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. 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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