Flying is beautiful but dangerous
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Jaroslav Mikoška was born on 25 May 1951 in Uherské Hradiště, he grew up in the nearby Topolná. His father Jaroslav Mikoška served as a professional soldier and in 1960-1966 he worked as a military attaché in London, where he was responsible for sports pilots who flew to England for various competitions. Jaroslav Mikoška Jr. spent four years in London with his family, finished primary school in Prague, and graduated from the Secondary Industrial School in Olomouc in 1970. When the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, the Mikoškas had a Soviet tank outside their house in Olomouc, with a barrel pointed at their windows. His father had to go to the barracks in the middle of the night and was ready for war. Because of their opposition to joining, both parents were expelled from the Communist Party in the late 1960s and his father had to leave the army. Jaroslav Mikoška went to Brno to study engineering, but because of his parents‘ attitude to the invasion he was expelled after a year. In the army he then had to undergo interrogation by State Security, who were investigating his friend. From his youth he was interested in airplanes, flying first in the aeroclub in Olomouc, later in Ostrava in Svazarm. He piloted dusting planes for five years before moving to Jeseník, where he flew for Slov-Air as an air taxi. In the 1980s, he managed Slov-Air in Brno. However, he refused to join the Communist Party, which led to his dismissal. He experienced the Velvet Revolution in Brno, continued working for Slov-Air into the 1990s, and later retired. In 2024, he lived in a senior residence in Humpolec.
