Göppingen Gö 1

The Göppingen Gö 1 Wolf was a single-seat glider produced in Germany from 1935.

Design and development

Conceived as a rival to the Grunau Baby, it was the first product of the newly formed Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp firm. It was a conventional, strut-braced high-wing design of wooden construction, incorporating a wheel aft of the loaded centre of gravity to ease ground handling, as well as aero-tow and winch launches.

Of very similar construction to the Grunau Baby, the Wolf had strut-braced high-set monoplane wings supported on a pylon aft of the cockpit. The hexagonal-section fuselage was constructed largely of wood with plywood skinning and the wings and tail surfaces were plywood-skinned back to the main spars with wooden-framed fabric-covered rear portions. The undercarriage consisted of rubber-sprung skids under the nose and tail with a fixed mainwheel aft of the loaded centre of gravity.

Variants

;TG-20: Four Gö 1s impressed by the USAAF and allocated serials 42-57168,42-57175, 42-57195, and 42-57204

Specifications (Gö 1 Wolf)

thumb|Göppingen Gö 1 Wolf 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile March 1937