Category: Navigation

Skawina 26.07.2026 Airport ground surveillance system. Large airports equipped with several passenger and cargo terminals, each with several runways, are now like large cities. They have highly developed infrastructure, massive air traffic, and thousands of flight operations. Runways that frequently intersect, and dozens of kilometers of taxiways. Added to this are the traffic of airport…

Dęblin 2026-07-26 Airfield basing of combat aircraft. Airfield basing of combat aircraft means stopping aircraft between flights or during maintenance and repairs. This seemed very simple. Aircraft were parked on the apron, in neat rows (from the line) with sufficient separation to avoid hindering ground crews. However, as a result of the wars in the…

Dębica 2026-05-26 Radio communication station R-137 B. The R-137 B communications radio station is a mobile, ultra-shortwave (VHF), single-sideband, medium-power, transmitting and receiving device. It can communicate both while stationary and on the move. It was introduced into service with the Polish Army in 1974-1975. The radio station was mounted on a truck chassis, most…

Skarżysko Kamienna. 2025-03-31 Mazur D-350 crawler tractor. 1957. The Mazur D-350 crawler tractor is a Polish design that was developed in the 50s of the 20th century, at the Łabędy Mechanical Plant in Gliwice. The construction of the prototype and its tests lasted from 1957 to 1958. Production began in 1958 and lasted until 1960.…

Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. Transport Aircraft. 1945-1960. The end of World War II allowed humanity to return to the basic task of aviation, which is the transport of people and goods. The huge number of demobilized aircraft allowed for the rebirth of transport companies and the creation of new ones. Among…

Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. Period 1945-1960. After World War II. After World War II, radar began to develop even more intensively. At the turn of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, four more important discoveries were implemented that contributed to the development of radar. The first was the use…

Kraków 2013-05-02 Outline of the history of navigation. The beginnings of radio technology. In the previous chapters on navigation in the period 1918-1939, we presented the most important problems of the development of commercial aviation and the navigation associated with it. As we have shown, the progress was enormous. Aviation, and with it navigation, developed…

Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Commercial Aircraft. Boeing 247. 1933 At the beginning of the 1930s, several accidents occurred in postal and passenger aviation in which wooden aircraft burned down quickly. The most famous was the fire of the Fokker F.VII aircraft. Airlines began to look for aircraft with a metal structure,…

Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Advances in navigation. Flight control. 1930 We will describe the method of flight control used in the USA at the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century. At the beginning of this decade, there were over 100 small and medium-sized aviation companies operating in the USA,…

Kraków 2013-03-14 Outline of the history of navigation. Flights of Polish Aviators. When recalling the first flights across the Atlantic Ocean, it is necessary to mention the Polish attempts to achieve such a feat. On August 3, 1928, pilots Ludwik Idzikowski and Kazimierz Kubala attempted to fly across the Atlantic from east to west. The…