Author: Karol
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Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów. Training aircraft.
In January 1929, PWS employees set up an association to train and promote aviation. Pilot, sport and glider sections were created. The association was very dynamic for many years. Contributed to the popularization of the plant and its products. The association was the initiator and participant of many sports impressions. Although the factory airport was…
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The tragedy of MiG-21 PF nb 1709 with 1 PLM on 09.07.1981.
On 9.07.1981, the MiG-21 PF with 1 PLM near Drążdżewo, 48 km east of Ciechanów, crashed. Lieutenant pilot Krzysztof Czerwiński was killed on the spot. Honor his memory! The plane crashed into the ground.
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Polish Aviation Industry – Part 06-2
PWS-5T2. 1929 year. Combat aircraft. One prototype was built, which was flown in June 1929, pilot Franciszek Rudkowski. This aircraft is a modernized PWS-5a. Five aircraft were built. The aircraft were used as a line, for towing aerial targets and training on-board shooters.
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Potez XXV
In 1924, at the Société des Aéroplanes Henry Potez company in MéauIte Somme, the French engineer engineer Henri Potez developed and built a prototype of a reconnaissance-bomber aircraft that was designated Potez XXV. The aircraft was a development of Potez XV. In the literature, the Potez XXV aircraft is also designated Potez 25. The Potez…
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Potez XV
The Potez XV-A2 aircraft is one of three types of airliners built by the French Henri Potez plant, used by the Polish Air Force after the Great World War. The Potez XV-A2 aircraft was used in Poland from 1924 to 1932, and what was important, it was produced simultaneously in Lublin at the Zakłady Mechaniczne…
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CWL Mokotów, WWS “Samolot” Hanriot H-28
After the end of the Great World War in Poland, mainly three planes were used for training: Caudron G-3 from 1919, Nieuport 23m from 1918 and Albatros B-II from 1918. In 1923, it was decided to start serial production of a new school aircraft. In the absence of Polish constructions and extensive cooperation with France,…
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CANT Z-506 B Airone. 1939
The pre-war plan for the expansion of the Polish Maritime Forces provided for the creation of a squadron of torpedo-bomber planes in 1938-1939. The squadron was to be based in the newly built naval aviation base in Hel. The Polish aviation industry tried to develop maritime versions of Żubr (LWS-5 A) and Lublin R-XX aircraft…
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Aviation training in Poland. Aviation Training Center.
Due to good weather conditions, aviation training was conducted in Rzeszów since 1967. The first cell was the Aviation Training Center, which was established at the Rzeszów University of Technology. The base for the establishment of the center was the Aeroklub Rzeszowski and the facilities of the Jasionka airport. Jasionka airport, as an airport, moved…
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PZL I-22 Iryda. Part 5. 1985.
New, subsequent arrangements led to a changed vision of the M-96 aircraft, which was to receive a modified wing, new tail, vertical stabilizer and another new version of avionics. New avionics – It was not known for what? After all, Sagem avionics have officially gained very good reviews. Unofficially, it was said that Sagem avionics…
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PZL I-22 Iryda. Part 4. 1985.
At that time, OBR SK Mielec considered the problem of using other engines on the I-22 aircraft. Theoretically, at that time there was a great opportunity to obtain drives from Western countries. The most serious candidate was the 2-flow SNECMA Larzac 04-C 20 engine with 2 x 1,419 kg. Two foreign turbines have joined this…