Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

21st June 2022

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Hawker Sea Fury FB.11

Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (c/n 41H/656802, D-CRZY, formerly WJ298 of the Royal Navy and ´308´ of the Iraqi Air Force) flying display at 30th edition of Aviation Fair air show, Pardubice, May 2022. Hawker Sea Fury was the last propeller-driven [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Alaskan aggressors at Red-Flag 22-2

On 9th June 2022, the current edition of joint exercise Red Flag – Alaska was officially launched at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. The training, organized on regular basis since 1992, is a large-scale combined exercise for the air [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Training the next generation of ´Fulcrum´ pilots

Although in most of the European countries, the MiG-29 jets are about to be retired soon – usually going to be replaced by aircraft of Western design – there is a country where that aircraft is still a backbone of [...]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

17 June 1910 – first flight of powered aircraft built by Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian aviation pioneer

On 17th June 1910, Vlaicu I, an aircraft built by Aurel Vlaicu, performed its maiden flight near Cotroceni Hill (Dealul Cotroceni) in Bucharest. It was the very first flight of a powered aeroplane in Romania and the event was attended [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Poseidon enters service – P-8A for Norway

On 27th May 2022, with the arrival of aircraft 9586 to Evenes air base, Norway has received the fifth – and final – Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The new jets will replace the ageing fleets of P-3 [...]

A half-century with Warthog

AVIATION HISTORY

26th May 2022

On 10th May 1972, a prototype of new American close air support (CAS) aircraft, designated YA-10, performed its maiden flight. Over the next fifty years the aeroplane, officially named A-10 Thunderbolt II but commonly nicknamed [...]

A Cold War veteran – the present and the future of MiG-29 with the NATO air forces

FEATURED

6th April 2022

Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO reporting name ´Fulcrum´), although still being in active service, is usually associated as one of the most iconic aircraft of the late Cold War years. And yet, interestingly, that fighter jet returned [...]

AVIATION HISTORY