Józef and Bolesław Adamowicz land their Bellanca J-300 Special in Warsaw, after a successful transatlantic flight from New York. Józef and Bolesław Adamowicz, businessmen and amateur aviators of Polish nationality, were born in 1893 and […]
First flight of Yakovlev Yak-50, aerobatic trainer aircraft. Between 1946 and 1965, Yakovlev design bureau created, under common designation Yak-18, a series of quite different training and aerobatic aircraft. It included a variant designated Yak-18PM, […]
Kawanishi E11K, a Japanese experimental flying boat performed its first flight. The story of this aircraft began in 1936, when the Imperial Japanese Navy drew up a request for a new small flying boat, intended […]
25th May 2021 marked exactly 45 years since the first flight of Boeing E-3 Sentry. And that makes a perfect occasion to tell the story of this iconic ‘guardian of the skies’. Origins of the […]
US Secretary of the Navy Josepus Daniels approved a contract for the first dirigible balloon for the United States Navy. The First World War was a period marked by a rapid and intensive development of […]
Tecnam P2008 JC (SP-LLF, c/n 1144), LOT Flight Academy, taxiing before flying display during the Central Air Show of 100th Anniversary of the Polish Aeroclub, Rzeszów 2019. History of this light, single-engine, two-seat and high-wing […]
PZL 104 ‘Wilga 35A’, STOL utility aircraft (SP-EBK c/n 61123), Aero Club of Włocławek, April 2014. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the need for a modern, lightweight multipurpose aircraft to be used […]
First flight of Let L 410 Turbolet. The L 410 aircraft was developed in the 1960s, being a response to a then emerging need in the USSR for a modern, lightweight, turboprop-powered short-range passenger and […]
Yak-23, MiG-15 (SBLim-2), MiG-17 (Lim-5/6), MiG-19, TS-11, MiG-21, MiG-29 and F-16 aircraft on static display during the Polish Air Force Day at 31st Tactical Air Base, Poznań-Krzesiny, 2016. Mostly, within our ´Photo of the Week´ […]
PZL TS-8 ‘Bies‘ (c/n: 1E0306), formerly ´0306´ of the Polish Air Force, exhibited at the static display during a joint event of the 10th anniversary of F-16 service in the Polish Air Force and the […]
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