Akaflieg München Mü23 Saurier
The Akaflieg München Mü 23 " dinosaur " is a motor glider student Fliegergruppe Akaflieg Munich.
History
After Mü 22 began in 1957 the construction of the second project after the Second World War. It was after the Mü 13 "Motor Merlin ", the second motor sailer of the group and shared with his predecessor some design aspects such as the seating position of the co-pilot under the wing and the mu- wheel - lift profile.
Construction
The motor glider is equipped in the reasonable Egon disc Munich school with a horse-drawn steel tube fuselage and wings in timber construction. Due to the profile of the surfaces of the motor glider can already at speeds below 50 km / h stand out and thus requires only short take-off and landing runways.
After experimenting with an engine of the VW Beetle 1200 as well as an engine of the type Brändl ZB 700 in the "dinosaur " was finally installed in the VW Type 3 engine VW 1500 N equipped.
Use
The Akaflieg Mü 23 " dinosaur " is currently (as of 2012) in the workshops of Akaflieg Munich in overhaul.