EDITORIAL
Letter from the editor – August 2019
Dear Readers and Friends of Afterburner – The Aviation Magazine, Step by step, we´re going the Afterburner way and soon it would be six months since the day our web page and aviation magazine started. As already mentioned in previous editorials, at the very beginning we had some concerns regarding if and how our idea
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North American P-51D Mustang and Hawker Hunter T Mk.68
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Civil aviation
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Kamov Ka-32 helicopters fighting with fire in Turkey
Russian Helicopters Holding Company has just delivered three Ka-32A-11BC multipurpose helicopters to Turkey. All...
In the darkness, there is suddenly a light – a new chance for ´Connie´
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Aviation history
Around the world with the Legend – Silver Spitfire-The Longest Flight Expedition
Thinking of the most famous fighter aeroplanes of the Second World War period, with...
The return of Rosinenbomber – 70th anniversary of the Berlin airlift.
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Max Immelmann – one of the first aerial aces of the Great War
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30 years of the world’s famous aeroplane manoeuvre – „The Pugachev’s Cobra”
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