1. WSK SWIDNIK IN SWIDNIK 2. A-5 PLANT IN WARSAW 3. UTILIZATION OF WESTERN TECHNICAL INFORMATION BY POLISH AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2010
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• Publication Date: September 13, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOUMM !VALUATIONS DMNITIVI. APPRAISAL OP CONTENT 19 TENTATIVE.
WSK $widnik
1. The Transportation Equipment Factory at Swidnik (Wt ornia Sprzetu Komaunikacyjnegp -
WSK Swidnik) is located about 8 km.. southeast of Lublin. The original plant
was destroyed during World War Ii and rebuilt in 1919-1950. Production
started i.a 1951-19,52p a:4 as of aid-1951a., 'A en the plant employed 6,000
-workers ii: to shi:t.s, it was still expaudlrg.
2. !-_,.e: plazt site extends over an area of about, 1.5 by 1 km. An airfield,
wfti.cl:,, i.s l.,000 m. wide ands 1, 50X) m. ioa.,.g, ad oins the plant on one side and
belongs to t't,.e local Aeroklu."b. F pio e:ees of the plant are among the
mezibers of the Aer. oklub.
3. As of prodiz, di v:t e :f'ollowi:.g:1
a. 11-~,e rear part of the f`d;.: elage (statecznik pionowy) and the -.rings for
e; FA ';; ' 'V- ~ components are rude from, a material called
D4 M3. (;,"+o :U,
1y d, xalc:,min~am, code 1.-16 or D-17, which contains 3.5
per ^w:` i^op r r. !':.,...e raw materials are imported from the USSR.
b. Fuel {;as s for the . AC .
c. ejector seats for pilots (katapulta).
d. w.[' M.-12.5 metorcycleE.
A-5 Works In Warsaw
4. The A-h Works (Warszaw?skie WW .worcze +j`.rzadzeni Aparatow Grzejnych) is located
at No. 306 ZGrochowska Street, Warsaw, on the former site of the Borkowski
electrical appliance plant. Its four-story building covers a site measuring
about 20 x 80 meters. The plant employs almost 1,000 workers in two shifts.
5. fo3.1.o.wing appro:x::tma to detai.ls concerning the layout of the plant are
reported:
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susilci 1. WSK Swi dmik in Swidnik
2. A-5 Plant, in Warsaw
3. 't7l;ilization of Western Technical
Information by Polish, Aircraft
Industry
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a. First floor: stores for goods ready for dispatch; materials; and components.
b. Second floor: administrative and technical offices.
as, ~d floor: production department, bureau for the technical testing of
products; and armature winding shop.
d. Fourth floor: laboratories, library, painting and metal-plating shops.
The A-5'Works produces the following aircraft devices:
a. Eledtronic gyrocompasses (zyroskop).
b. An artificial horizon (stuczny horyzont), which is part of the automatic
pilot.
c. Transformers (przetwornice) for electrical installations.
d. Electrical motors (pradnice).
In 1955about, 100 units of each of these parts were produced, most of which
were to WSK Mielea. Some of the output was also sent to to Polish Air Force
for parts, and a small percentage was reportedly sent to Czechoslovakia.
The irr*gular supply of raw materials, especially electric wires, has caused
produation difficulties.
The plant also makes various electrical appliances for the civilian market. Both
the technical blaepr.:ints and the production machinery are Soviet, and until 1955
there ware two Soviet engineers permanently attached to the plant as advisors.
The plait?a mechanical equipment is principally Polish and Soviet, but it has
t" testing machines., one for metal. fatigue (wywazarks. elektronowa) and the
other fOr the Vrocompass and the artificial. horizon. Most of the production
proses s, however, are done ma.z;ally.
Icntormation by the Polish Aircraft Industry
The Warsaw Polytechnic institute lacks both modern laboratories and technical
facilit.es; most of its equipment dates back to World War II, and is obsolete.
It was Only in 1955, for example, that, its aeronautical department received a
YAK-23 yodel for study purposes.
During 1.he past, two years efforts to secure information onl technical
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deve nt has intensified. In 1955 a complete set of the ulic system of
the was brought to the Polytechnic by Lecturer
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T'.' t installation had not been eletaly assemb
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led as of
arly 157. Jaromine* aIs* brought back literature.on aircraft construction v
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the boa s for research to iaprmve local production.
bh forme&
The libtwy of the Polytechnic and the Central Aviation Institute
Glowgy Inst
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Lotniczlby) are equipped with the latest aeronautical publications
for use by Polish experts.. Such
publications reach Poland completely through. overt channels.
Fug I research material is prgvdded by the technical publications of
aircraft manufacturers. A number of Polytechnic students were given such publication a
in connection with their theses, and charged with designing instruments and
installations .only partially described in the literature.
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A pressure pump which acti &tes the landing gear of an aircraft was constructed
on the basis of such information, and the production of a twin-engine passenger
pie is envisaged.
Personalities
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The following personalities are (mown:
as Wladyslaw Fisadoa, is a lecturer O=n aviation at the Warsaw P e
and the technical director of the Central Aviation Salt
is a
temporary lecturer at the Polyte ic, end the he"of . supy
at the Central Aviation Institutes
a. 8lowacki (tau), ~ is an electronics engineer in the gain construction,
bureau of the A-3 Works. Is is responsible lore ti roduotion
improwmeats
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Oo nt: More recently the plant has also been producing 8o"-type
a ors and piston.eagined reconnaissance planes or. the mm (Mi) type.
The following is the legend for the sketch of the WUX 8widnik area.
A.. WUX 8widnik
8; Airfield
C. Workers' quarters
D. Fields
R. Trees
l and 8. Aeroklub hangs
3. Stores
4. Fuselage assembly slop
Wing and fuselage production shop
6. Tool slop BOLUMM s tng td stankand ej mat production soaps (The
story structures measuring
approximately 60 x,130 m.)
8. Railroad gate
9. Bain trance
10. Aeroklub gate (Or towing of airplanes)
11. /widaik railroad station
190 Movie theater ... _ .. , ...... ... , _ _ _
13. Highway to Lublin
11~. Railroad line to Lublin
??x?---x?--?x?---x s barbed wire fence a. high
r?r.~Qrrr~~.r-rrerrrr? i. concrete wall 3 K. Wl
Huts for KW8 (Internal Security Corps) Guards.
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