Glaser-Dirks DG-100
The DG- 100 was the first glider type that the glider manufacturers Glaser- Dirks (now DG Flugzeugbau GmbH) from 1973 designed in 1974 and had its first flight. They descended from the test samples D -37 and D -38 Akaflieg Darmstadt, had participated in the Gerhard Glaser.
The DG- 100 is built in GRP construction and has a floating elevator. Versions of the DG -100 DG- 100G, DG- 101 and DG- 101G. These are not improvements in flight performance, but only to external changes. The suffix G indicates an attenuated tailplane, the DG- 101 has taken the two-part (only for DG- 100 and DG- 200 used ) cover a forward and upward -opening one-piece hood. 37 copies with steamed oars were made , in 1983, the successor of DG-300 went into series production and the production of the DG-100 ran out slowly.
A total of 327 pieces of this aircraft were built, 105 of them in the work of Glaser -Dirks and another 222 in ELAN (now AMS Flight) in Slovenia, of which 145 pieces are still allowed in Germany today. Due to the very balanced flying characteristics and good flight performance, the DG- 100 is one on the used market in addition to the comparable patterns ASW19 and LS1f the most expensive aircraft in the Club Class.