Sonny Levi, a British water sports enthusiast, designed a glass fibre catamaran hydroplane-type hull around a microlight trike unit. To this is attached a standard hang glider wing, resulting in a floatplane trike.
Engine: KFM 107ER, 25 hp
Wing span: 10.4 m
Length: 3.93 m
Empty wt: 104 kg
MAUW: 249 kg
The S. Poite Type 3 with Renault 4Pb
Brune Poelke of Frankfurt, Germany, built two types, the first was this cellular biplane with front horizontal surface and rear conventional surfaces and a Hoffman GHF engine. It was tested at the Griesheim Exerzierplatz near Darmstadt, but reportedly crashed immediately.
The PWS-16bis was first flown in 1933 and about sixty were built for training squadrons of the Polish air arm.
First flown in the autumn of 1929 the PWS-9 was a two/three seat sports and touring biplane. The seating was pilot and one passenger in the rear open cockpit, and the second passenger in the front cockpit. Behind the rear cockpit was a luggage compartment.
The PWS-8 was not built in large numbers.
One PWS-8, SPADA, took part in the 1930 European Challenge Cup and Completion ‘Rundflug’.
Engine: 85 hp Walter Vega
Span upper: 32 ft 9.5 in
Span lower: 24 ft 8 in
Height: 9 ft 8 in
Cruise: 80 mph
Range: 435 mi
Built by the Podlaskan Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Biala Podlaska the two-seat advanced aerobatic PWS 12 was fist flown in the winter of 1931/32.
Engine: Skoda-Wright J-5, 220 hp
Max speed: 118 mph
AUW: 2425 lb
Span: 29 ft 6 in
Length: 22 ft 7.5 in
The PWS 3 was the first sports aircraft manufactured by the Polish aerospace industry not counting earlier amateur designs. It was designed by Stanislaw Cywinski in the PWS factory in 1927. The fuselage is built upon a bottom boom, what made possible changing of upper fuselage part with cockpits, and developing single-seater, two-seater or other specialized variants.
The PWS 3 was a two-seater parasol wing braced monoplane of wooden construction. The fuselage was built around a box-section wooden boom, with a superstructure of wooden laths, covered with plywood and fabric the front fairing of the aircraft in the rear. The engine compartment was covered with duralumin plating. The empennage was wooden, with a fixed surface, made of plywood and fabric on the control surfaces. The rectangular wooden wings had two spars and was covered with plywood in front and cloth in rear. Originally slotted ailerons on the whole wingspan, later to be shortened. The fuselage had a cockpit for two in tandem, with windscreens and dual controls. The chassis consisted of a fixed split axle conventional chassis, with a rear skid. Both main landing gear and wing struts were installed a small horizontal winglets at the bottom of the fuselage. Fuel in two tanks, 100 litres in total, in the Central section of the wing.
The 5-cylinder Walter NZ 60 radial air-cooled engine provides a nominal power of 60 HP and take-off power of 65 HP, driving a two-bladed wooden fixed pitch propeller. The cruise fuel consumption was 22 l / h.
Prototype 3 PVA designated 3B and issued registration number R-PWSS, was flown on May 20, 1927 in Biała Podlaska. After testing, the handling improved. In 1928, the aircraft underwent modifications, having a rounded tip rather than square, and less aileron.
It took part in the 1st competition of the Polish light aircraft from 6 to 9 October 1927, finishing in 2nd place.
Re-registered SP-ACJ in 1930.
Later it was bought by the Lopp paramilitary organization in Lublin and used for propaganda flights.
Reconnaissance and Liaison Aircraft, Poland, 1936
Engines: 2 x De Havilland Gipsy Major 4 B, 128 hp
Length: 22.769 ft / 6.94 m
Height: 8.399 ft / 2.56 m
Wingspan: 30.381 ft / 9.26 m
Wing area: 136.703 sq.ft / 12.7 sq.m
Max take off weight: 3219.3 lb / 1460.0 kg
Weight empty: 1014.3 lb / 460.0 kg
Max. speed: 170 kts / 315 km/h
Cruising speed: 140 kts / 260 km/h
Service ceiling: 14764 ft / 4500 m
Wing loading: 23.58 lb/sq.ft / 115.0 kg/sq.m
Range: 626 nm / 1160 km
Crew: 2
Armament: 2x MG
The PWS.26 was a two-seat advanced military trainer development of the PWS.16bis and PWS.18
The fact that only 36 PWS.26 trainers were assembled at SET Bucharest from ex Polish components, is only part of the story. The existence in 1942 and 1943 of this type in several schools wearing numbers in the 200 and even 300 series (the highest serial numbers known were 269 and 310, respectively) denotes, that actually many more PWS.26s existed in the ARR than the ten ex Polish Air Force PWS.26s (one later escaped to Bulgaria), the 27 supplied by Germans and those 36 assembled at the SET plants.
The bulk were operated by the Central Flying School at Deblin. Several were operated by the Luftwaffe.
Engine: 220 hp Avia-Wright Whirlwind
Max speed: 130 mph
AUW: 2420 lb
Time to 3400 ft: 4 min
Service ceiling: 14,400 ft
Armament: 1 x 7.7mm mg
Bombload: 2 x 25 lb
Span: 29 ft 9 in
Length: 22 ft 11 in
Height: 8 ft 10 in
