To celebrate
Belgium's National Day 2003, I submit to your appreciation a most unusual
subject: a glider in the colors of the Belgian Air Cadets.
The Schleicher KA6E
Rhönsegler one of the nicest glider I flew. This well known glider
(at least in Europe), was designed by Rudolf KAISER as far as 1954 and built by
the Schleicher manufacturing in Poppehausen (Germany) until 1972 , when wood and
linen glider construction was abandoned against new composite materials.
The E version of the Ka 6 represents the most advanced version of this
very popular glider , still to be seen in large number in European gliding
clubs.
The Belgian Air
Cadets are a non profit organization, established in the early fifties, run with
the help of the Belgian Air force, that gives young people from 15 years old an
inexpensive chance to learn to fly and eventually go for a flying career
in the Air Force or in Civil Aviation.