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unusual facts about RWD-11



Fieseler Fi 97

Five Fi 97s took part in the Challenge 1934 touring plane championship in August-September, and Hans Seidemann took third place in an Argus-powered Fi 97, bested only by two Polish RWD-9s.

GM Zeta platform

Zeta was the original name for General Motors' full-size rear-wheel drive automobile platform developed by GM's Australian subsidiary company Holden and was most recently referred to as the "Global RWD Architecture".

Henry Millicer

After receiving a degree in aeronautical engineering he worked as a junior designer in the National Aviation Works (Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze) on the PZL.37 Łoś bomber project headed by Jerzy Dąbrowski and later for the RWD company on the RWD-25 low-wing, fixed-wheels fighter project.

Redline Time Attack

The three classes are described below, with each class subdivided by drive type; (FWD, RWD, or AWD).

Responsive web design

Although this challenge has become recently a minor issue, with many of the publishers starting to support responsiveness, one still at least partly existing problem for RWD is that some banner advertisements and videos are not fluid.

RWD

Responsive web design, a methodology for designing web sites that can adapt to a range of screen sizes and device types.

RWD 1

The RWD-1 was the first aircraft constructed by the RWD team of Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki in the Aviation Section of Mechanic Students' Club of Warsaw University of Technology.

RWD 10

The first public aerobatics show of the RWD-10 took place during a Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning on September 14–15, 1935 in Warsaw.

RWD 15

According to some publications, one RWD-15 was sent to the 1939 New York World's Fair, along with a RWD-13, and then sold there, but there is no evidence of such aircraft in the US register.

RWD 16

The prototype RWD-16 was given then to a known touring aviator Zbigniew Babiński.

RWD 17

After state trials in 1937, it was accepted for production, and in 1938 a short series of RWD 17 was produced (23 serial RWD 17 were in the Polish registry).

RWD 2

The RWD-2 was constructed by the RWD team of Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki in the Aviation Section of Mechanic Students' Club of Warsaw University of Technology.

RWD 7

The RWD 7 was used in Warsaw Aero Club, among others, for aerobatics, then in 1936 it was bought by a known aviator Zbigniew Babiński for touring flights and used until 1938.

Scion tC

For the 2009/10 Formula Drift seasons, Tanner Foust competed using a Rockstar, AEM and Toyo Tire sponsored Scion tC converted to RWD, built by Papadakis Racing.

Walter Major

License-built in Poland by the state-owned Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (as the PZInż. Major 4), the engine was used in, among others, Zlin Z-XIII, RWD-11 and one of the PWS-35 Ogar prototypes.

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.


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