Abstract: A model airplane of the glider or sailplane type made of foamed plastics, comprising rigid stabilizing surfaces and wings and having the bottom side of the fuselage provided with a catapulting hook disposed in the vicinity of the center of gravity in a vertical plane extending through the longitudinal axis of the fuselage, and a sweptback wing profile with a large sweepback and decreasing in thickness and depth from the wing root at the fuselage to the tips of the wing, the connecting lines between the outermost points of the profile sections of the wings having an angle of wing setting .alpha. which increases, with regard to the longitudinal axis LA of the fuselage from wing roots to wing tips.