Category: Airplanes

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.

The Fouga CM.170 Magister is a French training aircraft. The aircraft is the first of its kind turbojet in France. The plane was built by the Fouga et Cie company in 1952. In Poland, the equivalent of the French plane was the TS-11 Iskra training plane, which was developed a few years later (First flight…

The Jaguar GR.Mk.1 nb XX730 airplane made its first flight on June 13, 1974. He entered service with the RAF in August 1974. In 1977, the plane was transferred to 6 Squadron RAF Coltishall, Norfolk, and received EC marks. In January 1985, the aircraft was decommissioned from RAF supplies at Shawbury, near Birmingham. In February…

The Vietnam War began. The Americans decided to use F-5 fighters in those conditions. Exactly for the needs of those climatic and weather conditions, the F-5 C version was developed. The entire operation of the modernization and combat use of the F-5 was codenamed Skoshi Tiger (Tiger).

The Cessna T-37 Tweet (the company’s designation as the Model 318) is a small twin-engine jet that has been flying for over 50 years as the main US Air Force (USAF) training and training aircraft. The plane was also used in other countries. The attack variant, designated Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, served as a light attack…

At a time when the first prototypes were already in flight (1967 year), SAAB’s design office focused on the reconnaissance version, the land and sea versions separately. The first was the ready version of the SF 37 – land. It is equipped with a set of cameras to take pictures during the day and night,…

The SAAB 35 Draken aircraft can be compared to the Mikojan and Guriewicz MiG-21 aircraft. In 60 years, at the time of a possible local conflict between capitalist Sweden and communist Poland, these fighters would meet each other in the air. Fortunately, the combat meeting never took place. Although in the times of the "Cold…

In the 60s, the Lim-6 bis was the basic attack aircraft in the Polish Army. It was an aircraft developed by Polish engineers and was generally successful, and due to the lack of a successor, it was in the front line until 1984, when the Suchoj Su-22 planes were introduced into service. The counterpart of…