L-39MS - Sojovice, Czech Republic
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N 50° 12.687 E 014° 45.440
33U E 482685 N 5562169
A place of a L-39MS crash.
Waymark Code: WMT4Y5
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 09/26/2016
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About L-39MS
The Aero L-39MS is a second generation military trainer aircraft developed from the firm's earlier L-39. The Aero L-39 Albatros is a high-performance jet trainer aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia by Aero Vodochody. It was designed during the 1960s as a replacement for the Aero L-29 Delfín as a principal training aircraft. The L-39 Albatros has the distinction of being the first of the second-generation jet trainers to be produced, as well as being the first trainer aircraft to be equipped with a turbofan powerplant. The type was widely exported to a wide range of international operators as a military trainer.
The L-39 Albatros later served as the basis for the updated L-59 Super Albatros, as well as the L-139 (prototype L-39 with Garrett TFE731 engine). A further development of the design, designated as the L-159 ALCA, entered production in 1997. To date, more than 2,800 L-39s have served with over 30 air forces around the world. The Albatros is the most widely used jet trainer in the world; in addition to performing basic and advanced pilot training, it has also flown combat missions in a light-attack role. Atypically, it has never received a NATO reporting name.
At the Farnborough Airshow in July 2014, Aero Vodochody announced the launch of the L-39NG, an upgraded and modernised version of the L-39.
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About crash
CZ: Zamestnanci Aera Vodochody zkušební pilot Karel Pánek a zkušební technik ing.Jirí Chvojka zahynuli 11.9.1992 behem nárocného zkušebního letu, když jejich letoun L-39MS, prototyp výrobního císla X-24 s imatrikulací OK-182 narazil pri provádení prvku vyšší techniky pilotáže do zeme nedaleko obce Sojovice. Letoun byl nárazem zcela znicen. Za prícinou letecké katastrofy mohla být chvilková indispozice pilota letounu. Programem testovacího letu bylo provádení vyšší techniky pilotáže na vysokých násobcích pretížení.
EN:
The employees of Aero Vodochody test pilot Karel Panek and test techniques ing. Jirí Chvojka died Sept. 11, 1992 during the busy test flight when their plane L-39MS, a prototype serial number X-24 crashed in the implementation of elements of the higher flying technique to land near the Sojovice village. For causing air disaster could have been a passing ailment airplane pilot. Test flight program was the implementation of a higher flying technique at high multiples of overload.