RRG Fafnir flown for over seven hours over Buenos Aires. On return it continued to fly from its Darnstadt home until retired to a Berlin museum, where it was destroyed by bombing in World War II. RRG Fafnir The RRG Fafnir, named after the legendary dragon, was a single seat German high performance glider designed by Alexander Lippisch. It won the Rhön competition in 1931 and made several outstanding flights as well as setting a fashion for gull wings. Lippisch began the design of the influential Fafnir in 1929. Its refined design proved difficult to construct and the aircraft was only just
RRG Fafnir 2 the rudder, which was straighter-edged and with a sturdier heel. An all-moving tapered elevator with an unswept leading edge and a trailing edge notch for rudder movement was mounted on the fuselage mid-line. The Fafnir 2 landed on a long skid, running from the nose almost to the wing trailing edge. A drop-off dolly was sometimes used for take-off. When first built its cockpit, ahead of the wing leading edge, had a stepped, multi-framed glazed canopy though by 1937 this had been reworked to blend smoothly into the forward fuselage line. The Fafnir 2 took part in the July 1934