BGA glider data sheet ASW 15B (See separate sheet for ASW 15A) Data source: Flight & Operational Manual Date of issue: 1972 Manufacturer: Schleicher Phone: 0049 6658 890 Fax: 0049 6658 8940.

There was a 3-m, 1/5 scale ASW-15, kitted by Hegi Modelbau in Germany. Never imported to the US to my knowledge, I brought one back from Holland in the 70's. After a great maiden flight (sometime in the early 80's??), I accidentally flew it through a fence while landing, due to the spoilers 'peeking' out. The spolilers were on the throttle stick and obviously, they were very effective.

There was only minor damage to the wings, but the internal fuselage joiner tubes (!) and the swing-arm structures that coupled to the spoilers and ailerons were ripped loose. Install dlo agent silent. (No one thought of putting servos out in the wings in those days.) It's been hanging on my wall for many years, but this spring I repaired the fuselage damage and retrofitted it for aerotow, adding a computer radio (so that I could put the spoilers on a slide switch) and a tow-release servo. First flights were via hi-start and it still flew great. It whipped around quite a lot on tow and yesterday the internal thin-walled steel tube that held the removeable main wing rods inside the fuse failed at the dihedral 'kink'. Wings folded and crunch! Fuse broke cleanly in two on impact but there is no damage to the empennage and only slight damage to the right wing. I will not rebuild this aircraft.

Just too many old design concepts were incorporated, like all the bellcranks and linkages in the wings. And I have too many projects on the table now. But someone may want to have it just to use the fuselage as a mold plug reference. To make it more 'modern', the wings would have to be rebuilt with a solid rod through the fuse as a joiner.

Orginal plans and instructions in both German and English are also available. Just pay shipping. There was a 3-m, 1/5 scale ASW-15, kitted by Hegi Modelbau in Germany.

Never imported to the US to my knowledge, I brought one back from Holland in the 70's. After a great maiden flight (sometime in the early 80's??), I accidentally flew it through a fence while landing, due to the spoilers 'peeking' out.

The spolilers were on the throttle stick and obviously, they were very effective. There was only minor damage to the wings, but the internal fuselage joiner tubes (!) and the swing-arm structures that coupled to the spoilers and ailerons were ripped loose. (No one thought of putting servos out in the wings in those days.) It's been hanging on my wall for many years, but this spring I repaired the fuselage damage and retrofitted it for aerotow, adding a computer radio (so that I could put the spoilers on a slide switch) and a tow-release servo.