Vogt Lo-100
The Lo 100 " Little Bittern " is a sailing aerobatic airplane wood construction. The design of Alfred Vogt was the first fully aerobatic reconstruction after the Second World War in Germany. In the late 1950s the license manufacturing rights from the " Castle Falcon aircraft " in Burglengenfeld were acquired.
History
The Lo 100 goes back to the 1935 developed by Vogt Small sailor ( span 10.50 m ) Lo 105, but it could be flown and tested until 1943. As a further development of the 105 Lo Lo was in 1952 in 3 ½ months 100 designed and constructed. The first flight of the prototype took place at the meeting on the glider Klippeneck in the same year. Then the Lo has undergone a 100 degree testing in Kufstein. The 1953 from this developed Lo 150 has a two-piece wing with 15 m span.
The name Lo chose Vogt honor of his brother Lothar, with whom he had developed the Lo 105. Lothar died in September 1938 from the effects of the drawn in winter sailing flights pneumonia.
Construction
The Lo 100 is a single-seat cantilever high -wing monoplane of all- wood construction. In order to meet the stresses of aerobatics justice, the one-piece wing received a continuous main spar made of beech plywood (tBu 20) and a sperrholzbeplankte Torsionsnase. The flaps can be deployed as a landing aid to 45 °. When landing the plane ( slip ) must be brought to the ground in side slip, because it has no spoilers.
The hull is made of wood shell construction with an oval cross section and has a front and side wall coupling for towing. The cantilever normal tail is also constructed in wood. All surfaces are sperrholzbeplankt. The chassis consists of a single wheel covered with a Zentralkufe.