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Lahki dvosed Lojze 1

Lojze, the light two-seater aircraft

Lojze, the airplane model, was assembled in 2009, when the Technical museum of Slovenia commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of the Slovene constructor, inventor and flight pioneer Stanko Bloudek with the temporary exhibition “Stanko Bloudek, the flying man”. Bloudek had been an airplane enthusiast since his teenage years and he soon progressed from building models to constructing actual airplanes. In 1928/29 he designed the light two-seater aircraft, Bloudek XV, lovingly nicknamed Lojze. The aircraft successfully participated in competitions for several years until 1934 when an accident took place during a meeting in Zagreb and its pilot Janko Colnar was fatally injured. Bloudek no longer produced airplanes after that. The exhibited airplane model was built by Albin Novak; after the temporary exhibition in TMS it was temporarily exhibited in the Town Museum of Idrija. It returned to Bistra in 2015 where it has been part of the “Albin Novak aircraft fleet” ever since.

Accession number: S0004846
Object: Lojze, the airplane model
Time of use: late 20th and early 21st century
Source, origin: Slovenia (Bled)

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