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Zbysław Ciołkosz
Zbysław Ciołkosz (23 March 1902 – 25 June 1960) was a Polish American aircraft designer, whose work includes the P.Z.L. 27, PWS-20, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-11, LWS-6 Żubr, PWS-1, PWS-54, PWS-19, LWS-2, and PWS-52.''Obituary'' (1960) Flight 78(2681), 141.Milewski, W. ''et al'' (1985) ''Guide to the Archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum'', Orbis Books, London. He was with PWS and LWS, but emigrated to America in 1948, where his work at Piasecki Helicopter earned him the Wright Brothers Medal The Wright Brothers Medal was conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE established it in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering, design, developme ... in 1953 with D. N. Meyers for a paper discussing the use of shaft turbines for helicopters.Meyers, D. and Ciolkosz, Z. (1954''Matching the Characteristics of Helicopters and Shaft-Turbines'' SAE Technical Paper 540256, doi:10.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish American
Polish Americans () are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 8.81 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 2.67% of the U.S. population, according to the 2021 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The first eight Polish immigrants to British America came to the Jamestown colony in 1608, twelve years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. Two Polish volunteers, Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko, aided the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Casimir Pulaski created and led the Pulaski Legion of cavalry. Tadeusz Kosciuszko designed and oversaw the construction of state-of-the-art fortifications, including those at West Point, New York. Both are remembered as American heroes. Overall, around 2.2 million Poles and Polish subjects immigrated into the United States between 1820 and 1914, chiefly after national insurgencies and famine. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów
Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów (PWS; ''Podlachian Aircraft Factory'') was a Polish aerospace manufacturer between 1923 and 1939, located in Biała Podlaska. History Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów S.A. (corporation), SA was created in 1923. The first aircraft produced were 35 Potez XV bombers for the Polish Air Force, under the French licence, built from 1925.Glass, A. (1977), p.22-25 By 1929 the company had produced 150 Potez 25, Potez XXV and 155 Potez 27, under French licence, and 50 PWS-A fighters, which was the Czech Avia BH-33 built under licence. It also produced 50 Bartel BM-4 trainers in 1931, designed by Samolot. In 1925, a design office was established which included, among others, Stefan Cywiński, Zbysław Ciołkosz, August Bobek-Zdaniewski. Despite a large number of prototypes, few were produced in series. The first aircraft of their own design to be mass-produced was the PWS-10 fighter of 1930 of which 80 examples were built. Smaller production runs of the PWS-14 tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse. ** Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his Mobile phone, wireless telephone device in the U.S. state of Kentucky. * January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad), Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and the banning of steam locomotives in New York City. * January 23 – Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains of northern Honshu, Empire of Japan, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise. * January 30 – The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed. February * February 12 – The 1st Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance takes place in Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Emigrants To The United States
Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwriters * Kevin Polish, an American Paralympian archer Polish may refer to: * Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action ** French polishing, polishing wood to a high gloss finish * Nail polish * Shoe polish * Polish (screenwriting), improving a script in smaller ways than in a rewrite See also * * * Polishchuk (surname) * Polonaise (other) A polonaise ()) is a stately dance of Polish origin or a piece of music for this dance. Polonaise may also refer to: * Polonaises (Chopin), compositions by Frédéric Chopin ** Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 (, ''Heroic Polonaise''; ) * Polon ... {{Disambiguation, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Aerospace Engineers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wright Brothers Medal
The Wright Brothers Medal was conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE established it in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering, design, development, or operation of air and space vehicles. The award is based on contributed research papers. The award honors Wilbur and Orville Wright as the first successful builders of heavier-than-air craft, and includes an image of the ''Wright Flyer'', the plane which they flew in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Awardees and research topics: 1928-1975 *1928 Clinton Hunter Havill - ''Aircraft Propellers''. *1929 Ralph Hazlett Upson - ''Wings - A Coordinated System of Basic Design''. *1930 Theodore Paul Wright - ''The Development of a Safe Airplane - The Curtis Tanager''. *1931 Stephen Joseph Zand: ''A Study of Airplane and Instrument Board Vibration'' *1932 Edward Pearson Warner: ''The Rational Specifications of Airplane Load Factors'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piasecki Helicopter
The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was an American designer and manufacturer of helicopters in Philadelphia and nearby Morton, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Its founder, Frank Piasecki, was ousted in 1956 and started a new company, Piasecki Aircraft. Piasecki Helicopter was renamed Vertol Corporation in early 1956. Vertol was acquired by Boeing in 1960 and renamed Boeing Vertol. History The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was founded in 1940 by Frank Piasecki and fellow aeronautics student Harold Venzie as the P-V Engineering Forum (shortened from Piasecki-Venzie); the other partners were F.J. Kosloski, Donald N. Meyers, Elliott Daland, and Walter Swartz. The first design from P-V Engineering was the PV-1, a rotorless-tail design that used a tapering tail cone and pressurized air to suppress main rotor torque. Venzie left the firm in 1943. The PV-2 (NX-37061) was a more conventional design and became the third helicopter flown in the United States (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LWS (aircraft Manufacturer)
The initials LWS may refer to: * Lethal white syndrome, a genetic disorder of horses * Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport, Idaho, US * LWS (aircraft manufacturer), Poland, 1936-1939 * ''Living With a Star'' * Lewes railway station Lewes railway station serves the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. It has five platforms and is on the East Coastway Line, from via . Train services are provided by Southern. The station has a café and there is a taxi office on the ma ..., a railway station in Sussex, England * Let Women Speak {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PWS-52
The PWS-52 was a Polish sports aircraft of 1930, a single-engine high-wing monoplane, constructed by the ''Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów'' (PWS), that remained a prototype. Development The aircraft was designed in 1929 by Zbysław Ciołkosz and Antoni Uszacki in the ''Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów'', specifically to participate in the Challenge international touring aircraft contest (along with PWS-50, PWS-51 and PWS-8). The design was generally modelled after de Havilland Puss Moth. The aircraft was first flown in early July 1930 by Franciszek Rutkowski in Biała Podlaska, weeks before the contest. Operational history The prototype, with markings SP-ADD and contest number O8, took part in the Challenge International de Tourisme 1930 contest in 20–31 July 1930, flown by Franciszek Rutkowski. Unfortunately, after landing in Saint-Inglevert, the aircraft was overturned by the wind and was damaged. After repairs the rudder shape was changed. Later the aircraft took part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PWS-20
The PWS-20 was a Polish single-engine high-wing 8 passenger airliner, built in the PWS (aircraft manufacturer), PWS factory and when it made its first flight in 1929 it became the first Polish-designed transport aircraft to fly. Development The aircraft was developed by Zbysław Ciołkosz in response to a request announced by the Polish Ministry of Communication in 1927 for an airliner to be used by LOT Polish Airlines, and was competing against a sizable number of other designs from other Polish designers, including the Stemal VII, 4 unbuilt proposals from PZL, the Lublin R-IX, and the Medwecki M.N.2. Of the designs submitted, the PWS-20 was selected as being the best design. A prototype was built and first flew on 12 March 1929 from Biała Podlaska. After brief flight testing it was bought by the Ministry of Communication for evaluation as the PWS-20T, with the T signifying transport. In 1930, following testing by LOT, the aircraft was modified with a wider undercarriage, impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LWS-2
The LWS-2 was the Polish air ambulance aircraft prototype, designed in the late-1930s in the LWS factory (''Lublin Aircraft Factory''). Design and development The LWS-2 was designed as a light ambulance aircraft, for a requirement of the Polish Air Force and the Polish Red Cross (PCK), which was operating military ambulances. A preliminary design was made in 1936 by Zbysław Ciołkosz, the main designer of the LWS factory, follower by Jerzy Teisseyre's detailed design. It was influenced by RWD-9 and RWD-13 planes of the RWD team, especially their wing construction with rich wing mechanization, that gave it STOL capabilities. The prototype was built using PCK funds. Aircraft was registered SP-ATP and flown in autumn of 1937. The Polish Red Cross ordered six aircraft, but the LWS factory was busy at that time with military production (RWD-14 Czapla and LWS-3 Mewa), and they were not built by the outbreak of World War II. LWS's next design, the LWS-3 Mewa close reconnaissance p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
