VGC News/Newsletters - Lakes Gliding Club

and one other must return to the Smithsonianeventually. At
Tempelhof A,irport, the Berlin Airlift is being commemorated
with the display of two aircraft, a C 47 and a C 54 in period
colours. More aircraft from the collection are on show in the
Terminal Building at Templehof and others, including the
Boeing 707, can be seen at Tegel. A hangar at G,atow is used
as a store for the Deutsches Technikmuseum and the former
ARGUS Works is a Restoration Centre for the DTM Museum.
Perhaps the Hortens are here being restored
It is believed that the Fritz Ulmer Collection of gliders at
Goppingen Betzgenriet, may be going to be sold to the
Museum fur DTM, as mentioned in the last VGC News. We
are sorry about the confusion in the last VGC News relating to
the location of the above museum.
Some of the hangars at Gatow are being used for the Luftwaffen
Museum, which has been moved fwm UTERSEN,
near Hamburg, SOme of the material by helicopter. This
museum has gliders on display also.
HORTEN INPO. is available from Herr Edward Uden, He
has a lot of documents and drawings from the Reimar Horten
Estate and copies are available at a reasonable cost. He also
speaks good English. His address is: Gebruderstrasse 38, D­
25355 Barmstedt, Germany.
The Herr Uden information is from Bungee Cord, Winter
1998-99 on Page 2. He also is believed to have sufficient
drawings to build a Horten 4a. GUNTER BRODERSEN in
Hamburg is making sure but slow progress with his new
Hutter H.28-2. The fuselage is well advanced and looks very
beautiful. By the time this is in print, KLAUS HEYN's new
Wolf Hirth MUSTERLE should be ready to fly. He has
obtained a Swiss built trailer for it, which once housed a
Picolo. He has built the Musterle's original canopy but, as this
limits pilot's visibility, it will be flown with another one.
ITALIAN NEWS
A SPALfNGER S.21 h has been discovered in a hangar in N.E.
ITALY.
Tt was built in Italy and a photograph reveals that it is not
in bad condition.The S.21 h is painted blue and white and is
rigged in what appears to be an engineering establishment.
The Spalinger S21H which has been seen in an aircraft
hangar in N.E. ftaly.
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NEWS FROM SPAIN
Jean Simon and Dominique Gatard, two French Dedalian glider pilots, met Christian Haro Goni and discovered that he is restoring
a RHONBUSSARD. (how and when a RhOnbussard ever came to be in Spain is not known CW). Christian Haro has been a
glider pilot since 1973. He needs some information and C.Wills is trying to help him. (Chlistian's address is Zigordia Kalea 41-2,
1,20800 Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, Spain)
The following Rhonbussards also exist:
BGA 395 now D-7059 A Oldtimer Club Wasserkuppe.
BGA 337 A Wycombe Air Park (Booker).
BGA 2077 ex D-5700 A London GC, Dunstable.
OO-ZVO ex OO-ZJH exOO-ZVA A Mohiville-Hamois, Belgium.
One from Argentina R Bob Gaines, USA.
One from La Ferte Alais R Saint Auban, Fran~ois Ragat, Prance.
D-Hesselberg E German Gliding Museum Wasserkuppe.
HB-285 E Fritz Ulmer Collection, Goppingen.
HB-113 S Widnau, Switzerland.
OH-RAA ex OH-Jami-4 S Wesivemaa, Finland.
It survive, 4 of which are airworthy, out of the 220 built by Schleichers from 1933 - 1940. More were probably built by groups
etc.in Germany. Another two may soon be airworthy in the USA and France.
A=Airworthy. R=being restored. E= on exhibition. S=Stored.
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