Beautiful Little " Old School " spotter plane . Same principal as the Fiesler Storch from WW2 . You have to tie them down because a Strong Wind will possibly make them Lift Off . Would make Great " Bush Planes " .
@Jiuhuashan7 ай бұрын
I saw one of these at an airshow some years ago. Looked like it was great fun to fly.
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
Can confirm, they are a lot of fun to fly. They feel very weird the first few times though!
@scotte28158 ай бұрын
Reading the comments and find it hard to believe that so few know of this aircraft, it's been around since three 70s
@fredtedstedman7 ай бұрын
love this aircraft , super cute looks ! ......................and performance , just amazing !
@jacekjaworski33217 ай бұрын
Piękny samolot!!!
@johnutting96157 ай бұрын
My neighbour across the road has one, flies it off a paddock next to the house, great fun watching it come and go.
@Vegatermik7 ай бұрын
I saw in 1994 how Polish pilot Jerzy Wojnar performed loops on Wilga. It was during the shows during the 5th World Microlight Championships Poznan, Poland.
@poissonsr717 ай бұрын
Wow must be impressing
@Vegatermik7 ай бұрын
Without a doubt, because the structure of the Wilga is not adapted to shooting acrobatics.@@poissonsr71
@wanderschlosser18577 ай бұрын
Wilga is a great plane. It was even built abroad in license. Have seen an Indonesia built version in Australia, different engine though.
@alumnuseubanus10617 ай бұрын
die Wilga fasziniert mich immer wieder
@karlgaikowski69486 ай бұрын
this Plane was once "D-EDBM" stationed in Stralsund, Germany (EDBV) 🙂
@waynep3437 ай бұрын
I wonder what awaits with Draco X. Will it have a scrappy wing. Will mike split the rudder to make it into a speed brake. Will he convert the horizontal stabilizer from fixed to fully trimmable to handle different loads and angles of attack. Will mike send the PT6 out for a new hot section
@user-pv3mu6ow7v11 күн бұрын
Дуже гарний колір ,збираю моделі польських літаків вже років 60 з паперу 1-33,якщо якесь видання випустить в папері ,придбаю однозначно,який двигун там стоїть ,???дякую з повагою👍🏻😀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@werty19487 ай бұрын
I komu to przeszkadzało, że zaniechano produkcję tego samolotu a na dodatek zniszczono i złomowano całe oprzyrządowanie technologiczne. Były prywatne firmy, które chcieli kontynuować produkcję, ale brak oprzyrządowania uniemożliwił to.
@MrMarek414 ай бұрын
Komuś przeszkadzało . I to tak mocno, że zrobił wszystko, aby zniszczyć produkt dostatecznie .
@mariuszborowski2646Ай бұрын
Tym samym przeszkadzało, którzy zniszczyli całą resztę przemysłu maszynowego w Polsce i ktrzy teraz niszczą nam energetykę. I Niemcom i pejsatym.
@neilfoster8147 ай бұрын
The PZL 104 is a brilliant little plane for STOL work. As a note, it's pronounced "Vilga".
@someguydino67708 ай бұрын
whoa, all this time I thought that Mike Paty had designed and built "draco" ; but it was a Wilga all along!
@poissonsr718 ай бұрын
yes !
@loucanick7 ай бұрын
Mike started with a Wilga and modified it extensively..not much Wilga left in Draco except basic shape.. :)
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
The Wilga 2000 more specifically. Not the same as the Wilga in this video. The original PZL 104 Wilga is more enjoyable, in my opinion. It flies like it should.
@theresacaron42387 ай бұрын
That's the same modified airframe & wings used for Draco, the best performing Wilga ever.
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
No, the Draco was based off the Wilga 2000. A more modified version of the Wilga 80. The original Wilga is more enjoyable than Draco will ever be in my opinion.
@jimmytucker83657 ай бұрын
Nice job on the camera. Keep up the good work.
@poissonsr717 ай бұрын
thanks 🙂
@trct6512Ай бұрын
The Sovie(tUSSR) engine АИ-14
@pawecybuka41867 ай бұрын
Piekne.Na własne zyczenie pozbylismy sie tego dla anglosaskich bandytów.
@JC-td4gg7 ай бұрын
That is why it was beefed up to make the Draco. To bad no one has built another Draco type since the original crashed!
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
What do you mean beefed up? He used a Wilga 2000 airframe. I don’t care for those Wilgas as much since they didn’t have the radial. These fly wonderfully and they take a lot of abuse very well. Draco is nothing special besides a turbine conversion which was already done a long time ago when the Wilga was being built by PZL.
@JC-td4gg7 ай бұрын
Still there will never be a Draco again!@@wackaircaftmechanic2312
@paulschmolke1887 ай бұрын
Very cool plane…odd looking but appears to be very agile
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
It’s so ugly it’s cute! It is decently agile but it is extremely good at slow speeds. The controls remain effective even at 55 mph or so.
@MENSA.lady27 ай бұрын
Useful utility aircraft. Can be used for spraying duties as well as a glider tug. Shame about the high fuel burn.
@arcanondrum65437 ай бұрын
Two aircraft using one engine demands excess power. Excess power uses too much fuel.
@AdimiAbdeldjalil7 ай бұрын
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@wojtaswrr7 ай бұрын
PZL Wilga
@TalHouston17 ай бұрын
I have been told that this plane is a 3 seater but look carefully and tell me it is not a 4 seat airplane!
@user-dj4tr6hb6l7 ай бұрын
4 места. Сам летал.знаю точно.
@painmt6518 ай бұрын
Has to be really easy to fly, with the high wing and low speed.
@TheJustinJ8 ай бұрын
You'd be surprised. It has a powerful propeller engine, so a lot of torque. It flies at a high angle of attack to get slow, so a lot of P-factor. It also has conventional landing gear, tailwheels are less stable and prone to ground-loop, if you allow lateral g-loads to build up. Also, slow airplanes are not any easier to fly, in fact they can be harder do to Q (dynamic pressure) going down with the square root of speed. Therefore getting a little bit slow causes the aircraft to go from flying solid, to loss of control. Possibly in as little as 2~3 knots difference. Fast airplanes tend to fly deep into the flight envelope and are far from stall or loss of control at all times, except in the flair to land.
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
@@TheJustinJIt actually really doesn’t have a lot of torque and handles nice and straight when slow. I have the M-14P so I have less prop but turn a faster RPM. It does unfortunately ground loop a bit easier due to the trailing link landing gear but it is overall, very simple and easy to fly and enjoy once you get used to it. It really isn’t more difficult to control than a regular tailwheel airplane besides the trailing link landing gear and the fact that it comes in slow reduces the amount of squirrelyness that it has. It is pretty hard to lose control of the Wilga from my experience until you are about to touch down and then the roll out. Especially when it’s slow, it hasn’t gotten away from me yet so I can’t say that with full confidence. However, it refuses to stall and makes you work for it to stall it properly. The only thing you need to be careful with besides the trailing link gear is really only the fact you need to have power on when landing to not “slam” it into the ground and put stress on the landing gear. It is easy to mange after a few flights.
@user-pr6qe2mf5b7 ай бұрын
А таки гарний літачок.
@goodbarbenie54777 ай бұрын
The prop seems loose, is broken or what...? 😮
@poissonsr717 ай бұрын
it is the shutter speed of the camera if it was loose the plane would be vibrating
@user-pr6qe2mf5b7 ай бұрын
Прототипом був fi-156.
@seboho69387 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣idiota 🤣
@alanwheelock14608 ай бұрын
cool plane looks like the draco
@poissonsr718 ай бұрын
it is a similar plane but with piston engine instead of turboprop
@TheJustinJ8 ай бұрын
Draco of course was a highly modified Wilga, having a Pratt PT-6A Turboprop engine. Wingtip extensions. Landing gear fairing fuel tanks. And large alaskan bushwheels. Modern avionics. Among other things.
@ihorkorotchenko97327 ай бұрын
+
@Johny5707 ай бұрын
Страшненький какой самолетик :)
@hans51307 ай бұрын
Looks like Draco
@poissonsr717 ай бұрын
yes it is the same model without the modification :)
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
This is the grandfather of Draco. Draco was originally a PZL 2000. Another variant of this Wilga. This Wilga shown is a 35A with the way it was meant to be.
@HobbitHomes2638 ай бұрын
the look of STOL and nice looking but not really STOL as we know it today . If your take of roll is more than o ft and your landing more than 20... might as well be in a Cessna
@geraldperyman65357 ай бұрын
But can probably carry a useful load.
@wackaircaftmechanic23127 ай бұрын
Yes but it is far bigger than the STOL competition aircraft and will handle rougher terrain than the smaller Super Cubs and PA-22s.
@user-pr6qe2mf5b7 ай бұрын
За рахунок підкосного крила,зменшується вага.І взагалі всі характеристики.
@AlexCondorAlexCondor7 ай бұрын
У него не подкосное крыло, подкос это стойка от начала стойки шасси до нижней стороны крыла.....это "свободонесущий высокоплан"..крыло свободно от всяких стоек, подкосов и расчалок