Musculair

Musculair 1 and Musculair 2 are two human-powered aircraft designed and built by German academic and engineer Günther Rochelt.

Musculair 1

Rochelt designed Musculair 1 and completed building it in 1984, allowing his son Holger to win a Kremer prize in the same year for his flight over a triangular course, improving the record to 4 minutes and 25 seconds. In the same year, he set a world speed record at to receive a second Kremer prize. Later that year, Holger and his sister Katrin, at that time still a child, became the first passengers in a human-powered aircraft.

* Length: 7.20 m
* Wingspan: 22.00 m
* Wing area: 16.50 m²
* Glide ratio: 1:38
* Height: 2.20 m
* Mass of the aircraft: 28 kg
* Propeller diameter: 2.72 m
* Required minimum power: 200 watts
* Required performance (): 280 watts

Musculair 2

Having slimmed down to just , Günther designed Musculair 2, Holger set a new speed world record of in 1985.

*Length: 6.00 m
*Wingspan: 19.50 m
*Wing area: 11.70 m2
*Glide ratio: 1:37
*Height: 1.50 m
*Mass of the plane: 25 kg
*Propeller diameter: 2.68 m

Aircraft on display

Today, Musculair I is on display at the main Deutsches Museum, Munich. Musculair 2 is on display at the specialist Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim in Oberschleißheim.

See also

* Solair
*List of human-powered aircraft

References

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Data on Musculair 2

Human-powered aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1984
Pusher aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft