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Rolladen-Schneider LS1

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The LS1 made its debut at the 1968 German National Championships, taking first and second place with the designers themselves at the controls. The success of this design increased in the subsequent years until, in 1975, it was the most flown glider in the German Nationals. The LS1-c took first place
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Variants up to the LS1-d had an all-flying tail with oversensitive handling characteristics at high speeds. A conventional stabiliser and elevator were adopted for later variants. Although fractionally less efficient, this is much safer and more pleasant to
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The undercarriage was initially fixed, as required by the standard class rules of the time. The wheel was sprung and had its own wheel housing, separate from the internal fuselage space. The wheel brake was coupled to the air brake
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of almost 20%, made it possible to build a light and economical spar. This was important because in the late sixties glass fibre was the only affordable reinforcement material - carbon was still too expensive.
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at Marfa, Texas. Jan Rothhardt also won the World Gliding Competition Championships 2015 in the Club Class. Furthermore Christoph Nacke became Junior World Gliding Champion in the Club Class in 2005.
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fuselage shell was produced in female moulds, in an innovative method developed by Wolf Lemke. The LS1 V-1 prototype was the pattern or ‘plug’ for the serial production moulds.
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The designers desired to demonstrate that high performance and pleasant flight characteristics could coexist in a standard class sailplane built with the then still-unexplored
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The materials used were glass fibre, Conticell foam, polystyrene, plywood for the spar webs and hardwood in reinforcements. Wood was phased out in the LS1-f version.
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The new one-piece canopy of the LS1-f required an innovative hinge with complex kinetics to deliver the forward opening movement.
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The natural qualities of the airfoil profile combined with careful wing design yielded gentle low-speed behaviour.
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A total of 464 LS1 were built. Among Rolladen-Schneider’s Standard class gliders it was succeeded by the
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The front of the original two-piece canopy was blended with the fuselage for improved aerodynamics.
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The LS-1 Standard Class design was the first aircraft type arising from the partnership between
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in the spring 1977, as the manufacturer needed all its resources to increase production of the
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sailplanes). This structure was substituted by full GRP construction in production versions.
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0.60 m/s (118 ft/min) at 72 km/h (39 kn; 45 mph)
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Thomas F, Fundamentals of Sailplane Design, College Park Press, 1999
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250 km/h (160 mph, 130 kn) in smooth and rough air
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Selinger P, Segelflugzeug-Geschichten, Deutsches Segelflugmuseum
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The performance improvements came from the wing having a high
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170 km/h (92 kn; 110 mph) maneuvering speed
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130 km/h (70 kn; 81 mph) on winch launch
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The manufacture of the LS1 was discontinued after the
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90 L (24 US gal; 20 imp gal)
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170 km/h (92 kn; 110 mph) on aero-tow
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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Club-class
Standard-class
Manufacturer
Rolladen-Schneider
Standard Class
glider
Rolladen-Schneider
Wolf Lemke
Walter Schneider
Akaflieg Darmstadt D-36
World Championships
IGC
15 metre-class
LS3
LS2
LS4
GRP
aspect ratio
FX 66-S-196
airfoil
Franz Wortmann
lift coefficient
FX 66-S-196
thickness-to-chord ratio

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