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Страна : Польша

Год : 1938

Flight, December 1938

The Paris Aero Show

MILITARY TYPES REVIEWED

Fighters

   The latest twin-engined fighter exhibited is the diminutive Polish P.Z.L. Wilk, Loup, or Wolf with two secret P.Z.L.-Foka air-cooled inverted vee-eights of unspecified power. On first sight these might easily be taken for 240 h.p. Argus, but one is assured that the power is very much higher. The airscrews are electrically variable Ratiers. Grouped in the nose of the fuselage are a 20 mm. shell-gun, two machine guns, a landing light and the pitot head. There are two machine guns in the rear cockpit.
   Unlike the little twin-engined P.Z.L. trainer the Wolf, is of all-metal construction. It has been ordered in quantities by the Polish Air Force to replace the single-engined gull-wing P.XI and P.XXIV machines. The top speed, at 285 m.p.h., is comparatively low, but development work may improve it.
   Beneath the fuselage is a 660 lb. bomb which can be handled by the Wolf when functioning as a dive bomber. The twin-engined arrangement apparently obviates the use ol bomb displacement gear.
   In view of the heavy wing loading the Wolf looks a bit of a handful, though its manufacturers have a reputation for building ver y sound flying machines.

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  • Flight, December 1938
    The Paris Aero Show
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