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
Scottish mythology are other supernatural beings whose characteristics reflect folkloric patterns from around the world. Ancestral spirits, and giants who help to form the landscape and represent the forces of nature, are ubiquitous and may point to non-elite registers of mythology. The Loch Ness Monster is a legendary aquatic creature reported from many sightings over many years. A popular belief is that the monster is a lone survivor of the "long-extinct plesiosaurs". Although the sighting of the monster was reported as far back as the 6th century, in recent times the sightings were reported once the road around the loch was built.