Length 5,52 m , height 1,6 m , span 10,2 m , wing area 18 m2 , aspect ratio 6
Weights
Empty 95 kg , loaded 165 kg,
Performance
Max.. speed , max. gliding ratio 12, min. sink 1 m/sec.
Schleicher's first collaboration with Hans Jacobs, a young engineer newly arrived at the RRG This fruitful collaboration lasted until Jacobs left to work for the rival firm Schweyer, in Ludwigshafen. Serial production of the Anfänger began in 1929 in Poppenhausen and was the firm's first major commercial success. In an advertising brochure of the firm, dated October 1931, The Anfänger is offered at a base price of 530 Reichsmarks.
