FISCHER
MODELLE Hangleiter
Kit No.
FM-15B
The first original
FISCHER kit in my
collection.
This kit is
simply called
Hangleiter, which
translates so
something like
"slope glider".
Obviously
a
Schneider
Schulgleiter SG 38
should be
modelled.
(Schulgleiter
translates to glider
trainer ).
This single seat
primary trainer was
first flown in 1938
in Grunau, Germany
(now Jezów Sudecki,
Poland.) More about
this aircraft see
-
http://www.schulgleiter.de/
(German language)
-
nationalmuseum
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Air Btitain Archive
In his Plastic Kits
of the 20th Century
collector´s gide [1]
John Burns listsw
this kit as FM15 B
Hang Glider.
This seems to be a
wrong translation of
the German term
Hanggleiter.
Hang is
German for
slope,
so Hangleiter should
translate to
slope glider .
The SG-38 generally
was launched with
bungee cords
conveniently from
slopes and this may
be the term
Hanggleiter is
derived from.
The SG 38 is not
like a contemporary
Hang Glider proper,
a gliding craft
where the pilot
hangs in the aiframe,
the
Haengegleiter
in German
language .
The picture below
shows the back of
the header card
which is a basic
assembly
instruction.
No other
instructions are
inside the card or
in the bag.
The staples are
still original, the
box was never
openened.
The next picture
shows the parts in
higher resolution.
Reference
[1]
Burns (2003)
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