Santa Cruz do Sul S.C.S.1

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Santa Cruz do Sul S.C.S.1
The S.C.S.1 glider before its first flight, in 1920.
Role	Glider Type of aircraft
National origin	Brazil
Designer	Rudolf Lohre Gustav Wenneeck
First flight	1920
Number built	1

The S.C.S.1 was a 1920s Brazilian single-seat sailplane of high-wing construction, manufacturer at Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.^[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]

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