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The 2018 NATO Days military demonstrations in Ostrava, Czech Republic, were held on September 15-16, 2018. But a few days earlier, occasional meetings had already been held. Airships and weapons from land units were arriving. During the whole week the weather in Ostrava was very good. It was sunny and few clouds. Good weather brought…

During a social gathering, one man asked her a question: "What do you do?" – I’m a pilot. – Ah, you run tourist trips. – No. On a plane. – Oh. You are a flight attendant. – No. I am the first officer. – Oh. You manage several flight attendants. – No. I’m driving the…

60 years is a period of relative stabilization of aviation training in Poland. Although the international situation was still tense. In August 1961, the Russians and German communists built a wall in Berlin, dividing the city into two zones of occupation. The idea was for as few people as possible to escape from the communist…

Student protests in 1968, followed by the events on the Coast in 1970; did not change the aviation training system. The actions of the new party authorities aroused a positive attitude in most of the society. The new head of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Edward Gierek (a former miner), inspired some confidence.

In 1989, socio-economic changes took place in Poland. The President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, led the Russian army out of Poland, but did not liquidate the Moscow agents. There was no vetting or decommunization. The economy has been looted.

On March 8, 1945, 13 UT-2 training planes were flew from the Mokre Airport near Zamość to the field airport of the Dęblin School "Eaglet School" in Podlodowo, Podlodowo Airport. By March 20, 1945, the entire 3rd School Squadron had moved to Podlodowo and Dęblin. The cadets of this squadron began basic training in the…

In the history of the Polish People’s Aviation we read – "Polish airmen were trained at the Aviation School of the 6th Soviet Air Force in Czkałów." What is this Chkalov? It is the so-called toque, that is, a point established in 1936 by the Soviets in Kazakhstan. Several thousand kilometers from Poland. Intended for…

In 1950, the international situation deteriorated significantly due to the outbreak of the Korean War. The Polish economy was focused on the production of large amounts of weapons. Polish leaders were blindly following orders from Moscow. The air and land forces grew quantitatively. The development of the armed forces required the training of new cadres.…

Despite the lack of statehood, Poles started construction and aviation activities earlier. In the years 1884-1918, work on the construction of heavier-than-air flying devices under the partitions and around the world was undertaken by over 100 compatriots. They designed more than 150 airplanes, of which about 110 were built and attempted to take off and…

In the PZL WSK Rzeszów in the 1950s turbojet engines under Lis-1, Lis-2 and Lis-5 licenses were built. These engines were used to propel Lim-1, Lim-2, Lim-5 and Lim-6 bis aircraft. In Poland, it was hoped that the MiG-21 fighter aircraft, as Lim-7, would be produced in PZL Mielec, and the Tumański R-11 engine in…