SHORT AVIATION STORIES
Transatlantic flights
The idea of crossing the Atlantic by air dates back to the era of ballooning. In the late 1850s, John Wise attempted to build a balloon capable of such a journey, but his project ended […]
1978
AVIATION HISTORY
13 September 1978 – maiden flight of AS332 Super Puma
On 13th September 1978, AS332 Super Puma, medium-sized utility helicopter, performed its first flight. The rotorcraft was developed as an upgraded variant of SA 330 Puma, the helicopter developed in the mid-1960s by the French […]
SPACE
Mirosław Hermaszewski – the first and still the only Pole, who flew into space
There have been many people, whose names were written with golden letters in the history of human space flights, until this day. Among them, there is one and still the only Polish cosmonaut – General […]