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An important engine in the CCCP was the AL-7 F-1 engine, which in Archip M. Lulka’s team was called TRD-31. The engine was created at the beginning of the 50s, through the development of the AL-5 engine, especially its enlargement. The AL-7 engine was first launched in September 1952. The AL-7 engine was used to…

Aleksander Mikulin, in addition to the large AM-3 engine, also developed the AM-5 engine with a lower power. This task resulted from the collapse of the TR-3 engine program, which had high hopes. The fall of the TR-3 engine program also plunged airframe programs, including the supersonic Su-17 (the first program with such a designation).…

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.