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  • Ławica – Poznań Airport. 2013.

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    Boeing B.737 airplane from the charter airline Enter Air on the platform of Ławica Airport. 2012 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman

  • F-16 Jastrząb. 2012

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    On January 4, 2011, the first flights in the new year were made. These flights were instructor-methodical flights. These were flights intended only for instructors who will train, check and perform instructor flights with subordinate flying personnel this year.

  • General Airport – Part 2. 2012

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    The maneuvering area or movement area is the part of the aerodrome area intended for take-off, landing and taxiing of aircraft, excluding the aprons. In practice, the maneuvering area includes the take-off area, detailing runways and taxiways. Runways and taxiways are the most characteristic features of the maneuvering area, though not the only ones.

  • General airport – Part 1. 2012

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    If you had answered this question 30 years ago, you would have to write two different answers. One answer to the question – What is the Military Airport? The second answer to the question – What is a Civil Airport? Currently, however, the differences between these airports are marginal. They apply only to individual objects,…

  • 36 Special Aviation Regiment. 1945-2010.

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    The 36th Special Air Transport Regiment in Warsaw operated in the period 1945 – 2011. The regiment was intended for VIP transport and all other transport tasks commissioned by the state of Poland.

  • 66 Training Aviation Regiment in Nowy Glinnik. 1957 – 1989.

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    Before we tell the story of the 66th LPSz, we must go back to 1957, when the 63rd Air Training and Combat Regiment was established at the modern Nowy Glinnik Airport. It was formed on the basis of the 3rd Combat Pilotage Squadron in Tomaszów Mazowiecki and the 6th Transitional Pilotage Squadron also in Tomaszów…

  • Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Nowy Glinnik Airport. 2012

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    Tomaszów Mazowiecki Airport is better known as Nowy Glinnik Airport. This is the Polish Airport, the history of which dates back to the 1920s. Around 1925, on the land of the Ostrowski estate, the marking out of a landing strip for airplanes began. This landing site was used, among others, by the then President of…

  • Safety in air transport. 2012

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    According to statistical data, if we take into account the number of accidents that occur in a billion kilometers traveled, to be a shareholder in a plane crash should fly continuously for nearly 200 years. Statistically, the probability of losing a life in an airplane is 8 times lower than on a bus, 62 times…

  • School of Agro-pilots in Karolewie 1975-1980

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    Karol

    Few people remember the existence of the School of Agricultural Pilots in Karolewo. These are mainly its graduates (only 78 people) and some residents of the small town of Karolewo. I am convinced that 99 percent of readers are not able to indicate, even on a map, where the interesting town of Karolewo is located.…

  • Kętrzyn – Wilamowo Airport. 2012

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    In the mid-1930s, restrictions imposed on the Germans (after the Great World War) forced them to combine. The airports were built in great secret or under the guise of being intended for sports aircraft. It was under the guise of building a sports airport that the Germans began to build a facility near Kętrzyn (Restembork).…