Author: Karol
-
Mikojan i Guriewicz MiG-23 UB
For the first time with the MiG-23 aircraft, our politicians and military officers came across while looking for a successor to the IL-28 bomber aircraft. The last six bombers were removed from the state in 1979, but in fact for the entire decade they were no longer of any combat value. CCCP offered us MiG-23…
-
Jakowlew Jak-17 UTI 1950.
Currently (2017) the most modern combat aircraft in the world are designed only as single-seater machines. Two-seater versions of combat aircraft that were called training-combat aircraft are no longer being built. Projects already implemented and put into service, such as F-22 and F-35, confirm this rule. This tendency results from several basic premises. First, computer…
-
WSK LZR Bydgoszcz SB Lim-1/2. 1951.
The entire contract for the supply of Yak-23 fighters for the Polish Army has not been completed yet, and in July 1951 the supply of MiG-15 fighters began. The reason was the development of events during the Korean War, the Berlin blockade lost, and above all the CCCP’s possession of nuclear weapons. This resulted in…
-
Gulfstream Aerospace 550 Gulfstream. 2017
We wrote a lot about the political side of choosing Gulfstream G550 planes for transporting the most important people in Poland in other articles. We are convinced that the best offer and the best aircraft in the class of commercial machines have been selected. The Gulfstream G550 is truly an aircraft of the highest quality,…
-
PZL-37 Łoś – Ignacy Kasprzyk 2017
In June 2016, the first patriotic and religious celebrations were held in Płoki near Trzebinia related to the 78th anniversary of the air death of the crew of the PZL-37 A Łoś aircraft, including senior military foreman Ignacy Kasprzyk, who was buried at the parish cemetery in Płoki near Krakow.
-
Depułtycze Królewskie Airport. Chełm. Part 1. 2017
The State Higher Vocational School in Chełm was established on July 24, 2001. Address ul. Pocztowa 54 22-100 Chełm. It was established on the basis of a regulation of the Council of Ministers. The school has six institutes, including the Institute of Technical Sciences and Aviation. This institute has three fields of study: construction, electrical…
-
Depułtycze Królewskie Airport. Chełm. Part 2. 2017
In 2016, the State Higher Vocational School in Chełm, at its own Depułtycze Królewskie Airport, organized the 1st International Air Show called Lotnicze Depułtycze. As there were a few positive comments on the Internet, this year (2017) we decided to check how the events on the eastern edge of the Lublin Upland are organized. On…
-
Aviation training in Poland. 1960-1970.
60 years is a period of relative stabilization of aviation training in Poland. Although the international situation was still tense. In August 1961, the Russians and German communists built a wall in Berlin, dividing the city into two zones of occupation. The idea was for as few people as possible to escape from the communist…
-
Aviation training in Poland. 1970-1990.
Student protests in 1968, followed by the events on the Coast in 1970; did not change the aviation training system. The actions of the new party authorities aroused a positive attitude in most of the society. The new head of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Edward Gierek (a former miner), inspired some confidence.
-
Aviation training in Poland. 1990-2010.
In 1989, socio-economic changes took place in Poland. The President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, led the Russian army out of Poland, but did not liquidate the Moscow agents. There was no vetting or decommunization. The economy has been looted.