Schempp-Hirth Cirrus (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schempp-Hirth Cirrus is an Open Class glider built by Schempp-Hirth between 1967 and 1971 and by VTC until 1977. The Cirrus was designed by Dipl. Ing Klaus Holighaus and was the first glass-fibre glider to be built by Schempp-Hirth. The prototype flew in 1967 with a V-tail like the Austria. It won the German Open Class in 1967. By 1971 107 had been built in Germany. Production was transferred to Vazduhoplovno Tehnicki Centar (VTC) at Vrsac in Yugoslavia, who built an additional 63. Haro Wodl won the 1968 World Gliding Championships in the open class with a Cirrus.