Question about LWD Skrzat and Upior

[hesham]

Hi,

who know anything about those two LWD aircraft,Skrzat and Upior ?,
may they were a gliders !.

 

[Petrus]

A name "Upiór" was being used in a designation "SWS Upiór" (where SWS stood for "Strefa Wysokiego Skażenia" or "Area of High Contamination". Under this designation a pilotless aircraft was conceived in the very late 1940s. Its role was to be testing of radioactive contamination of the atmosphere. And if I am not mistaken, the role was to be fulfilled on the nuclear battlefield (therefore the plane was to be unmanned) rather than when the nuclear powers carried out nuclear tests. The project of SWS Upiór was being prepared at Instytut Techniczny Lotnictwa (or Technical Institute of Aviation) and of course it didn't go beyond the drawing board.

There is very few infromation available on all the early post-war projects, incl. that of the Upiór. Some sources say that the project was somehow connected to the LWD Miś http://www.samoloty.pl/index.php/encyklopedia-lotnicza/encyklopedia-samolotobby-309/polskie-hobby-260/pasaierskie-hobby-492/lwd-mip-hobby-1597.
Some say that the Miś was to be a test-bed for instruments that were to be carried by the Upiór; others maintain that the Upiór was to be the Miś equipped with the instruments as well as with a kind of remote control gear. I'm afraid now that we'll never know how it really was as most of the archives from that particular era were being disposed of.

And finally, what I've written above doesn't necessarily mean that the name Upiór couldn't be reused for a glider or anything else.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Petrus very much.

 

[Petrus]

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I've just found further info on the SWS Upiór (the name could be translated as Phantom or Ghost). My theory that LWD Miś was to be used rather as a test-vehicle for reconnaissance/surveillance equipement than a pilotless airplane that was to became Upiór. There was also an idea to use CSS-12 light passenger/transport aircraft for such a purpose.

SWS Upiór itself was to be a pilotless aircraft with ex-German Argus As-410 or As-411 whose role was that of TV (and perhaps IR) reconnaissance of battlefield. Here you've got drawings made by a contemporary artist based upon original notes and hand sketches that survived to this time.

Best regards,
Piotr

 

[hesham]

Excellent my dear Petrus,thank you.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

the LWD Skrzat was a sporting airplane project,intended to be a composite plane,distributed
in a boxes as a seperated parts and assembled in flying clubs.

http://www.samolotypolskie.pl/samoloty/1721/81/LWD4