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Forgotten heroes - PZL angels

Oct 24, 09, 15:48 / #

some of our air-crafts from '39 Most of them no longer exist even in aviation's museums - only a few survived to be a witness of our pride.

szkotja2007Threads: 38 Posts: 2,544 Joined: Dec 29, 06	Oct 24, 09, 15:56 / #
I'm confused, the first one looks like a He 111 ?

Edited by: derek trotter Oct 24, 09, 15:58 / #

szkotja2007
no pzl 37 in German camouflage
list goes on

BartolomeThreads: 2 Posts: 1,345 Joined: Sep 14, 06	Edited by: Bartolome Oct 24, 09, 16:42 / #
PZL-37 Łoś - a medium bomber, faster than Polish fighter planes in '39 The first plane in the world with main wheels on a ball joint Some of them took part in the invasion of the USSR in Romanian colours An article on Łoś

Edited by: derek trotter Oct 24, 09, 16:50 / #

Look at the B 25 mitchell and his ancestor pzl 37 :)

some more pictures and videos
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picture nr 3 - PZL 44 wicher competitor of DC 2

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09	Oct 24, 09, 17:03 / #
what's the last aircraft??? isn't Dakota?

Edited by: derek trotter Oct 24, 09, 17:08 / #

and more
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we have been like fuckin japanese !!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BartolomeThreads: 2 Posts: 1,345 Joined: Sep 14, 06	Edited by: Bartolome Oct 24, 09, 17:31 / #
gumishu: what's the last aircraft??? isn't Dakota? Not at all. It's the PZL-44 Besides the Dakota had single rudder, the plane on the picture has a twin one.

Oct 24, 09, 17:39 / #

derek trotterThreads: 12 Posts: 252 Joined: Apr 10, 09	Edited by: derek trotter Oct 24, 09, 17:56 / #
Pzl 50 looks like Mitsubishi zero

SokratesThreads: 19 Posts: 4,464 Joined: Jan 19, 09 [Suspended]	Oct 24, 09, 17:57 / #
I hope you dont mind if i butt in with some pictures Derek? (if you want i can send you a few). RWD-9 recon plane in flight. Pzl - Łoś (moose) arrayed on an airfield. Pzl-11 fighters on an September airfield. Pzl-11 before or after combat mission, September 1939. Wheeling on an airfield. Female pilot next to her recon plane 1938. Pilots probably in Poznań, my great uncle probably among them (he was a distant relative and confirmation is not really possible at that point). Surfing on a sea plane, Baltic (probably 1937). Karaś tactical bomber. Airforce higher echelon officers. Mechanics. Young flight school cadets.

derek trotterThreads: 12 Posts: 252 Joined: Apr 10, 09	Edited by: derek trotter Oct 24, 09, 18:20 / #
Alfie Peszke :) :) :) where did you get that photo from? !!!!!

SokratesThreads: 19 Posts: 4,464 Joined: Jan 19, 09 [Suspended]	Oct 24, 09, 18:27 / #
derek trotter: where did you get that photo from? !!!!! Sent to me by a friend, he gave it to some site, its also in the national archives supposedly, the officer in the sunglasses in the back is his great great grandfather.

BartolomeThreads: 2 Posts: 1,345 Joined: Sep 14, 06	Edited by: Bartolome Oct 24, 09, 18:32 / #
Sokrates: RWD-9 recon plane in flight. ??? RWD-9 was a sport plane built in a small series for the Challenge in 1934 (which btw. was won by Poland). No military use at all. RWD-8 (the one with the female pilot standing in front of it), was a training aircraft (incl. training of flying using instruments only). The sea plane was the Lublin R-XIII ter, woefully outdated in '39. That was a recon plane. Other recon plane was the RWD-14 Czapla.

SokratesThreads: 19 Posts: 4,464 Joined: Jan 19, 09 [Suspended]	Oct 24, 09, 18:40 / #
Bartolome: RWD-9 was a sport plane built in a small series for the Challenge in 1934 (which btw. was won by Poland). No military use at all. Sorry mate approximately 20 9s were used as recon planes in 1939 including the one pictured mainly because the new RWD did not roll down the factory line in time.

derek trotterThreads: 12 Posts: 252 Joined: Apr 10, 09	Oct 24, 09, 18:43 / #

BartolomeThreads: 2 Posts: 1,345 Joined: Sep 14, 06	Edited by: Bartolome Oct 24, 09, 18:59 / #
Sokrates: Sorry mate approximately 20 9s were used as recon planes in 1939 including the one pictured mainly because the new RWD did not roll down the factory line in time. There were only 9 built. And no September Campaign: Article

SokratesThreads: 19 Posts: 4,464 Joined: Jan 19, 09 [Suspended]	Oct 24, 09, 19:03 / #
Bartolome: There were only 9 built. And no September Campaign: Then there appears to be a mix up, thats the info i got from the site admin along with pictures and permission to use them (i'm not into non-military pre war hardware) but thanks for straighting it up.

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