Rudolf Kaiser

Rudolf Kaiser ( born September 10, 1922 in Waldsachsen; † September 11, 1991 in Poppenhausen ) was a German sailplane designer.

He was excited already as a boy from the aircraft. On the airfield of Coburg - Brandensteinsebene he began with only twelve years to build model airplanes and a hang glider. In 1942 he successfully passed the C- test for gliding.

Professional career

After the war, Kaiser studied civil engineering. In 1952 he completed his studies with a diploma. During his studies he has no Akaflieg ( Academic Flying Group ) belongs. Regarding the construction of aircraft he had to learn all the basics as an autodidact. With the fall of the prohibition of gliding 1951 Kaiser constructed his first glider, the Ka 1 The construction was carried out in his own apartment. This aircraft was originally conceived for purely private use. At the turn of 1953/54, brought the Emperor a steel tube fuselage of the Ka 1 out, the machine was called Ka 3

From 1952 to 1953 Kaiser worked for both the company disc - Flugzeugbau GmbH, as well as for the company Schleicher. With disc he constructed the sparrow, for the two-seater high -performance machine Schleicher Ka 2, the Rhön swallow and Ka 4 Rhönlerche II ( training two-seaters ). After he developed in the years 1953-1955 for the migratory disc (Ka 5), he moved in 1955 to Schleicher.

Constructions

In the construction of the Schleicher Ka 6 followed Rhön sailors and K 10 and the doubles K 7 Rhönadler. Well known was the training seater K 8, the Emperor designed in 1957. Less common is their successor ASK 18, which also was still in composite construction.

With the K 11 of the first small motor glider, the more the K 12 was built, the ASK 14 and ASK 16 was followed.

Another common training two-seater is the ASK 13 After Gerhard Waibel held the Kunststoffbau entry into the glider, constructed Kaiser in 1975 as the successor to his first GRP aircraft, the ASK 21 you became widespread, so it still is suitably a training single-seater ASK 23 constructed that could be flown in 1983.

The different spelling of Ka to Ka 6 and K from the K 7 can be explained by the fact that the aircraft designer Albert Kalkert Kaiser pointed out, the abbreviation Ka during the war for his designs in the Gotha Coach Factory, for example in the Kalkert Ka used 430 have to. Therefore Kaiser used from the K 7 is the abbreviation K.

The ASK 23 was his last design. He received in 1958 in Leszno the OSTIV Award for the best standard class glider Schleicher Ka 6

Designer Dittmar Condor Designer Kaiser: Ka 1 | 2 Ka | Ka 3 | Ka 4 | Ka 6 | 7 K | K 8 | K 10 | ASK 13 | ASK 14 | ASK 16 | ASK 18 | ASK 21 | ASK 23 Designer Waibel: ASW 12 | 15 ASW | ASW 17 | 19 ASW | ASW 20 | 22 ASW | ASW 24 | 27 ASW | ASW 28 Designer Heide: ASH 25 | ASH 26 | ASH 30 Mi | ASH 31 Mi Designer Greiner: ASG 29 | 32 ASG

  • Gliding
  • Aviation pioneer
  • Person ( aircraft )
  • German
  • Born in 1922
  • Died in 1991
  • Man
Poppenhausen, Hesse Scheibe-Flugzeugbau Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co Scheibe Spatz Schleicher ASK 18 Schleicher ASK 16 Gerhard Waibel (engineer) Gothaer Waggonfabrik Schleicher Condor Integrated Authority File
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