Author: Karol
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Air Force Institute of Technology UAV STRIKER. 2025
Kraków 2025-01-14 Air Force Institute of Technology UAV STRIKER. In recent years, the Air Force Institute of Technology has developed an advanced STRIKER UAV system, which is capable of precisely destroying moving and tangential targets, at a distance of up to 1,000 km. The system uses a WS-150 launcher. The system is highly mobile, which…
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PPZR Piorun anti-aircraft missile.
Kraków 2025-01-14 PPZR Piorun anti-aircraft missile. The PPZR Piorun missile is a portable anti-aircraft missile system (PPZR), which was developed by the Polish company MESKO. The missile is used to combat aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. The PPZR Piorun missile entered service in 2019. The portable platform is a car (combat vehicle) and a…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Transport Aircraft. 1945-1960.
Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. Transport Aircraft. 1945-1960. The end of World War II allowed humanity to return to the basic task of aviation, which is the transport of people and goods. The huge number of demobilized aircraft allowed for the rebirth of transport companies and the creation of new ones. Among…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Period 1945-1960.
Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. Period 1945-1960. After World War II. After World War II, radar began to develop even more intensively. At the turn of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, four more important discoveries were implemented that contributed to the development of radar. The first was the use…
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Outline of the history of navigation. The beginnings of radio technology.
Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. The beginnings of radio technology. In the previous chapters on navigation in the period 1918-1939, we presented the most important problems of the development of commercial aviation and the navigation associated with it. As we have shown, the progress was enormous. Aviation, and with it navigation, developed…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Commercial Aircraft. 1933
Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Commercial Aircraft. Boeing 247. 1933 At the beginning of the 1930s, several accidents occurred in postal and passenger aviation in which wooden aircraft burned down quickly. The most famous was the fire of the Fokker F.VII aircraft. Airlines began to look for aircraft with a metal structure,…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Advances in navigation. 1930.
Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Advances in navigation. Flight control. 1930 We will describe the method of flight control used in the USA at the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century. At the beginning of this decade, there were over 100 small and medium-sized aviation companies operating in the USA,…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Flights of Polish Aviators. 1926.
Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Flights of Polish Aviators. When recalling the first flights across the Atlantic Ocean, it is necessary to mention the Polish attempts to achieve such a feat. On August 3, 1928, pilots Ludwik Idzikowski and Kazimierz Kubala attempted to fly across the Atlantic from east to west. The…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Fokker F.VII. 1924
Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Fokker F.VII and Other Aircraft. 1924 Farman F-70. Taking advantage of the new market for civilian aircraft, and influenced by suggestions from carriers, Société des Avions H&M Farman, based on the F-50 aircraft, developed the Farman F-70 passenger aircraft. The aircraft first flew in 1920. Around 20…
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Outline of the history of navigation. Breguet 14. 1919.
Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Breguet 14. The plane that was perfect for conversion from military to postal and passenger was the Breguet 14 (Breguet XIV, Bre 14 for short). The plane was built in 1916 by the French company Societe Anonyme des Atelieurs d’Aviation Louis Breguet, as a reconnaissance plane and…