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Landkreis FuldaGersfeld (Rhön)Gliding Airfield Wasserkuppe
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Kassel District
Landkreis FuldaGersfeld (Rhön)Gliding Airfield Wasserkuppe
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Gliding Airfield Wasserkuppe
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Jens
January 25, 2020
Hiking
The airport on the Wasserkuppe is located at the place where gliding was - as they say - "invented". As early as 1911, gliding pioneers started their first flight tests with gliders on the treeless Wasserkuppe in the Hessian Rhön. Over time, the site became a busy airport for gliders and smaller powered aircraft.
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•BAMA
August 25, 2019
Hiking
The airfield is located on the northern slope of 950.2 meters above sea level high Wasserkuppe about five kilometers north of Gersfeld. Poppenhausen is located about five kilometers west-southwest and Wüstensachsen (main town of Ehrenberg) about five kilometers east. The airfield itself is located at 902 m above sea level. NN and is the highest of the approximately 400 airfields in Germany. It is classified as a special landing site and, with up to 18,000 aircraft movements a year, is one of the busiest special landing sites in Germany. (... from Wiki)
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