Author: Karol
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Road Airport Sections (DOL). 2017
The first road airport sections in the world were built at the end of World War II. In their desperation, the Germans began to use sections of highways as temporary airports. This is how the Reichsautobahn system was developed, but it did not help to end the war victoriously or even preserve the borders of…
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Airport CHICAGO – O’HARE. 2013
The USA is the country with the largest Polish community in the world. The main places of residence of the Polish diaspora in the USA are the cities: Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. It is estimated that nearly 10 million people of Polish origin live in the United States, and approximately…
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Krzywa airport. 2011
Krzywa Airport has become a thing of the past and no plane will take off from it anymore. Krzywa Airport is another airport in Poland operated for nearly 50 years by the troops of the Moscow state. It was one of the most important Soviet airports in Poland, next to the airports in Brzeg, Chojna,…
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Air Show in Mińsk Mazowiecki. 2008
On August 30, 2008, an aviation festival was held at the airport in Mińsk Mazowiecki to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Polish Aviation. Early in the morning, the weather looked perfect for an aviation event. We arrived at the airport of the 23rd Tactical Air Base relatively early, at 8:00. Here everything…
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NATO Days w Ostrawie. 2023
This year, the 23rd NATO Days in Ostrava took place on September 16, 2023, Saturday and September 17, 2023, Sunday. For the participants, the event lasted from Friday, but the first crews arrived at the beginning of the week. For visitors, the gates were open from 08:30 to 18:00.
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Biało-Czerwone Iskry. 2023
On July 27, 2022, the press service of the 4th Air Training Wing named after Brig. pilot Witold Urbanowicz, informed that at the military airport of the 41st Air Training Base named after Maj. pilot Eugeniusz Horbaczewski in Dęblin, a farewell ceremony of the PZL TS-11 Iskra MR training aircraft from the Biało-Czerwone Iskry aerobatic…
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KAI KF-21 Boramae. 2023
KAI KF-21 Boramae is a multi-role combat aircraft developed in South Korea by the KAI – Korea Aerospace Industries concern. The prototype made its first flight on July 19, 2022. The plane has a one- or two-person crew and is powered by two General Electric F414-GE-400K turbojet engines, with a thrust of 2 x 97.9…
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Microwave protection and occupational health and safety at work at radar stations in the years 1970 -1998.
Due to the spread of many radar devices in the Polish Army, protection was introduced for soldiers working in the microwave range (X, S, L bands). As part of this protection, the personnel of radar stations were sent every 4 years for mandatory specialist examinations in designated hospitals. In the air forces, these were initially…
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Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B turboprop engine. 2023
After the socio-economic changes that began in 1989, it became clear that exporting PZL M-28 aircraft with engines from the Moscow state TWD-10 B, and even with its Polish equivalents PZL-10 S, to Western markets would not be possible. Mainly due to too high fuel consumption. Therefore, a program of equipping the aircraft with Pratt…