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Poland conducts highway landing ops for first time in two decades

For the first time in 20 years, the Polish Air Force has conducted landings and take-offs using a public road. Bartosz Głowacki reports on the action from beside the highway airstrip

Highlights from RIAT day two (Thursday) arrivals + VIDEO

For many, the main highlights of Thursday’s arrivals for this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire were aircraft of a retro nature. Once again providing the video footage was Ben Stanley Hall

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NATO’S Last Fitters

While the Su-22 swing-wing strike aircraft may be obsolescent by today’s standards, 35 years ago it provided Poland with a technological leap comparable only with its subsequent purchase of F-16 fighters.