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  • Powidz Airport. 2017.

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    Karol

    On May 13, 2017, the unit holiday combined with the Open Day was celebrated once again at the Powidz Airport, which belongs to the 33rd Transport Aviation Base. I suspect that even the organizers did not expect the arrival of such a huge number of guests. My estimate is 20,000 visitors. The matter is all…

  • PZL I-22 Iryda accident 1996-01-24

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    Karol

    It has been 21 years since the accident of Iryda, with which the destruction of the aviation industry began. I wrote a few topics about it in the previous years. However, this topic will shock the public opinion for a long time, because what was done was incredibly stupid.

  • Tragedy PZL I-22 Iryda 1996-01-24

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    Karol

    21 years have passed since the Iryda accident, which began the destruction of the aviation industry. This topic will outrage public opinion for a long time, because what was done was incredibly stupid. Raising the topic of Iryd again encouraged me with the fact that one of the designers from Mielec, M.Eng. Stanisław Śmist sent…

  • Aviation training in Poland. 1908-1918.

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    Karol

    Despite the lack of statehood, Poles started construction and aviation activities earlier. In the years 1884-1918, work on the construction of heavier-than-air flying devices under the partitions and around the world was undertaken by over 100 compatriots. They designed more than 150 airplanes, of which about 110 were built and attempted to take off and…

  • Suchoj Su-7 B. 1992

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    Karol

    The first version of the Su-7 B entered the armament of CCCP in 1960 and it was the first version of the fighter-bomber aircraft not yet adapted to carry a nuclear bomb. She performed combat tasks using conventional bombs, unguided missiles and cannons.

  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter kontra MiG-21. 2017.

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    Karol

    At the Polish Aviation Museum in Czyżyny in Krakow, there are currently (2017) two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. The first is the Lockheed F-104 S ASA-M Starfighter No. MM6876 built in Italy. The aircraft was used in the 9th Fighter Wing. He made his last operational flight on September 30, 2004, and his last test flight…

  • Jakowlew Jak-11. 1949

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    Karol

    The Jak-11 aircraft was sowiet-made training and liaison aircraft. The Jak-11 aircraft was operated in the Polish Army as an advanced training aircraft between the basic training aircraft and the training combat aircraft. The plane was also used as a liaison and aerobatic.

  • History of aviation law. 2017.

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    Karol

    In 1889, the Aeronautical Congress was organized at the Universal International Exhibition in Paris. This congress was the first attempt to regulate the rules of air traffic, then represented only by aerostats. The arrangements made at that time drew on the experience gained so far from the concept of "freedom of the seas" by Hugo…

  • Sukhoi Su-22 M 4 K nb 3818 accident on 1995-04-04.

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    Karol

    The outbreak of the Second Cold War at the beginning of the 1980s forced the rearmament of the Warsaw Pact countries. In Poland, MiG-23 MF planes were introduced to the service of fighter aviation in a limited number and, for financial reasons, to two MiG-21 bis regiments. However, the real retooling took place in the…

  • Aero-engines – Turbojets in Poland – Part 26

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    Karol

    In the PZL WSK Rzeszów in the 1950s turbojet engines under Lis-1, Lis-2 and Lis-5 licenses were built. These engines were used to propel Lim-1, Lim-2, Lim-5 and Lim-6 bis aircraft. In Poland, it was hoped that the MiG-21 fighter aircraft, as Lim-7, would be produced in PZL Mielec, and the Tumański R-11 engine in…