A Quiz No prizes but no entry fees either! Who can identify these Finnish gliders These photographs were taken by lan Dunkley, mainly at the Finnish Aviation Museum. near the Helsinki- Vantaa International Airport. Risto Pykala has agreed to be the judge but maybe other Finnish members should not enter. 26
Work continuing at a great pace on the Reiher at the Wasserkuppe on 16 October 1998. The Oldtimerklub hope to have it completed by the International Rally at Aventoft this year! Taken from a Christmas Card to Ian Dunkley from Karl-Heinz Kellennan original Siemens-Halske SH 14 radial engine. Another Flamingo replica, which was built by the 01dtimer <strong>Club</strong> Wasserkuppe, has been flying for some time but, after the OSC Wasserkuppe's bad experience with an original Hirth engine installed in their replica Klemm 25, a Continental power unit was fitted. The OSV Munchen has recently created a workshop which is well equipped for restoring historical aircraft. They have a qualified inspector/ workshop foreman and a licenced welder and the OSV has 25 members. A further 5 gliders are awaiting restoration and among them are a 1942 MEISE and a Ka-6 CR. Among the gliders is an airworthy T.2Ib. The OSVM hopes to proudly demonstrate these historic aircraft at Air Displays. The above has been extracted from Aerokurier December 1998. The MUNICH AREA has another Old Glider Restoration Operation. This is on the airfield of Oberschleissheim. This is apart from the Flugwerft Oberschleissheim exhibition for the German Museum in Munich. It is also restoring aeroplanes and gliders, one of which is the sensational 1944 built HORTEN 4A, LA-AD, which could well be finished and on static exhibit;on by the time that this is in print. The Wasserkuppe Because Germany has now a Green/Socialist Coalition Government, the situation may become more sympathetic for gliding on the Wasserkuppe as the RhOn is a Nature Protection Zone. We feel that Nature and gliding could co-exist, especially if quieter tow planes could be used. As the military are leaving Ihe summit for the first time since 1945, we feel that a great new era for the mountain, where gliding began, may be dawning. On Page 39 of <strong>VGC</strong> <strong>News</strong> No.95, there was news concerning the Deutsches Technikmuseum. Berlin, Herr Steinle, the Chief Curator, is trying to create a museum of at least equal stature to the old Berlin Museum which was bombed during the war. Among the exhibits of the old museum were the 12 engi ned Dornier X, a Spitfire, the ME 209 and the FAFNIR sailplane. The museum's address is: Trebbiner strasse 9, D-10963 Berlin, Germany. Tel: 030-2-54840.. Admission is: Tuesday - Friday 0900-1730. Saturday and Sunday 1000-1800 hrs. Location is in the City Centre just South of the Tiergarten. (Information from Aircraft Museums and Collections of the World. 3:Benelux, Germany and the Nordic Countries by Bob Odgen.) Allied bombing destroyed many museums in Berlin during World War 2. These included the Museum for Traffic and Construction, which opened in 1906 and the Deutsche Luftfahrt Samlung (German Air Travel Collection) which was established in the mid I930s and eventually had over 100 aircraft on show. At the D.T.M. is a superb model of the D.LS. with its display dominated bya Domier X flying boat. At the end of the conflict, a group of enthusiasts in the then West Berlin started obtaining items for a Transport and Technical Museum. The collection opened to ,the public in 1983, but lack of space meant that few of the aircraft in the collection could be displayed. Some of the former D.L.S.'s aircraft were discovered in Poland in 1945. (They had been evacuated CW) and most are now in the Museum at Krakow. Cooperation between the two countries resulted ,in a 1913 Jeanin S'tahltaube and a 1917 Albatross B 11 a being restored in the 1980s. The former remained in Germany and Ithe latter returned to Poland. Hopefully, more of the historic Gennan aircmft stored at Krakow may return hOlne in the future. Gliders in Krakow include Weihe, Meise, Mu 13D, Rheinland, 2 Zuraws (Kranich 2B-2 s), Motorbaby, lilienthal, part of a Horten 2, RhOnsperber, S0.38.. The above Museum has at present Horten 2, Horten 3f, Horten 3h and Horten 6 on loan to be restored, from the ,Smithsonian in the USA. The Ho 6 27
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