Stephan Petróczy from Petrócz
Stephan Petróczy von Petrócz (born January 3, 1874 in Grancspetrócz, Kingdom of Hungary, today Granč-Petrovce in Slovakia; † August 9, 1957 in Budapest ) was an Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer.
Live and act
Stephan Petróczy graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, where he was retired from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1895 . In 1910 he came to the Austro-Hungarian Airship Department, where he received his pilot training. On September 28, 1910, he was the first Hungarian to receive the Austrian aviation diploma with the number 13. He crashed on a flight from Wiener Neustadt to Fischamend in 1910 , but only suffered a broken arm.
When the kuk flying machine instruction department was founded in Wiener Neustadt, which was the first flying school in the entire monarchy, he was entrusted with the management.
When the First World War broke out , however, he was immediately transferred to the Serbian and later to the Russian front. Due to the shortage of pilots that soon occurred, he was pulled back to Wiener Neustadt in 1915, where he set up a training battalion. Once again he came briefly to the front, but in 1917 he was given command of the Austro-Hungarian aviation arsenal in Fischamend and was thus responsible for the entire aeronautical replenishment.
Towards the end of the First World War, Stephan Petróczy von Petrócz, together with the designers Theodore von Kármán and Wilhelm Zurovec, carried out successful flight tests on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian Army with the PKZ-1 and PKZ-2 screw tether planes named after them . Such vertically ascending aircraft were intended to replace the tethered balloons that had been used up until then for enemy observation. The PKZ-2 reached an altitude of around 50 meters, which was a record at the time. The device crashed during a demonstration flight on June 10, 1918 in Fischamend . The end of the war prevented further development.
After the First World War, Stephan Petróczy von Petrócz was involved in building up the Hungarian air force. After the Second World War he was expropriated and lived in poor conditions until his death.
literature
- The kuk Aeronautische Anstalt Fischamend , 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02309-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Werfring: The tied kuk high-flyer article in the “Wiener Zeitung” from September 25, 2014, supplement “ProgrammPunkte”, p. 7.
- ^ Walter J. Boyne: How the Helicopter changed modern Warfare , New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-58980-700-6, p. 312.
Web links
- The helicopter development in Austria-Hungary Article on luftfahrt-fischamend.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petróczy from Petrócz, Stephan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petróczy, Istvan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grancspetrócz , Kingdom of Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1957 |
| Place of death | Budapest |