General Dynamics F-16BM Fighting Falcon, the Royal Norwegian Air Force ´691´, static display at NATO Days 2011, Ostrava-Mošnov, September 2011. In the early 1970s, a few European NATO countries – Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and […]
Yakovlev Yak-42D ´RA-42438´, operated by Saratov Airlines (Саратовские авиалинии / Саравиа), approaching Prague-Ruzyně airport, January 2014. In the beginning, there was a Yakovlev Yak-40 – an iconic passenger jet aircraft from the Soviet era, designed […]
Alenia Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN, Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale Frecce Tricolori, International Air Show Radom 2018. Certainly, the Frecce Tricolori (English: tricolour arrows) aerobatic group, being the subject of our current ´Photo of the Week´, does not need […]
Yakovlev Yak-23 (NATO reporting name ´Flora´), Polish Air Force ´06´, exhibited at the static display during a joint event of the 10th anniversary of F-16 service in the Polish Air Force and the Polish Air […]
Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 (C-168), Royal Danish Air Force, static display at Danish Air Show 2014, Karup air force base, June 2014. In the middle of 1970s, an American engineer, aviator and inventor William Powell […]
McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II, German Air Force (Luftwaffe) 38+13, from the Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft (Wehrtechnische Dienststelle 61) in Manching, in the special ´Final Flight´ livery – ´Phantom Pharewell´ at Wittmundhafen, […]
Face-to-face with Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д (CCCP-77115), a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner (SST), exhibited at XIII International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, July 2017. On 31st December 1968, the first prototype of Tu-144 performed its […]
F+W (EKW) C-3605 ´Schlepp´, HB-RDH (formerly Swiss Air Force C-509), target towing aircraft, taking-off for the flying display at Flugtage Schupfart air show, June 2018. The roots of this interesting aircraft could be found in […]
Commonwealth CA-13 Boomerang A46-139 ‘Phooey’ (NX32CS), taxiing after flying display at Poznań Air Show, May 2018 In 1942, Australia found itself in a difficult situation. The country was at war with Japan, which at that […]
Dornier Do 24T-3, exhibited in Flugwerft Schleißheim (an aviation branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich), Oberschleißheim, October 2019 In August of 1934, the Reich Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium – RLM) issued a request for […]
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