My Discus CS was checked by Wolfgang and Thomas from Shempp-Hirth in Denver
on Friday. A small void was found about 2 feet inboard from the aileron
belcrank inspection cover. It was probed and extended about 3 inches
spanwise and a half inch chordwise. It was repaired.


"Thomas Knauff" wrote in message
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Doris and I just returned from another funeral, so I missed some email
messages for a few days.

I spoke with the Schempp-Hirth factory and they tell me they have now
checked a fairly large number of Discus and have found no problems.

In the meantime, the German LBA will issue some kind of directive after a
meeting on September 24th.

The obvious prudent course is to not fly any affected Discus models
specified in the following document until after this meeting:

http://www.lba.de/dokumente/ad/2003-266-e.pdf

Schempp-Hirth owners may want to sign up for my free newsletter at
www.eglider.org as this is the easiest way for me to communicate with
everyone.

Tom Knauff
Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies
Julian, Pa

Phone 814-355-2483




"Chris OCallaghan" wrote in message
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It appears that a third S-H aircraft has broken up in flight this
season. Rather than giving private assurances/explanations to
individual S-H owners, could someone in-the-know please tell us what
is going on?