Category: Airplanes

Currently (2017) the most modern combat aircraft in the world are designed only as single-seater machines. Two-seater versions of combat aircraft that were called training-combat aircraft are no longer being built. Projects already implemented and put into service, such as F-22 and F-35, confirm this rule. This tendency results from several basic premises. First, computer…

The entire contract for the supply of Yak-23 fighters for the Polish Army has not been completed yet, and in July 1951 the supply of MiG-15 fighters began. The reason was the development of events during the Korean War, the Berlin blockade lost, and above all the CCCP’s possession of nuclear weapons. This resulted in…

We wrote a lot about the political side of choosing Gulfstream G550 planes for transporting the most important people in Poland in other articles. We are convinced that the best offer and the best aircraft in the class of commercial machines have been selected. The Gulfstream G550 is truly an aircraft of the highest quality,…

The Soviet Yakovlev UT-2 plane was a bad training and training plane. He was difficult to pilot and did not forgive mistakes. Engineer Tadeusz Sołtyk even described it as dangerous and claimed that it is not necessary to select pilots through the cemetery. In 1943, the OKB Yakovlev office developed several designs to modify the…

It has been 21 years since the accident of Iryda, with which the destruction of the aviation industry began. I wrote a few topics about it in the previous years. However, this topic will shock the public opinion for a long time, because what was done was incredibly stupid.

The first version of the Su-7 B entered the armament of CCCP in 1960 and it was the first version of the fighter-bomber aircraft not yet adapted to carry a nuclear bomb. She performed combat tasks using conventional bombs, unguided missiles and cannons.

At the Polish Aviation Museum in Czyżyny in Krakow, there are currently (2017) two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. The first is the Lockheed F-104 S ASA-M Starfighter No. MM6876 built in Italy. The aircraft was used in the 9th Fighter Wing. He made his last operational flight on September 30, 2004, and his last test flight…

The Jak-11 aircraft was sowiet-made training and liaison aircraft. The Jak-11 aircraft was operated in the Polish Army as an advanced training aircraft between the basic training aircraft and the training combat aircraft. The plane was also used as a liaison and aerobatic.

The M-346 Master – Bielik is an advanced training training aircraft. It was adopted by the Polish Army. On November 14, 2016, the first two Leonardo M-346 Master planes – Bielik Nb 7702 and 7703 – landed in Dęblin.

The PZL I-22 Iryda aircraft was a training and combat aircraft developed at PZL Mielec by Polish constructors, engineers and technicians. The plane was powered by two turbojet engines, designed and produced by Polskie PZL Rzeszów.