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Lavochkin La-5 — History, Specs & Stories
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (837+ words) A failing fighter re-engined in a hurry, built from glued wood while the USSR ran short of metal — and turned, at low altitude, into one of the deadliest dogfighters of the Eastern Front. The La-5 was born by replacing the…...
Was That a B-21 Raider Over Kansas? | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
33+ min ago (297+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Aug 16, 2026 | Military Aviation, News | 0 comments A bystander in Wichita, Kansas points a phone at the sky. A large, grey, tailless shape slides overhead near McConnell Air Force Base. The footage is shaky, the shape is unmistakable-but-not-quite — and…...
Qatar Denies Holding Iran’s Downed Su-24 Crews | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
35+ min ago (345+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Aug 16, 2026 | Military Aviation, News | 0 comments Five months after two Iranian bombers were blown out of the sky short of a US air base in Qatar, a strange and very human question has resurfaced: what happened to the…...
Fujian Moves In as a US Carrier Moves Out | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
37+ min ago (342+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Aug 16, 2026 | Military Aviation, News | 0 comments Aircraft carriers are the ultimate way for a navy to say “we are here.” So when two of them quietly swap ends of the same sea in the same week, it is…...
China’s J-10C Squares Off With Thai Gripens | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
38+ min ago (348+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 16, 2026 | Military Aviation, News | 0 comments On a sun-baked runway in north-eastern Thailand, two very different ideas of a modern fighter are parked wingtip to wingtip. On one side, China’s J-10C — the same delta-winged jet that Pakistan says…...
Robinson R66 Wins the Army's Flight School Next
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (530+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Aug 16, 2026 | Aviation World, News | 0 comments The R66 will replace the twin-engine Airbus UH-72 Lakota that has trained Army aviators at Fort Rucker since 2015. And here is the twist that has aviation people talking: a decade ago the Army…...
Britain’s 1934 Race Winner Flips at Shuttleworth | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
39+ min ago (440+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 16, 2026 | Aviation World, News | 0 comments For the crowd gathered at Old Warden on the evening of 15 August, it was meant to be the gentlest of spectacles: vintage aeroplanes flying to a live orchestra as the light softened,…...
Scaled Composites Proteus: Rutan's Sky-Spider
59+ min ago (288+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 16, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends | 0 comments Named after the shape-shifting sea god of Greek myth, the Proteus was built to be many aircraft in one: a telecommunications relay, a high-altitude research platform, a sensor testbed. It shape-shifts…...
Bristol Britannia: The Whispering Giant
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (284+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 16, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends | 0 comments Seventy-four years ago today, on 16 August 1952, a large and beautiful British airliner lifted off from Filton for the first time. Passengers who later flew in it swore it was the smoothest,…...
KAL 902: Shot Down, Landed on a Frozen Lake
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (295+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 16, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments This is Korean Air Lines Flight 902, the near-forgotten prelude to the far deadlier KAL 007 five years later. Almost everyone aboard lived, and they lived because of cool heads, a…...