PZL-105 Flaming


The PZL-105 Flaming is a Polish short-takeoff-and-landing utility aircraft designed by PZL "Warszawa-Okęcie". It remained a prototype.

Development

The PZL-105 was designed as a successor to the successful utility aircraft PZL-104 Wilga, being more modern and economical and offering increased transport capacity. The design was initially called Wilga 88. It retained the high-wing layout of the PZL-104 and the upward-opening side doors, but it was a completely new aircraft. Compared with the Wilga, it has a six-seat cabin instead of four seats and the wings are supported by single struts instead of a cantilever design. The plane was intended for a variety of purposes, like glider towing, parachute training, transport, air ambulance, patrolling and crop dusting. Also, a seaplane variant was intended.
The first prototype, powered by a 265 kW Russian M-14P radial engine, was first flown on 9 November 1989. An intended designation of a serial variant was PZL-105M. The second prototype, designated PZL-105L, was fitted with a flat engine 298 kW Lycoming IO-720. It was flown on 27 July 1991. There was also made one prototype for static trials.
Problems with funding at the outbreak of the 1980s and 1990s, connected with a change of political system in Poland, and the priority of the PZL-130 Orlik trainer program, had caused the Flaming program to be suspended, and production of the type has yet to have started. The company developed a new variant of the PZL-104, the Wilga 2000 with Lycoming I0-540 flat engine instead.

Design

Metal construction braced high-wing monoplane, conventional in layout, duralumin covered. Semi-monocoque fuselage. Rectangular single-spar wings, fitted with Fowler flaps and slotted flaperons. Six-seat cabin with three rows of seats, with large side doors opening upwards. Conventional fixed landing gear with tail wheel, the main gear is made of composite spring legs. Two-blade or three-blade metal propeller. Fuel tanks in wings.

Surviving aircraft

The first prototype and the second prototype airframe are in a collection of the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków.

Specifications (PZL-105M)