founded 1962 defunct 1982 headquarters kirchheim unter teck germany key people eugen h nle founder and aircraft designer products sailplanes website www.streifly.de home e.htm the firm glasfl gel german glass wings was founded by eugen h nle in 1962 and was located in schlattstall south of kirchheim unter teck . it was the first firm to manufacture a glass fibre sailplane in large numbers . it was also responsible for a large number of innovations in sailplane design and technology quick assembly systems for wings and tailplane automatic control connections trailing edge airbrake flap combinations hinged instrument panels the parallelogram control stick and automatic trimming are some innovations introduced by glasfl gel and later adopted by other manufacturers . some of these are standard features in nearly all gliders produced today . glasfl gel encountered financial difficulties in the 1970s which led to a co operation with the firm schempp hirth starting from may 1975 . the death of eugen h nle in a flight accident on september 21 of the same year further aggravated the company s position and after further changes in ownership in 1979 it was finally dissolved in 1982 . contents 1 products 2 licensed production 3 see also 4 references products edit the following glider types were manufactured by glasfl gel glasfl gel bs 1 glasfl gel h 30 gfk glasfl gel h 101 salto glasfl gel h 201 standard libelle glasfl gel h 301 libelle glasfl gel 202 standard libelle glasfl gel 203 standard libelle glasfl gel 204 standard libelle glasfl gel 205 club libelle glasfl gel 206 hornet glasfl gel hornet c glasfl gel 303 mosquito glasfl gel 304 glasfl gel 401 kestrel glasfl gel 402 glasfl gel 604 hansj rg streifeneder falcon the projected glasfl gel 701 and 704 side by side two seaters did not materialise due to the demise of the company . licensed production edit the british company slingsby aviation built the kestrel under license as the slingsby t 59 . slingsby later developed the slingsby vega a family of 15 metre span gliders heavily influenced by its previous experience with glasfl gel designs . see also edit related lists list of gliders references edit wikimedia commons has media related to glasfl gel . website of hanj rg streifeneder glasfaser flugzeugbau gmbh v t e aircraft produced by glasfl gel bs 1 101 201 202 203 204 205 206 h 30 h 301 303 304 401 402 604 701 704 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title glasfl gel & oldid 668393702 categories defunct aircraft manufacturers of germanyhidden categories articles containing german language textcommons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschitalianosuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 24 june 2015 at 01 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view