Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

20th January 2021

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Westland Sea King Mk.41

Westland Sea King Mk.41, ´89+55´, Marinefliegergeschwader 5 of the German Naval Aviation (Marineflieger), in special livery ´100th Anniversary of German Naval Aviation´, Nordholz air base, August 2013. At the end of 1960s Germany decided to find a replacement for the [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Switching the focus inside the Arctic Circle

At the end of last week, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation informed about the commencement of the MiG-31 combat duty in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The regular, although still officially called as ´experimental´, combat duty in the [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Six giants above the clouds

On 15th January 2021, the crews from the 12th Military Transport Aviation Division (Tver) and 566th Military Transport Aviation Regiment (Seshcha) completed a joint training exercise in the Bryansk region. During this exercise, for the first time in Russian history, [...]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

15 January 1937

Maiden flight of Beechcraft Model 18, commonly known as ´Twin Beech´ – a six to eleven seat, twin-engine light aircraft, developed by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. In the late 1930s, after being successful with Model 17 biplane, [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

General Dynamics F-16BM Fighting Falcon

General Dynamics F-16BM Fighting Falcon, the Royal Norwegian Air Force ´691´, static display at NATO Days 2011, Ostrava-Mošnov, September 2011. In the early 1970s, a few European NATO countries – Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway – were trying to [...]

Aircraft and a whole lot more – Vadim Zadorozhny´s Museum of Vehicles

AVIATION HISTORY

15th November 2020

Just about five kilometres from the Moscow city limits, located in the small settlement called Arkhangelskoye, there is one of the most amazing museums in Russia and even in Europe – Vadim Zadorozhny´s Museum of [...]

Light and shadow of Jester – a story of Marineflieger P-3C Orion MPA (1)

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17th July 2020

Already shortly after its creation, the post-World War II German naval aviation (Marineflieger), started to play a significant role within the NATO structure in Northern Europe. Officially established in 1956, the naval aviation arm of [...]

AVIATION HISTORY