The combination of exciting self-directed building projects and hands-on work in the workshop has led our members to invest much of their free time in the Akaflieg alongside their studies for decades. The Akaflieg is not only an opportunity to put the knowledge from lectures into practice, but also a meeting place for a diverse group of people with a common passion: flying.
During your studies, you will be a member of the active "Junge Gruppe" (joung group). The Junge Gruppe currently consists of about 40 students from various disciplines. Most of them come from mechanical and aerospace engineering, but there are also physicists, electrical engineers and engineers. We are open to students from all disciplines; the only requirement for admission to the Akaflieg is enrollment at a Munich university.
Typically, young group members are active for about four years. In this relatively short time, they are trained in flying, taught craftsmanship, and challenged to solve problems on their own or even take on the coordination of complicated tasks as project managers. Participation in the Akaflieg teaches skills such as organization, project planning, teamwork, creativity, and problem solving, which will also be rewarded later when looking for a job on the job market. Of course, this also includes flight testing of the constructed aircraft and the glider training in the club.
After graduation, an active member becomes an an “Alte Dame” (old lady) or “Alter Herr” (old gentleman) of the club. This group consisting of several hundred members is very important for the Akaflieg, on the one hand to pass on the accumulated knowledge to the younger generation and to help with advice and support, and on the other hand to support the Akaflieg financially and with industry contacts.
The projects of the Akaflieg München are always aimed at researching, building and testing something new. Our goal is to produce and apply innovative methods and developments in aircraft construction. In the recent past, this has resulted in the Mü 27 with its variable wing geometry and wing area in flight, the Mü 28, the world's fastest aerobatic glider at 380 km/h, the Mü 30 “Schlacro”, a combination of motorized towing and aerobatic aircraft with 300 HP, and the Mü 31, an aerodynamically improved high performance glider. Our latest project, the Mü 32 “Reißmeister” aerobatic glider, is currently under construction and has already been spectacularly tested for its load-bearing capacity.
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