SZD-35 Bekas

The SZD- 35 " Bekas " is a training glider the Polish manufacturer SZD Bielsko.

History

The two-seater training glider SZD- 35 " Bekas " was created pursuant to a contract between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland as a successor for the returning from the basic model forth the 1950s SZD- 9bis1E " Bocian " which is the standard trainer of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST ) was. The aircraft was an evolution of Bocian and looked very similar to this. The biggest visual change was the flatter hull and streamlined cab windows. The aircraft, however, disappointed. The service (s? ) Was (were? ) Is only slightly better than the Bocian. It turned out that in classical wood construction no contemporary training glider was more to realize. The further development path led to GFP- plane and in the People's Republic of Poland to the SZD -50 " Puchacz ", the last standard school sailors in the GST of the GDR.

Construction

Aircraft sperrholzbeplankt in wooden half- shell construction with plywood and fiberglass planking, no front runner, negative gepfeiltes structural wood construction with a continuous main spar, wing, two-thirds, or covered with fabric, gapless ailerons, rigid chassis with disc brakes and a rigid, non- steerable tail wheel

Specifications

Literature sources

• Wilfried Copenhagen and Rolf Neustädt: The big aircraft type book, 3rd edition 1977, transpress Verlag Berlin, VLN 162-925/165/84

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