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2019 Victory Parade in the air – the Northern Alternative

12 May 2019 Jacek Domański

The air component of the 2019 Victory Parade in Moscow was planned to be a massive display of the Russian Air Force equipment, including 74 aircraft (as celebrating the 74th anniversary of the V-Day) – […]

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Fourteen years of fourteen Gripens in the Czech Air Force

22 April 2019 Jacek Domański

Exactly fourteen years ago, on April 18th, 2005, the very first six supersonic jet fighters from Sweden – JAS-39 Gripen – arrived to Čáslav air force base, therefore opening the Gripen era in the Czech […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Victory Day Parade 2019 in the air – news

19 April 2019 Piotr Dudek

The Russian MoD has revealed some information on the aviation part of the Victory Day Parade that will traditionally be held on May 9 over the Red Square in Moscow. We may expect some interesting […]

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Mi-26T2V – The biggest helicopter in the world completes preliminary flight tests.

6 April 2019 Jacek Domański

Russian Helicopters, a part of Rostec State Corporation, successfully completed preliminary flight tests of the Mi-26T2V helicopter. The aircraft is now being prepared for a handover to the Russian Ministry of Defense to do joint […]

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Gearing up for the 2019 airshow season

2 April 2019 Milan Toman

Between 19th February and 13th March, the Gripen rehearsal flights before the new display season took place at the 21st Air Force Base in Časláv. The Czech Air Force is a JAS-39 Gripen C/D operator […]

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Almost a half-century with the Ilyushin airlifter – the IL-76 story

25 March 2019 Jacek Domański

On March 25th there was a 48th anniversary of the first flight of Ilyushin Il-76, the multi-purpose strategic airlifter, designed and produced in the former Soviet Union. During those 47 years Il-76 has become one […]

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Emphasizing the 25 years of cooperation with the live-fly exercise – Sky Avenger 2018

26 May 2018 Jacek Domański

A quarter century ago the United States Air National Guard (ANG) began the cooperation and joint trainings with the Czech Air Force. The initial goal of this partnership was to train the Czech military personnel […]

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The newest, the finest and the legendary – the static aircraft display at MAKS-2017

29 July 2017 Jacek Domański

During the six days of its operation more than 450,000 people visited the 13th edition of the biennial Russian biggest aviation event, the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017. The specialised public and other visitors […]

MILITARY AVIATION

´Tigers´ over the North Sea – NATO Tiger Meet 2014

7 July 2014 Jacek Domański

The 2014 edition of the multinational, annual live-fly exercise and Tiger – squadron gathering took place between 16th and 26th June, at Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel in Germany. The participating seventeen member squadrons from NATO Tiger Association […]

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