In 1929 Rudolf Pause caused a sensation with a muscle-powered swing plane developed in his company. From a hill on what is now Bodenseestrasse, Pause takes “incredible” leaps in the air, according to the archive authors, with a range of twelve meters.
According to the plans of designer Adalbert Schmid, who works for him, they build a swing-wing glider. On June 26, 1942, the muscular-strength aircraft will set out on a 900-meter flight on a meadow on Agnes-Bernauer-Strasse, where the Westbad is today. If you believe the pause experts from the Pasinger Archive, then it was the world’s first manned swing flight.
As a result, Schmid and Pause will of course equip the swing wing with motors, but the project comes to an abrupt end. The Nazi rulers believe that it is not important to the war effort.
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