Grunau 29 - TRUDEL

[Alex W]

Dear Retroplane members,

I have been an admirer of your forum and the wonderful work you all do. It’s inspirational.

Over the past years I have been planning to build a historical glider. My passion are the early school gliders of the late 1920s to 1930s. I find this era so interesting.

A period where the early clubs and schools built their own gliders off a plan. I figure if they did it back in the 1930s maybe I could replicate that and built my own school glider from scratch.

Many early trainers fascinate me but there is one that captured my imagination.

I was researching the Grunau club and found an interesting glider based around the Grunau 29 but had a fuselage. I first saw it as a picture on a tobacco tin. But later saw it in a vintage magazine.

It was called TRUDEL and flew from 1929. I found a picture of it in the May edition of Flugsport 1932. It flew at Grunau.

For me it shows the birth of the future Grunau Baby to come. Unfortunately I can’t find any further information or pictures to develop a plan.

I thought this forum would be a great place to start the journey.

Cheers

Alex

[VincentB]

Bonjour Alex,

Je réponds en Français, j'espère que la traduction sera compréhensible

Tout d'abord, bienvenue sur le forum


Je ne connais pas ce planeur avec cette dénomination, es tu sûr du nom de ce planeur? peut être qu'il y a un mélange d'informations? je ne trouve rien sur un éventuel Grunau 29 Trudel. Par contre quand on recherche Grunau Trudel, cette réponse (IA) apparaît, avec bien sûr les précautions à prendre pour sa véracité...

[ThomasF]

Hello Alex,

A warm welcome from me too to the forum on the other side of the world.

Vincent was quicker! – I couldn’t find that aeroplane either.
I’ve looked through both issues of *Flugsport* from May 1932.
Could you please post the full article you’re referring to here? Ideally with the page number.
Then perhaps we can help you better.

Gruß
Thomas