Category: Airplanes

The Fairchild A-10 is America’s best attack aircraft of the Cold War period. The CCCP built and introduced an equivalent in the form of Sukhoi Su-25. The Fairchild A-10 aircraft is the first American aircraft that was built to meet a single purpose – to directly support ground troops and destroy enemy armor. All airplanes…

Avions Marcel Dassault Rafale is a multipurpose combat aircraft, hard to detect. Work on the aircraft began at the beginning of the 1980s, when the French became interested in Stealth technology. The assumption was that the plane was to perform all aviation tasks performed by a combat plane. The plane turned out to be very…

Avions Marcel Dassault – Breguet Aviation Mirage 2000 is a multipurpose supersonic fighter plane. The aircraft was the successor of the Mirage III / 5 aircraft. In 2003, the Breguet Aviation Mirage 2000 aircraft was offered to Poland as a successor to the Soviet Mikojan and Guriewicz MiG-21 fighters, but lost to the Lockheed Martin…

The Panavia Tornado is one of the most interesting aircraft in history, not only for its design, but also for political reasons. Let us remind you that after the Second World War, the German State was completely demilitarized. But after a few years, it turned out that the costs of defending the German borders were…

The JAS 39 / Gripen 39 is a commercially successful multi-role combat aircraft. The plane was used by several countries around the world. In 2003, the SAAB JAS 39 aircraft was offered to Poland when the Polish Army was looking for a replacement for the Mikojan and Guriewicz MiG-21 fighters. But in the SAAB JAS…

The SAAB 105 aircraft is a civilian or military multi-role aircraft, powered by two turbojet engines. The SAAB 105 was designed as a training and training aircraft. However, the fate of the plane turned out unexpectedly. The SAAB 105 went to military aviation and was adapted to assault tasks, similar to the Cessna T-37 Tweet…

The Avions Marcel Dassault Mirage III aircraft is a French supersonic fighter aircraft. Its counterpart in Sweden was the SAAB J-35 Draken, in the USA it was the Lockheed F-104, in the UK it was the English Electric P-1 Lightning, and in the CCCP there were Mikojan and Guriewicz MiG-21. The first flight of the…

The Aero L-29 Delfín is a turbo-jet training aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia at the end of the 50s. The first flight was made on April 5, 1959. Two more similar planes were built in communist countries: the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-30 and the Polish TS-11 Iskra. In 1961, in Moscow, the Polish TS-11 Iskra turned out…

The Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd Harrier is a British vertical take-off combat aircraft introduced into service. The aircraft was developed from the P.1127 Kastrel test aircraft. The CCCP’s counterpart to the Harrier was the Yakovlev Yak-38 powered-lift.

De Havilland D.H. 100 Vampire FB Mk.6 nb J-1142 was manufactured in Switzerland by Pilatus Aircraft under license. It was used by the Swiss Air Force. After service, the plane was preserved and remained in storage. In 2010, it was donated to the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow.