Hermann Mylius (engineer)

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Hermann Mylius (born November 21, 1916 in the Harz Mountains, † December 9, 1989 in Brunnthal ) was a German engineer.

Life

Hermann Mylius was born on November 21, 1916 in a small town in the Harz Mountains . In 1930 he joined the Nordhausen Aviation Association and thus came into contact with model and glider flying . He learned to fly at the Reichsegelflugschule Laucha . After graduating from high school, he was drafted into the German Air Force in October 1937 and trained as an aircraft pilot with a C2 license, blind and aerobatic flight authorization. During the Second World War he flew as a fighter, transport and sea ​​pilot . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner of war as a captain and fighter pilot - squadron captain .

From December 1945 he studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig , dealt with lightweight construction and was a research assistant with Professors Hermann Winter and Hermann Schlichting . From 1956 to the autumn of 1960 Mylius was a gliding instructor at the Fliegerclub Nürnberg , after which he became a member of the Bölkow aviation group.

From 1960 he worked at MBB in Ottobrunn , first in helicopter construction, from 1962 in sport aircraft construction. He made the Bölkow Bo 208 ready for series production and converted it to version C. With the support of the Bölkow company , he developed the MHK 101 together with Walter Heynen and Johannes Krauss, which from 1967 became the basis for the development of the Bo 209 Monsun under his direction.

In 1967 he became the technical director of “light aircraft construction” at Bölkow, where the LFU 205 test aircraft, the world's first plastic powered aircraft and its follow-up project, the Bo 211.

Privately, using Monsun components, developed the Mylius My 102 Tornado aerobatic aircraft , the V1 prototype of which took off for the first time on July 7, 1973 in Neubiberg and the improved V2 version in the early 1980s. This was followed by the Mylius My 103 Mistral, a low-wing aircraft with 200 hp, which was intended as the successor to the Bo 209. The construction of four aircraft took place in his house in Brunnthal , the first flight was planned for 1986.

Hermann Mylius worked at MBB until his retirement in 1981 and died on December 9, 1989 after a long illness in Brunnthal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Brinkmann, Kyrill von Gersdorff, Werner Schwipps: Sport and travel aircraft . In: German aviation . 1st edition. tape 23 . Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-7637-6110-1 , pp. 267 f .
  2. ^ Rolf Wurster: 50 years of German powered aircraft . Books on Demand GmbH, 2001, p. 54 f .
  3. ^ R. Dörpinghaus: Hermann Mylius . In: aerokurier . No. 1 , 1990, p. 26 .
personal data
SURNAME Mylius, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH resin
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1989
Place of death Brunnthal