Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

18 February 2025

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C

Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C (c/n WG7, formerly 83+07 of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Aviation Corps), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. In January of 1944, the American aviation engineer and rotorcraft pioneer, Frank N. Piasecki, [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Seventeen CH-47JA Block II Chinook helicopters for Japan

Since the 1980s, Boeing and Kawasaki delivered more than one hundred Chinooks to the JSDF. The helicopters were manufactured through one of the longest lasting and most successful license manufacturing programmes in Japan. ´This award strengthens our decades-long relationship with [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

14 February 1943 – St. Valentine´s Day Massacre

On 14th February 1943, the American forces carried out an air raid on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, which – due to heavy loses – was later commonly known as the ´St. Valentine´s Day Massacre´. The raid was performed by [...]
AIR SHOW REPORTS

Tag der Bundeswehr 2024 – Fliegerhorst Fassberg

On 8th June 2024, the 10th edition of the German armed forces open doors day – Tag der Bundeswehr – took place. The event was held on nine locations throughout the country and attracted over 230,000 visitors. It was already [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Christen Eagle II

Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford University, founded his first company [...]

Pioneer years of the Finnish aviation – tragic flight across the Alps

AVIATION HISTORY

13 January 2025

On 7th September 1920, on their way from Italy to Finland, two crews of the Finnish Air Force made an attempt to fly across the Alps in Savoia S.9 flying boats. Regrettably, they never reached [...]

Austrian wingsuit pilot pushed boundaries of human flight by breaking three new world records

DREAMERS AND DOERS

6 November 2024

Peter Salzmann is the world-class wingsuit pilot, known for his daring flights and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in human flight. On 29th October 2024, he did it once again, by making [...]

CIVIL AVIATION