Frank Pleszak
@frankpleszakBeekeeper, author of The High Peak Dambuster, Two Years in a Gulag, and The Fatal WW2 Bombing of New Mills and Hayfield. Volunteer at the Avro Heritage Museum.
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Andrew Panton & Piotr Forkasiewicz’s latest short film featuring the Avro Lancaster. @SarahLouMiller @militaryhistori #AvroLancaster youtu.be/IeeBVvDEhbA?fe…
There is an SOE commemorative plaque in the Memorial Gardens at Manchester Airport's Terminal 1. The SOE also get a mention in the current exhibition of the Greater Manchester Aviation Heritage at the @AvroHeriMuseum #SOE #WW2 @DrHelenFry
The @AvroHeriMuseum exhibition of the history of Greater Manchester aviation is now on display in the main gallery of the museum. @BBCNWT @TheMancUK @AboutMcr @AviationWeek @My_Stockport @NWBylines #avgeeks @MENnewsdesk @AeroSociety
The Avro Heritage Museum named the north west’s best ‘hidden gem’ by VisitEngland and recognised for its “excellence“ within the visitors' attraction sector. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats… @SarahLouMiller @danmadmorgan @clark_aviation @NWBylines @TheMancUK @AboutMcr @themancunion
My blog explaining why a de Havilland Cirrus Moth was so important to the @AvroHeriMuseum Woodford centenary event tinyurl.com/zfxwh5uv @themancunion @TheMancUK @AboutMcr @clark_aviation @SarahLouMiller @danmadmorgan @BBCNWT #avgeek @BBCNews
At @AvroHeriMuseum Woodford centenary event- first a/c to land at Woodford Cirrus Moth G-EBLV & last aircraft to leave Woodford still flying BAe 146 G-LUXE. All Woodford built a/c 1924-2012, inc Avro 504s, Ansons, Lancs, Shacks, Vulcans, Nimrods etc sit between these 2 a/c.
Busy day at @avrohe for the centenary of the famous Manchester aircraft manufacturer Avro acquiring the site at Woodford. It was a glorious day perfect for the flypasts but still cold when we did the first filming. @SophieReaper @finisterre @themancunion @TheMancUK @AboutMcr
I helped with a commemoration of 100yrs of the aircraft manufacturer Avro at Woodford it also celebrated all the aviation from around Manchester I was pleased to include a storyboard about Polish pilots that flew aircraft with a Manchester connection @PLinManchester @britishpoles
80yrs ago today 38 Lancasters set off to Yagodnik in northern Russia in prep for Operation Paravane the first heavy bomber attack on the Tirpitz 6 crash landed & left in Russia 2 were rebuilt & used by the Soviet Air Force. tinyurl.com/ymuyx49v @SarahLouMiller @clark_aviation
84 years ago, the legendary Polish 303 Squadron scored its first victory! F/O Ludwik Paszkiewicz broke the rules by shooting down a German plane during a training flight. Upon returning to Northolt, he was reprimanded and then congratulated. The next day, 303 was declared…
In today’s show - Manchester Science, on @ALLFM at 13:00, there is more Manchester than Science. @frankpleszak talks about his book - Two Years in a Gulag. His father’s WW2 journey from USSR's Kolyma gold mine to Salford. Listen again at astrotalkuk.org/manchesterscie…. Short clip
Ace Mill Oldham formerly Gorse Mill No.2 in 1918 was part of Oldham Aircraft factory building HP O/400 heavy bombers for the American Air Force. WW1 ended before any were delivered but it’s thought at least 1 lew from the adjoining airfield where Avro built their factory in 1939.
Today is the 82nd anniversary of the fatal bombing of New Mills and Hayfield in Derbyshire after which the Ju88 bombers were shot down by the famous Battle of Britain 303 Polish Squadron. tinyurl.com/2p9cxkn2 @PLinManchester @britishpoles @ipngovpl_eng @NWBylines
From the ‘Battle of Britain’ film Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon made to look like an RAF Hurricane with a Polish chequerboard & an RAF code that didn’t exist. So it’s a Spanish aircraft made to look like a German fighter painted as a British fighter operated by a Polish squadron.
An honour to give a talk on the history of Avro to the excellent @SolwayAviation . Heartwarming to see that the last Blackburn Beverley has been saved by them and slowly making it’s way over from Fort Paull where I’d seen it almost complete last year. @clark_aviation
At a talk I gave in Stockport yesterday I was given an RAF Blood Chit made of parachute silk in perfect condition which will be donated to the @AvroHeriMuseum @danmadmorgan @SarahLouMiller @militaryhistori
Today as we commemorate the success at the final battle of Monte Cassino I’m proud to be the son of somebody from a poor Polish village that got one of these. @PLinManchester @Anna_M_Anders #WW2 @ArkadyRzegocki @ipngovpl_eng @KresySiberia @KresyFamily
Today is the 87th anniversary of the 1st recorded landing at Ringway (Manchester) Airport which didn’t officially open until 25 June 1938 - on 17 May 1937 a DH Hornet Moth the Fairey Aviation company hack flown by pilot Duncan Menzies landed. @themancunion @TheMancUK @AboutMcr
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