1929: (POD #1): Poland licenses Wright Cyclone engine.
1931: (POD #2) Noted Polish aircraft designer Zygmunt Pulawski does not die in a crash of his new plane the PZL 12. Instead, he suffers a near death experience during which he has a vision of a new airplane, an interceptor aircraft with wing slats and other innovations.
1932: The aircraft envisioned by Pulaski during his altered consciousness experience is ready on the drawing board. He pitches the project to his bosses, but they decline to pursue it because current at the time thinking that emphasizes the fighter-bomber concept. Due to lack of interest, he shelves the project.
1934: The Polish Air force orders a multi-role fighter-bomber. In an internal PZL competition a design of the engineer Franciszek Misztal won and was given the designation PZL.38 Wilk.
The power plant was to be 490-hp lightweight V-engine PZL Foka (seal), designed by Stanisław Nowkuński of Polish Skoda Works (then PZL WS-1).
(POD #3) Nowkuński does not die in Tatry mountains on 30 July 1936.
Problems with the Foka lead to the need to create a new engine. (Thanks to Tizoc): "Nowkuński builds Double Mors. Mors was a 9-cylinder radial equivalent of P&W Wasp Jr (with many features copied), so Double Mors would be similar to P&W Twin Wasp JR".
The news of the engine breakthrough reaches Pulawski, who shows Nowkunski his interceptor design. The engine designer is impressed and decides to use his knowledge from work on Foka to design a brand new engine for the Pulawski fighter.
1937: two prototypes of PZL.38 were built. One has the Double Mors engine while the other uses a Wright Cyclone development with 1000hp. The second plane shows more potential in therms of performance. But it becomes clear that the aircraft does not have the ability to carry enough bombs to work as a bomber.
A decision is made to turn it into a heavy fighter. The new version will carry four 7.92mm PWU wz.36 machine guns and two 20mm FK-A gun fitted under the fuselage. 500 are ordered and production of all other aircraft is cancelled.
1938: Intelligence reveals that Germany has a superb interceptor in the ME 109. There is worry that the heavy Wilk will not be able to match the Me 109. This leads to an order for an interceptor more in line with the Me 109. Fortunately, Pulawski already has a design and Nowkunski proposes a 12 cylinder 1200 hp liquid-cooled engine with nitrous oxide supercharger that allows the engine to obtain 1600hp. The Air Force is very impressed and orders 500 of the new fighters while reducing orders for the Wilk to 300.
The new interceptor is shown at the 1938 Paris Air show and causes a sensation. It's stunning engine performance sends shock waves in German aircraft industry.
1939: There are 300 PZL 38s ready.
The president of Czech republic makes a secret appeal to Poland, in the light of the superb aircraft, for help. Rydz Smnigly decides that perhaps there is a way to save Poland by saving the Czechs. He agrees to use the figthers to defend Czecs if Hitler attacks.
Hitler summons President Hácha to Berlin and during the early hours of 15 March, informing Hácha of the imminent German invasion. Threatening a Luftwaffe attack on Prague, Hitler hopes to make Hácha order the capitulation of the Czechoslovak army. But Hacha refuses.
Hitler carries out his threat and the Luftwaffe attacks Prague the next day. But instead of an easy walk, they are met by the Polish Air Force and suffer heavy loses. The Me 109 is shows to be inferior to the Polish airplanes. Enraged by the news that the Poles have decimated his Luftwaffe, Hitler suffers a stroke while in one of his rages. He dies the next day.
A power struggle ensues in Germany and war does not happen in 1939.
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1931: (POD #2) Noted Polish aircraft designer Zygmunt Pulawski does not die in a crash of his new plane the PZL 12. Instead, he suffers a near death experience during which he has a vision of a new airplane, an interceptor aircraft with wing slats and other innovations.
1932: The aircraft envisioned by Pulaski during his altered consciousness experience is ready on the drawing board. He pitches the project to his bosses, but they decline to pursue it because current at the time thinking that emphasizes the fighter-bomber concept. Due to lack of interest, he shelves the project.
1934: The Polish Air force orders a multi-role fighter-bomber. In an internal PZL competition a design of the engineer Franciszek Misztal won and was given the designation PZL.38 Wilk.
The power plant was to be 490-hp lightweight V-engine PZL Foka (seal), designed by Stanisław Nowkuński of Polish Skoda Works (then PZL WS-1).
(POD #3) Nowkuński does not die in Tatry mountains on 30 July 1936.
Problems with the Foka lead to the need to create a new engine. (Thanks to Tizoc): "Nowkuński builds Double Mors. Mors was a 9-cylinder radial equivalent of P&W Wasp Jr (with many features copied), so Double Mors would be similar to P&W Twin Wasp JR".
The news of the engine breakthrough reaches Pulawski, who shows Nowkunski his interceptor design. The engine designer is impressed and decides to use his knowledge from work on Foka to design a brand new engine for the Pulawski fighter.
1937: two prototypes of PZL.38 were built. One has the Double Mors engine while the other uses a Wright Cyclone development with 1000hp. The second plane shows more potential in therms of performance. But it becomes clear that the aircraft does not have the ability to carry enough bombs to work as a bomber.
A decision is made to turn it into a heavy fighter. The new version will carry four 7.92mm PWU wz.36 machine guns and two 20mm FK-A gun fitted under the fuselage. 500 are ordered and production of all other aircraft is cancelled.
1938: Intelligence reveals that Germany has a superb interceptor in the ME 109. There is worry that the heavy Wilk will not be able to match the Me 109. This leads to an order for an interceptor more in line with the Me 109. Fortunately, Pulawski already has a design and Nowkunski proposes a 12 cylinder 1200 hp liquid-cooled engine with nitrous oxide supercharger that allows the engine to obtain 1600hp. The Air Force is very impressed and orders 500 of the new fighters while reducing orders for the Wilk to 300.
The new interceptor is shown at the 1938 Paris Air show and causes a sensation. It's stunning engine performance sends shock waves in German aircraft industry.
1939: There are 300 PZL 38s ready.
The president of Czech republic makes a secret appeal to Poland, in the light of the superb aircraft, for help. Rydz Smnigly decides that perhaps there is a way to save Poland by saving the Czechs. He agrees to use the figthers to defend Czecs if Hitler attacks.
Hitler summons President Hácha to Berlin and during the early hours of 15 March, informing Hácha of the imminent German invasion. Threatening a Luftwaffe attack on Prague, Hitler hopes to make Hácha order the capitulation of the Czechoslovak army. But Hacha refuses.
Hitler carries out his threat and the Luftwaffe attacks Prague the next day. But instead of an easy walk, they are met by the Polish Air Force and suffer heavy loses. The Me 109 is shows to be inferior to the Polish airplanes. Enraged by the news that the Poles have decimated his Luftwaffe, Hitler suffers a stroke while in one of his rages. He dies the next day.
A power struggle ensues in Germany and war does not happen in 1939.
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