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Bad Wörishofen is a bright, squeaky-clean small town about an hour's train ride west of Munich. It's a spa town, the birthplace of naturopathy, and home of a huge hot-spring/sauna/pool/waterpark complex. For pilots visiting Bavaria in the summertime, it's worth a Sunday visit. The privately-owned grass airstrip on the north side of town (Bad Wörishofen Nord, identifier EDNH) has an open-air café, where you can watch the skydivers and ultralights, and wait for your 45-minute flight in a 1958 Russian-built Antonov An-2.
For info and reservations on the An-2, see here.
Watch the leading edge slats on the top wing pop out on the takeoff roll and again just before the airplane touches down, at 9:50 in the video. As the speed decays on rollout, bungees pull the slats back in.
Fuji Aero Subaru:
Klemm Kl.35 (mid-1930s):
When is a "Skylane" not a Skylane? When it's an Air-Lony "Skylane" microlight ...
For info and reservations on the An-2, see here.
Watch the leading edge slats on the top wing pop out on the takeoff roll and again just before the airplane touches down, at 9:50 in the video. As the speed decays on rollout, bungees pull the slats back in.
Fuji Aero Subaru:
Klemm Kl.35 (mid-1930s):
When is a "Skylane" not a Skylane? When it's an Air-Lony "Skylane" microlight ...
