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MILITARY AVIATION

500,000 flight hours for Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

19 October 2019 Jacek Domański

According to the Boeing company information released at the beginning of October, the existing fleet of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft reached the 500,000 flight hours milestone. The aircraft have been developed since 1981, […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Rostec offers the modernization of South Korean Ka-32 fleet

16 October 2019 Jacek Domański

The Rostec State Corporation recently released that the program for upgrading the South Korean fleet of multipurpose Ka-32 helicopter fleet would be presented during the ADEX 2019 – Seoul International Aerospace and Defence Exhibition, held […]

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Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31

15 October 2019 Jacek Domański

The Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31 (also known as X-31 VECTOR), experimental jet fighter exhibited in the Flugwerft Schleissheim aviation museum in Oberschleißheim (a branch of Deutsches Museum, Munich). An X-series of research aircraft already made its mark […]

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An integration of Mil and Kamov construction bureaus into the National Helicopter Centre

13 October 2019 Jacek Domański

The Board of Directors of Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) has taken a decision to unite JSC ´Mil Moscow Helicopter plant´ and JSC ´Kamov´ to establish JSC ´National Helicopter Centre named […]

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Polikarpov I-15bis / И-15 бис

8 October 2019 Jacek Domański

A biplane fighter aircraft from the 1930s, Polikarpov I-15bis, exhibited at the static display of XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, in Zhukovsky. The roots of I-15bis go way back to 1929, when the […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Failed dreams – unfinished projects of Czech aviation industry

8 October 2019 Jacek Domański

Czech Republic (and earlier Czechoslovakia) is the country with long aviation tradition, dating back to 1918, when the first aviation manufacturing company was established. Before the World War II, the Czechoslovak aviation industry was comparable […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Breitling Jet Team – the end of the story

3 October 2019 Jacek Domański

On 22nd September, the display performed at Festival Aérien Cervolix in France became the final conclusion of the 17-year-long activity of the Breitling Jet Team. As yet another consequence of Breitling´s exit from the aviation […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Overhaul of 10 Mi-171Sh for Croatian Air Force completed

30 September 2019 Jacek Domański

On Monday, 23rd September, the official handover of ten overhauled Mi-171Sh helicopters back to the Croatian Air Force took place at Pleso air base, near Zagreb. The ten-year maintenance was performed by the Aviation Technical […]

AVIATION EVENTS

Turkey-Russia relationship speeds up after MAKS-2019

25 September 2019 Jacek Domański

The double presidential visit at International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019 was, with no doubts, one of the highlights of this trade fair. Although not finalized by any signed agreement, this visit was just the […]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV

24 September 2019 Jacek Domański

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV ´JV-N´ KZ321 – an iconic World War II aircraft photographed while performing an amazing low pass over the Kleine-Brogel airfield, during the spotter day on 14th September 2019. Hurricane Mk. IV […]

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