Zbysław Ciołkosz

Zbysław Ciołkosz (23 March 1902 – 25 June 1960) was a prolific Polish American aircraft designer, whose work includes the P.Z.L. 27, PWS-20, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-11, LWS-6 Żubr, PWS-1, PWS-54, PWS-19, LWS-2, and PWS-52.[1][2] He was with PWS and LWS, but emigrated to America in 1948, where his work at Piasecki Helicopter earned him the Wright Brothers Medal in 1953 with D. N. Meyers for a paper discussing the use of shaft turbines for helicopters.[1][3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Obituary (1960) Flight 78(2681), 141.
  2. ↑ Milewski, W. et al (1985) Guide to the Archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, Orbis Books, London.
  3. ↑ Meyers, D. and Ciolkosz, Z. (1954) Matching the Characteristics of Helicopters and Shaft-Turbines, SAE Technical Paper 540256, doi:10.4271/540256.
  4. ↑ "Announcements". The Aeronautical journal 59: 287. 1955.
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