Category: Airplanes

Kraków 2008-10-16 016b Section April 1945. Tally of Lisunov Li-2s and Douglas DC-3s in Poland. Lisunov Li-2 P 1 SP-LAA, No. 18422702, December 1945. Name Alina. Withdrawn in October 1964. 2 SP-LAB, No. 18422703, December 1945. Name Baśka. Withdrawn in November 1961. 3 SP-LAC, No. 18422704, January 1946. Name Celina. Withdrawn in October 1964. 4…

Kraków 2008-10-16 016b Section April 1945. The Lisunow Li-2 is a twin-engine transport aircraft, developed in many variants and versions. The basic versions are passenger and cargo versions. It has a classic metal construction, a low-wing, cantilever monoplane. Straight, three-piece wings attached to the lower fuselage. The center wing is permanently attached to the fuselage…

Kraków 2008-10-16 History. 016b Section April 1945. The Lisunow Li-2 is a transport aircraft modeled after the American Douglas DC-3. Both the Li-2 and DC-3 aircraft were used in Poland after World War II. The primary users were the Polish Army and LOT Polish Airlines. Officially, the first Lisunow Li-2 aircraft were accepted into service…

Mielec 2008-09-20 History of the TS-16 Grot. 198b Section 1965. PZL TS-16 Grot. The PZL TS-16 Grot was intended to be a supersonic trainer and attack/combat aircraft. The aircraft was intended for the Polish Army, replacing the PZL TS-11 Iskra. However, the aircraft was never built and remained in draft form. It’s very difficult to…

Kraków 2008-09-05 271c Section 1984-10-12 PZL-130 Orlik. Poland. Tally. 000 – mockup. It was built in full size in 1982. The mockup received multi-colored (yellow, brown, and blue) camouflage and the fictitious nb 0252. 001 – non-flight prototype. Designated for fatigue testing. 002 – first flight prototype. Registration SP-PCA. First flight on October 12, 1984,…

PZL-130 Orlik, piston engine. Design. 2008. 271c Section 1984-10-12 Krakow, September 5, 2008 PZL-130 Design Single-engine, two-seat low-wing trainer aircraft of metal construction. Piston engine. NACA 642215 wing profile modified for constant aileron and flap chord. Lift +5 degrees, fuselage wing angle 0 degrees, geometric twist 3 degrees. The structure is a single-section, box-shaped, multi-spar…

PZL-130 Orlik, piston engine. History. 2008. Kraków 2008-09-05 271c Section 1984-10-12 The mock jet aircraft. The global fuel crisis in the 1970s forced the governments of many countries to seek cost savings, even in military aviation. A search began for aircraft designs that were cheaper to operate and, above all, burned less fuel. As an…

Kraków 2008-03-21 The matter of the offset for the F-16 planes from the perspective of five years. What is offset? In order to understand the essence of offset well, we must go back to the turn of the 80’s / 90’s. We had the first free elections in Poland, the Berlin Wall is torn down…

Kraków 2008-03-18 SAAB JAS-39 Gripen multi-role combat aircraft for Poland. SAAB JAS-39 Gripen multi-role combat aircraft for Poland. Introduction To avoid any doubt, we supported Poland’s purchase of the SAAB JAS-39 Gripen multi-role combat aircraft. We considered this aircraft a successful design that well-suited to our defense needs. Future cooperation in developing subsequent versions of…

Kraków 2025-10-11 Boeing B-737. Boeing B-737 Original. By the early 1960s, turbojet-powered aircraft had become a permanent fixture in passenger aviation. The DC-8 and Boeing 707 were flying across the Atlantic Ocean. A large family of mid-size aircraft already existed: the Boeing 727, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, BAC 1-11, and Sud Aviation Caravelle. Boeing Commercial Airplane…