The 18m inner section of the wing was developed by Lange with the assistance Professor Loek Boermans of the Delft University of Technology.
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Akaflieg Berlin currently operates three two-seaters: a Grob G-103 Twin III, Schempp-Hirth Discus, Schleicher ASW 24 and two of its own designs, the Akaflieg Berlin B12 and the Akaflieg Berlin B13.
Among these is the record for a free distance flight with up to 3 turn-points by flying 3,009 km from Chapelco Airport at San Martín de los Andes (Argentina) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM on 21 January 2003 with his co-pilot Karl Rabeder.
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He also broke Hans-Werner Grosse's free distance record, which had lasted over 30 years, on 9 January 2003 by a flight of 2,247.6 km in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM at El Calafate in Argentina.
This variant is similar in concept to the modified Janus once operated by the DFVLR (today the DLR, or German Aerospace Center) for the same purpose.
Martin Schempp (1905–1984), glider pilot and founder of Schempp-Hirth, a major manufacturer of gliders
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Schempp-Hirth, glider manufacturer based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany
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Ellery Schempp (born 1940), physicist noted for being the primary student involved in the Abington School District v. Schempp case
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Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), United States Supreme Court case
This film shows Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) reaching to the front controls to assist Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) in flying the glider.
The first was a non-injury long landing accident in Fayence, France, on September 4, 1994.
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U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators queried the German Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding the accident history of the Nimbus-4DM in conjunction with a 1999 accident near Minden, Nevada where both occupants of the aircraft were killed.
:Later production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine or can be retrofitted with a Rotax 914, hydraulically operated landing gear, double panel Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on the upper wing surface.