An exhibition of artifacts tells about the development of Bulgarian aviation and aircraft construction

An exhibition entitled “Toward the Sky” will tell the history of Bulgarian aircraft manufacturing and aviation. It is the work of the Regional History Museum in the old capital in cooperation with the “Manta Model Club” and the National Society “Tradition” – Veliko Tarnovo, and will be opened in the “Rafael Mihailov” Exhibition Halls on May 8 at 5:30 p.m. there will be uniforms, awards, tools, pictures and manuals related to the aviation business lined up. An invariable part of the exhibition will be the models and dioramas of airplanes that flew with Bulgarian identification marks over the years in our skies, made over the course of a year by modelers from all over the country, on a scale of 1/72 and 1/48. On 20 boards there will be photos and facsimiles of documents related to the development of aviation and aircraft construction in our country. The photos are from the archives of Dr. Simeon Tsvetkov, Nikolay Gichev, Teodor Muhovski, Leko Gerginski, Petar Stefanov, Ivan Nikolov, Venelin Pastarmadzhiev, “Krile” magazine, Pan.bg, DVIA Veliko Tarnovo, “Kam Zeebo” newspaper ROME – Veliko Tarnovo. The name of the exhibition is borrowed from one of the first aviation newspapers in Bulgaria. In these two words lies the charge that made the Bulgarian realize the dream of the mythical master Manol to make wings and rise with them to the sun, add the organizers of the exhibition, which will be open until June 7.
Nikolay VENKOV