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Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho
Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho (PIK) is the student flying club of the Aalto University. As well as a flying club, it develops light aircraft and gliders, often on a small scale but sometimes its designs have been produced in quantity. Approximately 536 aircraft have been built by the organisation and its sub-contractors. It is similar to the Akafliegs of German Universities in that students make designs with advice from staff to give practical experience before seeking employment. History It was formed on March 26, 1931. For the first two years, the club operated first as the "Aviation Scouts" and then as the "Polytechnic Aviation Club". It was originally part of the Helsinki Institute of Technology before the merger in 2010 with the Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki to create Aalto University. The club is based at Otaniemi, Espoo Equipment The club owns aircraft that members can rent. Currently, PIK has one motor-glider and five sailplane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pik may refer to: People * Pik, name used by comic creator Léo Quievreux as a musician * Fong Chong Pik (1924–2004), Malaysian politician * Pik Botha (1932–2018), former South African politician * Tzvika Pick (1949–2022), Israeli composer and singer Places * Shek Pik, Hong Kong * Pik Talgar, Kazakhstan * Pik Tandykul, Central Asia *Pik Uk, Kowloon, Hong Kong * Pik, Iran (other) Other * Pik As, a jumping horse See also * PIK (other) Pik may refer to: People * Pik, name used by comic creator Léo Quievreux as a musician * Fong Chong Pik (1924–2004), Malaysian politician * Pik Botha (1932–2018), former South African politician * Tzvika Pick (1949–2022), Israeli com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIK-16 Vasama
The Lehtovaara PIK-16 Vasama ( en, Arrow) is a Finnish mid-wing, single-seat, FAI Standard Class glider that was designed by Tuomo Tervo, Jorma Jalkanen and Kurt Hedstrom, who were students at the Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho (PIK) and produced by Lehtovaara. Design and development The PIK-16 is constructed from wood, with a fibreglass nose. The span wing employs a Wortmann FX-05-168 (14% modification) airfoil An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is the cross-sectional shape of an object whose motion through a gas is capable of generating significant lift, such as a wing, a sail, or the blades of propeller, rotor, or turbine. ... at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 63 (2)-165 at the wing tip. The wing features dive brakes. A total of 56 PIK-16s were built. The aircraft was not type certified but it did become the second most exported Finnish glider, surpassed only by the later PIK-20 series. Operational history The prototype PIK- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIK-13
__NOTOC__ The PIK-13 was a sailplane constructed in Finland to compete in the 1954 World Gliding Championships,Taylor 1989, p.726 held at Camphill Farm, Great Hucklow Great Hucklow (Old English ''Hucca's burial mound'') is a small village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District which nestles under Hucklow Edge between the villages of Tideswell and Bradwell. It has a population of about 100, includi ..., UK."World Gliding Championships" 1954, p.250 It was a conventional mid-wing design of "workmanlike" construction"Sailplanes seen at Camphill" 1954, p.3 and underwent five test flights in the course of 1954 before its entry in the competition."PIK-sarjan lentokoneet In the championships, the PIK-13 was flown by Antti Koskisen,Yates 1954, p.74Wiggin 1954, p.5 who was placed 16th with 931 points.''The Lashan Newsletter'' No 23, 1954, editorial The PIK-13 was destroyed in an accident on 26 March 1956 when the control stick broke in flight. Pilot Jorma Jalkanen parachute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grunau Baby
The Schneider Grunau Baby was a single-seat sailplane first built in Germany in 1931, with some 6,000 examples constructed in some 20 countries. It was relatively easy to build from plans, it flew well, and the aircraft was strong enough to handle mild aerobatics and the occasional hard landing. When the Baby first appeared, it was accepted wisdom that the pilot should feel as much unimpeded airflow as possible, to better sense rising and falling currents of air and temperature changes etc. It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider's ESG 31 of the previous year, incorporating an elliptical wing design based on work done by Akaflieg Darmstadt. It was named after Grunau, the town where Schneider's factory was located, now Jeżów Sudecki in Poland. The first 14 inner ribs were of the Göttingen 535 shape with the outer ribs gradually changing up to the last 22nd rib, having a bi-convex and symmetric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIK-7 Harakka
__NOTOC__ The ''Harakka'' (" European magpie") was a primary glider produced for pilot training in Finland in the 1940s. Its design was typical of this class of aircraft, a "keel" with a pilot's seat suspended beneath a high, strut-braced monoplane wing, and carrying a conventional empennage at the end of an open framework."Harakka I (H-12)" First flown in February 1945, the type was built from plans by Finnish gliding clubs and soon replaced earlier primary gliders such as the Grunau 9,"Grunau 9 ja PIK-7 Harakka, kerhon 1940-50-lukujen alkeiskoulukoneet" becoming a standard piece of equipment in the clubs.Hardy 1982, p.74 In 1946, Raimo Häkkinen and Juhani Heinonen from Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho redesigned the Harakka to strengthen it."PIK-sarjan lentokoneet" This improved version became known as the Harakka II or PIK-7."PIK-sarjan lentokoneet"Taylor 1989, p.726"Harakka II (H-57)" In 1948, a single example of a more radically redesigned version designated Harakka III flew. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIK-5 Cumulus
The PIK-5 was a training glider produced in Finland in the 1940s, and 1950s,Taylor 1989, p.726 equipping the country's gliding clubs with an aircraft greater in performance than primary gliders but less than competition sailplanes.Hardy 1982, p.74 The PIK-5 had a pod-and-boom configuration, with a high, strut-braced monoplane wing and a cruciform tail carried at the end of a tail boom that extended from a position high on the aft "Aft", in nautical terminology, is an adjective or adverb meaning towards the stern (rear) of the ship, aircraft or spacecraft, when the frame of reference is within the ship, headed at the fore. For example, "Able Seaman Smith; lie aft!" or "Wh ... end of the pod."PIK-sarjan lentokoneet" History The prototype first flew in September 1946,"PIK-5c Cumulus (OH-151)" and testing continued until it was badly damaged in a crash in summer 1948Tiusanen 1952, P.12 Over the subsequent months, the wings were repaired, and a new fuselage constructed to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
