Janusz Centka

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Janusz Centka (born 20 April 1950, in Tonowo) is a Polish glider pilot who has won two European and three World Gliding Championships.^[1]

In 2002 he established a world record in speed over a triangular course of 1000 km (144.95 km/h) in the 15m class in a SZD 56 Diana from Ely, Nevada (USA).^[2] In 2003, he was awarded the Paul Tissandier Diploma, and in 2004 he was awarded the Lilienthal Gliding Medal by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale gliding commission.^[3]

He is a member of the gliding club at Leszno and works as a Boeing 767 captain and flight instructor for PLL LOT.^[4]

References

^ FAI IGC pilot ranking: Janusz Centka, European Gliding Championships, World Gliding Championships – accessed 2008-02-02^{[dead link‍]}
^ FAI world records by Janusz Centka – accessed 2008-01-11
^ FAI awards received by Janusz Centka – accessed 2008-01-11
^ Famous pilots of PLL LOT – accessed 2008-01-11

v t e Recipients of Lilienthal Gliding Medal
1938–1950	Tadeusz Góra (1938) Per-Axel Persson (1948) John C. Robinson (1949) William S. Ivans (1950)
1951–1975	Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard (1951) Charles Atger (1952) Victor Iltchenko (1953) Philip Wills (1954) Joachim Küttner (1955) Paul MacCready (1956) Don Luis Vicente Juez Gomez (1957) Wolf Hirth (1958) Richard Schreder (1959) Pelagia Majewska (1960) Adolph Gehriger (1961) Paul Bikle (1962) Heinz Huth (1963) Alvin H. Parker (1964) Edward Makula (1965) Anne Burns (1966) Lennart Stahlfors (1967) Alejo Williamson (1968) Eric Nessler (1969) Hans-Werner Grosse (1970) Karl Striedieck (1971) Jan Wróblewski (1972) Ann Welch (1973) August Hug (1974) Adela Dankowska (1975)
1976–2000	Louis A. de Lange (1976) George B. Moffat Jr. (1977) Helmut Reichmann (1978) Hans Wolf (1980) George Lee (1981) Hans Nietlispach (1982) C.E. Wallington (1984) Sholto Hamilton Georgeson (1985) Dick Johnson (1986) Juhani Horma (1987) Ingo Renner (1988) Fred Weinholtz (1990) Raymond W. Lynskey (1991) Franciszek Kępka (1992) Bernald S. Smith (1993) Terrence Delore (1994) Thor Johannessen (1995) Manfred Reinhardt (1997) Oran Nicks (1998) Hana Zejdova (1999) Klaus Ohlmann (2000)
2001–present	James M. Payne (2001) John Hamish Roake (2002) Piero Morelli (2003) Janusz Centka (2004) Ian Strachan (2005) Alan Patching (2006) Derek Piggott (2007) Roland Stuck (2008) Ross Macintyre (2009) Reiner Rose (2010) Giorgio Galetto (2011) Bob Henderson (2012) Loek Boermans (2015) Rainer Wienzek (2016) Patrick Pauwels (2017) Richard 'Dick' Bradley (2019) Gisela Weinreich (2020) Eric Mozer (2021)

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