Ing. Gustav Victor Finger was a Czech aviation pioneer, designer and founder of the aviation department of the then Technical Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (today’s National Technical Museum in Prague). He was also apparently the first Czech who toyed with the idea of using the principle of reactive propulsion in practice. He was born … Read more
It was with this announcement that the pilot of the powder plane, Štefan, welcomed the team members from Křečovice, whom the chairman of the local JZD had requested all the way from Slovakia. This film scene is, as usual, from Jiří Menzel’s cult comedy Vesničko má středisková from 1985. Although its main storyline revolves around the … Read more
The Czech comedy Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet, filmed in 1977, which is a successful parody of films about intrepid detectives and their omnipotent adversaries, probably does not need a long description. In the film, the world-famous American investigator Nick Carter is asked in a letter by the Prague police chief to investigate the … Read more
In 1886, the French publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published the 28th title of the writer Jules Verne entitled Robur the Conqueror (also in Czech as Airship Around the World). In this and the following two adventure sequels, Captain Robur and his crew of five and the Albatros, which was a kind of aerial craft powered by … Read more