wrote:
It's an SZD 50-3 "Puchacz" (Owl, in Polish), also refered to as a
"Pooch"

Cheers, Charles



Charles,

Actually "Puchacz" means in a Polish language Great Horned Owl and yes,
it is referred to as "Pooch", but around aero clubs in Poland they also
call it Ruchacz which stands for #!@&^%$.

Also some additional info: I flew SZD 50 Prototype 1 almost 30 years
ago and at that time the glider was called "Dromader". The reason the
name was later changed to Puchacz was due to PZL Mielec manufacturing
ag plane under the name Dromader, thus forcing the SZD Bielsko to
change the name to Puchacz.

Thanks,

Jacek
Washington State