MILITARY AVIATION
Into the night sky
It sounds a bit of a cliché to say that night flying requires advanced skills and capabilities, but that´s the way it is. Practically every aspect of flying is completely different in the dark. The […]
Articles by Jacek Domański
MILITARY AVIATION
Air Solution – twelve years of bilateral cooperation
Two weeks ago, the 2021 edition of joint Romanian-Serbian military exercise ´Air Solution´ was successfully completed. Training activities were organized in both Romanian and Serbian airspace and on airfields located in both participating countries Although […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
9 July 1944 – Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson
Death of F/Sgt Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish volunteer pilot in the Royal Air Force. Håkansson was born in the United Kingdom, in a mixed family of British mother and Swedish father (who was a navy […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Bristol Type 171 Sycamore
Bristol Type 171 Sycamore (OE-XSY, formerly ´78+17´ Bundeswehr/Heer) from the Flying Bulls collection, static display at Helicopter Show 2018, Hradec Králové, May 2018. The story of British rotorcraft development have started with Airborne Forces Experimental […]
MILITARY AVIATION
´Griffons´ strike at Deliblato Sands
Beginning of this year´s summer in Serbia was marked by a large-scale tactical exercise of domestic armed forces. A series of training activities under a common name ´Momentary Response 2021´ (Муњевити удар 2021) had started […]
AIR SHOW NEWS
Counting down to Sanicole aviation weekend
We are only two months away from the Belgian aviation weekend consisting of the 42nd edition of International Sanicole Airshow and spotter day at Kleine-Brogel air base. And, as the date draws near, organizers of […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Joint exercise of the Russian Navy and Aerospace Forces in the Mediterranean
The end of June was marked by a joint live-fly training of the Russian Navy and the Russian Aerospace Forces, being held in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. For the first time in […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Raven Camp – a land of ski-geared airlifters
Summer has many different faces. At a time when many people are setting out to spend their holidays by the warm sea – or suffers summer heat wave in their own homes, there still exist […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF (c/n 967801, ex-Slovak Air Force ´7801´), NATO reporting name ´Fishbed-J´, static display during Slovak International Air Fest air show, Sliać air base, September 2012. At the end of 1961, the first four MiG-21 […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Live-fire tactical exercise of Baltic Fleet naval aviation
Last week, combat helicopters of the mixed helicopter regiment – being a part of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation – performed a live-fly tactical exercise (летно-тактические учение, ЛТУ) that included a missile attack on the […]