Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine

21 October 2026

MILITARY AVIATION

Airbus U740 Valkyrie completes first European flight

Airbus and the American company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. have announced the successful completion of the first European test flight of the U740 Valkyrie Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA). The flight marked another milestone in the partnership between [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Ilyushin Il-102

Ilyushin Il-102 / Ил-102 (c/n 102010303010), stored at the Музей Техники Вадима Задорожного / Technical Museum of Vadim Zadorozhny, Arkhangelskoye, Krasnogorsky District, August 2019. The story of Ilyushin-designed ground-attack aircraft began in 1939, with the first flight of the legendary [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Three Red Arrows pilots leave the team, including record-breaking Team Leader

Wing Commander Jon Bond, one of the most experienced display pilots in the history of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, has completed his final season with the Red Arrows. His departure marks the end of an exceptional chapter in [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

16 October 1937 – maiden flight of Fokker T.V

On 16 October 1937, the Fokker T.V, a Dutch twin-engine bomber-hunter, made its maiden flight from Schiphol airfield. In 1921, Giulio Douhet, an Italian general and air power theorist, published his principal work, Il dominio dell’aria (The Command of the [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

Keeping the Eagles sharp – Serbia’s J-22 Orao in training

The Serbian Ministry of Defence has recently released a new series of photographs showing intensive flying training conducted by the 98th Air Brigade of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (98. Bаздухопловна бригада, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске [...]

Macron’s vision for European space autonomy — how close is it to reality?

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7 October 2026

At this year’s International Space Summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron presented an ambitious vision for Europe’s future in space. As we reported in one of our previous articles, within two years, he wants [...]

Europe sets out new ambitions for human spaceflight and lunar exploration

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23 September 2026

On 9 and 10 September 2026, the International Space Summit took place in Paris, bringing together world leaders, government ministers, representatives of the space industry and astronauts to discuss the future of global space activities. [...]

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