Jan Wnęk
Polish aviation pioneer (1828-1869)
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Updated 2026-06-22
Jan Wnęk was a Polish carver of religious statues who is claimed to have constructed and flown a glider (aircraft) in the 1860s, predating the flights of Otto Lilienthal. There is a speculative "reconstruction" of Wnek's glider in the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków.
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