Author: Karol
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Wilno Airport. 2015.
The first settlement in today’s Vilnius was established in the 11th century. The first mention of the existence of the city dates back to the 14th century (1323). Trakai was the most important settlement at that time. It is known that in 1365, Vilnius was attacked by the Teutonic Order, which captured and burned it.…
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 06-1
Baron Stanisław Różyczki de Rosenwerth was a highly educated man. He studied at universities in Western Europe. He was a manufacturer and financier. Clever and resourceful. After Poland regained independence, he returned to his family estate to build a better future. In 1923, enterprising and full of initiative Stanisław Rosenwerth, having learned about the emerging,…
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 04
Zakłady Mechaniczne Emil Plage and Teofil Laśkiewicz in Lublin are undoubtedly the first Polish aviation company. She produced aircraft since 1921. From 1928, she produced her own aircraft constructions, and after nationalization under the name Lublin. In 1935, the factory was nationalized.
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 05
On August 11, 1923, a joint-stock company was established under the name Wielkopolska Wytwórnia Samolotów – Samolot, which became the second company, after Zakłady Mechaniczne E. Plage and T. Laśkiewicz in Lublin, producing airplanes in Poland. The company was founded on the initiative of the president of the Polish Air Force Association, Czesław Wawrzyniak. On…
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 03
In parallel with the Central Aviation Workshops at the Mokotów Airport, the Polish authorities planned to launch new aviation production plants. In 1921, the Ministry of Military Affairs concluded an agreement with the Francopol Joint Stock Company. The company undertook the production of several thousand airplanes and aircraft engines. The construction of the factory began…
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 01
One of the first successful Clerget 9B aircraft engines. The engine is piston, radial, rotary, air-cooled. The engine was designed in 1915 by Pierre Clerget. Its basic version developed a power of 88.26 kW (120 hp) at 1,250 rpm, and the displacement was 16.3 dm3. The engine rotated together with the propeller, and the crankshaft…
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 02
Shortly after the Republic of Poland regained independence and the Germans were expelled from Warsaw, in November 1918, the Military Aviation Workshops were established. They were placed in the buildings of the former School of Observers at 2A Puławska Street. Ultimately, the workshops had: two assembly halls, 22 hangars, 6 workshop buildings, a power plant,…
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Air escapes from the PRL. Defection to freedom. 2015.
In 2009, in the history of the Lim-2 fighter, we included a small subchapter titled "Unfortunate events", in which we presented the history of the air escapes of four Polish officers who managed to break out of the communist paradise. We were not supposed to come back to this issue. However, the assessment of these…