Weird But Interesting: Brditschka HB-23 Scanliner at the Wyk auf Föhr Fly-In 2016

My visit at the Wyk auf Föhr Fly-In in 2016 definitely is one of the highlights of my "career" as a plane spotter so far and yet I never published any video taken there, with the notable exception of a teaser ( http://tinyurl.com/z3sdwdx ) I did to arouse people's curiosity ... for videos I never published ... ah, ... well, ... yes 😉. Anyway, this is going to end here and now, because this video was taken at the Wyk auf Föhr Fly-In 2016 and it features a rather unusual light aircraft.

The Brditschka HB-23 had its first flight in 1982, but its roots go back to the 1950s, when German aircraft designer Fritz Raab developed the "Motorkrähe", which Austrian Heino Brditschka based the design of his HB-3 on, which in turn was the predecessor of the HB-23. With about 50 units built, this motor glider certainly is a rather rare sight, but for me, it's its weird design that makes stand out. With a pusher propeller and an oddly shaped rear fuselage to house it, the HB-23 is unusual enough, but here we see the "Scanliner" variant, whose most distinctive feature is the fully glazed nose, giving the HB-23 a still more extraordinary look!

The plane featured in the video is an HB-23/2400 Scanliner, built in 1987, which originally flew under Austrian registration OE-9298 before it was sold to Denmark, where it received its current registration OY-TBX. It can be seen here landing at runway 27 at Wyk auf Föhr airfield (EDXY) and taking off from there, all in windy, cloudy weather, which harms the sound of the video in places, but adds a lot to its looks in return. 🙂
Recorded on 2016-08-06
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