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During the 1960, the WGL ("Wissenschaftiche Gemeinschaft für Luftfahrt", Scientific Community for Aviation) had initiated a contest
for a training aircraft for clubs and organisations, that with slight modifications should be usuable as a touring aircraft, too. I was
regarded as a possible product for export to boost the revived German aviation industry.
The second winner of this contest (which amongst others, saw the Payen Pa.82 a derivative of the Pa.61 as a contender) was a design
Reinhold Hagmann, aerospsace engineer, and Lothar Elsner, aviation technician, for a conventional 3-seat single engined low wing aircraft of
mixed construction, with the rear part of the fuselage already made from plastic. A variant with a nose wheel landing gear and another one
with a tail wheel were envisaged, engines with 100 to 180 hp should be fitted.
Financial support wasn't only sought by the designers, but by the Deutsche Aero Club (German Aero Club), too, who supported the first three
winning designs to be built as prototypes for an official fly-off. Nearly needles to say, that this didn't come to fruition, nevertheless I would
regard this design as something more, than just a speculative one.
length: 7.80 m, span 9.90 m, wing area 14 sqm, empty weight 535 kg, TOW 860 kg (two seat), 960 kg (three seat), calcualted performance
with a 150hp engine : max. speed 250 km/h, cruising speed 210 km/h, landing speed 85 km/h, range 900 km
(drawings and data from "Der Flieger", November 1961)
for a training aircraft for clubs and organisations, that with slight modifications should be usuable as a touring aircraft, too. I was
regarded as a possible product for export to boost the revived German aviation industry.
The second winner of this contest (which amongst others, saw the Payen Pa.82 a derivative of the Pa.61 as a contender) was a design
Reinhold Hagmann, aerospsace engineer, and Lothar Elsner, aviation technician, for a conventional 3-seat single engined low wing aircraft of
mixed construction, with the rear part of the fuselage already made from plastic. A variant with a nose wheel landing gear and another one
with a tail wheel were envisaged, engines with 100 to 180 hp should be fitted.
Financial support wasn't only sought by the designers, but by the Deutsche Aero Club (German Aero Club), too, who supported the first three
winning designs to be built as prototypes for an official fly-off. Nearly needles to say, that this didn't come to fruition, nevertheless I would
regard this design as something more, than just a speculative one.
length: 7.80 m, span 9.90 m, wing area 14 sqm, empty weight 535 kg, TOW 860 kg (two seat), 960 kg (three seat), calcualted performance
with a 150hp engine : max. speed 250 km/h, cruising speed 210 km/h, landing speed 85 km/h, range 900 km
(drawings and data from "Der Flieger", November 1961)
