Category: Airplanes

The Aero L-29 Delfín is a turbojet trainer aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1950s. The first flight was made on April 5, 1959. Two more similar aircraft were created in communist countries: the Soviet Yakovlev Jak-30 and the Polish PZL TS-11 Iskra. In 1961, in Moscow, during comparative tests, the Polish…

The 1960s were a period of development of a new class of aircraft, the so-called business jets. These are business jets powered by turbojet and then turbofan engines. Airplanes have become very popular among celebrities, artists, singers, industrialists and millionaires. At that time, it seemed that the fleet of these aircraft would develop and expand…

The Canadair CL-415 is an aircraft specially developed as a firefighting aircraft using dropped water bombs. The aircraft belongs to amphibious aircraft, i.e. it is capable of landing both on land (RWY) and on water. The aircraft is specifically designed for aerial firefighting, but can perform other tasks as well; search and rescue (SAR missions)…

1 F-16 C nb 4040 nr 03-0040 JC-1. Delivered 11.12.2008. Built on March 14, 2006 It remained in the US as a production benchmark. Then used for testing weapons, equipment and software of the Polish version of the F-16. Supplied with the last two F-16 C.

The F-16 multi-role combat aircraft is a single- or two-seater, single-engine medium wing aircraft. It was built in a classic layout. Multi-role with increased possibilities of air combat and attacking ground targets, also at night. The structure of the airframe is designed to withstand overloads of +9g, -3g.

The chapter discusses the four-year period of Poland’s preparation for the adoption of WSB, i.e. the period from the moment of awarding the tender to the moment of accepting the first machines, and strictly from December 27, 2002 to November 8, 2006. As we found out, it was a very important period in the history…

On November 15, 2012 (Thursday) LOT Polish Airlines became the first European owner of B 787 aircraft and one of the first in the world. The aircraft received the registration SP-LRA. The aircraft was flown on October 18, 2012 with registration N1026G.

Boeing B.787 is a commercial aircraft adapted to carry about 300 passengers over long distances. The B.787 is the world’s first aircraft to be built primarily of composites. The Boeing B.787 is a wide-body, medium-sized, long-haul airliner. It was designed in a classic layout with two drive motors. Despite this, it is aerodynamically ahead of…

The fact that the national carrier, which is PLL LOT, is still functioning is bordering on a miracle. That it has not yet been sold to the Germans by the liberal-masonic Government of the Republic of Poland of Prime Minister Donald Tusk is at least strange. PLL LOT’s network of long-distance connections is small. Practically,…

On December 15, 2009, B.787 made its first flight. It was version B 787-8 No. ZA001, registration N787BA, with Rolls-Royce engines. Take-off weight 176,900 kg. The flight took off from Snohomish County Airport in Everett, Washington at 10:27 a.m. and landed at Boeing Paine Field in King County, Washington at 1:35 p.m. The original flight…