Category: Airplanes

At the turn of 1972–1973, the Tactical and Technical Requirements Project (WTT) was developed in the Air Force Command (DWLot) for a training and combat aircraft that would be the successor to the TS-11 Iskra. These requirements have become the basis for assessing the feasibility of meeting them, determining construction assumptions and performing a technical…

On 1923-08-11, a joint-stock company under the name Wielkopolska Wytwórnia Planów – "Airplane" was founded, which became the second company, after the E. Plage and T. Laśkiewicz Mechanical Works in Lublin, producing aircraft in Poland. The company was founded on the initiative of the president of the Polish Aviators Union – Czesław Wawrzyniak. On 1924-04-27,…

The Aero Vodochody company, known as AERO, was founded in 1921. Aero Vodochody is located in Vodochody in the Praga East District. The first construction was the Aero A-10 airliner. Throughout the interwar period, Aero Vodochody developed and produced 22 different constructions.

In 1933, Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze in Warsaw received an order for a passenger plane from PLL LOT from the Civil Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport. The new aircraft was to replace Fokker F-VII B / 3m aircraft used in PLL LOT. The plane was to be powered by two engines and take 12-14…

In 1956, Polish Fighter Aviation had: 541 fighters. All planes were turbojet powered; MiG-15, MiG-15bis, Lim-1, Lim-2 and MiG-17 PF. In 1956, we bought 4 MiG-17 F aircraft from CCCP, two of which served as a benchmark for mass production at PZL WSK-Mielec.

Immediately after World War II, there was no favorable atmosphere in Poland to open the aviation industry. Despite this, in 1946, at the initiative of professor Franciszek Misztal from the Warsaw University of Technology, the Central Aircraft Study (CSS) was created in Warsaw. CSS was a type of design office that had its own aircraft…

In 1985, work on a version of the Orlik aircraft equipped with a turboprop engine was far advanced. The first flight was planned in mid-1986. This version of the aircraft was prepared jointly with Airtech-Canada. This was not unusual, as WSK PZL-Warszawa-Okęcie has cooperated with Airtech-Canada for years. The Pratt-Whitney PT 6 A-25 A engine…

Piston-powered propeller aircraft imitating turbojet aircraft to users and potential users stopped responding very quickly. Turboprop propulsion was turned as more promising. This was mainly due to the power obtained from one kilogram of engine, i.e. at a comparable engine mass, much more power was obtained. However, simply installing existing engines was hardly an option.…

At the beginning of 1918, a new high-performance fighter aircraft appeared on the fronts of the Great World War. This plane was Fokker D-VII. This aircraft was so dangerous to opponents that in the content of the systems concerning the disarmament of Germany a separate point was introduced for this particular aircraft. The plane was…

In 2015, the Polish Government announced that plans are for the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 fifth generation fighters. In April 2016, the Ministry of National Defense reported that the selection of the successor to Su-22 and MiG-29 aircraft will start by 2022.