Made kits available to construct the Merlin GT-582 two-seat monoplane, originally developed in Canada as the Macair Merlin.
1996: 509 Airport Rd, Muskegon, MI 49441, USA.
The company closed due to financial difficulty.
The designs were being produced by Blue Yonder Aviation, Inc., and one is also available from AeroComp Inc.
This two-seat aerobatic biplane is stressed to a +6G and -3G limit, and +9G to -4.5G ultimate. It was first flown in 1973, and its designer, Edwin Merkel, planned to produce the biplane in a two-seater trainer version and a single-place competition model. The Mark II is completely covered with a light alloy skin outside, and underneath the fuselage is welded steel tube while the wings feature a single-spar tor¬sional structure. Other extras include an antiservo tab, ground-adjustable trim tab and optional cockpit canopy.
Gross Wt. 1540 lb
Empty Wt. 1200 lb
Fuel capacity 18 USG
Wingspan 25’6”
Length 22’9”
Engine 220-hp Franklin
Top speed 206 mph
Cruise mph 160
Stall 55 mph
Climb rate 2500 fpm
Takeoff run 300 ft
Landing roll 300 ft
Range 250 miles
1980: Merkel Airplane Co, 3920 North Charles St, Wichita, KS 67204, USA. Built the Merkel Mark II aerobatic biplane
Meridionali-Aerfer Spa succeeded Societa Aninima Industrie Aeronautiche Romeo, which had been formed in 1934 to absorb Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali’s aviation activities. Became part of Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda group. Developed Ro.37 two-seat reconnaissance biplane which served October 1936 with Italian Aviacion Legionaria during Spanish Civil War and equipped Italian Air Force reconnaissance units during Second World War. Also used operationally were Ro.43 two-seat, single-float catapult seaplane and single-seat fighter version, Ro.44.
First turbine-powered helicopter built and flown in Germany, the five-seat Merckle SM 67 development began as a private venture in 1956, but the third prototype, which flew for the first time on April 12,1961, was bought by the Federal Government and spent much of last year undergoing an official flight test and evaluation programme.
More refined than its predecessors, it has a fully enclosed cabin and is powered by a 406shp Turbomeca Artouste IIC shaft turbine, driving a three-blade main rotor and two-blade tail rotor.
SM-67
Engine: 406shp Turbomeca Artouste IIC
Rotor diameter: 10.49m
Overall length: 12.75m
Height: 2.8m
Gross weight: 1700kg
Empty weight: 1037kg
Max speed: 220km/h
Cruising speed: 190km/h
Hovering ceiling OGE: 3500m
Range with full payload: 360km
Payload: 300kg
Merckle acquired from Dr. Winter of Brunswick Technical College a license to build the Kiebitz two-seat STOL monoplane.
Established at Oedheim in 1960, and acquired from Dr. Winter of Brunswick Technical College license to build Kiebitz two-seat STOL monoplane. In 1956 began development of SM-67 Turbomeca Artouste-powered five-seat helicopter, initially as private venture and later to government contract.
Merckle joined Dornier in 1969.
The Merćep 1912 aka Merćep-Rusjan Military-Monoplane of 1912 or Rusjan-Novak No.2, was the second design after the crash of the Slovenian aviation pioneer Eduardo Rusjan. Earlier, Eduardo Rusjan had moved with his brother to Zagreb, Croatia, where Guiseppe Rusjan and Dragutin Karlo Novak then continued to build aircraft for the “Agramer Aëroplanfabrik M. Merćep”, set up by the businessman Mihajlo Merćep in Zagreb.
Engine: Gnome, 50 h.p.
Span: 32½ ft / 10 m
Wing area: 204 sq. ft / 19 m²
Length: 23 ft / 7 m
Weight: 617 lb / 280 kg
Useful load: 661 lb / 300 kg
Number built: 1
Mihalis Mercep
Aeroplanwerkstatte,
Agram,
Hungary.
Russjan was connected with this firm, which built 2 biplanes to his designs in 1909. Russjan was killed in the second of these.
The Mercedes D.IV was an eight-cylinder, liquid-cooled inline aircraft engine built by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) and used on a small number of German aircraft during World War I.
The design was based around the pistons of the ubiquitous D.III 6-cylinder design and developed 162 kW (217 hp), making it a Class IV motor under the classification system then in use in Germany. When the reliability of the engine proved disappointing, it was supplanted in production by the unrelated six-cylinder Mercedes D.IVa. Specifically, the long crankshaft used in extending the original straight-six design to a straight-eight proved susceptible to breakage.
Applications:
AEG C.V
AEG G.III
AEG R.I
AGO C.II
AGO C.VIII
Albatros C.V
DFW R.I
Gotha G.II
LVG C.IV
various Riesenflugzeuge (R-planes)
Specifications
Type: 8-cylinder water-cooled inline aircraft piston engine
Bore: 140 mm (5.5 in)
Stroke: 160 mm (6.3 in)
Displacement: 19.7 L (1,200 in³)
Length: 1,990 mm (78 in)
Width: 600 mm (24 in)
Height: 1,040 mm (41 in)
Dry weight: 365 kg (800 lb)
Cooling system: Water-cooled
Power output: 162 kW (217 hp) at 1,400 rpm
