Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

9th October 2024

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 [...]
CIVIL AVIATION

Russian biggest carriers revise their procurement plans – MC-21 and Tu-214 favoured over SJ-100

In January of 2024, Sergei Alexandrovsky, the CEO of Aeroflot, the biggest Russian air carrier, announced that the company was going to buy 339 new airliners by 2030. The purchasing plan included 89 Sukhoi Superjets (SJ-100), 210 MC-21s and 40 [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

4 October 1909 – over a million people watch Wilbur Wright flying along the Hudson River

On 4th October 1909, Wilbur Wright performed a demonstration flight in New York, flying along the Hudson River, being witnessed by a crowd of more than one million people. The flight was performed within a series of aviation displays ordered [...]
OTHER

Chilean wingsuit flyer made aviation history with world’s first stunt

On 24th September 2024, Sebastián Álvarez, skydiver and wingsuit flyer from Chile, has made aviation history by becoming the first person in the world to make a parachute BASE jump concluded with surfing the world’s longest artificial wave at Surf [...]

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