The Wasserkuppe (pronunciation) is a mountain within the German state of Hesse. It is a large plateau formation at an elevation of 950 metres (3,120 ft)...

based in Germany at the Wasserkuppe. It was founded as "Mertens Fliegerschule", and is currently named "Fliegerschule Wasserkuppe". Pilots must first gain...

river Fulda and its valley. The highest mountain in the Rhön is the Wasserkuppe (950.2 metres or 3,117 feet), which is in Hesse. The Rhön Mountains are...

UTC+01:00 (CET)  • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST) Postal codes 36163 Dialling codes 06658 Vehicle registration FD Website www.poppenhausen-wasserkuppe.de...

Višnjan Observatory K. Korlević THM 11 km MPC · JPL 10242 Wasserkuppe 2808 P-L Wasserkuppe September 24, 1960 Palomar PLS NYS 2.5 km MPC · JPL 10243 Hohe...

commanding the west valley side of which is the Hessian highest point, Wasserkuppe at 950m above sea level – in the Rhön. The Rhine forms the long southwest...

in a circle roughly east of Gersfeld past the Feldberg (815 m), the Wasserkuppe (950 m), Abtsroda, Dietges, the Milseburg (835 m), Kleinsassen, Wolferts...

Rüsselsheim, another one at the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich. After testing at Wasserkuppe, in June 1928, Fritz von Opel had purchased an Alexander Lippisch-designed...

youth his favourite sport was boating. As a young man, he visited the Wasserkuppe in Germany and became passionate about the sport of gliding that was...

glider pilot John Jeffries at London Gliding Club west of Dunstable; at Wasserkuppe, a 3,000 ft mountain in the east of Hesse in the centre of Germany is...

atmosphere to make them fly farther and faster. These activities on Wasserkuppe promoted a renaissance of gliding aviation. Many of these gliders flown...

Milseburg Milseburg, seen from Wasserkuppe Highest point Elevation 835 m (2,740 ft) Prominence 175 m (574 ft)  Isolation 5.19 km (3.22 mi)  Coordinates...

rocket-modified glider designed by Alexander Lippisch, took place at Wasserkuppe Mountain on 11 June 1928. Two black powder rockets, designed by Friedrich...

successfully by the well known glider pilot Wolf Hirth at the 1929 Rhön (Wasserkuppe) glider competition. Musterle was used by Hirth used to demonstrate the...

Reitsch in 1936 at Wasserkuppe...

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and piloted for its first flight on June 11, 1928, by Fritz Stamer at Wasserkuppe, was bought and operated by Opel in context of the Opel RAK program but...

aircraft factory in Baden-Baden in 1923. Two years later, he arrived at the Wasserkuppe and worked in the workshop of the Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft building...

government, particularly at flying sites suited to gliding flight like the Wasserkuppe. The sporting use of gliders rapidly evolved in the 1930s and is now...

of powered aircraft, developed gliding as a sport, especially at the Wasserkuppe, during the 1920s. In its various forms, in the 21st-century sailplane...

overcome the biggest teething troubles, and the brothers took it to the Wasserkuppe competition the following year. In 1951, members of the Club de Planeadores...

The Fulda is 220.4 kilometres (137.0 mi) long. The river arises at Wasserkuppe in the Rhön mountains in Hesse. From there it runs northeast, flanked...

("Rhön father") because he founded Germany’s first gliding club at the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön Mountains in 1920.: 58  Ursinus was born in Weißenfels and...

Foot-launched aircraft had been flown by Lilienthal and at the meetings at Wasserkuppe in the 1920s. However the innovation that led to modern hang gliders...

Wachtküppel is a mountain of Hesse, Germany in the vicinity of the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön Mountains. Baedeker's Germany. Prentice-Hall. 1980. p. 223...

Segelflugclub Wasserkuppe built an all-new Habicht. After an extended exhibition career, this exemplar, registered also as D-8002, flies from the Wasserkuppe club's...

age of 15, Riedel attended the first gliding championship held at the Wasserkuppe, taking with him a half-built glider of his own design, which he completed...

Ka 1 in the Wasserkuppe museum...

Madelung for the 1921 Rhön gliding competition, which was held at the Wasserkuppe from 8 August to 25 August 1921. The Vampyr is believed to be the first...

it was not exploited by humans until 1921 by Wilhelm Leusch at the Wasserkuppe in Germany. It was not until about 1930 that the use of thermals for...