RWD-1

Maximum speed: 135 km/h ( mph)
Range: 500 km ( miles)
Service ceiling: 1950 m ( ft)
Rate of climb: 1.8 m/s
Wing loading: 30.5 kg/m² ( lb/ft²)
Power/mass: kW/kg, hp/lb

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The RWD-1 was a Polish sports plane of 1928, constructed by the RWD team.

1 Development
2 Description
3 Specifications
- 3.1 General characteristics
- 3.2 Performance
4 Related content

[edit] Development

The RWD-1 was the first aircraft constructed by the RWD team of Stanislaw Rogalski, Stanislaw Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki in Warsaw. The aircraft was designed in late 1927. There was built one prototype for static trials and one flying prototype (registration SP-ACC). It was completed and flown by the designer Jerzy Drzewiecki in September 1928.

Its unusual feature was a strange, fish-shaped fuselage. Before a pilot's head there was an upper part of the fuselage, limiting his view towards forward, though its profile was thin to improve view. This shape was repeated in following early RWD designs. The aircraft was evaluated as quite good design, with an original construction. Its glide ratio was 12, and its payload was bigger, than its empty weight. It wasn't build in any series, but gave beginning to more successful further RWD designs: RWD-2, 3, 4, 7, and, partly RWD-5. It was scrapped in 1930.

[edit] Description

Wooden construction sports plane, conventional in layout, with high-wings, canvas and plywood covered. Crew of two, sitting in tandem. The crew cabs were open on the sides in upper part, they had individual doors. 2-cylinder air-cooled boxer engine ABC Scorpion II, 34 hp nominal power, 40 hp take-off power. Two-blade wooden propeller. Conventional landing gear, with a rear skid. Fuel tank in wing.