Category: Airplanes

In September 2022, it was reported that LOT Polish Airlines had begun withdrawing Bombardier DHC 8 Q 400 aircraft from service. It seemed that this was a decision preceded by analyzes and logical. Bombardier DHC 8 Q 400 aircraft have been used by PLL LOT since 2012, in the amount of 12 copies. During the…

LFG Roland D.VI aircraft was a German aircraft developed at the end of the Great World War. The aircraft was designed at the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft factory in Berlin, which is why the aircraft was marked with the abbreviation LFG. The aircraft made its first flight in January 1918.

The Halberstadt CL.II construction was assigned a large spectrum of tasks; from hunting, through reconnaissance (assault) to reconnaissance tasks. The planes were to operate in groups and cover each other. Serial production began and then the aircraft was designated Halberstadt CL.II. Production was also started in other factories. In total, about 1,200 aircraft were built.

Fokker E.V plane (D.VIII) is a single-seat, light fighter aircraft from the period of the Great World War. The aircraft was developed by engineer Reinhold Platz. The prototype flew in the spring of 1918. Only a small number of planes made it to the front before the armistice was announced. Initially, the aircraft was marked…

The DFW C.V aircraft belonged to a family of Germanic aircraft developed for the Great World War in 1916. The family included airplanes; DFW C.II, DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI and DFW F37. Initially, the planes were supposed to be reconnaissance only, but they were quickly armed with one machine gun on a turntable…

Aero L-60 Brigadyr is a light Czechoslovak aircraft adapted for liaison, dispatch and tourist operations. The aircraft was tried to be adapted to sanitary and agro-aviation tasks. In both of these tasks, the plane failed. There was a proposal to produce the aircraft as an armed, so-called counter-partisan, which was not implemented.

The entire history of the Sukhoi Su-22 M 4 K nb 22 aircraft is not known. Perhaps it was one of the aircraft that was not suitable for flights due to damage to the airframe structure. It may have been a non-flying aircraft donated by the CCCP as a teaching aid to technicians. This story…

Our politicians and the military encountered the MiG-23 aircraft for the first time when they were looking for a successor to the Il-28 bomber aircraft. The last 6 bombers were decommissioned in 1979, but for the entire decade they were no longer of any combat value. CCCP offered us MiG-23 BN or Su-20 aircraft. Both…

The Mirage III aircraft is a further development of the Mirage I aircraft. On June 18, 1959, on one of the Mirage III-A prototypes, the world speed record in a 100 km closed circuit was set, achieving an average flight speed of 1,771 km/h. The Mirage III-C version entered service with the French Army.

The real development of the Su-7 aircraft was brought about by the concept of atomization and rocketization of the battlefield, promoted by the Soviet military authorities in the 50s. The main role of carrying nuclear charges on the tactical battlefield was to be played by class z-z missiles and barrel artillery, however, in order to…