*Type designation:*	Ra-35
*Name:*	Rhönadler
*Designer:*	Hans Jacobs
*Class:*	Performance
*Wing span:*	17.4 m
*Crew:*	1
*First flight in Hungary:*	1936
*Number of built:*	7
*Number of imported:*	-

A popular performance glider of Hungarian gliding before the war was the Ra-35 Rhönadler. The glider's drawings were bought by different clubs the workshops of which were engaged to build them.

All Rhönadlers built in Hungary were a modified version. Lajos Rotter redesigned the canopy for better performance.

In 1936 a Rhönadler and the Karakán made a 67 km out-and-return flight flying together in wave on the Hármashatárhegy-Esztergom-Hármashatárhegy route. In 1939 one of the Rhönadlers participated in the olympic training camp at Szolnok. In 1941 Róbert Mérai-Horváth broke the Hungarian duration record flying MOVERO's Rhönadler performing a 26 hours 55 minutes flight over the hills of Farkashegy. In 1943 two pilots gained height over 3000 m in Rhönadlers. In the same year Tibor Szilas (Steff) performed a 254 km distance flight with a Rhönadler.

Two Rhönadlers survived the war and were use till the first half of the 1950s.

Production

MÁV Istvántelki Fõmûhely	1936	1
Autobus Plant of BSzKRt	1937	1
Central workshop of Air Scouts, Budapest	1938-40	2
(*)	1940	2
Workshop of MOVERO, Schwarzenberg street, Budapest	1941	1
TOTAL PRODUCED		7

(*) The sources cover only the production of five gliders. However register records as well as photographs confirm that 2 other gliders were produced in 1940.

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