The Aviator Traditional Cache
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Pomnik Lotnika (oryg. nazwa "Pomnik Lotników") – pomnik znajdujacy sie na skrzyzowaniu alei Zwirki i Wigury z ulica Wawelska w Warszawie bedacy upamietnieniem lotnikow walczacych podczas I wojny swiatowej. Zaprojektowal go w 1923 r. Edward Wittig. Model pomnika wystawiono w 1929 r. na Powszechnej Wystawie Krajowej w Poznaniu. Przedwojennego odsloniecia dokonano 11 listopada 1932. Pomnik ten byl jednym pierwszych w Europie pomników poswieconych lotnictwu. Pomnikowa postac pilota ma twarz majora Leonarda Zbigniewa Lepszego.
Anyone who goes from the airport to the centre of Warsaw passes en route the Monument to the Aviator that is located on the wide traffic circle from which the busy arteries of the city branch out like stars. The aviator, in a flying suit, faces the direction of the airport. He is leaning on the wings of a plane. The author of the Warsaw Monument to the Aviator was Edward Wittig (1879-1941) an artist well known in Poland for many works, the monuments of which are the best known. During the Second World War, the Monument to the Aviator was destroyed by the Germans. It was rebuilt only in the year 1967 and placed in the present site. Until the war broke out, the monument, unveiled in 1932, stood in Unii Lubelskiej Square that joins the City Centre with the district of Mokotów. It is dedicated to aviators who made Polish aviation famous all over the world.
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