Category: Aviation industry

One of the first successful Clerget 9B aircraft engines. The engine is piston, radial, rotary, air-cooled. The engine was designed in 1915 by Pierre Clerget. Its basic version developed a power of 88.26 kW (120 hp) at 1,250 rpm, and the displacement was 16.3 dm3. The engine rotated together with the propeller, and the crankshaft…

Shortly after the Republic of Poland regained independence and the Germans were expelled from Warsaw, in November 1918, the Military Aviation Workshops were established. They were placed in the buildings of the former School of Observers at 2A Puławska Street. Ultimately, the workshops had: two assembly halls, 22 hangars, 6 workshop buildings, a power plant,…