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ÄŒKD-Praga
ČKD-Praga (Českomoravská-Kolben-Daněk Prague) was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer. The company was founded in 1915 as an engine manufacturing company, under the designation Praga. The company started designing aircraft in 1930–31 when the designers Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn came to ČKD-Praga from Avia. Their first aircraft was the Praga E-39 from 1931. It was a military trainer, with a production run of 139 aircraft. ČKD-Praga developed several aircraft over the following years, but none exceeded prototype stage. Jaroslav Šlechta became chief designer in 1934 and designed the Praga E-114 Air Baby aircraft, which became a commercial success. The aircraft was sold to France, Iran, Romania and to Britain. Most of the British aircraft were manufactured locally in Manchester under a licence, by F. Hills & Sons as the Hillson Praga. 126 aircraft were ordered until 1946. Šlechta remained with Praga post war, designing the E-55 general purpose aircraft. ČKD-Praga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praga E-114 Air Baby
The Praga E.114 was a single-engine sport airplane, designed and manufactured by the Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak company ÄŒKD-Praga. Due to its light weight it was also called Air Baby. Design and development The Praga E.114, first flown in 1934 and designed by Jaroslav Å lechta, was a high wing, cantilever monoplane seating two in a side-by-side seating, side-by-side cabin. It was an all wood aircraft with a two spar (aviation), spar single piece wing; the spars and ribs were built from pine and plywood and the wing plywood covered. The wing section was reflexed at the trailing edge. The wing had a constant chord centre section with taper on the trailing edge outboard and rounded tips. The ailerons were plywood covered and balanced rudder, unbalanced. Its fuselage was a pine framed, plywood covered hexagonal box, with the straight edged fin an integral part. The rudder was rounded and balanced rudder, horn balanced. Though the rudder was wood framed and covered, the tailplane, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
