SZD-22 Mucha standard

Historical information

The SZD-22 Mucha Standard ("Glider Experimental Works") was a single-seat aerobatic glider designed and built in Poland from 1957.

Developed especially for the 1958 World Gliding Championships, the SZD-22 Mucha Standard was a direct descendent of the IS-2 Mucha (Fly), from 1948, and SZD-12 Mucha 100, from 1953, with very similar lines and dimensions. The Mucha Standard was designed to the new Standard class rules which discarded the old Olympic 15-15-15 Span, Aspect Ratio, Area rule.

Built primarily of wood, the SZD-22 had airbrakes in the wings, a streamline cockpit canopy, short nose and tail skids with a single mainwheel. The SZD-22C model replaced the plywood covering of the wings with fabric and some models had provision for water ballast in rubber bags fitted to the wing roots.