Author: Karol
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Aircraft engines – Rocket – Part 11
In France, a rocket engine of the SEPR type for combat aircraft was developed. The resulting version of the SEPR 841 engine could be mounted on Mirage III C aircraft. The engine was mounted under the rear part of the fuselage with bolted connections. Aviation kerosene is the fuel and nitric acid is the oxidant.…
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Aircraft Engines – Turbojets in the East – Part 17
Description to the photo: The Lis-2 engine was produced in Poland, at WSK PZL Rzeszów, under the license of the Russian Klimow WK-1 engine. The Lis-2 engine was used in aircraft of the aircraft family: PZL Lim-2 (single-seat), PZL SB Lim-2 (two-seat).
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Aircraft Engines – Turbojets in the UK – Part 15
The De Havilland Vampire combat aircraft was developed in the UK in parallel with the Gloster Meteor. However, unlike him, it received a power unit consisting of one turbojet engine. The engine was placed in a rudimentary fuselage just behind the crew cabin. The first flight of the De Havilland Vampire plane took place on…
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Aircraft Engines – Turbojets in USA – Part 16
As early as 1945, engineers at General Electric and Allison set out to develop a turbojet engine with an axial compressor. This is how the design of the TG-180 was born, which later received the designation J35. The engine was developed in parallel with the J33 engine. Some historians believe that the J35 engine was…
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Aircraft Engines – Turboprop – Part 27
Despite the Allison T40 program failure, Allison continued to develop a single-turbine turboprop engine, as was the Allison T38 engine. The T56 engine was developed especially for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Over several decades, the Allison / Rolls Royce T56 engine has been built in over 18,000 units. The engine was used to…
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Aircraft Engines – Turboprop – Part 28
The Soviet Mi-1 and Mi-4 helicopters were powered by piston engines. Turbine engines have already been widely introduced in the West. The Russians managed to obtain the Allison 250 engine. On its basis, Sergei Isotov’s team developed their own engine, which was designated GTD-350. The first engine start took place in 1961. The engine in…
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Aircraft Engines – Turboprop – Part 29
In Poland, turboprop engines were encountered in the 60 years, when LOT Polish Airlines received Il-18 (1961) aircraft with Ivcheniko AI-20 engines and An-24 aircraft (1966) with Ivchenko AI-24 engines. The same engines were used in the military An-12 (Ivchenko AI-20, 1966) and in the An-26 (Ivchenko AI-24, 1972). These engines were not produced in…
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New exhibits at MLP in Czyżyny. 2010.
I will be the first to mention the extremely interesting Jaguar combat aircraft. It is a supersonic, twin-engine tactical support aircraft, designed for precise attack on point targets with classic bombs, guided bombs and guided missiles. The plane is the fruit of British-French cooperation. For economic reasons, on May 17, 1965, the governments of France…
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Nuclear weapons in Poland. 2007.
Probably no one doubts that with the end of World War II, Poland did not regain its sovereignty. We existed on the world map as a separate country, but extremely dependent on the Kremlin. It was there that the most important decisions concerning our fate were made. Secretaries of the only rightful party of the…
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Reflections after the 8th Meeting of Aviation Generations of Mielec – Teofil Lenartowicz. 2018.
A week after the meeting mentioned in the title, it is worth sharing your own reflection and observations made in the last days. These are strange reflections, since it is so hard to break through the historical truth. It is not for me to assess why the people responsible for spreading the aviation history of…