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Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-5 Danzig
🇩🇪 Germany ·first flew 1959· single seat standard class glider
what is it?
The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-5 is a German single-seat Standard Class sailplane designed and prototyped by students of Brunswick University. More than 100 were built to their design, in several different variants.
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 67 years ago, in 1959.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1959-06-03
- number built
- 100
- role
- single seat standard class glider
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Akaflieg Braunschweig
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 6.6 m
- wingspan
- 15 m
- max take-off weight
- 325 kg
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4700100, Wikipedia: Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-5 Danzig (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.