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Word hangar is from French. It means a large building, one-nave hall. It is used to place aircraft in it and perform their repairs, inspections and maintenance. Sometimes for garage. It is usually built on a rectangular plan, and one of its walls is equipped with a gate on almost its entire length and height.…

The MIM-104 Patriot system is an American air-to-air missile system on a mobile car platform. MIM-104 was developed as an anti-aircraft system from a hostile attack on medium distances. The system is designed to combat manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, including airplanes and helicopters, as well as missiles (at an appropriate level). The mobility of…

When an article was developed in 2017 – "Emergency abandonment of the military aircraft, Part 1, 2, 3" – None of us expected that the topic would have to be elaborated on, against the background of the tragedy of Captain Krzysztof Sobański, who piloted the MiG plane 29 died. Honor his memory! The captain did…

Failures of military aircraft cannot be completely eliminated. In addition, the plane can be seriously damaged during hostilities. It was like that at the dawn of aviation, it is so now and it will be so in the future. Therefore, the aviators who fly these aircraft must be perfectly trained so that they can solve…

Suchoj Su-7 aircraft were used in Poland in the period from 1964 to 1990. The Suchoj Su-7 B / U aircraft use the KS-2 pilot’s seat (Kriesło Suchowo). The Sukhoi Su-7 KBŁ planes have a newer KS-4 seat. The general rules for ejecting were identical to those for the PZL Lim planes.

We have already published a lot of information on our website about airport petrol stations, cars, tanker-distributors and aircraft refueling. Likewise about aircraft engines; reciprocating and turbo-jets, in which this fuel is converted into energy. Therefore, now we present some information about aviation fuel itself.

GSE – Ground Service Equipment is all equipment designed for ground handling. Some of this equipment has already been discussed in other chapters. Among them, airport tractors, platform buses, airport aggregates, fire brigade vehicles, fuel dispensers. Here we will discuss luggage carts and gangways.

Boeing planes have fuel tanks with a capacity of: B-767-200 and B-767-300 – 63,216 liters. B-767-200 ER – 77,412 liters, B-767-300 ER – 91,039 liters, B-787-8 – 124,700 – 126,920 liters, B-787-9 – 138,700 liters. Before the flight, the Boeing B.767 airplane takes an average of 55,000 liters of aviation kerosene into its tanks. More…

Modern airplanes take on board even over 400 passengers and at the same time huge amounts of fuel. At the end of the 1940s, the largest aircraft took no more than several thousand liters of fuel on board. Modern large airplanes, both civil and military, take 180-230 thousand liters of fuel. For example, Antonov An-124…

The name of the platform bus is little known in society. The problem is, when we talk about the airport bus, most people mean the bus that takes you to the airport (airport). We will therefore use the term platform bus. In the 60s, this name was common. In world literature, the term freight bus…