“A pilot is a technician, an aviator is an artist…”
Chuck Yaeger
This is a TS-11 Isra R NOVAX, in the colour scheme and markings of the 7th Special Aviation Regiment of the Polish Navy, circa 1994. It is notable as the first jet aircraft produced in Poland, flying first in 1960. In a time of Polish subservience to the Soviet Union, it was a remarkable and partially secret pieced of engineering and design. Perhaps any more remarkably, it was powered by an imported British Siddeley Viper turbojet engine. The two seat design indicates the intended purpose as a jet trainer aircraft. In 1964 it held the air speed record of 839 km/hr. Sadly, the Warsaw Pact countries failed to adopt the Iska as the standard jet trainer. Only 424 were produced and flown by only the Polish and oddly, the Indian Airforces. #ofcourseibuiltablueone #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 