Engineering firm which formed an aviation department in 1920. Poland’s first aircraft manufacturer, it was based at Lublin and built the Ansaldo Ballila, A-300 and Potez 25 under license. Subsequently built series of indigenous designs such as the Lublin R-VIII reconnaissance biplane, R-XI five-passenger monoplane. Ceased production following German occupation in 1940.
Pioneers
Pivot 1911 monoplane / Pivot-Koechlin
The 1911 Pivot-Koechlin monoplane was designed by Pivot and Koechling, built by Audineau in France.
A more streamlined version of earlier Koechlin designs. It was flown by Weiss at the 1911 Turin meeting.
Span: 32’10”
Length: 25’9″
Speed: 68 mph
Pither Monoplane
Herbert John Pither of Invercargill, New Zealand, was a professional cyclist, cycle and small engine manufacturer and aviation experi¬menter. The basic facts are clear. Pither built a Bleriot type monoplane, and a V 4 configured engine to power it. He incor¬porated some ideas of his own, including the early use of bicycle steel for the airframe. His workmanship was of a high standard.
Pither tested his aircraft on a remote Southland beach in winter 1910, but there is no contemporary record of a witness to the flight he later described. He claimed to have flown for 1.5 km along Riverton Beach on 15 July 1910 at a height of 30 ft.
He took it to Australia in November 1910 hoping to attract the attention of the Australian government, and then disappeared from aviation history.
Pischoff 1911 Autoplans
The 1911 De Pischoff Autoplans monoplane was designed and built by Alfred De Pischoff in France in 1911.
Span: 36′
Length: 31’10
Weight empty: 800 lb
Pischoff & Koechlin 1909 monoplane
The 1909 Pischoff & Koechlin monoplane was designed and built by De Pischoff and Koechlin in France.
Pischoff 1907 Biplane
Built by L.Chauviere, the 1907 tractor biplane of Alfred de Pischoff, powered by a 25 hp Anzani 3-cylinder engine. Although tried, the machine did not fly. A French sounding name, de Pischoff was from Austria (Austro-Hungary) where he was known as Alfred Ritter von Pischoff.
Span: 32’10”
Pischoff, Alfred Ritter von
Alfred Ritter von Pischoff Article
Piquerez 1909 biplane
Charles de Piquerez was an explorer who asked de Pischoff and Koechlin in December 1908 to build him a large biplane. The design had an engine in the middle of the fuselage, driving two pusher propellers via chains. Elevator(s) were mounted in the front and the end of the fuselage. Crew one pilot and a passenger. The biplane flew in at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, in April and May 1909 but not very successfully, so it was radically redesigned as a monoplane (also with two pusher propellers), but alas this was not a great success too.
Powerplant: 1 x 40 hp 4-cylinder Dutheil and Chalmers engine.
Pippart-Noll Monoplane II
Presented in October 1912 at the “Süddeutschland Flug” that started in Mannheim, Germany. It was nicknamed “the flying nightdress”. Apart from the long stabilizing areas a more or less conventional Taube-design, powered by a 70 hp Argus.
Pippart-Noll Flugzeugbau
Germany
Based in Mannheim, built several Taube monoplanes in 1914 using steel cables below the wings in place of the normal bracing structure.
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