The Mü3 "Kakadu" was the first high performance glider designed and built at Akaflieg München.

Schleicher built sixty-five of them, making it the top selling German high performance glider; several were exported.

By 1947 Canadian glider pilots urgently needed a new intermediate performance glider for club use and cross-country flying.

This 1939 project was a two-seater performance glider, planned, but not built.

Designed in 1963, the B11 was a single-seat tail less performance glider with negative wing-sweep.

However the expected performance gains were only partly realised and the B12 does not rank with the highest performance gliders, as was hoped.

The 2-32 was designed to be the highest performance two-place glider available, when it first flew in 1962.

Students at Akaflieg München started the development of a high performance aerobatic glider during the early 1980s.

In most high performance gliders the undercarriage can be raised to reduce drag in flight and lowered for landing.

These high performance gliders use the same patern and procedures as all other motorized aircraft.