Finns at Mokotow Glider School in 1935

I wanted to see the Salamandra glider that was PIK-5 designers source of inspiration..it must be la later semienclosed cockpit glider ?

Excellent pics…thanks Martti ( also your input in old aerodynamic lessons are cool elsewhere ).

Very nice and interesting pictures!

Kazimierz Plenkiewicz (pic. 15) and Romuald Szukiewicz (pic. 16) were test pilots at the AFEE during WW2.

Unless “Ja jesien gtodny” means something in Finnish (pic. 36) it should read “Ja jestem glodny”, meaning “I am hungry” in Polish.

The parsol winged monoplane in part 1 is a Polish RWD-8 pws.

The registration seems SP-ANX (pic. 40) which means it is RWD-8dwl, not RWD-8pws. Oddly, this aircraft is listed as completed in 1936.

All pictures of actual flying seem to have been taken at Polichno Gliding School (Szkola Szybowcowa Polichno), not at Mokotow (Mokotow is a part of Warsaw, just south of the city centre, where the original Warsaw airport used to be until mid-1930s).

Part IV – Flying and Mannerheim

Interesting photos, thanks for posting links.

Part V – Finns back in Finland

Part IV

The parsol winged monoplane in part 1 is a Polish RWD-8 pws. Nice to see tht the primary gliders have sprung skids unlike my Dagling!

Dave

The monoplane was an R.W.D.8.

John

Remarkable photographs. Superb definition. I’m inclined to say – digital photography, eat your heart out! As an aside, what was the parasol wing monoplane in part I?

Fascinating pictures of early gliding. I don’t think i would have been comfortable in a Dagling. I love the horse drawn glider trailer.

John

Part III

Part II