Silvester Fly in Slovakia

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We had a small, but traditional local Fly in here at the airfield Dobra Niva, exactly in the center of country of Slovakia, Europe. This meeting is always in the last day of the year, sort of aviation End of Year Party.

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Looks like a good time!  Thanks for posting.

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No matter where you are in the world, a Fly-in is a Fly-in. Having a good time talking aviation.

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btw. you can find our local example of real STOL and "bush" plane ... originally agriculture plane, now more utility/transport plane Z-37 Bumble Bee (Cmelak). Not flying exactly at the meeting, but airworthy

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That's a rare plane! Auster Agricola.great to see another still exists.

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Oh no,

this one is LET Z-37 Čmelák (English: "Bumblebee") - an agricultural aircraft which was manufactured in Czechoslovakia 1965 -1987. It is powered by Avia M462RF air-cooled 9-cylinder radial engine (supercharged), 235 kW (315 hp) - CS engine based on Soviet Ivchenko radial engine. About 740 built with piston engine built.

Another 51 turboprop aircraft built (version Z-37 and Z-137T TurboCmelak) with Czechoslovak turboprop Walter M-601Z. We have still many of them flying here, turbo version very often for towing gliders as well. We have some record here, 9 gliders Blanik aero-towed by TurboCmelak Z137T.

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Here you are

In this case  aerotow is turboprop version Z-137 T
We have standard piston version rebuild for passengers but doing aerotow as well, just no more then 2-3 gliders ...

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Oops my mistake. They look very similar. The timeline suggests that this design may have been carried on at a later stage by a different manufacturer

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Z-37 is real STOL, even at MTOW requires less than 200 meters/600 feet for T/O and landing. Prop clearance is about 20" and visibility from cockpit excellent due to unusual very long main gear.. No runway necessary. We have plenty of them here, many for sale as crop dusting is no more required ...and nearly 800 aircraft built till the end of 1987.

And yes, very similar concept and design, not very common for aerial topdressing aircraft.

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Wow that video looked deadly to me don't they worry about getting tangled up?

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You know, Guinness Book of World Records

But this group is flying for years aerobatic formation on gliders L-13 Blanik, all-metal doubles eaters , for now they are four-ship, full aerobatic program. No professionals, just very experienced pilots, some of them are members of formation flying together more then 30-35 years.

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