Janusz Centka
Polish glider pilot
Janusz Centka (born 20 April 1950, in Tonowo) is a Polish glider pilot who has won two European and three World Gliding Championships.[1]
In 2002 he established a world record in speed over a triangular course of 1000 km (144.95 km/h) in the 15m class in a SZD 56 Diana from Ely, Nevada (USA).[2] In 2003, he was awarded the Paul Tissandier Diploma, and in 2004 he was awarded the Lilienthal Gliding Medal by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale gliding commission.[3]
He is a member of the gliding club at Leszno and works as a Boeing 767 captain and flight instructor for PLL LOT.[4]
References
- ^ FAI IGC pilot ranking: Janusz Centka, European Gliding Championships, World Gliding Championships – accessed 2008-02-02[dead link]
- ^ FAI world records by Janusz Centka – accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ FAI awards received by Janusz Centka – accessed 2008-01-11
- ^ Famous pilots of PLL LOT – accessed 2008-01-11
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Recipients of Lilienthal Gliding Medal
- Tadeusz Góra (1938)
- Per-Axel Persson (1948)
- John C. Robinson (1949)
- William S. Ivans (1950)
- Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard (1951)
- Charles Atger (1952)
- Victor Iltchenko (1953)
- Philip Wills (1954)
- Joachim Küttner (1955)
- Paul MacCready (1956)
- Don Luis Vicente Juez Gomez (1957)
- Wolf Hirth (1958)
- Richard Schreder (1959)
- Pelagia Majewska (1960)
- Adolph Gehriger (1961)
- Paul Bikle (1962)
- Heinz Huth (1963)
- Alvin H. Parker (1964)
- Edward Makula (1965)
- Anne Burns (1966)
- Lennart Stahlfors (1967)
- Alejo Williamson (1968)
- Eric Nessler (1969)
- Hans-Werner Grosse (1970)
- Karl Striedieck (1971)
- Jan Wróblewski (1972)
- Ann Welch (1973)
- August Hug (1974)
- Adela Dankowska (1975)
- Louis A. de Lange (1976)
- George B. Moffat Jr. (1977)
- Helmut Reichmann (1978)
- Hans Wolf (1980)
- George Lee (1981)
- Hans Nietlispach (1982)
- C.E. Wallington (1984)
- Sholto Hamilton Georgeson (1985)
- Dick Johnson (1986)
- Juhani Horma (1987)
- Ingo Renner (1988)
- Fred Weinholtz (1990)
- Raymond W. Lynskey (1991)
- Franciszek Kępka (1992)
- Bernald S. Smith (1993)
- Terrence Delore (1994)
- Thor Johannessen (1995)
- Manfred Reinhardt (1997)
- Oran Nicks (1998)
- Hana Zejdova (1999)
- Klaus Ohlmann (2000)
- James M. Payne (2001)
- John Hamish Roake (2002)
- Piero Morelli (2003)
- Janusz Centka (2004)
- Ian Strachan (2005)
- Alan Patching (2006)
- Derek Piggott (2007)
- Roland Stuck (2008)
- Ross Macintyre (2009)
- Reiner Rose (2010)
- Giorgio Galetto (2011)
- Bob Henderson (2012)
- Loek Boermans (2015)
- Rainer Wienzek (2016)
- Patrick Pauwels (2017)
- Richard 'Dick' Bradley (2019)
- Gisela Weinreich (2020)
- Eric Mozer (2021)
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