Author: Karol
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Mazury Air Show. 2019.
Mazury Air Show is an aviation event that has been on the calendar of aviation events for over a dozen years and attracts thousands of participants every year. The shows are known in the Republic of Poland and abroad, and their hallmark is the presentations of aircraft at Lake Niegocin. That is why the shows…
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Nowy Targ 2019. 11th Nowy Targ Aviation Picnic.
Once again, on July 6-7, 2019, the Aviation Picnic was held at the Nowy Targ Airport. It was the eleventh event of this type in Nowy Targ. The event attracts more and more spectators from year to year. This year’s show must be considered very successful. The weather was good, and most of all the…
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Suchoj Su-22. 2019
Suchoi Su-22 is a fighter-bomber plane, although according to pilots it is a bomber plane. Its task is to support land units, bombardments of objects and destroy strategic ground targets. The Su-22 hunting options are marginal and limited to defense. The Su-22 M 4 K airplane is derived from the Su-17 aircraft structure and is…
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Mikojan and Guriewicz MiG-29. 2019
In November 1977, US intelligence satellite discovered a new fighter plane standing on the parking plane of one of the airports near Moscow. The plane caused a lot of interest in US intelligence. The photos provided by the satellite were of poor quality. The photos were in the "grain". Although in the socialist countries it…
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Świdnik Air Festival 2019
Artur Kielak – XA41, Mateusz Strama – YAK 3U R-2000. Świdnik 2019. Photo by Waldemar Kiebzak
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The history of LOT Polish Airlines. Part 6. 2015-2019.
In 2015, PLL LOT had only 45 routes and prospects for the liquidation of some of them. In the ranking of carriers, PLL LOT was only in 92nd place. Summing up the previous Part 5 of the History of LOT Polish Airlines, it should be clearly emphasized that the company was poorly managed. Though we…
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Airport Mierzęcice Pyrzowice. 2019.
On 2015-05-28, a new runway was opened at Katowice Pyrzowice Airport. RWY has a length of 3,200 m in length, width of 45 meters in width and two shoulders of width 2 x 7.5 m. The first aircraft, from the new RWY took off at 6:00. It was a Wizz Air cruise to London-Luton. The…
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XV Małopolski Piknik Lotniczy. Czyżyny. 2019
On 2019-06-22 and 23 (Saturday, Sunday) in Krakow, on the grounds of the former Rakowice-Czyżyny airport, the XV Małopolski Piknik Lotniczy took place. There were excellent pilots in unusual planes on the sky in Krakow. Aerobatic champions and historical airplanes presented themselves. The sky does not run out of airships with a white and red…
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Airport in Katowice Muchowiec. 2019
In 1918, Poland regained its independence. However, we had to fight the final boundaries in battle and finally they were approved by the allied states in 1922. As a result of three Silesian Uprisings, Upper Silesia was divided between Poland and Germany. The Polish side includes such cities as Katowice and Sosnowiec. On the side…
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PZL-37 Łoś – Ignacy Kasprzyk 2019
This year, in June 2019, for the fourth time, patriotic and religious celebrations were held, related to the next anniversary of the tragic rubbish of Ignacy Kasprzyk, who was completely buried at the cemetery in Płoki. Currently, we celebrated the 81st anniversary of the air death of the crew PZL-37 A aircraft. Łoś: pilot Stanisław…