They say one swallow doesn’t make a spring, but ours heralds something else – a new series of films dedicated to gliders, which can be seen, amongst other places, at the permanent exhibition ‘Downwind and Upwind – Civil Aviation’ at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, which won the Sybilla 2025 award.
The SZD-17X Jaskółka L, known amongst aviation enthusiasts as the ‘Laminarka’, is a wooden competition glider developed in Poland in the 1950s. The Jaskółka family comprised a total of around 160 aircraft built in over a dozen different versions, and the museum’s example is not only one of the most interesting among them, but is also the only surviving example of this advanced version of the Jaskółka.
The unique ‘Laminarka’ is currently on display as part of the permanent exhibition ‘Downwind and Upwind – Civil Aviation’ in Hangar No. 5. Detailed information, including the history of this glider’s development, its designer, its various versions, and the conservation work carried out at the Museum, can be found in the monograph The Jaskółka Glider from the Acta Aeronautica Profile series.
The publication is available::
We invite you to watch a video in which we take a closer look at the construction of a glider:
