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Slam dunk from the sky – how basketball merged with aviation in Poland

13 August 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Two Polish athletes, Piotr ´Grabo´ Grabowski – FIBA 3×3 World Champion in slam dunks, and Łukasz Czepiela – aerobatic pilot and winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup, teamed up to perform […]

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Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski – the second Pole in space and the first aboard the ISS

21 July 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski flew to the International Space Station (ISS) within the Polish science mission Ignis, as European Space Agency (ESA) project astronaut. He worked as mission specialist participating in the private Ax-4 mission by Axiom […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Forty new Airbus A220 aeroplanes for LOT Polish Airlines

23 June 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On 16th June 2025, Airbus announced via its website that LOT Polish Airlines had placed an order for forty medium-haul, narrow-body aircraft from the A220 family. That order marks the first time in history of […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Royal Navy to consider the possibility of implementing MQ-9B SkyGuardian into service

28 May 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

The UK Ministry of Defence recently confirmed that the General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being assessed as a potential carrier-based airborne early warning (AEW) platform for the Royal Navy. Ben Obese-Jecty, […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Operation Boxtop 2025 – RAF C-17 crews in the Arctic Circle

14 May 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

At the turn of April and May 2025, twelve members of No. 99 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF) spent a week in the Arctic Circle delivering supplies to the world’s northernmost located base. The C-17 […]

MILITARY AVIATION

The first OA-1K Skyraider II handed over to the USAF Special Operations Command

7 May 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

In the beginning of April 2025, the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) announced on its website that the first OA-1K Skyraider II aircraft officially joined their fleet. The ceremony marking acceptance of the […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Salaknib 2025 – developing MEDEVAC skills on the Philippines

16 April 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Between 24th March and 11th April, at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Philippines, the Philippine Army (PA) and the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) conducted a joint training called ‘Salaknib’. It was part of ‘Salaknib and […]

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Sebastián Álvarez breaks three major world records with single wingsuit flight

9 April 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On the penultimate weekend of March, wingsuit pilot Sebastián ‘Ardilla’ Álvarez broke three world records by a considerable margin as part of the Red Bull Starman mission. With his most recent stunt, the Chilean athlete […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Fifty years of Red Flag – one of the most well-known military aviation exercises

2 April 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

The Red Flag is an advanced aerial combat training held by the United States Air Force (USAF). Since its debut on 29th November 1975, the exercise has brought together many aircrews from the USAF, the […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Royal Navy UAV helicopter tracking smugglers and drug traffickers in the Middle East

3 March 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Peregrine is a Royal Navy (RN) variant of the three-metres-long (10 ft) civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) rotorcraft S-100 Camcopter, made by Schiebel company from Austria. The RN-specific variant is equipped with the tailored UK […]

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