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The number of new CCCP turbojet designs in the period 1946-1947 was large. However, they all had a major disadvantage – the extremely short flight time, and therefore a short range. Even for the frontline planes, these parameters were difficult to accept. In the UK and the US, the performance was much better. Therefore, in…

During World War II, the CCCP paid little attention to the development of turbojet engines. The breakthrough came at the end of the war, when the Russians obtained several copies of the German Junkers Jumo-004 and BMW-003 engines, and some of the results of the experiments. Stalin ordered these engines to be copied and to…

Enter Air is a Polish airline company. The company was founded in November 2009 and started operating in the spring of 2010. The first flight was made on April 25, 2010 to Tunisia. Enter Air Sp. z o.o. has an IATA E4 code and an ICAO ENT code. The company is in private hands. The…

Small Planet Airlines was a former mixed capital charter company; Polish, Lithuanian and German. The company was founded on March 14, 2007 as FlyLal Charters. In 2010, it changed its name to Small Planet Airlines. The seat of the company was in Warsaw and Katowice. The line was an association of three independent companies. The…

The traditions of the Military University of Technology refer to the Knight’s School established in Warsaw. After Poland regained independence in 1918, military departments were established at the Warsaw and Lviv Polytechnics. In 1936, the Higher School of Engineering was established in Warsaw (from April 1939, the Military Main School of Engineering), and in the…

The Technical Aviation School of the Polish Army in Warsaw operated in the period 1945-1949. The school trained aviation specialists. It was a school that was organized in Zamość in 1944. In 1949, the school was moved again to Zamość and also to Oleśnica. The Military University of Technology was established in Warsaw.

The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is the leader of the Scientific and Research support for military aviation technology. Supervised by the Minister of National Defence, since 1953 it has been developing modern solutions that bring large savings to Poland, at the same time maintaining the highest level of the used technology. The products…

In Poland, for several years, sightseeing flights by plane, glider or powered hang-glider have become more and more popular. Sightseeing flights are not new. Already in the 90s, Krakow-Balice Airport offered sightseeing flights over Krakow with the PZL-104 Wilga-35 plane.

There is the Jakowlew Jak-40 nb 032 aircraft in Brzeźnica near Skawina. The aircraft is a private property and it is a copy of the original painting used in the Polish Army until 1993. 19 aircraft of this type were used in Poland. Only the first copy was not operated in the Polish Army. The…

For the ninth time Polish Soldiers took part in the defense of the airspace of the Baltic States. This time the contingent issued 32 Tactical Air Base from Lask. On December 27, 2019, at the 32nd Tactical Air Base, soldiers of the PKW Orlik 9 shift were farewelled, who served in Estonia for five months…