Jn Bah inventor and designer Jn Bah (25 May 1856 13 March 1916)
is probably the greatest of all the Slovak inventors and engineers
who specialized in military construction. Flying machines were a
particular interest of his. Bah was granted seventeen patents in
all including patents for a hot air balloon combined with an air
turbine.
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He is best remembered for constructing a petrol motor-driven
helicopter. He got a Hungarian patent on this helicopter, No 3392
in 1895, which he himself flew up to 4 meters high and for over
1500 meters, in 1905 that was also recorded by the International
Airship Organization.
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His sketches
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Ministry of Transport, Communications and Public Works
published a stamp Jan Bah of the series of famous people on 20. 4.
1995
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KOCH and KVAS another two pioneers of Slovak aviation The first
important design engineers of aeroplanes and pilots were born in
different parts of the country 130 years ago. Koch was born in 1883
in a small village in elare and was of Hungarian origin, Kvas was
born in the same year in Bekeska aba in a Slovak family but they
worked together.
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Their first work
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Milan Rastislav tefnik- Slovak astronomer, later also a general
and politician He studied at the Meudon Observatory. Later carried
out a number of observations at Mt. Blanc and in different sites
during total solar eclipses. He intended to observe a transit of
the comet Haley across the Sun at Tahiti.
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He built up preliminary astronomical and meteorological
observatories at Tahiti, and was the first European that proposed
to the French Academy to build up big astronomical observatory in
the southern hemisphere in 1912. From the period from 1914 to his
tragic death on May 4, 1919. tefnik joined the French Army where he
established a regular meteorology service for the French
Aviation.
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Faculty of Aeronautics Faculty of Aeronautics is one of the
nine faculties of the Technical University of Kosice. It was
founded in 2005 by merging the Technical University and the Air
Force Academy of General Milan Rastislav Stefanik so it preserves a
long tradition of aviation education in Kosice.
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Vladimr Remek- the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut He was the 87th
man in history to be fortunate to see our planet from space.
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Vladimir Remek was the first cosmonaut from a country other
than the Soviet Union or the United States who took part in the
Intercosmos program in the former Soviet Union.Soviet UnionUnited
States
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Remek graduated the High Aviation School in Kosice, where he
flew on a training aircraft L-29 Delfin. Later he studied at the
J.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow. He was chosen with A.
Gubarev, the other member of the crew, as a candidate for space
flight. The flight took place in 1978.
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On March 2, 1978, he took off aboard Soyuz 28 as a research
cosmonaut along with Soviet cosmonaut Alexej Gubarev.Soyuz
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Soyuz 28 launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
with a two-membered crew on board. Commander of the ship was the
Soviet cosmonaut Alexej Gubarev. The second was our cosmonaut
Vladimir Remek. Their stay in space was 7 days 22 hours 16
minutes..
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Ivan Bella our cosmonaut In 1998 he was selected as a cosmonaut
candidate for flights to the Mir orbital space station. He
completed six months of cosmonaut training at the Yury Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia, between March and
August 1998. He flew his only space mission as a research cosmonaut
on Soyous TM-29, which launched on February 20, 1999, and docked
with Mir on February 22.
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Ivan Bella our cosmonaut Bella was accompanied on Soyous TM-29
by a Russian cosmonaut, Viktor Afanasyev, and a French astronaut,
Jean-Pierre Haigner. The mission lasted eight days; Bella landed
back on Earth aboard Soyous TM-29 on February 28.
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We have a man in our country, Stephan Klein, who is not only a
designer and engineer but he is a pilot, too. He has been
developing a flying car prototype over the last 20 years. This
vehicle is a strikingly beautiful design with folding wings and a
propeller in the tail. American Space Agency NASA is interested in
this flying car from Slovakia.
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The flying car of Stephan Klein
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17th September as the "Day of Slovak Air Force" is a dignified
recognition of merit and heroism of Czechoslovak pilots who fought
for the liberation of their homeland. The celebrations include
acrobatic flights.
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Museum of Aviation in Koice Aviation museum in Koice has
documented evolution of aviation technique since 1943. You can find
there more than 30 historical machines but also a collection of 18
original aircrafts. The Museum of Aviation in Koice has a nice
collection of some the very first aircrafts used in this region to
modern jetfighters.
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The collection includes some very interesting aircrafts that
are very rare at European aircraft museums. It presents the gifts
from representatives of states and governments of 12 countries,
including Europe, China and USA.
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This unusual collection of foreign aviation technology, which
is unique not only in Slovakia but also in Europe, was established
also thanks to substantial support from Rudolf Schuster, the
ex-president of Slovakia. The museum is a part of the Slovak
Technical Museum in Koice but is physically located at the local
airport.
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Thank you for your attention The coordination team of the
Comenius project From Icarus to interplanetary travels Zkladn kola,
Severn 21, Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia
