Author: Karol
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Krępsko airport near Piła. 2021
The village of Krępsko is located on the National Road No. 11, on the Piła – Jastrowie section. The village is located on the Rurzyca River, at its confluence with the Gwda River, in the Trzebieskie forests. The village of Krępsko has a population of 300 inhabitants.
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Krajna Arłamów airport near Przemyśl. 2017
Geographically and historically, Arłamów is located in the Bieszczady Mountains. According to tradition, the name of the town comes from the so-called arłamans (vagabonds) who settled here during the times of the Russian princes. The town was re-located under Wallachian law at the end of the 15th century by Jan Herburt (Arłamowski) (1470–1508) – a…
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The airport and aviation plant in Lublin in the Second Polish Republic. 2017
General Ludomił Rayski, head of the Aeronautics Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs, pursued a policy to concentrate the entire Polish Aviation Industry in state hands. There were good and bad sides to this action. However, for the Plage and Laśkiewicz Plant it meant nationalization or liquidation. At that time, the factory in Lublin…
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The airport and aviation plant in Lublin in the Second Polish Republic. 2016
Zakłady Mechaniczne Emil Plage i Teofil Laśkiewicz in Lublin is the first Polish Aviation Factory. The plant had been producing aircraft since 1921. From 1928, he produced his own structures under the name Lublin. The plant was nationalized in 1935. On September 1, 1939, Germanic troops invaded Poland, starting World War II. On September 17,…
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Wielbark Airport Road Section. 2023
After a dozen or so years, the Polish Air Force returned to good old practices. The idea is to re-start training pilots and aircraft crews in the use of airport road sections. According to available information, the last exercises of this type took place in 2006. After this year, Freemasonry in Poland began to liquidate…
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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.