The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco plane was the biggest attraction of the 9th Aviation Picnic. Such a plane was already in Krakow in 2010. The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco aircraft, a light attack and observation aircraft powered by two Garret turboprop engines. The OV-10 Bronco was commissioned by US NAVY. The plane was flown on July 16, 1965. After North American became part of Rockwell, it was known as Rockwell OV-10. The machine has a take-off weight of 6,600 kg. As a result of the Vietnam War, the plane received some significant changes. The cockpit was armored, and self-sealing fuel tanks were introduced. The plane turned out to be an excellent anti-insurgency machine, so it was purchased by several countries. The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco plane presented at the event belongs to the team from France.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the show was the flight show of the TS-11 Iskra nb 04 plane. The plane was painted in the colors of the prototype side number 04. Unfortunately, the plane could only be admired in flight.<\/p>\n The Romanian Aerobatic Yakers (Iacarii Acrobati) band was once again in Krakow. The team presented itself on two Yak-52 TW aircraft. The Aerobatic Yakers is a private team of aviation fanatics that has three Yak-52 TW planes. The Yak-52 TW planes are machines with a landing gear with a tail wheel, reinforced wings and more powerful engines. The planes are beautifully painted in a brown and sand camouflage pattern, similar to the 40’s of the 20th century.<\/p>\n Mr. Jurgis Kairys was in Krakow, a favorite of the audience and a regular visitor to Krakow. This time, Mr. Jurgis Kairys was with the new Sukhoi Su-31, which is a development of the Sukhoi Su-26. At the picnic there was an aerobatic Extra 200 aircraft, registration D-EEMT and Mr. Uwe Zimmermann, a regular in Krakow. There was a group called "\u017belazny" with three planes and a glider. In the air, we could enjoy a group of 3AT3 planes.<\/p>\n There was a large group of historical planes at the picnic. There was a Dornier Do-28D2 "Skyservant", 59 + 11. In 1964, Dornier began work on a transport plane with STOL characteristics for the transport of 12 passengers. The prototype of the plane called Do-28D "Skyservant" was flew on February 23, 1966. The aircraft has a fuselage with a characteristic rectangular cross-section and an equally distinctive method of mounting the engines to the fuselage. In 1967, serial production of Do-28D began, for civil and military purposes. In total, over 200 copies were built.<\/p>\n Former planes: Jakowlew Jak-18 registration SP-YYY. RWD-5 R replica registration SP-LOT. Piper Cub. Yakovlev Yak-12 SP-AWF. PZL-104 Wilga, registration SP-FCB. Antonov An-2.<\/p>\n Written by Karol Placha Hetman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco plane was the biggest attraction of the 9th Aviation Picnic. Such a plane was already in Krakow in 2010. The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco aircraft, a light attack and observation aircraft powered by two Garret turboprop engines. The OV-10 Bronco was commissioned by US NAVY. The plane was flown on July 16, 1965. After North American became part of Rockwell, it was known as Rockwell OV-10. The machine has a take-off weight of 6,600 kg. As a result of the Vietnam War, the plane received some significant changes. The cockpit was armored, and self-sealing fuel tanks were introduced. The plane turned out to be an excellent anti-insurgency machine, so it was purchased by several countries. The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco plane presented at the event belongs to the team from France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-show-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polot.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}