Egon Scheibe, uses mixed materials with wooden wings and tail surfaces covered with fabric, as well as a welded steel tube fuselage covered with fabric, the first time welded steel tubing was used for a practical sailplane.

Performance of the Mü10 Milan was found to be good at low speeds, suiting the aircraft to thermalling, due to the use of homegrown aerofoil sections developed by Egon Scheibe, who was now leader of the Akaflieg München design team.

Entry into the front cockpit was via a removable canopy, (largely opaque with portholes in the first iteration), built up with wooden frames and Plexiglas panels.

At Salzburg it was flown by Ludwig Karch to a height gain of 2980m (9777 feet) and 195 km (121 miles) distance over the Austrian Alps.

Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehör-Industrie 1944[5]General characteristics Performance