Perhaps the 2024 meeting?
Invitation to Bücker Enthusiasts from all over the world
Degerfeld airfield will host the next international Bücker fly in. Once again we will try to realize our dream to have 50 Bückers in the air to fly over our beautiful mountain area and the Hohenzollern castle. The date is June 29/30 2024. Earlier in the year this time in the hope of nicer weather :)
Jungmann and Jungmeisters have changed hands and for sure new owners will join us for another great event. We invite all international Bücker enthusiasts to join us, even if they cannot bring their airplanes because they live too far away. Degerfeld is located only 44 miles south from Stuttgart airport and easy to reach by rental cars.
Schedule
The arrival of Bückers may start on on Friday June 28. On Saturday and Sunday we will enjoy flying our planes. Together, solo, formations or aerobatics, whatever we feel like.The Degerfeld aero club offers us all hangar space and the infrastructure of the field. About 30 Bückers can be hangared over night.
Accommodation
Please make the hotel reservations by yourself. We will provide a shuttle service. Recommended hotels nearby are:- Hotel Post, Jungingen: www.hotel-post-jungingen.de
- Hotel Lamm Hechingen-Stein: www.hotel-lamm-hechingen.de
- Hotel Brielhof Hechingen: www.hotel-brielhof.de/
- Hotel Linde Albstadt-Ebingen: www.gasthof-linde.com
The airfield offers camp grounds and facilities for those who don't want to use a hotel room. The restaurant at the airfield will be reserved for us and will offer food and drinks all weekend. It has a wonderful beer garden with a lovely evening atmosphere. After flying we can use a projector and speakers for all kinds of presentations. Everybody is welcome to present his Bücker material.
Ulli Hunger -our enthusiastic Bücker movie director- will have his extended Bücker movie ready for us to enjoy.
Please let me know whether you will join our Bücker fly-in and let me know how many persons will join.
We are looking forward to welcoming you.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Hermann Diebold + Philipp Hüfner for LSV Degerfeld
Ph: +49-7477-87133 work
Mobile: +49-172-7302781
Mailing Address: Hermann Diebold, Konstantin-Killmaier-Weg 19, D-72379 Hechingen, Germany
Some images from 2017 to whet your appetite :)
Thanks to John Tempest for this excellent video of the meeting.
As we were saying our goodbyes and preparing to leave the fly-in at Albstadt-Degerfeld, Hermann Deibold said "This has been a dream come true." I think eveyone at the event felt the same way. About 25 Bückers had arrived by air. Six Siemens Jungmeisters, six Hirth Jungmann, two LOM Jungmann, Two Walter Mikron B&F Jungmann, three Tigre/CASA Jungmann, three Bestmann, one LOM Jungmeister, a Stieglitz and more. A Jungmeister and two Jungmann are based at Degerfeld, so all together I think I counted 29 Bückers!
The sound of 20+ vintage engines turning at once was something to experience.
Although the forecast for the weekend was horrible, Bückers started to arrive from Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. There was lots of flying to be done, friendships to renew, stories to tell and eventually work to get that many aircraft into Degerfeld's big hangar.
At dinner on Friday night in the airfield restaurant we were treated to the much anticipated "Bücker Movie". Unfortunately a computer problem the week before had cased some problems with the movie, but even so what we saw was wonderful. Historical footage I had not seen before and a lot of new content of the most excellent quality. When this film is finished it is going to be fantastic.
More movies and stories were enjoyed at the airport restaurant, and Peter Funk gave a most interesting talk on the development of the A and B model Jungmann he now produces.
Sunday was a much better day. The early morning clouds soon dispersed and flying commenced. Benoit put on another impressive display of the flying that recently won him the world vintage aerobatics championships, there was some formation flying (three formations of three aircraft over the field), passenger rides were given to members of the Winter family who had so kindly shown us around their facility the day before, and some last minute maintenance was performed prior to what was for many, a long trip home.
Throughout the event we were treated to flights by RC model Bückers, the larges of which by far was this 80% scale Jungmeister. I counted at least eight servos, two receivers and five batteries in the model.
This is a B&F 'A' model Jungmann powered by a Walter Mikron engine. It sounded very Tigre like and was of spectacular quality. Two of the ten aircraft so far delivered were present.
My favorite aircraft of the show. What a classic.