Akaflieg Munich Mü 18

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Munich Mü 18 "measuring crow"
"Measuring crow"
Type: Measurement and test glider
Design country:

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire

Manufacturer:

Akaflieg Munich

First flight:

1942

Number of pieces:

1

Munich Mü 18 was the type designation for the fuselage of the measurement and test glider (internally "measurement crow"), which was created as a joint project of several Akafliegs, which, as a kind of flying wind tunnel, was supposed to provide information on the behavior of different wing profiles.

history

After the seizure of power , Akaflieg Munich was renamed the Aviation Technical Group (FFG) at the Technical University of Munich at the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt eV (DVL) and thus also received military orders from the Reich Aviation Ministry . Together with the FFG Göttingen, the FFG Danzig and the Flugtechnischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft (FAG) Chemnitz, a measuring and test glider was developed. Munich built the fuselage as Mü 18, Chemnitz a wing with DVL profile, Danzig one with the NACA profile 2412 and in Göttingen a laminar wing was built as G 4. In the course of practical testing from 1942 in Göttingen, the fuselage and tailplane had to be revised by Heinrich Schumacher from the DVL.

Due to the war and the associated lack of resources, the project made slow progress and was classified as unimportant to the war and discontinued towards the end of the war despite positive test results .

construction

The fuselage manufactured by Akaflieg Munich consisted of welded steel tubes that were covered with fabric. A special feature of the construction was the rotatable wing and thus the possibility to change the angle of attack in flight. The glider should be used as a probe on a tow plane to carry out boundary layer measurements and to measure the pressure distribution over the wing.

See also

literature

  • Frank-Dieter Lemke, Rolf Jacob: Research - Build - Fly. The Academic Fliegergruppen (Akaflieg) in Germany until 1945 Part 1. In: Flieger Revue extra, 29th issue, June 2010, pp. 18–31.

Web links

Commons : Akaflieg München Mü18 Meßkrähe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Joachim Wefeld: measuring glider . In: Akademische Fliegergruppe Berlin (Ed.): East German students in the sky . Berlin 1994, p. 173 .
  2. ↑ The Mü 18 on Volar a Vela (Spanish) , accessed on February 3, 2017
  3. ↑ The Mü 18 on the Akaflieg Munich website , accessed on February 3, 2017