Category: Airplanes

The earlier aircraft of the LWD Żak plant was equipped with a Walter Minor 6-III engine with 160 HP (118 kW). The team of Tadeusz Sołtyk decided to use this engine and build it on the LWD Junak aircraft. This is how the aircraft marked LWD Zuch-1 was created registration SP-BAD Serial number 17. The…

In January 1929, PWS employees set up an association to train and promote aviation. Pilot, sport and glider sections were created. The association was very dynamic for many years. Contributed to the popularization of the plant and its products. The association was the initiator and participant of many sports impressions. Although the factory airport was…

In 1924, at the Société des Aéroplanes Henry Potez company in MéauIte Somme, the French engineer engineer Henri Potez developed and built a prototype of a reconnaissance-bomber aircraft that was designated Potez XXV. The aircraft was a development of Potez XV. In the literature, the Potez XXV aircraft is also designated Potez 25. The Potez…

The Potez XV-A2 aircraft is one of three types of airliners built by the French Henri Potez plant, used by the Polish Air Force after the Great World War. The Potez XV-A2 aircraft was used in Poland from 1924 to 1932, and what was important, it was produced simultaneously in Lublin at the Zakłady Mechaniczne…

After the end of the Great World War in Poland, mainly three planes were used for training: Caudron G-3 from 1919, Nieuport 23m from 1918 and Albatros B-II from 1918. In 1923, it was decided to start serial production of a new school aircraft. In the absence of Polish constructions and extensive cooperation with France,…

The pre-war plan for the expansion of the Polish Maritime Forces provided for the creation of a squadron of torpedo-bomber planes in 1938-1939. The squadron was to be based in the newly built naval aviation base in Hel. The Polish aviation industry tried to develop maritime versions of Żubr (LWS-5 A) and Lublin R-XX aircraft…

New, subsequent arrangements led to a changed vision of the M-96 aircraft, which was to receive a modified wing, new tail, vertical stabilizer and another new version of avionics. New avionics – It was not known for what? After all, Sagem avionics have officially gained very good reviews. Unofficially, it was said that Sagem avionics…

At that time, OBR SK Mielec considered the problem of using other engines on the I-22 aircraft. Theoretically, at that time there was a great opportunity to obtain drives from Western countries. The most serious candidate was the 2-flow SNECMA Larzac 04-C 20 engine with 2 x 1,419 kg. Two foreign turbines have joined this…

At the end of 1986, the authorities decided that the achievements to date in implementing the I-22 aircraft were so favorable that it was time to demonstrate the aircraft to the Polish Society. Of course, this was done in a controlled way. The first photos of the aircraft were presented in the specialist press in…

At the beginning of 1980, the deputy minister of engineering, General Modrzewski, approved the „B+R i W” work plan for the year started. According to the plan, the Iskra-22 technical project and testing of Kaszub-3 W 22 engines were to be completed in the third quarter of the year.