PZL-105 Flaming

PZL-105 Flaming
PZL-105 at the Polish Aviation Museum
Role Utility aircraft
Manufacturer PZL Warszawa-Okęcie
First flight 9 November 1989
Status Prototype
Primary user Polish civilian aviation
Number built 2 (prototypes)


PZL-105 Flaming (English: Flamingo) is a Polish short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility aircraft designed by PZL "Warszawa-Okęcie". It remained a prototype.

Development

The PZL-105 was designed as a successor to a successful utility aircraft PZL-104 Wilga, more modern and economical and offering increased transport capacity. The design was initially called Wilga 88. It retained high-wing layout of the PZL-104 and side doors opening upwards, but it is a completely new plane. Comparing to the Wilga, it has six-place cab instead of four-place and wings are supported with single struts instead of a cantilever design. The plane was intended for a variety of purposes, like glider towing, parachute training, transport, air ambulance, patrolling and crop dusting (with 500 kg of chemicals). Also a seaplane variant was intended.

The first prototype, powered with 265 kW (360 hp) Russian M-14P radial engine, was flown on 9 November 1989 (markings SP-PRC). An intended designation of a serial variant was PZL-105M. The second prototype, designated PZL-105L, was fitted with a flat engine 298 kW (400 hp) Lycoming IO-720. It was flown on 27 July 1991 (markings SP-PRD). There was also made one prototype for static trials.

Problems with funding at the outbreak of the 1980s and 1990s, connected with a change of political system in Poland, and a priority of PZL-130 Orlik trainer program, caused, that the Flaming program was suspended and the production has not started. The factory developed a new variant of PZL-104, the Wilga 2000 with Lycoming I0-540 flat engine instead.

Design

Metal construction braced high-wing monoplane, conventional in layout, duralumin covered. Semi-monocoque fuselage. Rectangular single-spar wings, fitted with Fowler flaps and slotted flaperons. Six-seat cabin, in three rows, with large side doors, opening upwards. Conventional fixed landing gear with tail wheel, the main gear is made of composite spring legs. Two-blade or three-blade (PZL-105L) metal propeller. Fuel tanks in wings (270 l).

Survivors

The first prototype and the second prototype airframe (lacking engine) are in a collection of the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków.

Specifications (PZL-105L)

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1993-94[1]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Related development


References

  1. ↑ Lambert 1993, pp. 241–242.

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