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• Area 51

  As then, there are legends today. Writing about them is not easy, because often there is only a thin line between what is true of them and what are just ideas. In ancient times, these myths and legends were about gods and heroes who spread the glory of their nations around the world. Today, these heroes have almost disappeared and been replaced by other mythological characters. And not just you. Today, a number of places and areas of the planet, which man has embellished or made more mysterious than anything else in the world, have developed into the imaginary pedestal of mythology.

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• Area 51 supplements

  Area 51 supplements

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• CIAF 2006

  Photo gallery from this year's CIAF

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• Open Day Náměšť nad Oslavou 9.9.2006

  Photo gallery from the open day at the air base in Náměšť

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• En Bac - MiG-17 in the fighting for the skies of North Vietnam 1964-1968

  A brief history of the operational deployment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 aircraft in the ranks of the VDR Air Force.

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• Fokker D.VIII

  The last fighter in the Fokker family of fighters.

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• Golf for the CIA

  Probably everyone interested in history and the military knows the film Hunt for a Submarine or its literary masterpiece by Tom Clancy. However, it is less known that the story of a Soviet submarine captain and an American agent who tries to smuggle him and the ship into the USA, at least from the American side, is based on a real event.

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• Ilyushin Il-28

  Il-28 was an all-metal twin-engine upper wing with a straight wing and cigar fuselage with three separate pressurized spaces.

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• Josef Balabán

  Commander the legendary resistance group called "the Three kings".

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• K-10 / AS-2 Kipper

  Heavy anti-ship missile

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• KRTP-81 Ramona

  The KRTP-81 Ramona passive radio searcher enables the simultaneous aiming of up to 20 air targets with the help of triangulation aiming (3 Ramona stations are needed to aim the target).

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• Letov Sh-1

  The aircraft Š.A. was established in 1919 as the first military aircraft of Czechoslovak construction, which was to be included in the armament of the Air Force of the Czechoslovak Republic.

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• Letov Sh-128

  The aircraft was created on the basis of a prototype Š-28, which was instead of a non-compliant engine Walter Castor I equipped with a new more powerful star engine Walter Jupiter VI, which had twice the power.

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• Letov Sh-16

  Letov Š-16 and the related type series are probably the most successful and most famous aircraft of the designer Alois Šmolík.

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• Letov Sh-20

  The Letov Š-20 fighter was established in 1925 as a modern fighter for the Czechoslovak Air Force.

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• Letov Sh-228E

  Because already in 1931 it was clear that even the last development version of the series Letov Š-X28 marked Š-128 was not the most suitable solution to the problems of the new aircraft.

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• Letov Sh-3

  Letov Š-3 is the first fighter aircraft designed by Alois Šmolík.

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• Letov Sh-328

  Letov Š-328 is a designation for Š-328FM aircraft supplied by the Letov factory to the Czechoslovak Air Force. The aircraft were not always completely identical and their deviations were evident from the individual series.

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• Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8

  This lesser-known British fighter, which remained somewhat undeservedly in the shadow of the more famous Airco DH.2, successfully helped break German rule in the air in the summer of 1916 and stop the " Fokker's broom ".

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• Seven days Part 1

  November 17, 1989, we perceive primarily as the so-called Velvet Revolution. But how could events unfold if history went a little differently? This article is not a picture of real events, but a mere fiction, based on the facts of the time and a prediction of the development of equipment and the deployment of our army. The text deals with events mainly from the perspective of the Czechoslovak Air Force.

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• Seven days Part 2

  The first three aircraft get over Munich and register only two enemy air defense radars, which immediately destroy. Because only the anti-aircraft artillery tracks are flying to meet them, they drop their bombs and immediately turn to return, while the remaining Ch-58 fires at radars, which they aim along the way.

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• Seven days Part 3

  November 17, 1989, we perceive primarily as the so-called Velvet Revolution. But how could events unfold if history went a little differently? This article is not a picture of real events, but a mere fiction, based on the facts of the time and a prediction of the development of equipment and the deployment of our army. The text deals with events mainly from the perspective of the Czechoslovak Air Force.

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• Sopwith Dolphin

  Lesser known British fighter plane from WWI.

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• Sopwith Pup

  The famous British fighter aircraft from 1916

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• Sopwith Snipe

  Description and history of the fighter from the First World War.

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• Sukhoi Su-17/20/22 in the Czechoslovak Air Force

  Based on a series of articles on the Su-17/20/22 aircraft type series, a summary article was created with the history of the entire series and its activities in the Czech Air Force.

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• Sukhoi T-8 / Su-25/28/39

  History of the development series.

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• Sukhoi T-8 / Su-25/28/39

  II. part of the history of the development series.

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• Tupolev Tu-144

  The Tupolev Tu-144 represents the Soviet counterpart of the Western European supersonic transport aircraft Concorde and at the same time the fastest transport aircraft in the world.

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• Tupolev Tu-95 Bear-A

  Tupolev Tu-95 Bear is probably the most successful, most used and most variable four-engine propeller bomber in the history of the USSR Air Force.

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