The Akaflieg Darmstadt D-30 Cirrus was an aerodynamically advanced single seat sailplane with a very high aspect ratio wing and a pod and boom fuselage. Built in Germany just before World War II it was intended as a record breaker and duly set a new world out-and-return distance record in 1938.
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