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RWD 17, the Glossary

The RWD 17 was a Polish aerobatics-trainer aircraft of 1937, parasol wing monoplane, constructed by the RWD team.^[1]

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1930s Polish civil trainer aircraft
1930s Polish military trainer aircraft
1930s Polish military utility aircraft
RWD aircraft

Aerobatics

Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.

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Airborne and Antigas Defence League

Air and Chemical Defense League (Polish: Liga Obrony Powietrznej i Przeciwgazowej, L.O.P.P.) was a mass Polish paramilitary organization, founded in 1928 as a result of the merger of the State Air Defense League (Polish: Liga Obrony Powietrznej Panstwa) with the Gas Defense Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Obrony Przeciwgazowej).

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Świdnik

Świdnik is a town in southeastern Poland with 40,186 inhabitants (2012), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, southeast of the city of Lublin.

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Bronisław Żurakowski

Bronisław Żurakowski (26 June 1911 – 4 October 2009) was a Polish engineer, aeroplane constructor, and glider test pilot.

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Cirrus aero engines

The Cirrus and Hermes or Cirrus-Hermes are a series of British aero engines manufactured, under various changes of ownership, from the 1920s until the 1950s.

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De Havilland Gipsy Major

The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous Tiger Moth biplane.

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Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze

Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze (DWL) (Experimental Aeronautical Workshops) was the Polish aircraft manufacturer, active in 1933-1939.

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Empennage

The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.

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Floatplane

A floatplane is a type of seaplane with one or more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy.

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Hel Peninsula

Hel Peninsula (Mierzeja Helska, Półwysep Helski; Hélskô Sztremlëzna; Halbinsel Hela or Putziger Nehrung) is a sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Landing gear

Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Monoplane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.

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Naval air squadron

A naval air squadron (NAS) is the title of naval aviation squadrons in some countries.

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Polish 56th Observation Escadrille

The 56th Observation Escadrille was a unit of the Polish Air Force at the beginning of the Second World War.

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Polish Aero Club

Aeroklub Polski (AP; Polish Aero Club) is the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying.

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Polish Air Force

The Polish Air Force (Air Forces) is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Polish Navy

The Polish Navy (War Navy; often abbreviated to Marynarka) is the naval branch of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Puck, Poland

Puck (Pùckò, Pùck, Pëck, formerly Putzig) is a town in northern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants.

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PWS-26

The PWS-26 was a Polish advanced training aircraft, used from 1937 to 1939 by the Polish Air Force, constructed in the PWS (Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów - Podlasie Aircraft Factory). RWD 17 and PWS-26 are 1930s Polish military trainer aircraft.

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PWS-35 Ogar

The PWS-35 Ogar (Polish Hound) was a two-seat, aerobatic training biplane that was designed by Kazimierz Nowicki, Marian Piątka and Michał Rosnowski at the Politechnika Lwowska in 1935/1936.

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Radial engine

The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Royal Romanian Air Force

The Air Force branch of the Royal Romanian forces in World War II was officially named the Aeronautica Regală Română (ARR), or the Romanian Royal Aeronautics, though it is more commonly referred to in English histories as the Forțele Aeriene Regale ale României (Royal Romanian Air Force, FARR), or simply Forțele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWD_17

Also known as R.W.D. 17, RWD-17, RWD-17W.

RWD 17, the Glossary

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See also

1930s Polish civil trainer aircraft

1930s Polish military trainer aircraft

1930s Polish military utility aircraft

RWD aircraft

References