Musculair
Musculair 1 and Musculair 2 were two muscular power aircraft built by Günter Rochelt .
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With the Musculair 1 , Rochelt's son Holger won one of the Kremer prizes in 1984 for a flight over the “lying eight” in 4 minutes 25 seconds. In the same year he set a world speed record with the Musculair 1 with 35.7 km / h and received another Kremer Prize for it. The Musculair 1 was also the first passenger flight with a muscle-powered aircraft in 1984. The passenger was Holger Rochelt's younger sister Katrin, who was still a child at the time.
- Length: 7.20 m
- Span: 22.00 m
- Wing area: 16.50 m²
- Glide ratio: 38
- Height: 2.20 m
- Weight of the aircraft: 28 kg
- Propeller diameter: 2.72 m
- required minimum power: 200 watts
- Required optimal power (11 m / s): 280 watts
With the Musculair 2 , Holger Rochelt set a new world speed record of 44.26 km / h.
- Length: 6.00 m
- Span: 19.50 m
- Wing area: 11.70 m²
- Glide ratio: 37
- Height: 1.50 m
- Mass of the aircraft: 25 kg
- Propeller diameter: 2.68 m
The Musculair 1 is now in the Deutsches Museum in Munich , the Musculair 2 in the Schleissheim aircraft yard of the Deutsches Museum in Oberschleißheim near Munich.
