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For the average passenger, the "Follow me" car is an attractively painted car known to be used to guide an airplane around an airport. Is this type of car always needed? No, not always. Usually, the car is shipped when the flight crew first arrives at the airport and does not know its schedule well,…

The real bane of pilots is ice. Few people know that at the beginning of aviation, it was icing that was the main cause of unsuccessful flights over the Atlantic. In Poland, it is true that it is far from the conditions prevailing in Greenland, but icing can occur in virtually all conditions, both in…

Description of the photo: The presented combat vehicle of the airport fire brigade Chubb Fire Unipower R44 4×4 is located in the Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa near Poznań. The vehicle was purchased in 1975. It received PWD 8865 registration and was approved for traffic on roads. The vehicle was used at…

The FLTT-350 S44 Super Duty tractor (tug) is based on the FORD F-350 on a so-called shortened chassis. It is a drawbar tractor designed for towing aggregates, aviation equipment and airplanes. The tractor tows trailers up to 40,000 lb (18,143.69 kg) and aircraft weighing 70,000 lb (31,751.47 kg). The speed of towing trailers is 16…

Despite its similarity, the platform bus is very different from the city bus. Such a vehicle cannot be registered for road traffic. Platform buses are much wider than city buses. This case is the result of other standards. A city bus can accommodate up to 5 or even 6 passengers per 1 square meter. A…

It is also worth paying attention to the temperatures in the altitude range from 0 m to 20,000 m, i.e. in the ranges of manned aircraft. In the troposphere, that is up to 10,000 m, the air temperature in general drops by an average of 0.6 degrees Celsius per 100 m with increasing altitude. However,…

The McDonnell Douglas company in 1948 also began to develop ejection seats. Initially, the Douglas plant conducted research on an evacuation system consisting in the exit of the chair from the machine through a hatch in the floor. It was about limiting the value of the overload acting on the pilot and eliminating the possibility…

After a series of information from Part 1, let’s take a look at the rescue of the pilot from the PZL Lim (MiG-15, MiG-17) aircraft, which were used in the Polish Army from 1950 to 1990. All of them were equipped with seats ejected by a pyrotechnic charge and a KAP-3 machine, which initiated the…

In the 1960s, the 9K52 missile system aroused legitimate fear among European societies. Both in the countries of Western Europe and in the countries of Central Europe, because these missiles could be equipped with nuclear warheads. At that time, the name atomic weapon was used.

In this part, we present more photos of electro-lighting devices in aviation.