Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

17th January 2025

AVIATION HISTORY

17 January 1847 – Nikolay Zhukovsky is born

On 17th January 1847, a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, as well as founding father of aerodynamics, was born. Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, sometimes transliterated Joukovsky) was born in Orekhovo village, in the vicinity of Vladimir, Russia. He [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

ORSEC operation in French Guiana

Since 2023, French Guiana – an overseas department of France located in the northern part of South America, between Suriname and Brazil – is suffering from extreme drought. In addition, the eighteen-month-long dry season French Guiana is now experiencing, came [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Wolfsberg Aircraft Sparrow ML

Wolfsberg Aircraft Sparrow ML (c/n 011, OK-YUL 36) waiting for permission to take-off from Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. The beginnings of Wolfsberg Aircraft aviation manufacturer date back to 1995, when the company was founded in Belgium by Alec [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

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

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 their destination, as both aircraft [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

10 January 1935 – maiden flight of Latécoère 521

On 10th January 1935, the French six engine, double deck long-range flying boat Latécoère 521, performed its first flight. The Latécoère 521 was one of many seaplanes designed and built by Pierre-Georges Latécoère, the French aviation pioneer and the founder [...]

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

AVIATION HISTORY

13th 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

6th 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