The air show was traditionally held on the first weekend of August (3 – 4.08.2024). At Kętrzyn-Wilamowo Airport (the historical airport of Adolf Hitler's erstwhile quarters) acrobatics of the best pilots gathered thousands of spectators. There were corkscrews, keg slides, loops, aircraft racing in the sky, planes set in the key, rotations in vertical ascent and many another aerial configurations. There were besides spectacular parachute jumps and sightseeing flights.
Look on the plane.
– For 11 years we flew to Lake Niegocin. The scene was fabulous, but this year we returned with our shows to Wilamowo Airport. This is where it all started in 1999 with our first air picnic – he mentioned Stanisław Tołwiński (in the photograph next door) from the Aeroclub of Lakeland, the originator and organizer of the Mazury Air Show.
Preparations for the shows continued since autumn. We care about aviation education. We admire the sky's evolutions from the ground, but it is besides worth to look at the plane, talk to the pilots and fall in love with the aviation that we have at our fingertips at the time – said Stanisław Tołwiński.
Photo by Tomasz BarańskiRaised among pilots
From the beginning, the large pilot, two-time Prime Minister and president of Lithuania Rolandas Paksas is simply a large friend of the shows. In the Polish sky he performed stunts on the plane Jak-50. He was accompanied by members of the ANBO acrobatics team, which formed Robertas Noreika and Algimantas Žentelis. During the air shows, the acrobatic skills were besides presented by Polish champion Norbert Kasperek. The audience besides admired the show of German band Niebergall, which is made up by father Ralf and boy Nico. Presented the historical TS-8 Bies. Produced in PZL, utilized in Polish aviation from 1957 to the 1970s, mainly for training military pilots. It was flown by Jacek Sobolewski, who returned to fly after a long and costly series of repairs.
– specified machines are my large passion. I'm losing my head for them," he said. Jacek SobolewskiAnd the same can be said of Jack Mainka. This professional pilot, captain of the 787 Dreamliner at LOT Polish Airlines and collector of historical aircraft, on the Mazury Air Show arrived T-6 Harvard 4M. This one-engine, two-seat planet War II training aircraft was designed and manufactured by North American Aviation from 1938 to 1958. Used, among others, by US Air Force, US Navy, US Marines, RCAF and RAF.
Two-time Prime Minister and president of Lithuania Rolandas Paksas / photograph Tomasz BarańskiT-6 Harvard 4M was a training aircraft utilized to train fighter pilots. Harvard's combat usage began after planet War II. The aircraft was utilized as support for ground troops, including during conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.
Jacek Mainka: – My grandpa Ryszard Kwiatkowski was a mechanic, operated aircraft in squadrons 303 and 308. The love of airplanes is due to him. I was raised among pilots, my grandfather's colleagues. These people have captured me with their approach to life, knowledge, competence. I wanted to be like them. I became a pilot – he remembers.
Military aircraft never made it.
The weather was good, the sky acrobatics commented Michał Andrachiewicz, and participants of the Mazury Air Show awaited many accompanying attractions, including the competition for landing accuracy, children's modeling workshops, military equipment shows and drone tests. Most viewers were thrilled, any complained only about parking problems and the deficiency of military aircraft at the show, although their participation in the picnic was weeks before the event was announced by the organizers. Planes were to be presented: MiG 29, Hercules L-130, M-346 Bielik, M-28 Bryza and AW-101 helicopters, AW-149. no of the mentioned machines at the airport in Kętrzyn we saw, and the July crash of M-346 Bielik at Babie Doły Airport affected this.
The event was carried out in partnership with the Government of Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. ANGORA weekly was a media partner of the Mazury Air Show.
