Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

13th September 2024

AVIATION HISTORY

13 September 1978 – maiden flight of AS332 Super Puma

On 13th September 1978, AS332 Super Puma, medium-sized utility helicopter, performed its first flight. The rotorcraft was developed as an upgraded variant of SA 330 Puma, the helicopter developed in the mid-1960s by the French aerospace company Sud Aviation and [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

USAF and Luftwaffe join the Finnish highway operations – Baana 24 exercise

In the first week of September 2024, F-35 Lightning II of the United States Air Force and the Eurofighter EF-2000 of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) combat aircraft performed their first highway landing operations. That remarkable accomplishment in history of [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

S-7 Pirát

S-7 Pirát (c/n ?, OK-GUD 07), static display at open doors day at Aeroklub Broumov, Broumov, August 2024. In 1982, Randy Schlitter developed a single-seat ultralight aircraft, designated S-2 Coyote. It was the first aeroplane designed by Schlitter who was [...]
CIVIL AVIATION

Audit raises concerns on the Russian plans to build one thousand airliners

According to the Russian authorities, until the end of the current decade, intensity of air traffic in Russia should increase one and a half times compared to 2023. At the same time, however, the number of Western-made airlines being currently [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

6 September 1893 – Claire Lee Chennault is born

On 6th September 1893, Claire Lee Chennault, an American military aviator and famous fighter pilot, was born in Commerce, Texas. Nevertheless, both date and place Chennault was born are just current (and official) version because there is no official document [...]

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