Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

4th August 2021

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat

AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat HMA2 (c/n 481, ZZ396, Fleet Air Arm / Royal Navy), static exhibition during the 100th anniversary of the German Naval Aviation, Nordholz air base, August 2013. Westland Lynx multipurpose military rotorcraft – and a predecessor of Wildcat [...]
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Rostec and Russian Post launched UAV delivery tests in Chukotka

In July of this year, Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and Russian Post has concluded an agreement in regard to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for delivering cargo within the Chukotka Autonomous District. The official ceremony of signing [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Mi-8 helicopters fight against fires in Karelia

In the last days of July, helicopter crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defence were deployed to combat forest fires in Karelia. Mi-8 helicopters equipped with water buckets, being a part of quick response teams, [...]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

30 July 1921 – François Durafour lands at Dôme du Goûter

François Durafour, a Swiss aviation pioneer, was born on 27th November 1888 in Geneva. After completing his mechanical studies, Durafour initially worked at Ateliers Sécherons and then in 1910 he was employed as Hanriot aeroplane mechanic at flying school in [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

´Combat Raider´ strikes in South Dakota

This year´s edition of a Large Force Exercise ´Combat Raider´ was held between 19th and 23rd July 2021 in South Dakota. As usual, that training was focused on testing skills of pilots and aircrews in realistic air-to-air and air-to-ground combat [...]

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