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Solar Impulse when it landed in Hawai’i for repair.

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a mystery plane
it looks like son of SG-38 but had a motor,behind the pilot, attached to it.
I think it must have been an experimental plane, probably designed and built by the students of Akaflieg Stuttgart.
I tried to find out about this motor glider but failed totally.

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no longer a secret when I was looking for Raab gliders a moment ago I found out about this motor glider.
from wikipedia: The Raab Krähe (English: crow) is a West German high-wing, single-seat, pusher configuration motor glider that was designed by Fritz Raab for amateur construction around 1958
for further information: Raab Krähe - Wikipedia
 
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Gliding with film camera in hand looking to get that shot (and in the 70s) is a pretty cool thing.
Most pictures were taken with me positioned in a double-seated glider or motor glider. I always needed a pilot to act according to my instructions and it worked nicely. I had lots of hours flying a double-seated glider with the instructor behind me, but I never soloed. Taking photos I found even more attractive and I became part of the scene for a rather long time.
 
I used that technique way back when I was flying R/C airplanes a lot. Although I considered it, I never got up the nerve to pursue a pilot's license. Flying model airplanes with my feet firmly planted was as close as I ever got to "slipping the surly bonds".
I still dream of it . Side-slip caused considerable noise inside the glider and I always thought it would tear apart.
Rudder left and aileron right or the other way round and control speed with the stick. Before touchdown one had to get back into normal flight and in the direction of the landing strip. The exercise obviously lasts a lifetime in my memory.
 
Here are some photos I shot a few years ago at a Virginia Museum. I was using a Sigma 15mm lens with a Nikon D600.

There's a WWI plane that had armament consisting of an Enfield rifle strapped to the exterior of the plane, which I found very interesting. There's also a German V1 "Buzz Bomb". I was surprised at how big it was, I always pictured it as smaller.

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... There's also a German V1 "Buzz Bomb". I was surprised at how big it was, I always pictured it as smaller.


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My parents were at school in London when the V1s were falling and would often talk about the experience. They always referred to them as "doodlebugs". You were fine if you could hear the sound of the engine, but as soon as the engine cut out, the V1 would fall out of the sky and you'd better hope you weren't underneath at the time. My father used to tell a story of taking exams in the school hall during a V1 "raid" and having to take shelter under his desk, while the masters walked up and down the lines of desks to make sure the boys weren't cheating.

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DFS Weihe on a cross country flight in Baden-Württemberg
Jacobs designed the Weihe to be the pre-eminent performance glider of its era and indeed it captured many championships and set many records, until its performance was surpassed at the end of the 1950s. Even today it is considered one of the "classic sailplane designs"(Wikipedia)

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DFS Weihe at close distance - this is an image of the sailplane that set the world record for altitude gain in 1959
The Weihe won the World Gliding Championships in 1948 and 1950. It was used to set many world and national records, including the world record for altitude gain in 1959 of 9,665 m
Dick Johnson won the US National Soaring Championships in 1959, flying a Weihe (Wikipedia)

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