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RWD (aircraft manufacturer)

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'''RWD''' was a Poland Polish aircraft construction bureau in the late 1920s and 1930s. It started as a team of three young designers, Stanislaw Rogalski Stanisław Rogalski, Stanislaw Wigura Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki, whose names gave an acronym RWD. Image:RWD7 Drzewiecki Wedrychowski.jpg thumb|250px|Jerzy Drzewiecki and Jerzy Wedrychowski by the RWD-7 They started work during studies at Warsaw University of Technology. In December 1925, with other student constructors, they set up workshops of Aviation Section of Students' Mechanical Club, where they manufactured their first designs. Apart from constructing, J. Drzewiecki was a test pilot of their designs, while S. Wigura flew as a mechanic in competitions. On September 11, 1932, Stanislaw Wigura died in an air crash in the RWD-6 during a storm. The designation letter RWD remained for new designs, since Jerzy Wedrychowski Jerzy Wędrychowski joined the team. In 1933 in aviation 1933, Rogalski, Wigura and Wędrychowski founded the company ''Doswiadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze'' ('''DWL''', Aeronautical Experimental Works) in Warsaw, which became a manufacturer of further RWD aircraft. image:RWD-6.jpg thumb|right|200px|[[RWD-6 in the Challenge 1932.]] The RWD team started with constructing light sportsplanes. Early designs RWD-2 and RWD-4 were built in a small series and used in Polish sports aviation, including their debut at the Challenge 1930 international contest. Their next designs performed particularly well in competitions - the RWD-6 won the Challenge 1932 and RWD-9s won the Challenge 1934 international contest. The sportsplane RWD-5 was the lightest plane to fly across the Atlantic in 1933. Three types saw mass production: the RWD-8, becoming Polish basic military trainer, the touring plane RWD-13 and the reconnaissance plane RWD-14 Czapla (1938). Other important designs were aerobatic plane RWD-10 (1933), aerobatic-trainer plane RWD-17 (1937) and light sport plane RWD-21 (1939). The World War II prevented from further development and serial production of later RWD designs, and put an end to the RWD construction bureau and the DWL workshops.

List of RWD designs
{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="text-align:left;border:1px solid #ccc;" |+ style="font-weight:bold;" | List of designs by RWD |- valign="top" style="background:#ccc;" ! width="20%" style="font-weight:normal" | Design !! width="12%" style="font-weight:normal" | First flight !! width="50%" style="font-weight:normal" | Type !! width="6%" style="font-weight:normal" | Seats !! width="12%" style="font-weight:normal" | No. built |- valign="top" | RWD-1 || 1928 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" | RWD-2 || 1929 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 4 |- valign="top" | RWD-3 || 1930 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-4|| 1930 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 9 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-5 || 1931 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 20 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-6 || 1932 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 3 |- valign="top" | RWD-7 .html">#fn1 1 || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" | RWD-8 || 1933 || primary trainer high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || ~ 470 |- valign="top" | RWD-9 || 1933 || sports high-wing, 1 engine || 4 || 8 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-10|| 1933 || aerobatics high-wing, 1 engine || 1 || 23 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-11|| 1936 || passenger low-wing, 2 engines || 2+6 || 1 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | ''RWD-12''|| (unfinished) || observation plane high wing, 1 engine ^{#fn2 2} || 2 || 0 |- valign="top" | RWD-13 || 1935 || sports and touring high-wing, 1 engine || 3 || ~100 |- valign="top" | RWD-14 Czapla .html">reconnaissance aircraft, high-wing, 1 engine | 2 || 65 #fn3|3 |- valign="top" | RWD-15 || 1937 || touring high-wing, 1 engine || 5 || 6 (+10 unfinished) |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-16 || 1936 || sports low-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-16bis || 1938 || sports low-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 2 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-17|| 1937 || trainer-aerobatics high-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 24 |- valign="top" | RWD-17 RWD-17W|| 1938 || trainer floatplane, 1 engine .html">#fn4 4 |- valign="top" | ''RWD-18''.html">#fn5 5) || touring and ambulance high-wing, 2 engines || 5 || (1 unfinished) |- valign="top" | RWD-19|| 1938 || sports low-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-20.html">#fn6 6|| 2 || 1 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | RWD-21|| 1939 || sports and touring low-wing, 1 engine || 2 || 4 (+10 unfinished) |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | ''RWD-22''|| (late 1940) || torpedo floatplane project, 2 engines || 3 || 0 |- valign="top" | RWD-23.html">#fn7 7 || 2 || 1 |- valign="top" | ''RWD-24''.html">#fn8 8|| 3 || 0 |- valign="top" | ''RWD-25''|| (1939) || low-wing, fixed-wheels fighter project, 1 engine || 1 || 0 |- valign="top" style="background:#eee;" | ''RWD-26''|| (late 1940) || trainer low-wing project, 1 engine || 2 || 0 |} '''Notes''':

Built as a ''record plane'', it set off after less than 20 metres runway.
Derived from RWD-8.
Produced by the LWS (aircraft manufacturer) LWS, all commissioned by Polish Airforce.
Out of 125 ordered by the Polish Army (120) and Polish Navy (5).
First flight planned in December 1939; it was one of the first two engine civilian planes in the world.
Based on a RWD-9 prototype, designed to test a 3-wheel gear for the RWD-18.
Designed as a successor of the RWD-8.
Land-based version of the RWD-22.

External links:

- RWD aeroplanes
- History of RWD and DWL works (Polish and French)
- List of RWD constructions (Polish) {{airlistbox}} Category:Polish aircraft manufacturers Category:Science and technology in Poland de:RWD pl:RWD

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