Franciszek Misztal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franciszek Misztal

Polish artist

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1901

Place of Birth: Lisie Jamy, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1980

Profession: engineer, designer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Franciszek Misztal (15 March 1901, in a village Lisie Jamy near Lubaczów – 9 June 1981, in Warsaw) - Polish aircraft designer. He studied at Lviv Polytechnic and received his doctorate in 1929 at the Technical University in Aachen.
From 1928 he worked in the PZL in Warsaw as a constructor.
Contributor to the design of aircraft PZL.23 Karas (caisson wings), PZL.19, PZL.26 and the chief designer (and author of the concept) of PZL.38 Wilk.
Inventor of the caisson structure with corrugated wings. During World War II he was teaching mechanics in Warsaw.
After the war, the founder of CSS construction bureau, then professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and the Institute of Aviation, where together with Leszek Duleba constructed the prototype 4-engine passenger aircraft PZL MD-12, and the secretary of Division IV of the Polish Academy of Sciences.