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
Investigations into Germanic Mythology concerning resemblances of Thor and Indra were carried to extremes, therefore receiving "less recognition than they deserved." Others refute individual points of the work. Still others have commented on what they see as fundamental flaws in Rydberg's methodology. While many modern scholars object to any systematization of the mythology including the one imposed by Snorri Sturlusson, believing it artificial, John Lindow and Margaret Clunies Ross have recently supported a chronological systemization of the most important mythic episodes as inherent in the oral tradition underlying Eddic poetry. Rydberg, however, believed that most of the Germanic myths could be fit into such