Happy 62nd Birthday, PZL-104 Wilga 🙂🎂🍾
#OTD April 24, 1962 - the first flight of the PZL-104 Wilga 🇵🇱 STOL civil aviation utility aircraft (and my personal fav)
(photo by me)

Brigadier Józef Piłsudski (3rd from L) inspecting trenches of the 1st Brigade, Polish Legions, Volhynia 1915
1st from right Lt. Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Piłsudski's aide-de-camp

No idea why but I'm ok with it 🤔

The 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions - saddlery workshop (whereabouts unknown), a postcard, 1915/16

Monday. Time to get back to the ground 😎
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱 at touchdown.
(photo by me)

Polish Legions - a dugout in Volhynian front, 1915/1916

When dusk comes but you still have to go to work...
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱 at takeoff
(photo by me)

Polish Legions - shoemaker's workshop on the front line, Volhynia 1916

Good morning, would you like to talk about the meaning of life? 😎
A pair of MiG-29's of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱 with afterburners on.
Note the different cammo patterns and R-60 (AA-8 Aphid) and R-73 (AA-11 Archer) AAM's under wings
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Brigadier Józef Piłsudski after reviewing the units of the 1st Polish Legions Brigade, Stochód river area, Volhynia 1916
4th from left - Lt. Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Piłsudski's aide-de-camp

Weekend is coming. Time to take off 😎
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱
(photo by me)

#TGIF 😎

Polish Legions entering Warsaw, December 1, 1916 - Col. Stanisław Szeptycki, commander of the Polish Legions, reporting to Gen. Ulrich von Etzdorf, commander of the Warsaw garrison.

Smokers gonna smoke and the clouds are pink 😎
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force🇵🇱
(photo by me)

Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions entering Włodawa, September 1, 1915

Afterburners on 🔥🔥, undercarriage down
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱
(photo by me)

Brigadier Józef Piłsudski, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions among officers of Legions' 5th Infantry Regiment at the 'Polish Forest', Kostiuchnówka, Volhynia, July 1916.
Just 2-3 days later this area became the field of the bloody battle of Kostiuchnówka.

Afterburners ✔️
Jelly ✔️
Sunset ✔️
MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force 🇵🇱 taking off
(photo by me)

Col. Władysław Sikorski, Head of the Military Department, Supreme National Committee (Naczelny Komitet Narodowy - NKN),  Sławków 1915

Realities of war - bodies of Russian an Polish Legions soldiers, fallen in the battle of Rafajłowa, Carpathians, January 23-24, 1915