The AK-5 is a single-seat

club class Competition classes in gliding, as in other sports, mainly exist to ensure fairness in competition. However the classes have not been targeted at fostering technological development as in other sports. Instead classes have arisen because of: * t ...

sailplane designed and built in Germany by members of

Akaflieg Karlsruhe Akaflieg Karlsruhe is one of ten flying groups (Akaflieg) attached to German universities. Akaflieg is an abbreviation for ''Akademische Fliegergruppe'', an academic group of students working with a German University. The ''Akademische Fliegergru ...

Design and development

Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-5 Timmersdorf97-001

The forward fuselage of the glider was taken from the

Glasflügel 604 The Glasflügel 604 is a high-wing, T-tailed, single seat, FAI Open Class glider that was designed and produced in West Germany by Glasflügel starting in 1970.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine'', page 81, Soaring Society o ...

and the wings were built to the design of the Streifeneder-Hansen Falcon glider, an experimental prototype designed and built by Hansjörg Streifeneder. The cockpit interior was newly designed including a self-designed and built

flight director / variometer In aviation, a variometer – also known as a rate of climb and descent indicator (RCDI), rate-of-climb indicator, vertical speed indicator (VSI), or vertical velocity indicator (VVI) – is one of the flight instruments in an aircraft used to ...

system and parallelogram control input system similar to Glasflügel practice.

Specifications

References

External links

Akaflieg Karlsruhe homepage
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