Zygmunt Puławski

Zygmunt Puławski ( born October 24, 1901 in Lublin, † March 21, 1931 in Warsaw) was a Polish aircraft designer and pilot.

Life and work

Zygmunt Puławski in 1920 in the Polish-Soviet War volunteer in a battalion of the Polish Scouts ZHP ( Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego ). After that, he began his studies at the Technical University of Warsaw, where he designed several gliders in the machine- technical student organization. After he had successfully completed his studies in 1926, he gained his first professional experience with Breguet in France, the military flight school attended in Bydgoszcz and became a pilot. From 1927 Puławski was a senior design engineer at a state-owned aircraft manufacturer Warsaw, from which was from 1928 Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze.

First Zygmunt Puławski developed the type of aircraft PZL P.1 who did not go to series, but excited by its concept in the art of attention. There was under his direction at PZL including the design of the famous all-metal fighter aircraft PZL P.7 type and type PZL P.11. These were the backbone of the modern Polish Air Force until its defeat in the Polish campaign.

The characteristic of this wing monoplane was the so-called Puławski - wing, a gull wing, which gave the aircraft exceptional maneuverability. Soon after the introduction of the P.1 also appeared in other countries designs that has picked up this design feature.

As the prototype of the P.11 was ready to fly, Puławski came in March 1931 in a crash of his latest water airplane PZL 12 at the age of 29 years died.

• Aeronautical engineer
• Pole
• Born 1901
• Died in 1931
• Man