Greif 1a (Fk1) 1959 / Otto Funk

Description

It was in the year 1959 that Otto Funk, a student at the time, began work with the Heinkel Company in Speyer, where he designed the all-metal Greif 1a glider.

At this stage already, Funk had begun to use a method of construction entirely new to this industry, namely metal-bonding construction.

Since then, this technique has been further developed and remains to this day one of the special design features of FK aircraft.