There are just a single handful of twin-seaters around. Same class as MB339. Not suiteable as LIFT or AJT for 4++ gen fighters. And it has no airborne simulation system, which breaks the training syllabus.
Think that the space between PC-21/AT-6B and M-346/Hawk 128 is getting really really thight and it’s very much questionable whether an own airframe is justified in there.
L-159B Albatros II IS absolutely comparable to LIFT even better and suiteable as trainer for modern figthers (cockpit was designed according to most modern F-16), and HAS full airborne simulation system KTL – 159 (consist of TL – 159, LS – 159, PCS – 159, EVP – 159, MMU – 159, special classroom B and GCI) made by Czech companies E-COM, Retia and Aero
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr2.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr11.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr9.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr6.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr4.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr3.jpg
http://www.afbcaslav.cz/med/foto/zpravy/2007/simulator/obr2.jpg
Bolivian prezident Evo Morales Ayma has signed the decree ordering to
ministerial council to buy 6 Aero L-159s for Bolivian Air Force for 57,876 mil dollars. Bolivian Air Force plans to order further 6 or 12 L-159s as replacement for its 17 obsolete T-33. 6 pieces of Czech Air Force´s stored L-159 will be overhauled by Aero Vodochody and later provide to Bolivia.The contract incorporates full arms equipment, flying simulator, pilots´ and technicians´ training, technical equipment and spare parts.
in Czech
http://www.euro.cz/id/50rnzqq2lk/detail.jsp?id=12014
Austrian army interested in Czech fighter planes
ČTK (Czech News Agency)
Prague, Dec 15 (CTK) – The Austrian military is considering replacing its old training aircraft with Czech L-159 combat planes, Austrian Chief of Staff Edmund Entacher told journalists after meeting his Czech counterpart Vlastimil Picek Monday.
Entacher said Austrian military pilots need 10 to 20 new training aircraft. However, he said the purchase of L-159s in two seater version is only one of the possibilities.
Austrian pilots and experts are to come to the Czech Republic to see the subsonic L-159s that have modern electronic equipment. The Czech military has over 70 of these aircraft, but it does not use them all and it would like to sell the redundant planes.
The Austrian military has been using Saab 105 aircraft that are 39 years old.
Entacher said it will depend not only on the technical parameters of the aircraft, but also on the military’s limited budget.
The Czech military has been trying so sell the redundant L-159s for some time, but its efforts have not been successful so far. The Defence Ministry has been negotiating about a swap of L-159s for the Spanish Casa C-295M transport planes that are to go to Bolivia.
četař Dobromil Špinka fallen during attack on Emden 3.3. 1942, more info maybe I will found in my materials, but i am long time out of my home…
Špinka´s cenotaph in Vysočany, Hradec Králové district, the Czech Republic
Czech airmen at work, at rest and play and in death.
An appropriate time to post a wonderful collection of photos.
Are they all the work of the same photographer (Ladislav Sitenský?) to call them “arty” would be demeaning but there are many cases where trouble appears to have been taken to get certain views.
Is the book a recent one (ie still available)?
Roger Smith.
yes, all photos are by Ladislav Sitenský, he was soldier and later photographer for Czechoslovak army headquarters in the GB. Before war he was photographer nad journalist, today he is still vell-know artistic photographer.
Z válečného deníku book is very rare, it´s not available because it was published in 1991 as luxurious photo book with Sitenský´s photos of Czech squadrons in GB, photos of Czech soldiers in France and in Foreign Legion after 15. 3. 1939, and 1st Czechoslovak armoured brigade in the battle of Dunkeque 1944. I got it two years later in secondhand bookshop…
Ladislav Sitenský
some Sitenský´s photos of 1st Czechoslovak armoured brigade in the battle of Dunkerque
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