LSG Waterkant-Zetel e.V. received their JS3, serial number 83, on the 18th of June. They send to us some very uplifting words which we would like to share: “Thank you very much, Jonker Sailplanes and M&D Flugzeugbau for our new Aircraft. This weekend (26th to 28th of June), the first members of our club had

The latest issue of the gliding magazine SEGELFLIEGEN has just been dispatched to shops in Germany and Austria. This issue covers the 2020 Helli Lasch Challenge in the 5-star game lodge TSWALU, South Africa where some of the world’s top glider pilots enjoyed a week of luxury gliding. The front page picture of a jet

For those who missed the link in our latest newsletter, here is a copy of the article… Weight and balance is such a critical flight safety component – so often neglected by many of us aviators. Just imagine that the complete weight of an aircraft in flight is carefully balanced somewhere around the main wings,

JS is expanding its product range and plans to release a product in the standard class – the JS4. It is important to have the “voice of the customer” early in the design phase, to ensure we specify a product meeting our customer’s needs. We need to understand who has interest in our new products,

Production at JS was unfortunately interrupted by the Corona virus. The South African Government has followed world best practises to slow down the spread of the COVID-19/Corona virus.    At this moment there are more than a thousand cases of infection reported in South Africa, including five fatalities.  Eight cases have been reported in the North

The MD-TJ 42 Jet Turbine creates the most versatile sailplane sustainer system ever made. The installation weighs a mere 17kg and with an additional 17kg of fuel an amazing 150km range is possible, climbing 2m/s at 140km/h. In the unlikely event that you are late with that critical appointment with your dear partner, you may

I started gliding in 2004 at Potchefstroom gliding club after attending a training day during the final year of High school. Being from a small town, approximately 50 km north of Potchefstroom, and being involved in farming activities during most of my time there my original plan was to become a veterinarian. One flight in

While other manufacturers claim to have an uncompromised design, we in the JS design team believe in a perfectly compromised design, taking into account all of the aspects of what makes a glider a superior product and balancing this to achieve the best designed glider in the world. Jonker Sailplanes has shown that they are

JS made some changes to the marketing structure in the European region. To enable us to meet the needs of our growing customer base, we have appointed two more agents, Yves Gerster and Katrin Senne . Yves lives in Switzerland, has been involved with JS since 2014 when he did his engineering internship at our design office. Since

June 2017 marked an incredible milestone for the JS-MD Partnership when the JS1 variant, the JS-MD 1C, was awarded type certification from EASA. Now two years later on the 18th of July the next huge milestone was achieved with the EASA approval of the JS-MD 3. The amount of resources and effort that goes into