MU-17 Merle
(GPM)
The MU-17 Merle is a single-place glider aircraft that was designed and built in Germany from 1938. You can make two identical models in different scales 1:33 and 1:50.
(GPM)
The MU-17 Merle is a single-place glider aircraft that was designed and built in Germany from 1938. You can make two identical models in different scales 1:33 and 1:50.
You can make two identical models in different scales 1:33 and 1:50.
Historical information
The MU-17 Merle is the oldest Akaflieg design still flying with the Fliegergruppe today. In 1938 the ISTUS conference issued a specification for an Olympic games Olympic glider to be used at the 1940 Olympics gliding competition.
Akaflieg München designed and offered the MU-17 Merle to the committee at Rome in February 1939, but it was rejected in favour of the DFS Meise.