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After working as an engineer for the Globe Steel Tubes Co. and a few designing jobs as part of Douglas's and Waco's engineering departments, Stan Dzik became chief engineer in the 1950s for the revived Corben company, which produced the successful "Baby Ace", "Super Ace" and "Junior Ace" homebuilt designs. He was also the inventor of patented jettisonable airfoil thickness augmentors dubbed "Lead-Rons" (see here).
In his spare time, he designed "Project X", a non-flying full-scale aircraft meant to test the practicality of his jet aircraft design. Dzik hoped for the design to eventually translate into a real prototype with minimum redesign and appealed for help as he couldn't afford construction of a real flying article. Unfortunately the Project X mockup merely served as a playground for his two sons, and nothing ever came of Project "X-1"...
Source: Experimenter, July 1954 and March 1955.
In his spare time, he designed "Project X", a non-flying full-scale aircraft meant to test the practicality of his jet aircraft design. Dzik hoped for the design to eventually translate into a real prototype with minimum redesign and appealed for help as he couldn't afford construction of a real flying article. Unfortunately the Project X mockup merely served as a playground for his two sons, and nothing ever came of Project "X-1"...
Source: Experimenter, July 1954 and March 1955.
