Entwicklung und Erprobung von Leichtflugzeugen (EEL) ( en, italic=yes, Development and Testing of Light Aircraft) is a German
aircraft design firm based in
Putzbrunn
Putzbrunn is a town in the district of Munich, Bavaria in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most pop ...
. The company was founded in 1976 by Heiner Neumann and Dieter Reich. It specializes in the design of
gliders and
motor glider
A motor glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with or without engine power. The FAI Gliding Commission Sporting Code definition is: a fixed-wing aerodyne equipped with a means of propulsion (MoP), capable of sustained soaring flight ...
s, provided in the form of plans for
amateur construction.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 136. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
History
Both Neumann and Reich studied aeronautics in the early 1960s while at the
Technical University of Berlin. Reich designed the two aircraft marketed by EEL.
The
EEL ULF 1, a foot-launched
microlift glider that weighs empty, first flew in November 1977. The
EEL ULF 2 is a single-seat motorglider that first flew in October 1993. As a result of his design work on the ULF 2 Reich received the
Oskar Ursinus Vereinigung (OUV) Hans-Becker-Prize in June 1997.
Aircraft
See also
*
List of gliders
This is a list of gliders/ sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available)
Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.
By nationality
* List of Amer ...
References
External links
ulf-2.com- Seite des Entwicklers
{{EEL aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft