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Wanda Modlibowska (11 November 1909 - 11 July 2001), outstanding Polish pilot, emissary, underground activist and cryptographer. On her shoulders rest the organization of the work and communications of a Government Delegate for Poland.
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Wanda Modlibowska (11 November 1909 - 11 July 2001), outstanding Polish pilot, emissary, underground activist and cryptographer. On her shoulders rest the organization of the work and communications of a Government Delegate for Poland.
Wanda Modlibowska a adăugat 2 fotografii
acum 9 zile
Life and career She was born on 19 November 1909, in her family estate Czachorowo near Gostyn. She graduated from the Queen Jadwiga Gymnasium for the Humanities in Poznań, where she passed her matriculation exam in 1929. She continued her education at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Poznan, receiving a master's degree in inorganic chemistry. As a young girl, she played many sports (skiing, rowing, mountain climbing), but her real passion turned out to be aviation. In 1930 she joined the Poznań Aeroclub, where, under the tutelage of instructor Edmund Holodyński, she earned a pilot's license in a Hanriot H.28 airplane. Three years later she completed another course, this time in glider piloting, to take part in national glider competitions. For setting several records, which included the distance flown (343 kilometers) and the duration of the flight (24 hours and 14 minutes), she received the Silver Cross of Merit and was the first Polish woman to receive the FAI Silver Gliding Badge. "This time the main driving force behind my decision and my perseverance was the desire to spice up my colleagues, so hard, that they would remember that a woman can do something, too." - she…