PZL Mielec, formerly WSK-Mielec and WSK "PZL-Mielec" is a Polish aerospace manufacturer based in Mielec. It is the largest aerospace manufacturer in postwar Poland. In 2007, it was acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, which retained the brand name. Between 1948 and 2014, the company manufactured approximately 15,600 aircraft.
Stefan Drzewiecki was a Polish scientist, journalist, engineer, constructor and inventor, known for designing and constructing the world's first electric-powered submarine. He worked mainly in France and the Russian Empire.
Brothers Benjamin Adamowicz, and Joseph Adamowicz, born Bolesław and Józef Adamowicz, were American businessmen of Polish descent and amateur aviators, who were known for their transatlantic flight in 1934.
PZL.50 Jastrząb (Hawk) was a Polish late 1930s fighter aircraft designed by Wsiewołod Jakimiuk at Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze. The single-seat low-wing monoplane was to serve as a multi-purpose fighter and escort to replace all other fighters in the Polish Military Aviation. Designed after 1936, its prototype first flew in February 1939. By September, the first production aircraft were nearing completion, but further development was interrupted by the Nazi-Soviet Invasion of Poland.
The RWD-15 was a Polish touring aircraft of 1937, designed by the RWD team and built by the Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze (DWL).
The EM-11 Orka (orca) is a touring and executive aircraft manufactured in Poland.
Tadeusz Chylińnski – was a Polish airplane designer and constructor, a researcher at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw and specialist in aircraft structures.
Air and Chemical Defense League was a mass Polish paramilitary organization, founded in 1928 as a result of the merger of the State Air Defense League with the Gas Defense Society. In 1937 it numbered some 1.5 million members, with 14,000 local branches. It had a national character, gathering enthusiasts of aircraft, communications and ballooning. Between 1928 and 1939, its director was general Leon Berbecki
The Special Troops Command is the special forces command of the Polish Armed Forces. The command was formed in 2007 and is the fourth military branch of the SZ RP.
The W.W.S. 1 Salamandra (Salamander) was a single-seat training glider designed and built in Poland from 1936, and again from 1947 after World War II as IS-A Salamandra.
Poznań Airline Society Aerotarg was the first Polish airline. It was founded in Poznań on 10 May 1921 mainly in order to serve participants and visitors of the first Poznań International Fair. Aerotarg operated the first regular air connection in Poland - the Poznań-Warsaw route, as well as the international connection between Poznań and the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).
Mariusz "Mike" Adamski is a USA resident, an American aerial photographer, media manager and defense analyst who has flown many times worldwide with the United States Air Force and Polish Air Force at Krzesiny Air Base. He is a graduate of the National Defense University in Warsaw, Poland. Adamski's works have been published in books, postage stamps, important journals and aviation publications, such as Aviation Week & Space Technology, Air Forces Monthly and Flight International.
Zbigniew Juliusz Babiński was a Polish military and sports aviator.
Andrzej Strug, real name TadeuszGałecki was a Polish socialist politician, publicist and activist for Poland's independence. He was also a freemason and declined the offer to join the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature, upset by official criticism of the movement.
Swiatecki bomb slip - was slip bomb device of Polish inventor Władysław Świątecki used in many allied bombers during World War II.
Jerzy Bogdan Cynk was a Polish-British historian, journalist and writer, author of numerous English and Polish language publications on aviation of Poland.
Jerzy Jan Osiński was a Polish aviator, magazine publisher and promoter of recreational aviation.
Pelagia Teresa Majewska was a Polish aeroplane and glider pilot-instructor, who won many national and world glider records. She was also a social activist.
Stefania Cecylia Wojtulanis-Karpińska, was a Polish aviator. She was a sports pilot in the inter war period and was a Captain in the Polish Air Force. She flew in the British Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War, when she was known as Barbara Wojtulanis. She was one of the first two Polish woman pilots to join the British Air Transport Auxiliary, the other being Anna Leska.
