K7 History: The K7 was intended as a two-place trainer with good performance, a rare combination in trainers of its time.
The K7 is constructed with a welded steel tube fuselage, covered in doped aircraft fabric covering. The wing is a wooden structure with a doped fabric covering and employs a Goettingen 533 (16%) airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a Goettingen 533 (14%) section at the wing tip. The wing features powerful dive brakes. The landing gear is a fixed monowheel. The earlier Ka-2 variant has a plywood monocoque fuselage.
After 550 had been built, the K7 was superseded in production by the Schleicher ASK 13.
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FEATURES:
- - All Balsa and lite-ply construction
- - Fully covered
- - 2 piece wing
- - Bolt on Tailplane
- - Fiberglass nose so can be converted to EP
- - Lightweight
- - Control surfaces pre-hinged and installed
- - Pre- fitted canopy with magnetic catch
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