Category: Airplanes

Mielec 2012-11-01 PZL PZL-37 Łoś bomber. History In the history of Polish Aviation, there were several fantastic designs that aroused great interest abroad. The design solutions used in them often set standards. It is hard to believe now (2012). One of such aircraft was the PZL-37 Łoś. The PZL-37 Łoś is an excellent example of…

Mielec 2013-10-01 PZL WSK Mielec PZL M-21 Dromader Mini. 261b Section 1982-06-18 History of the PZL M-21 Dromader Mini. The PZL M-21 Dromader Mini is an agricultural and firefighting machine. Only two prototypes were built. The great interest and market success enjoyed by the PZL M-18 Dromader agricultural and firefighting aircraft prompted WSK PZL Mielec…

Kraków 2007-12-20 PZL I-22 M-93 K Iryda Polish Aviation Museum. Krakow – Czyżyny. 2008. In November 2008, the “Starfighter” aircraft was brought to the Aviation Museum in Krakow on a truck. As the press wrote – from Italian soil to Poland. And to be precise, the museum in Krakow has gained a new Lockheed F-104…

Mielec 2025-07-02 PZL I-22 Iryda nb 301 in Mielec. For a dozen or so years, on the POLOT.net website, we have been cultivating the memory of a good Polish training and combat aircraft, the PZL I-22 Iryda, which was briefly operated at the Eaglets School in Dęblin. However, the political atmosphere around the aircraft was…

Kraków 2025-06-20 Airbus A-220. The Airbus A-220 is a commercial aircraft, with a medium number of passenger seats and medium range. The aircraft is built in a classic layout; narrow-body, low-wing, classic aircraft tail, powered by two turbofan engines. The aircraft uses American Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engines, which have a gearbox. The aircraft was…

Kraków 2025-06-16 Dassault Aviation Falcon. Dassault Falcon is a brand of luxury, multi-purpose business jets manufactured by the French company Dassault Aviation. Aircraft from this series are mainly used for private and corporate transport, as well as by some governments for VIP transport. The Falcon family of aircraft includes several models that differ in range,…

Kraków 2025-06-15 Bombardier Global Express. Bombardier Global Express is a long-range business jet, “ultra-long-range” class, manufactured by the Canadian company Bombardier Aerospace, currently called Bombardier Aviation. It was designed for comfortable flight over very long distances, for example London – Singapore or New York – Tokyo. The maximum range exceeds 12,000 km. In October 1991,…

Kraków 2025-06-15 Return to flight operations B-737-8 MAX: The planes were grounded from March 2019 to March 2021. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), after a thorough and comprehensive review of the improvements to the Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft, has cleared the modified version of this aircraft for return to flight operations. According to…

Kraków 2025-06-15 Airbus A-319 CJ. The Airbus A-319 is a smaller version of the Airbus A-320 transport aircraft. The A-319 aircraft can carry 124 – 156 passengers. The first flight was performed on August 25, 1995. The first aircraft were delivered to Swissair at the beginning of 1996. Airbus had been conducting market research since…

Kraków 2007-11-24 History 288 Section 1989-07-31 OKB Mikoyan and Gurevich MiG-29, version 9.12, UB The concept of a fighter. In 1969, the Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB Design Bureau, on its own initiative, began to implement the project of a light front-line fighter, as a complement to the heavier fighter from the Sukhoi OKB, the future Su-27. The…