Twins but not identical: Bob Grimstead samples two aerobatic Flitzer homebuilts constructed in different hemispheres | Words: Bob Grimstead – Photos: Karen Grimstead Windsong in the wires; a stiff breeze tweaking your eyelids; taut fabric controls felt through safecracker-sensitive fingers; a whiff of warm oil; the thrill of high-speed airflow; and the rising falling thrum of a fast-revving engine?nothing charges the senses and stirs a true pilot’s heart like open-cockpit aerobatics I have sampled two of the dozen or more flying Flitzers Englishman Rupert Wasey’s award-winning G-ERIW (the natural wood-coloured one in these photos) has an 80hp Aerovee 2,180cc VW conversion with a single magneto and electronic ignition with dual Hall effect coils It also has the unusual airborne VW luxuries of a starter and an alternator Rupert crafted a wooden airscrew specifically designed to optimise his Flitzer’s performance and this later developed into his full-time The second Flitzer I flew belongs to Australian design and technology teacher Mark Crawford His has a production four-cylinder Jabiru 2200 motor also nominally developing 80hp at 3,300 rpm home-whittled propeller he bought with the engine but was later swapped for an Australian Heliptera propeller Subsequently he too has fitted a Hercules propeller for improved performance and reduced vibration Mark’s blue fuselage mimics that of German WW1 fighter ace Lt Jansen of Jasta 6 Rupert Wasey’s British Flitzer has finally been approved for aerobatics This is my second flight in it and this time I can turn it upside-down By virtue of being certified as ‘Experimental Mark Crawford’s similar Australian Flitzer was aerobatic from the outset more than ten years ago Such are the frustrations of the presumably safer but more restrictive British system The Staaken Flitzer is a remarkable aeroplane?the only biplane I know of that will not only fly but actually fly really well behind the puny power of a VW Beetle car engine The brainchild of British aviation artist and lifelong aeronautical enthusiast his Flitzer is a modern design but with a distinctly period flavour masquerading as a 1920s German sport biplane of Great War layout Williams supplies plans for several sub-types of the basic design The original Z-1 Flitzer was his bright red prototype incorporating a longer-span tailplane and other small refinements Larger pilots can build the later Z-21A featured in this article The slightly more compact StummelFlitzer has a shorter fuselage with raked cabane a larger tank bay and rounded flying surfaces optimised for intermediate level aerobatics using more powerful engines in the 60 to 110hp range (including the Australian Rotec or Czech Verner radials) The StummelFlitzer’s structure is strengthened to cope with a +6/-3g loading and balanced slaved ailerons have been added to its upper wings to improve roll performance the Kobold (or Goblin) Flitzer is under development designed to use a less powerful 1,835cc VW engine bolted directly to the firewall There is a two-seat Z-2 Schwalbe (Swallow) version Lynn is forever inventing new sub-versions like the Walter-powered F.2 Tiger ‘Fighter Trainer’ Rotec-powered Maksimov SK26 ‘Russian Fighter’ For the current status of these and his other brainchildren you should visit the FSV website (see spec box) Over 366 sets of Flitzer plans have been sold with much text and many exploded views of individual components and the original plans have been updated to reduce fabrication time The sub-versions are all derivatives and so come as modifications to the basic plans but being less than twelve feet long means it can be built in a small workspace like a single-car garage or even a spare bedroom Flitzers use conventional construction with plank spars and built-up ribs forming the USA 35B wing section squared (or rounded) off with laminated wood wing-tip bows All ribs are identical for ease of building although the lower wing’s structure is a little more complex and the upper wing has a slightly wider chord because of its thicker spar The interplane struts are complex works of art making them look like authentic single-piece wooden components the empennage with single-strand piano wire and the wings using beefy multi-strand wound cable This is not flexible aircraft control cable but proper 3/16-inch and 1/8-inch structural cable fastened over thimbles with Nicopress swages and adjusted by turnbuckles in the time-honoured way The short cabane struts are of welded steel tube and the undercarriage is also a steel tube structure: a pair of triangular frames supporting two fixed cross-axles held in place with tightly wound half-inch bungee cord The legs are wire-braced and faired with balsa wood The plans call for re-spoked Honda C-90 moped wheels with new hubs and no brakes but both the examples I flew had cable-operated heel brakes and fat motorcycle tyres The Flitzer’s fuselage is the usual built-up wooden box with scarfed ply exterior skins and fabric covering and beautifully scarfed pressings of 1.0mm and 0.8mm ply for the rear decking and cable fairleads The tail and control surfaces have similar construction to the wings but with either built-up or solid spruce or fir ribs A baggage locker behind the cockpit has enough room for a tent There is a small black rectangle of non-slip walkway on the left wing root from which you lift your right leg over the Tiger Moth-style fold-down hatch and step on to the seat and down into the cockpit This is perhaps a little snug despite the widened fuselage with a fairly upright seat and fixed four-point harnesses although my head did stick well out into the breeze because I am six foot two inches tall Lynn tells me there is now a modification to lower the basic Z-21 seat by two inches The small instrument panels each hold eight miniature instruments plus a radio Both Rupert and mark use Microair M760 radios which fit into a standard two-and-half-inch instrument hole Rupert’s has a throttle and mixture quadrant on the left sidewall fuel on/off selector on the right and a sprung carburettor heat knob in the centre with a single sidewall throttle (the Jabiru’s Bing carburettor is self-compensating and so needs no mixture control) beside which is the choke The carb heat plunger is under the left of the panel with the fuel cock directly below the tank Both use cork-and-wire fuel gauges and are otherwise similar Rupert’s Flitzer’s empty weight includes five pounds of lead ballast to compensate for its longer engine mount while Mark’s is built from denser Douglas fir so they both tip the scales at around 540 pounds Adding forty pounds of fuel and 170 pounds of Bob took our total to the 750 pound official maximum The temperature was around 22°C (70°F) for all my flights and often with a ten-knot breeze slightly across the runway so building it with the original fixed tailskid would only be a good idea if all your flying was to be off grass (most unlikely nowadays) both Rupert and Mark have fitted theirs with differential footbrakes and a lockable swivelling tailwheel to improve ground handling on hard surfaces Your eyes look straight along the forward fuselage past a small windshield and through a low triangular tunnel of cabane struts The nose sticks up high ahead and pretty much in the way of a direct forward view so your taxying weaves need only be fifteen to twenty degrees either side of track and both aeroplanes’ brakes were exactly right with no play and enough effect to turn precisely you can ease the stick forward a little and give a blast of power without too much tendency to lift the tail and stand the ironmongery on its nose that big VW emitted a most un-Volkswagen-like snarl and the little aeroplane surged forward with steady acceleration Only a tiny bit of left rudder pressure was needed until I lifted the tail at around thirty mph easily and immediately caught by a prompt dab of increased left rudder she flew off cleanly with a gentle backpressure on the stick I accelerated to sixty mph in ground effect in the time-honoured manner after which we were soon climbing like an interceptor at an eager 700 feet per minute By then you can no longer hear the enthusiastically blattering engine over the torrential roar of slipstream in the wires and it rotates the other way (like a Continental or Lycoming) so right rudder is required but otherwise its handling was much the same although its performance was a little less sprightly with the original Heliptera prop Maximum level speed at full throttle for both aeroplanes was around 95mph IAS but setting 3,000rpm on the VW gave a comfortable 85mph cruise giving an effective safe endurance of two hours Rupert usually cruises his at 75mph at about 2,750rpm visibility in flight is inevitably less than brilliant forwards past all those wings and wires And of course it is the work of but a moment to waggle the stick to whip any impinging bit of the airframe out of your line of sight Both windscreens were a little small for me; I could feel the wind biting between my goggles and the helmet’s rim it was great to wheel and turn over the countryside framing golden villages and green fields between those silver wings Turns each way need just a little squeeze of rudder to coordinate; overdo it with a bigger Tiger Moth-sized push and the nose will slew across the sky with instant response and a high roll rate The ailerons are very powerful and the elevator is light something writers often claim without it really being true this biplane has classically harmonised controls and a rudder that is just slightly firmer in feel?perfect I made tight turns left and right with the cabane struts parallel to and just above the horizon This gave a neat and easily judged sixty or so degrees of bank and I was satisfyingly able to hit my own slipstream virtually every time A properly coordinated wing-waggle was a bit harder because at first I used too much rudder I know the Flitzer’s supposed to be a mythical inter-war sportplane but this thing’s an eagle in dove’s plumage?a Great War dogfighter in civilian colours it can be rather more of a tiger on the ground the airspeed reduces more gradually than the low inertia and apparent high drag had led me to expect?even despite the fine-pitched propellers and all those unstreamlined wires but just mushes downwards at between 41 and 45mph (depending on example weight and configuration) despite pulling back quite hard on the stick eight to ten pounds of stick backpressure is needed to achieve a stall Doing just a couple of stalls lost me 500 feet Lynn told me that the Z-21 is significantly stronger than the prototype Z-1 which was calculated to a strength of +8.5g ultimate at top weight That was designed to the old British Semi-Aerobatic category All reserve factors on the Z-21 were subsequently increased for those components with less than a 1.5 reserve (so the Z-21 tailplane forward spar is 87% stronger than that of the Z-1 – which Lynn says was already adequate) the speed at which full control travel may be used) of 100mph Lynn recommends against flying snap manoeuvres sustained inverted flight or outside manoeuvres Rupert manages Immelmanns with about a +4g pull-up and everything else you might want to do can be accomplished at or below that figure Entry speed for a loop is typically 110mph although during testing Lynn has dived to 125mph IAS flying gentle aerobatics from 3,000 to 2,000 feet Rupert had warned me that his could flick if you pulled too hard over the top of a loop considering the Flitzer’s light weight and low wing-loading but I didn’t encounter this problem with either example Perhaps he didn’t then have the sensitive fingertips needed to ease her over the top of gentle aerobatics at below the 1g indicated stall speed You need some rudder each way in the loop (right as you dive and the opposite for the Jabiru) but not much I started my first at 110mph and saw forty on the dial over the top None of my loops would have been properly circular and it was very satisfying while floating across the top to look up over the centre-section to admire the inverted world above immediate and undistorted through any canopy Barrel rolling to the left in Rupert’s Flitzer was a bit difficult because of interference between the stick It was easier rolling to the right despite that being against the engine’s rotation but either way you do have to raise the nose very high before applying aileron or else it falls a long way during the manoeuvre The same was true to a lesser extent with ballistic aileron rolls in either direction in both aeroplanes Neither aeroplane’s fuel cap had been modified for aerobatics and Rupert said he got a face-full of fuel when he tried a slow roll but I did make one each way without any problems other than preventing a slight roll-rate increase in the last quarter – a common issue with their momentary inverted period were also fine rolling right in Rupert’s and remembering that tiny kick of left rudder immediately after the check forward and as I hit the aileron to coordinate the initial roll back to upright and I actually hit my slipstream as I pulled out of the second one Stall turns of course took increasing rudder on the way up (again Holding each aeroplane in the vertical for just a moment (as anticipated I hit the appropriate rudder at forty mph and round they both went and with very little need for either forward elevator or opposite aileron Throttling back halfway around kept the radius tight and gave me plenty of time to accelerate in the downward vertical before pulling out Even a stall turn against the engine went okay Of course the trick was to use a little and increasing left aileron against increasing right rudder on the way up to give plenty of left rudder availability for the kick at the top a marvellous dog-fighting aircraft?ike a biplane Turbulent or Corby Starlet I flew downwind with 2,500rpm and around 65mph and then throttled back to 2,000rpm for the approach at sixty Initially Rupert briefed me “don’t fully close the throttle” because she sinks rather rapidly in this configuration although later Some stick backpressure is needed at this speed but there is still plenty of control authority for countering gusts Aeroplanes of the notional period would normally have flown glide approaches because of their engines’ unreliability and that is still not a bad idea when using a converted automotive powerplant today Add full rudder with aileron for a sideslip and they come down like a safe with the door open Helicopter pilots would be familiar with the forced landing glide angle both for decent forward visibility and to keep the threshold in sight With the nose well down to hold seventy mph I found I actually got the best view of the runway during the turn by stretching my neck to look over the top wing I found there was still enough elevator control for a proper flare especially with the nose raised and the undersurfaces of all four wings presented to the airflow You have to rotate the nose through a very big angle to get it up to the correct three-point attitude and your stick is not fully against the back-stop by the time the wheels brush the turf the Flitzer will bounce on its stiff main gear legs Trying to correct this by pumping the stick back and forth merely causes pilot-induced oscillations and divergent bounces The only solution is opening the throttle to go around Mark’s Jabiru Flitzer was better in this regard; its slightly softer bungees had a little more give and generally allowed a softer despite my repeated inability to get his stick all the way back to its rear stop For a proper three-pointer you hold the stick right back into your gut as she touches down and then ride out the little bounces and waddles as she gradually loses momentum dancing your feet lightly on those rudder pedals (and and despite their engines rotating in opposite directions they both showed a distinct attraction towards the trees along the right runway margin Sometimes an early rudder input would stop this before it got started but on other occasions a good jab of left brake was needed to rein them in I did not land either of them on a hard runway but I suspect that would be a little more challenging Flitzers are the kind of aeroplane you would never tire of but immensely satisfying when you get things just right their handling is perfect for the connoisseur Follow Pilot Mag on Facebook and Twitter © 2025 Key Publishing Ltd . keypublishing.com View important Copyright © information related to freeware files here The archive staakenx.zip has 68 files and directories contained within it This list displays the first 500 files in the package Signing-up for PRO gives you super fast, unrestricted speed to the thousands of MSFS, FSX, P3D & X-Plane downloads which include aircraft, scenery, and more - click here to view the library for free or.. 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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. for FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf from 2010-2012 for Hertha BSC from 2012-2023 and has played for VfB Stuttgart since 2023 Maximilian Mittelstädt has scored one goal and takes ninth place within his squad He shares this rank with Jacob Bruun Larsen The 1.8m-tall defender has been responsible for six assists so far and with this has fought his way to 22nd place in the statistics of his club In 26 of the previous 29 games of the season His pass success rate amounts to 85.66 per cent with which the player with the shirt number 7 occupies fourth place in the team-internal statistics His tackle success rate amounts to 58.6 per cent he occupies second place in the team-internal statistics He has had 2,252 individual ball possessions this season the 28-year-old occupies 10th place in the Bundesliga statistics for this category Maximilian Mittelstädt played his last game on the 32nd matchday of the 2024/25 season (3 May 2025) He played as a defender throughout this entire game Maximilian Mittelstädt had 15 tackle challenges in the last match He was additionally able to make 63 successful passes He covered a distance of 10.1 km during his total playing time in this game Maximilian Mittelstädt had a total of 23 sprints Maximilian Mittelstädt has played 205 matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga He has netted five goals during his appointments in the Bundesliga he has completed 60 matches with his current squad Maximilian Mittelstädt has played 12 international matches for Germany He scored a total of one goal in these games Giant Bomber Brings Death and Devastation to Brentford One hundred years ago today a German plane launched attack on the area Zeppelin Raids, Gothas and 'Giants' On this night (29 January) exactly 100 years ago a giant bomber flew over Brentford causing death and destruction to the local area Most people are aware of the devastation caused to Brentford and the rest of London during the Second World War but this earlier bombing campaign has been largely forgotten Earlier on in the war the Germans had used Zeppelins to bomb targets in England with limited success but by 1918 they had developed huge aircraft capable of carrying a much larger payload These planes caused significantly more damage to London than the inflatables ever did The first generation of German bomber was the Gotha but they subsequently developed the ‘Giant’ or Riesenflugzeug which had a wingspan of over 42 metres It could fly for over 500 miles at a top speed of 84mph with a crew of seven Ian Castle who has written three books on the air offensive against Britain in the First World War has studied in detail the attacks that took place The following account is taken from his research four of these ‘Giants’ set off on a raid but one developed engine problems shortly after take-off The other three came inland over Essex at about 10pm Around 15 minutes later the ‘Giant’ plane R.39 commanded by Hauptmann Richard von Bentivegni The British pilot opened fire which was returned and the German plane took evasive action The slipstream from its massive engines led to Captain Dennis losing control and he lost sight of the enemy plane skirted around London and was sighted about Hertford just before 11pm He turned south and headed for west London At around 11.30pm they released 12 incendiary bombs but these fell harmlessly on the Old Deer Park in Richmond Two high explosive (HE) devices were dropped one landing one in the enclosure of the Kew Observatory and one on the 14th Green of the Mid-Surrey Golf Club Both caused craters but did little other damage Then they crossed the Thames and dropped seven incendiaries in and around Syon Park without effect three HE bombs fell with one in Whitestile Road demolishing a house and claiming the lives of the three women and five children of the Kerley family inside as well as 70 year old Catherine Berrows The next bomb exploded in the street in Enfield Road “4 cottages badly damaged and 101 small premises to a smaller extent” The third bomb in Brentford exploded on the railway track of the London & South Western railway by Clayponds Road Besides gouging a 5 foot deep crater on the railway the report states the bomb caused ‘severe damage to Carville Hall’ badly damaged six other properties and inflicted lesser damage on 151 other houses At the Metropolitan Water Board’s works at Kew Bridge six HE bombs exploded while damaging telegraph and telephone lines and 13 buildings The final three bombs landed in Chiswick where they caused damage to 99 houses The first landed at the junction of Chiswick High Road and Wellesley Road causing a five foot deep crater in road a burst water main burst and damage to 30 premises including the Labour Exchange Another hit the junction of Chiswick High Road and Stile Hall Gardens causing a five foot deep crater in road and damage to 42 houses The third hit the garden of 36 Park Road leaving a 10 feet deep crater and damaging 27 houses claimed to have dropped their bombs between Charing Cross and West India Docks on the either side of London three other RFC pilots engaged her but she escaped did not make it as far as west London dropping their bombs on Essex without causing any loss of life If you want to learn more about this forgotten Blitz visit Ian Castle’s web site to find out more Pelajari lebih lanjut tentang pemecahan masalah di WordPress. 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