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    Kurt Erhard Hirth (28 February 1900 – 25 July 1959) was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer. He was a co-founder of Schempp-Hirth, still a renowned...
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  • with the assistance of Wolf Hirth. The company was initially called "Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp". In 1938, Wolf Hirth, mainly responsible...
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    discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, above the Giant Mountains. They are periodic changes of atmospheric pressure...
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    engines respectively. Hirth was born in Heilbronn, the son of engineer and tool-maker Albert Hirth. He was the elder brother of Wolf Hirth who would go on to...
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    sailplane produced in Germany. It was designed by Martin Schempp and Wolf Hirth and was produced the year after their first glider, the Göppingen Gö 1...
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    medical school at the University of Kiel to become, at the invitation of Wolf Hirth, a full-time glider pilot/instructor at Hornberg in Baden-Württemberg...
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    was built in West Germany by Wolf Hirth GmbH in the early 1970s, and dominated Championships for a brief period. The Hirth Hi 27 Acrostar is a competition...
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    less rounded rudder on same fin. Goevier III (aka Hirth-Hütter Goevier III) – Dipl.-Ing. Wolf Hirth/Wolfgang Hütter.Post-war production model, prototype...
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    changes etc. It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider's ESG 31 of the previous...
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  • Berlin – (HFS Berlin) Hentzens Maikäfer HG-1 Tölpel Hirth-Hütter Goevier III – Dipl.-Ing. Wolf Hirth/Wolfgang Hütter. Hofmann Schloß Mainberg – H. Hofmann...
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