Józef Lewoniewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Józef Lewoniewski

POlish aviator

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1899

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1933

Profession: engineer, military officer, athlete

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Józef Lewoniewski

  • Józef Lewoniewski (1899 – 11 September 1933) was a Polish military and sports aviator.
  • He was a brother of the Soviet aviator Sigizmund Levanevsky. He was born in Russia to a Polish family.
  • In May 1919 he returned to independent Poland and served in the Polish Army, in a cavalry, during Polish-Soviet war.
  • In 1923 he volunteered for the air force and completed an aviation school in Bydgoszcz, then in France.
  • He served as a fighter pilot, in a rank of Flying Captain (kapitan pilot). Lewoniewski was also active in sports flying.
  • In 1930 he participated in Challenge 1930 International Tourist Aircraft Contest, flying PWS-51, but he had to withdraw due to oil pipe damage.
  • On 15 August 1931 he flew a PWS-52 plane around Poland non-stop in 12 hours 35 minutes, covering 1755 km.
  • On 1 September 1931 he flew the same plane from Warszaw to Saloniki and back (2700 km).
  • Next he came with an idea of flying around the world in PWS-52 aircraft, but it was abandoned due to lack of funding.
  • From March 1933 he worked in Aviation Technical Research Institute in Warsaw as a test pilot. On 11 September 1933 Józef Lewoniewski with Colonel Czeslaw Filipowicz, attempted at breaking world's record of flight distance in tourist planes category, on Warsaw - Krasnoyarsk route, flying modified PZL.19 plane.
  • After 8 and a half hours, the plane went into a spin due to an air turbulence, it was brought under control, but it was too low and it hit the ground near Kazan.
  • Lewoniewski was killed, while Filipowicz was slightly injured.

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