PZL M-17 Duduś Kudłacz | |
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Role | General aviation aircraft
Type of aircraft
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Manufacturer | PZL-Mielec |
First flight | 7 July 1977 |
Status | prototype |
Primary user | Poland |
Number built | 1 |
The PZL M-17 "Duduś Kudłacz" (initially EM-5A) was a Polish twin-boom pusher general aviation and trainer aircraft of 1977, which remained a prototype.
The aircraft was an amateur design of a team of students of Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) led by Edward Margański. It had an unorthodox layout of a pusher with twin booms and very streamlined fuselage. A crew of two sat side by side, and had double controls. A tricycle landing gear was retractable.
The plane was designed in 1969–1971. At the design stage it was designated EM-5A (EM for Margański) and nicknamed Duduś Kudłacz (Hairy Duduś). The aircraft factory PZL-MielecinMielec got interested in the design and took over its development, under a designation PZL M-17. The design was modified there with help of Margański, plastic and duralumin construction was changed to riveted duralumin, and a less powerful engine.
The only prototype was flown on 7 July 1977 by S. Wasil. It was not produced in series. In 1979 the prototype was given to Rzeszów University of Technology. A shortcoming of a streamlined fuselage was a cramped cockpit, the crewmen were half-laying in a similar way, as in gliders.
The plane was a mid-wing monoplane. It had a two-blade wooden propeller and a 310-liter fuel tank .
Data from Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1975-76[1]
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