Tadeáš Wala

Tadeáš Wala in front of a WT-9 Dynamic

Tadeáš Wala (born January 27, 1932 in Prostřední Suchá , Czechoslovakia ) is a pilot and aircraft designer. The WT-9 Dynamic ultralight aircraft is one of his designs .

Life

At the beginning of his training series, he attended the aviation engineering school in Bielsko-Biała (Poland), followed by studies at the mining engineering faculty at the Ostrava Mining University , which he successfully completed in 1957 as a graduate engineer .

Since he started gliding in 1946, his interest in the technical construction of aircraft has grown. In addition to his professional activity in mining, he began designing aircraft in his spare time.

Wala took first place in the standard class in the 4th Czechoslovak glider piloting competition in 1959.

His first type, the WT-1 glider, was built according to his instructions in a company in Trenčín , which was also entrusted with the repair of aircraft. With the WT-1 the designer flew international competitions of the Eastern Bloc in Hungary. The WT-3 was his first invention in plastic construction, one example can be seen in a museum in Košice . The WT-4 and WT-5 models remained drafts. The WT-6 to -8 series were UL aircraft with double tail units and pusher propellers .

Web links

Pravda.sk: Letec s Krištáľovým krídlom je doma aj pod zemou (Slovak)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Aeroklub České republiky: Mistrovství Československa v plachtění  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Czech)