PZL P.55a – the Polish fighter - project

Just before the war, in the summer of 1939, Jerzy Dabrowski (designer of the PZL 37 "Loš") created the initial design of the fighter, designated PZL P.55. This project is aimed at realization and the maquette was made in the same year 1939, which aimed to determine the layout of the main elements. The plane was designed before the 1600 h. p. power engines. Initially Dabrowski considered designing a fighter with a “Hispano-Suiza” 12Y engine. Such an engine was installed in good French “Dewoitine” D-520 fighters. Because the representatives of this engine company reported, that they are well advanced in the production of a new, more perfect 1400 - 1600 h. p. power engine, Dabrovski adapted his fighter design for a new engine. Finally PZL decided, that 930 - 1100 h. p. power motor 12Ywill be installed in the prototype. Later in the fighters of the first production version, which were planned to be designated PZL P.55a, 930 h. p. power engines “Hispano-Suiza” 12Y49. However, all the work and preparations were interrupted by the start of the war.

An uncomplicated little, well-designed and well-detailed model of a small airplane, for modellers of all experience. Only beginners and modelers with little experience are recommended to work under the supervision of a more experienced colleague and make a model without cockpit equipment, chassis niches, the chassis itself (in the flight phase) and with an opaque cockpit canopy. This model is one, that less experienced modelers can choose as one of the first, more complex models. Excellent graphic instructions, there is a small reserve of colors, the airplane is reproduced in the model slightly used (although in reality it was not even started to be produced) - with traces of use. From the publication You can make a model of an airplane with the two-color camouflage, tested in 1939. The model with 122 Kraków fighter escadre numbers and markings is fictional.