Pole Mokotowskie

This guide to Pole Mokotowskie in Warsaw follows Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, the pilot and engineer who won the 1932 Challenge air race in a homemade plane and returned home to a hero's welcome on this field. Thirteen days later, on a windy September morning, you'll hear about their takeoff from this ground for a visit to Czechoslovakia, weather closing in ahead of them. It also traces the field's later life as an airport, horse-racing track and state funeral site before becoming today's park.