Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-X

Has anyone seen the Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-X photos. They have flown a scale model and it looks very interesting. Wonder how it will compare to "traditional designs"? If it proformed as well or better than moe traditional design I would purchase one.

From the website

"The time has come, after years of advanced development, testing, evaluation of concepts, construction of models, discarding and regenerating ideas the AK-X project is rising to a new level: We build the man-carrying flying wing of 15m glider racing class!"

https://akaflieg-karlsruhe.de/2016/0...g-flugzeugbau/

DG have started making the full size molds for them on their CNC machine.

Looks interesting,

Paul

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 2:46:10 PM UTC-8, Glidingstuff wrote:
From the website

"The time has come, after years of advanced development, testing, evaluation of concepts, construction of models, discarding and regenerating ideas the AK-X project is rising to a new level: We build the man-carrying flying wing of 15m glider racing class!"

https://akaflieg-karlsruhe.de/2016/0...g-flugzeugbau/

DG have started making the full size molds for them on their CNC machine.

Looks interesting,

Paul

Interesting project. I remember seeing some interesting flutter modes on the similar SB-13.

Any idea what happened to the SB-13? How did it fly, what was it's performance...?

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 4:50:40 PM UTC-8, Craig Funston wrote:

Interesting project. I remember seeing some interesting flutter modes on the similar SB-13.

On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:43:28 AM UTC-5, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Any idea what happened to the SB-13? How did it fly, what was it's performance...?

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 4:50:40 PM UTC-8, Craig Funston wrote:

Interesting project. I remember seeing some interesting flutter modes on the similar SB-13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akafli...ig_SB-13_Arcus

I did see this, plus the short write up at Deutsches Museum Flugwerft web site. Was looking for someone with personal knowledge of this program or a technical write up of the program.

On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 7:56:26 AM UTC-8, Dan Daly wrote:
On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:43:28 AM UTC-5, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Any idea what happened to the SB-13? How did it fly, what was it's performance...?

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 4:50:40 PM UTC-8, Craig Funston wrote:

Interesting project. I remember seeing some interesting flutter modes on the similar SB-13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akafli...ig_SB-13_Arcus