Santa Cruz do Sul S.C.S.1

In mid-1919, Rudolf Lohre and Gustav Wenneeck, two Germans living in Rio Grande do Sul, acquired a German magazine with plans of several German gliders of the time, and used it as a basis for the creation of a glider.^[1] With technical help from Luiz Sthal and Oscar Adolphs, and financial help from the brothers Hoezel and Helmuth Dreher.^[1] The aircraft was ready in January 1920.^[1]

It had a pinho and taquara structure.^[1] The tests were made in Henrique Filter's farm, only a single flight was registered, on January 26 of the same year, when the aircraft flew 20 meters at a height of 5 meters.^[1]

This was the first flight of a glider in South America.^[1]

Related lists

• List of gliders