RWD (aircraft manufacturer)
| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1928 |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | , Poland |
RWD was a Polish aircraft construction bureau active between 1928 and 1939. It started as a team of three young designers, Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki, whose names formed the RWD acronym.
History
They started work while studying at
RWD-6 during a storm, but the RWD name continued to be used for new designs (according to a popular story, the letter W now de facto stood for engineer Jerzy Wędrychowski, but he was not a designer). In 1933, Rogalski, Drzewiecki and Wędrychowski founded the company Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze (DWL, Experimental Aeronautical Works) in Warsaw, which became a manufacturer of further RWD aircraft. Apart from Rogalski and Drzewiecki,the construction bureau employed designers Tadeusz Chyliński,[1] Bronisław Żurakowski, Leszek Dulęba and Andrzej Anczutin and several engineers, including Henryk Millicer
.
Challenge 1932
.At first, the RWD team designed and built light sport planes. Early designs
RWD-13 touring plane and the RWD-14 Czapla
reconnaissance plane (1938).
Other important designs were the
RWD-21 light sport plane (1939). World War II
prevented further development and serial production of later RWD designs, and put an end to the RWD construction bureau and the DWL production plant.
Aircraft
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RWD 1 | 1928 | 1 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 2 | 1929 | 4 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 3 | 1930 | 1 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 4 | 1930 | 9 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 5 | 1931 | 20 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 6 | 1932 | 3 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 7 | 1931 | 1 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 8 | 1933 | 550+ | Single engine monoplane trainer |
| RWD 9 | 1933 | 10 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 10 | 1933 | ~23 | Single engine monoplane aerobatic airplane |
| RWD 11 | 1936 | 1 | Two engine monoplane feederliner |
| RWD-12 | N/A | 0 | Single engine monoplane trainer[2] |
| RWD 13 | 1935 | ~100 | Single engine monoplane touring airplane |
| RWD-14 Czapla | 1936 | 4[a] | Single engine monoplane liaison airplane |
| RWD 15 | 1937 | 6 | Single engine monoplane touring airplane |
| RWD 16 | 1936 | 3+ | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 17 | 1937 | ~30 | Single engine monoplane trainer |
| RWD 18 | N/A | 1 | Two engine monoplane utility airplane |
| RWD-19 | 1938 | 1 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 20 | 1937[3] | 1 | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 21 | 1939 | 6+ | Single engine monoplane sport airplane |
| RWD 22 | N/A | 0 | Two engine monoplane torpedo bomber floatplane |
| RWD 23 | 1939 | 1 | Single engine monoplane trainer |
| RWD 24 | N/A | 0 | Two engine monoplane torpedo bomber |
| RWD-25 | N/A | 0 | Single engine monoplane fighter |
| RWD-26 | N/A | 0 | Single engine monoplane trainer[4] |
References
Footnotes
- LWS.
Notes
- PW.)
- ^ Luto, Krzysztof. "RWD-12, 1933". Samoloty w Lotnictwie Polskim (in Polish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ Luto, Krzysztof. "RWD-20, 1937". Samoloty w Lotnictwie Polskim (in Polish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ Luto, Krzysztof. "RWD-26 , 1939". Samoloty w Lotnictwie Polskim (in Polish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
Bibliography
- Glass, Andrzej: "Polskie konstrukcje lotnicze 1893-1939" (Polish Aviation Designs 1893-1939), WKiŁ, Warsaw 1977 (in Polish)
- Glass, Andrzej: "Slownik biograficzny technikow polskich" (The Biographical Dictionary of Polish Engineers), SBTP, Warsaw 2003 (in Polish)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to RWD.
- RWD aeroplanes
- History of RWD and DWL works (Polish and French)
- RWD-6 Replica Project