Aviation Museum in Prague

In the Prague Aviation Museum visited blogger 555vadim and invites everyone to virtually share the excursion. And see there is something! ))
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1. The museum was founded in 1968 in the historic military airfield in Prague - Kbely. It was the first Czechoslovak air base, set up in 1918. The museum has a collection of 275 aircraft.





2. It looked aircraft pilots with an open cabin



3. The aircraft Morane Saulnier MS-230 ET-2, France, 1932



4. The multi-layer laminated wooden propeller, the leading edge is reinforced with metal



5. The aircraft Avia Ba-122, Czechoslovakia, in 1936 aircraft for aerobatics, multiple winner of various airshows



6. Czechoslovak pilots of the First Republic between departures. In the hands, of course, beer.



7. fighter SPAD S-VIIC.1, France, 1916 A large number of these aircraft were purchased in France after the end of the 1st World War.



8. The aircraft Ae-10, Czechoslovakia, 1919 Aircraft mechanic at work.



9. The aircraft Avia Bk-11, Czechoslovakia, in 1923



10. The aircraft De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth Mk. II, the United Kingdom, 1931



11. Historical Wing aircraft committed in the 20s Prague flight to Beijing.



12 military transport aircraft Li-2, USSR, in 1942, a slightly modified American aircraft Douglas DC-3.



13. Training aircraft PO-2 (U-2) "Kukuruznik" USSR in 1929 during the war was used as a night bomber.



14.-7 fighter aircraft, the Soviet Union in 1943



15. Il-2m3, USSR 1942



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17. Assault AVIA B-33 (IL-10 BEAST), Czechoslovakia 1951



18. The military transport plane C-3a Aero (the Czech version of the German Siebel Si 204).



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21. fighter Avia S-199 (the Czech version of the aircraft Messerschmitt Bf 109G / K), 1946 After the 2nd World War II in Czechoslovakia left a large number of gliders aircraft Messerschmitt Bf 109G, and the plant Avia reworked them for the installation of the engine Junkers Jumo 211D .



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24. Fighter Messerschmitt Me.262 «Schwalbe» was the world's first mass-produced jet aircraft, and the world's first jet aircraft, participated in the fighting. Under the brand Avia S-92 and Avia CS-92, he continued to be produced after the war in Czechoslovakia release of these planes was made possible thanks to the fact that at the end of the war the Czech industry produces the full range of components fighter, including its engines BMW and Jumo, although the the plane was not going to. August 27, 1946, the first flight of the S-92 Czech.



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26. Fighters Messerschmitt Me.262 made in our time - the US company Texas Airplane Factory produced several cars. Flight tests of the first built, single, Me.262A-1c lasted from January 2003 to August 2005. This aircraft has been sold to a private collector in the United States. The second plane was designed for the Messerschmitt Foundation.



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