Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

15th October 2024

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

SkyHawks parachute team

SkyHawks Canadian parachute team, performing its display at Sanicole Sunset (part of the 44th Sanicole International Airshow), Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks, was officially established in 1971. Nevertheless, tradition of the country´s parachute display team [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Pilatus PC-9M – twenty years of service with the Irish Air Corps

At the beginning of October 2024, the Irish Air Corps (IAC) celebrated the milestone of twenty years of operations with Pilatus PC-9M. The official commemoration event was held on Friday, 4th of October, bringing together the country´s present and past [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

11 October 1956 – Operation Buffalo, the first RAF airdrop of an atomic bomb

On 11th October 1956, a Valiant B.1 bomber of No. 49 Squadron of the Royal Air Force became the first British aircraft to drop a live atomic bomb, within the Kite test, being a part of Operation Buffalo. The first [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Maiden flight of the Thailand´s first AH-6 Little Bird

Last week, Boeing informed about the successful maiden flight of the first AH-6 Little Bird light attack helicopter for Thailand. The event took place on 22nd August 2024 at the company´s site in Mesa, Arizona. In February of 2022, the [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Socata TB-10 Tobago GT

Socata TB-10 Tobago GT (c/n 2113, PH-COP), static display at 44th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. In the mid-1970s, the French aviation company Société de construction d’avions de tourisme et d’affaires – SOCATA, developed a new family of General [...]

The last operational flight of the Luftwaffe

AVIATION HISTORY

29th June 2024

In the centre of Schleswig harbour, one may come across an intriguing monument – a boulder with a memorial tablet commemorating the last operational flight of Luftwaffe, the air arm of the German armed forces [...]

Modern Russian airliners – where the mistake was made? (part 2)

CIVIL AVIATION

21st April 2024

Last week, we have published the first part of our review focused on problems that weighing on development of the new Russian passenger aircraft. The article introduced a brief history of the Soviet airliners, the [...]

CIVIL AVIATION