Author: Karol

  • Airport in Balice. 2020

    Airport railway station. 2019 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman

  • Airport in Balice. 2019

    The railway siding connecting the airport in Balice with the Mydlniki station was built in 1951. Most of the goods, especially fuel, were delivered and delivered by trains. The line was single-track, non-electrified. There were four unguarded railway crossings on the route.

  • Iliuszyn Ił-28. 2021

    The construction has been technologically divided into several separate elements. The wings are divided along the chord and the fuselage along the frames. This technology slightly increases the weight of the structure, but it significantly facilitates production, and the individual components were made much more accurately. The basic material is duralumin.

  • Embraer ERJ E-170/175/195. 2021

    Embraer E-170 STD SP-LDG. 2012 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman

  • Embraer ERJ E-170/175/195. 2012

    The first carrier using Embraer 170 was LOT Polish Airlines. In Europe, for sure, because it was used earlier in South America. The first Embraer 170 in ST configuration was delivered to Poland at Okęcie on the night of March 8/9, 2004. The machine received SP-LDA registration, serial number 23. The plane had an older…

  • Zlin Z-26 Trener. 1952

    The Zlin Z-26 Trener aircraft is a training and training aircraft. It was developed in 1947 at the Zlin factory (Moravan Otrokovice) in the newly created state, Czechoslovakia. The first flight was made in September 1947. Serial production ran from 1949 to 1974. A total of 1,457 were built, in various versions and variants. The…

  • Special tape recorders in the aviation of the PRL. Marek Kaiper

    In the military aviation in the times of the Polish People’s Republic, various types of tape recorders, most often produced by the USSR, were used to record ground-to-air conversations, telephone conversations and for special purposes. The country had experience in recording sound, which was carried out in many ways. That is, work on electromechanical sound…

  • Jakowlew Jak-40 nb 045. 2021

    The Jak-40 aircraft No. 9840759 nb 045 was built on April 29, 1979 in Saratov at Plant No. 292, a traditional OKB Jakovlev factory. The plane was delivered to Poland in 1979 and went to the state of the 36th Special Air Transport Regiment in Warsaw in Okęcie. In the 90’s it was painted in…

  • Jakowlew Jak-40 nb 044. 2021

    The Jak-40 aircraft No. 9840659 nb 044 was built on April 29, 1979 in Saratov at Plant No. 292, a traditional OKB Yakovlev factory. The plane was delivered to Poland in 1979 and went to the state of the 36th Special Air Transport Regiment in Warsaw in Okęcie. In the 90’s it was painted in…

  • Jakowlew Jak-40 nb 037. 2021

    The Jak-40 aircraft No. 9510238, nb 037, was built on February 4, 1975 in Saratov at Plant No. 292, a traditional OKB Yakovlev factory. The plane was delivered to Poland in 1975 and went to the state of the 36th Special Air Transport Regiment in Warsaw in Okęcie. In the 90’s it was painted in…