PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Junkers F 13
Junkers F 13 passenger aircraft (c/n 2018 or 2019, D-366), exhibited at Deutsches Museum Munich, October 2013. At the end of 1918, when the Great War was over, Hugo Junkers and his construction team had […]
Articles by Jacek Domański
MILITARY AVIATION
Farewell to ´The King´
On 16th September 2021, an F-15C Eagle assigned to the 493rd Fighter Squadron took-off from RAF Lakenheath station for the last time, heading back to the USA. The aircraft was the last of three ´heritage […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
17 September 1993 – the F/A-18 fleet clocked its 2 millionth flying hour, after just ten years of service
On 17th September 1993, Maj. Michael Sawyers (pilot) and Maj. Steven Neddersen (weapon sensors operator) took-off from Aviano air base in Italy. Their F/A-18D Hornet, marked with a tactical number ´401´, headed to Balkan peninsula […]
MILITARY AVIATION
A record-breaking edition – winners and results of ´Aviadarts-2021´
On 4th September 2021, this year´s edition of International Air Crew Training Competition ´Aviadarts-2021´ was officially concluded. For two weeks, aviation crews from the Russian Federation, Belarus and China were completing assignments of the contest, […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Avia Av-14FG (Ilyushin Il-14)
Avia Av-14FG (c/n 079806101, 6102), a photogrammetric aircraft re-built from Avia Av-14-32 (license built Ilyushin Il-14M), currently under restoration in Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), September 2021. It´s no exaggeration to say that […]
CIVIL AVIATION
Russian rotorcraft at the Eastern Economic Forum
During the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) trade exhibition, held between 2nd and 4th September 2021 in Vladivostok, the latest projects being developed by the Russian Helicopters holding company were presented for the broad public. They […]
CIVIL AVIATION
Mi-8AMTSh-VA Arctic helicopters for the EMERCOM
During the Eastern Economic Forum that was held between 2nd and 4th September this year in Vladivostok, Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (U-UAZ), being a part of the Russian Helicopters holding, has signed an agreement with the […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Close-up: Mi-8 medevac
In the last days of August, a joint tactical and specialised exercise of medical personnel and army aviation crews was held at Pushkin airfield, in Leningrad Region. The training, organized by the Western Military District […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
3 September 1916 – SL 11 German dirigible is shot down over England
On 3rd September 1916, Schütte-Lanz SL 11, a German dirigible that just performed a bomb raid over St Albans in Hertfordshire, was shot down by Lt. William Leefe Robinson of the No. 39 Home Defence […]
SPACE
Blue Team to support SpaceX manned flight
A specialized rescue training aimed to support the manned missions of SpaceX and Boeing was held between 23rd and 27th August in vicinity of Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Pararescuemen, aircrews and maritime operation specialists […]