Trips and Flight Reports
Since the site keeps growing and growing we thought it to be fit to move all flight reports into this new separate category. Off course they still can be found by using the "search" option, or by simply browsing the news section.
Article
(4 images) in German by Gerhard Marzinzik on a scientific flight accross Nepal and the Himalaya as originally published in the German Aerokurier magazine 4/1985.
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart "
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Pseudo live report (lots of images) about the flight of Taifun D-KKGG (pilots Manfred Garben & Urs Gerigk) in May 2010 from Oehna- Berlin (Germany) to Fez (Morocco) by webmaster Leo. & Pseudo live report (lots of images) about the flight of D-KFDI and D-KGAN (pilots Henk Dumont, Henk Schoenmakers, Hans-Peter Gottlob and Gunter Hartleb) from Germany to Haifa (Israel) in May 2010 by webmaster Leo. |
Article
(5 images) by John Callahan on a flight to Lake Eyre (Australia) with
his newly bought Taifun 17EII (VH-OZT), at the moment the only Taifun
flying in Australia as far as we know.
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Article
(20 images) by webmaster Leo on a short flight which Henk (D-KFDI) and
Manfred (D-KKGG) made in May 2009 visiting the island of Helgoland.
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Flight
report (with 21 images) in English by Michel Mulder (D-KFIH, EHLE Lelystad)
on a 14 day trip with his newly acquired Taifun to the north of Scotland.
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Flight
report (with 14 images) in German and English by Dietrich Brönner
& Hans-Peter Gottlob (D-KGAN, Berlin) on a 8 day trip with their
Taifun to the Aegean Sea region in May 2008.
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Short
article (2 images) in English by Allan Melendy on an early August flight
with his Taifun 17E II (the only one to fly in the USA).
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Article
(with 9images) in German and English languages, written by Taifun pilot
Niklaus Wächter, about a fotoshoot of Swiss Alp tops while flying
his Taifun D-KRRK.
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Story
in German (English translation also available) by Niklaus Wächter
on an autumnal flight with his Taifun 17 E II around the Swiss Lake
Luzern in September 2007. Contains 6 beautiful images.
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Story
in German by Niklaus Wächter on flying in the Andalusian part of
Spain.
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Short
story in German and English featured in the Pilot und Flugzeug magazine
(in German) about a fly-in at Berlin Tempelhof on September 15th 2007.
Tempelhof is about to close in October 2008. Manfred Garben was present
with his Taifun 17E D-KKGG and also made some pictures.
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Pseudo live report in English
by webmaster Leo on the flight (July 14th - July 26th) of Henk, Elly,
Manfred and Gaby with their Taifuns D-KFDI and D-KKGG along the French
coast.
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Article in English by Luc
Vermeulen (with a dozen + images) about a flight he made in May 2007
with Henk and the Taifun 17E II D-KFDI, from Geilenkirchen (ETNG, Germany)
to Kaposujlak (LHKV, Hungary).
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Article (with 12 images)
in German and English on the CFI-flight to Lapalisse (France) in September
2006 by Christian Müssemeyer.
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Full length version of the
article in Aerokurier 8/2006 by Manfred Garben on the April 2006 flight
to the Scilly Islands, Guernsey and Belle-Ile. German language article
(with 13 images), also translated into English.
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Article (with 13 images)
in English on a flight from Speyer (Germany) to Bilbao (Spain) by Luis
Avila who made this trip to bring his newly bought German Taifun D-KMKA
to his homebase in Spain.
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Article (with 13 images)
in both German and English on the July 2006 CFI-flight to Popham (UK),
written by Christian Müssemeyer.
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Daily update (June18th 2006
- June 30th 2006) in English on a flight of two Taifuns (D-KFDI and
D-KHNO) to Corsica.
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A second story, in German
and English, on the April 2006 flight to the Scilly Islands (with 14
images) written by Urs Gerigk, one of the participants.
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Daily update (June1st 2006
- June 6th 2006) in English on a CFI-flight by 8 planes, amongst which
Henk with his Taifun D-KFDI that was originally planned to go to Mallorca,
but ended up in Britanny France.
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Daily update (April14th 2006
- April 20th 2006) in English on a flight of two Taifuns (D-KFDI and
D-KKGG) to the Scilly Islands.
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Article (with several images)
in English on a flight to Hamm where this year's Taifun-Treffen (2006)
will be held, written by webmaster Leo.
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Article (with 12 images)
in English on a short flight from Geilenkirchen (ETNG) to Dahlemer Binz
(EDKV) and back again, written by webmaster Leo. German translation
is being worked upon.
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Article (with 12 images)
in German and English on a flight to the CFI meeting in Lapalisse (France)
in sept 2003, written by Christian Müssemeyer.
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German article (with 6 images),
also translated into English, about a flight with 3 motorgliders in
April 2004 from Mönchengladbach (Germany) to Nancy (France) and
back, written by Christian Müssemeyer.
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| Article (with 20 images) in both German and English, about a flight by Gabriele Brönner-Garben and Manfred Garben with their Taifun 17E in the summer of 2002 around the Ostsee (Baltic Sea). |
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| German and English article (with 14 images) about a flight by Gabriele Brönner-Garben and Manfred Garben with their Taifun 17E from Oehna (near Berlin) to the Greek island of Corfu in april 2003. |
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| Short English article (with 2 images) about a flight in the summer of 2004 by D-KFDI, D-KKGG and D-KLUW across Norway and Sweden with main destination the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. |
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| German and English article (with 21 images) about a flight by Wolfgang Bertle in september 2000 across the European Alps. |
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