I do know that Scheibe had prob a thousand of big 5cm thick folders on each
glider they ever built and I am a bit worried that might all go to the tip.
I have a wonderful photo in the Scheibe factory (more a farm barn) of the
outline of a falke fuse with a round German sitting in the background with a
sasuage sandwich and a 1 lit of beer (none of this 500ml stuff for
lunch)!!!! We bought our first Bergfalke from them in 1967 (or8) when son
in law no one Christian Gad was incharge.
Notice Sammut service Rotax and Hk36 - re translation I use
http://babelfish.altavista.com which gets me most of it.
Unfortunately motor Falkes got not a good name in Australia mostly cause of
those stupid Stammo engines B falkes. I can assure you the only way to go
is the 2 wheels up front much improved ailerons with a big extra slab of
friz, confortable seat, in flight adj rudder peddles, very soft (forgiving)
undercarriage legs (you can arrive from 2m up no worries), sound profing so
with windows closed headsets are not necessary.
I you re equip with a Sauer S2500 (no longer a VW but takes its place but
built like a Contenintal) it "pulls" 10% better than a 912S - I think it
means 10% more toque than Rotax 100hp.
Of my almost 10 000hrs well over 1/2 of it is in Scheibe gliders and would
have to be more than 25000 incident free landing and they are tail wheel
aircraft not like these ASK13s, ASK21s, Grob IIs, KRO3As etc nose wheel
things!!!!!
I am trying to get the plans of the front 2 wheel falkes where they attach
and I have a good welder locally and do a conversion.
Ian McPhee (skype macca304)
Box 657
Byron Bay NSW 2481 Australia
Tel +61(0)2 66847642 mob +61(0)428847642
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Ian McPhee
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From: "John Giddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] End of Scheibe after 55 odd years
Any knowledge whether Sammut has *all* the old records from Scheibe ?
What about vintage stuff like Bergfalkes ? and fibreglass like SF34s ?
The Sammut web site appears to be only available in German, so I can't get
much from it at this stage.
John G. (uneducated monolinguistic engineer)
Ian McPhee wrote:
Got this skype texting tonight from Stefan Senger at Eurcopter in
Munchen - the end of an era. I gather since old scheibe died a few years
ago the son in laws have gradually dropped out of business and the
competition from all the UL motorgliders from the old eastern Europe
countries.
[8:23:58 PM] S. Senger says: I yust called Scheibe, they are closed since
two weeks now ! So the company is not longer existent !
[8:26:33 PM] S. Senger says: The support for the falkes is now done by
the company Sammet in Heubach, Germany !
[8:31:48 PM] S. Senger says: I know Hartmut Sammet quite well .
Ian McPhee (skype macca304)
Box 657
Byron Bay NSW 2481 Australia
Tel +61(0)2 66847642 mob +61(0)428847642
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