Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

18th June 2021

AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

18 June 1951

´Black day´ at the RAF Biggin Hill station, with three crew fatalities and three Gloster Meteor aircraft lost within a few minutes. The Royal Air Force station at Biggin Hill was an airfield well known from its role during the [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Four more MiG-29s for Serbia

On 9th June 2021, during a ceremony being organized at Batajnica air base, four MiG-29 fighters were officially taken over by the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије). Those aircraft arrived to Serbia [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Boeing A-75N1 / PT-17 Kaydet

Boeing A-75N1 Stearman / PT-17 Kaydet (built 1941, c/n c/n 75-717, N74189), during a wing walking flying display at the 6th Sanicole Sunset Airshow, September 2016. A daredevil aviation stunt known as ´wing walking´ is almost as old as aeroplane [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

´Aviadarts-2021´ completed its all-army stage

´Aviadarts-2021´ competition – being a part of annual International Army Games – has just completed its all-army stage. Final national phase of that live-fly contest was organized between 21st May and 5th June at Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan, under direct [...]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

11 June 1937

Kawanishi E11K, a Japanese experimental flying boat performed its first flight. The story of this aircraft began in 1936, when the Imperial Japanese Navy drew up a request for a new small flying boat, intended for night reconnaissance purposes and [...]

45 years of Boeing E-3 Sentry – a brief history of AWACS

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31st May 2021

25th May 2021 marked exactly 45 years since the first flight of Boeing E-3 Sentry. And that makes a perfect occasion to tell the story of this iconic ‘guardian of the skies’. Origins of the [...]

Space Station ´Mir´ – the symbol of Soviet supremacy in space, that reconciliated nations

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21st March 2021

Space stations… The very first attempt of mankind to create a space habitat. Our dream to establish an orbital station allowing humans to stay in space for a longer period of time began to take [...]

AVIATION HISTORY