presse/pdf/25-09-2007.pdf. Retrieved 30 Mar 2008.
- ISBN 3-87943-171-X