After 2 years development and construction the time has come: The maiden flight of the currently largest single-seated motor glider took place on 21 July 2009.

The ordering party Bruno Gantenbrink (YY) insisted to make the first flight of this project initiated and financed by his own.

Nimeta is a motor glider with a strongly modified fuselage and elevator Nimbus 4 as well as Eta wings.

With this project we realized Bruno Gantenbrink’s dream of a single-seated Eta. The challenge of this project consisted in uniting the two motor glider types due to the entirely different mechanics of wings and fuselage. Furthermore, we have redesigned the fillet wing fuselage and enlarged the fin by 20 percent.

The engine system has been completely adopted from Ventus/Nimbus and has been set by SHK.

After the today’s two hours maiden flight Bruno Gantenbrink was highly pleased with the quality of his new airplane.

We wish Bruno many successful flights!

We congratulate Tobias Welsch on winning the German Club Class Championship in Winzeln. Tobias placed first just ahead of Arndt Hovestadt, Jens Becker and Christian Lang - all on Standard Libelle.

This result represents the ongoing great popularity of Standard Libelle. After all, 12 of the 41 participants competed on the type Standard Libelle.

Furthermore, we congratulate Volker Sailer (Standard Libelle 203) on placing first at FIA World Junior Gliding Championship in Club Class.
  

The last weeks we have been quite busy with modifying and varnishing Matthias Dolderer’s Edge 540 whereby he will compete in the Red Bull Air Race from this year on. At the official roll-out in Tannheim on Saturday, March 21, he gave the present company an idea about the performance of this plane. We wish Matthias Dolderer and his team a successful and safe season.

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From this year forward the BL-formation has found its new home in Tannheim. Next to accommodate the BLs, the newly-built Hangar 4 enables us to expand our maintenance business to planes until 2t. The pilot-friendly and positive environment allows continuing the further developments of our activities. Details to follow shortly here.

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From 4-13 July 2009 there will take place for the third time a Standard Libelle contest at Aero-Club d´Issoudun (LFEK). For more information and registration please click  here

From 3-7 July 2009 there will take place for the first U.S. Libelle Gathering at Reno, Nevada. For more information and registration please click  here
 

Glasflügel Meeting 2008

From 8-10 August 2008 the annual Glasflügel meeting will take place in Ottengrüner Heide. For further information and registration see www.edqo.de

Our newly designed website is online now!With our new site we want to inform you more comprehensively about our services and performance.Hopefully you will enjoy it.

Please note:Our email address has changed. You are able to contact us via email at info@streifly.de

Currently we prepare Hans-Werner Grosses' ETA glider (works number 1) for the new gliding season. Besides the usual maintenance and polishing works we will carry out some small aerodynamical refinements.

In addition, the last year constructed yaw spoiler in the new outer wing with Maughmer winglet has been revised and newly set. This yaw spoiler works based on the principle of the top and bottom surface Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes. The yaw spoiler is electric powered and supports the too little effect of the yaw rudder. After testing for almost one year Hans-Werner Grosse is highly pleased with the renewed support of the yaw rudder and which he would not want to miss.

Christian Walliser successfully passed his journeyman examination

On 31 January 2008, Christian Walliser successfully passed his journeyman examination.
Our congratulation!

Since September 2005, Christian Walliser from Pfullingen has been trained by our company as a light aircraft constructor. Himself glider pilot at aviation club Reutlingen, Christian passed a carpenter examination before. By training as a light aircraft constructor his childhood dream came true
 

Wing molds for Extra EA300 SR

Besides several other molds in 2007 we produced the wing molds for Walter Extras' newest aircraft namely Extra EA300 SR. This aircraft, especially produced for the motor sports competition Red Bull Air Race, originates from the single-seated EA 300 S. However, the wings have been a complete new construction. Using our milling technology we were able to produce the negative molds for wings, spar, fins and aileron within a few weeks. The high-precision molds guarantee to keep the aerodynamical basic layout as well as to reduce the weight through its high accuracy of fit. That all that effort pays off has been well demonstrated by Nicolas Ivanoff at the last race in 2007 in Perth.

Wing molds for Concordia project

As already mentioned in several journals, we are also involved in the Concordia project. Accordingly, the complete wing molds have been produced on our milling machine. After putting together and surface sealing the molds were shipped to Dick Butler to Tennessee. In the meantime the wing frames have been made over there. At the moment the spar bars are being produced.