“The breakthrough date was 1928, when Szczepan Grzeszczyk in a glider designed by Wacław Czerwiński, the CW-1, made a flight lasting 4 minutes with an altitude gain of 40 m. That started an avalanche…”
We present a clip from the TVP Nauka programme “Science is Everywhere”, in which Tomasz Kosecki, Director of the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, talks about the beginnings of gliding in our country, and Sebastian Kawa, recently honoured with the FAI Gold Air Medal, explains why the Polish Diana 2 glider is so exceptional.
The full episode can be watched on the TVP VOD platform.
