Category: Navigation

Airport aggregates is a very broad concept. However, in this article we want to present this type of equipment that is located close to the aircraft standing on the stator or in the gate and is used to service the aircraft before and after the flight. And it is a very specialized service; supply of…

At the dawn of aviation, rolling planes, for example from a hangar to an landing area, was not a big problem. There are many archival photos in which several people roll a small plane. As most planes had a tail skid, not a wheel, a trolley was often placed under the tail of the plane…

In 1889, the Aeronautical Congress was organized at the Universal International Exhibition in Paris. This congress was the first attempt to regulate the rules of air traffic, then represented only by aerostats. The arrangements made at that time drew on the experience gained so far from the concept of "freedom of the seas" by Hugo…

In the 1950s, the term fighter aircraft operating in all weather conditions appeared. The fact that the above statement is not true we will try to present in this text, although we want to draw attention to commercial flights more. This is because airmen in combat aircraft must show impeccable health, and in addition they…

This article is not intended to compare the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 postal airliner with the Anglo-French Concorde commercial plane, because these planes cannot be compared. Concorde was designed to carry 100 passengers at a speed of 2 Ma across the Atlantic Ocean. This plane still arouses admiration and respect today. The Tu-144 aircraft, on the…

The landing support system is described in detail in the article – "Outline of the history of air navigation. Radiolocation at the airport during landing. " In this part, we will only provide additional information on what such a punk looks like in Poland, compared to the flood of photos of such objects in the…

In the previous chapters, we mentioned several times about the important role of airport lighting, and above all the landing area. Since the military doctrine of the Muscovite empire provided for mobility as the basic axiom of action, the lighting of the landing field should also be mobile, or at least transportable. In Poland, at…

There was no flight without fuel. Vehicle fuel dispensers are one of the most important vehicles in the flight organization system. This is the basic equipment that guarantees the performance of any flights. In the aviation regiments there were fuel and lubricant depots, called MPS (Propellant and Lubricants). Just like the Car Park, MPS was…

Starting units are devices used to start turbojet and turboprop engines that drive airplanes and helicopters. I will not go into the details of starting the engines. Let me just mention that the typical way of starting aircraft engines was and still is to use the airport’s electricity source. The first turbojet aircraft in Poland,…

In the 1970s, almost all airports in Poland were military airports. Except for Okęcie Airport. The Okęcie airport was specific and consisted of a civilian and a military part, and was the only one in Poland with the status of an international airport. The second exception was the Rębiechowo-Gdańsk Airport opened in 1974, which was…