Tadeusz Sołtyk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tadeusz Sołtyk

Polish aircraft designer

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1909

Place of Birth: Radom, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 14-Jul-2004

Profession: engineer, aerospace engineer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Tadeusz Sołtyk

  • Tadeusz Soltyk (born 30 August 1909 in Radom, died 14 July 2004 in Warsaw) was a Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer, most famous as the creator of the PZL TS-11 Iskra After graduating from the Mechanical Department of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1934, he became a designer at the State Aviation Works (PZL).
  • During his tenure at the company, he participated in the development of the PZL 23 Karas light bomber and its potential successor, the PZL.46 Sum.
  • In 1939 he became a deputy to PZL's Chief Designer, Stanislaw Prauss.
  • During the 1939 September Campaign, he fought in the battle of Kock.
  • He was captured there, then escaped and eluded the German occupants by hiding in the countryside. After the Germans were pushed back from eastern Poland, Soltyk organized, in 1944, the Experimental Aircraft Workshops (LWD) in Lublin.
  • He also became the chief designer in the facility.
  • In 1949 Soltyk took up work at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw.
  • Since 1952 he managed the newly created design office at the Institute.
  • 1955 saw the first test flights of the prototype for Soltyk's training aircraft, the PZL TS-8 Bies.
  • The production line for these machines was launched in 1957.
  • The aeroplane won 3 world records in its class.
  • That success allowed Soltyk to work on the first Polish jet aircraft, the PZL TS-11 Iskra, test-flown in 1960.
  • Iskra became the basic jet training plane in Polish military aviation, and was also exported to India.
  • It remains in service with the Polish Air Force.
  • From 1967 Tadeusz Soltyk started working at the Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements, specializing in ship automation systems.
  • He never returned to aircraft design.
  • In 1992 he retired. Tadeusz Soltyk lectured at the Lódz, Gdansk and Warsaw technical universities and at the Military Technical Academy.

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