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 | Airbus Industrie Airbus A380-841
F-WXXL (cn 002) on the new apron at the airport.
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and is scheduled to begin commercial flights on 25... |  | 10/24/2007 | 307 | 
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 | A pretty large plane at the Hamburg Airport, labeled "HAMBURG AIRport". | | 10/24/2007 | 120 |
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 | Elmendorf's AFB is home to the 3rd Wing, part of the 11th Air Force. | | 10/24/2007 | 178 |
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 | This blimp has landed at the port. |  | 10/21/2007 | 158 |
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 | Should be a MiG-21-93 Bison from the MiG Operational Flying Training Unit (MOFTU) based here at Tezpur. | | 10/15/2007 | 223 |
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 | Not really a gate-guard, but on display behind the fence on the west side of the navy airbase alongside a road, together with a Dakota and an Alizé. | | 10/15/2007 | 168 |
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 | Red number: 6253
cn 76303
The first prototype Su-17, redesigned from Su-7B, flew on August 2, 1966. Entered production in 1970. The Su-17 was a large step in the development of the Su-7 to a more useful attack aircraft. The most important change was the introduction of swivelling outer wing panels, improving take-off and landing performance, and thus allowing a larger we... | | 10/15/2007 | 217 |
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 | 4193 / 63-8467 (cn 583D-5775)
Preserved at 823 Victory Commemorate Park. | | 10/15/2007 | 205 |
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 | 4179 / 61-3083 (cn 583D-5754)
Preserved at Li Jia Martyr's Shrine. | | 10/15/2007 | 141 |
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 | 5283 (cn 00304)
Preserved at 823 Victory Commemorate Park |  | 10/15/2007 | 139 |
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 | 55th Air Regiment (Su-25K/Su-25UBK/Su-7BMK) at Sunchon AB.
Su-25K
The basic Su-25 model was used as the basis for a commercial export variant, known as the Su-25K (Komercheskiy). This model was also built at Factory 31 in Tbilisi. The aircraft differed from the Soviet Air Force version in certain minor details concerning internal equipment. A total of 180 Su-25K aircraft ... | | 10/15/2007 | 209 |
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 | 57-1333 (cn 483-5045)
Lockheed F-104D Starfighter mounted on the side of the Aviation Hall at the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles. | | 10/15/2007 | 124 |
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 | Belong to the 131th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron based here in Suwon.
RF-4C
All-weather tactical reconnaissance version for the US Air Force, AN/APQ-99 (later AN/APQ-172) radar. Equipped similar to RF-4B but with a wider choice of camera fits, including the gigantic HIAC-1 LOROP (Long Range Oblique Photography) camera capable of high-resolution images of objects 100 m... | | 10/15/2007 | 182 |
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 | On the apron you can see 10x AH-64A/D Apache, 2x UH-1 and 5x AH-1 Cobra.
The Morrisville-based 1st Battalion of the 130th Aviation Regiment, North Carolina Army National Guard, held a farewell ceremony for activated soldiers and their families Sunday, January 19, 2003.
The first North Carolina National Guard combat unit activated since the September 2001 terroris... | | 10/14/2007 | 491 |
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 | The Convair B-36 was a strategic bomber built by Convair for the United States Air Force, the first operational bomber to truly have intercontinental range. Unofficially nicknamed the “Peacemaker,”[2] the B-36 was the first thermonuclear weapon delivery vehicle. It was the largest piston engined aircraft ever to be mass-produced. The B-36 was also the largest combat aircraft ever built, althoug... |  | 10/13/2007 | 570 |
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 | The colours identify the plane as a Asiana Airlines Boeing 737-48E. | | 10/11/2007 | 122 |
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 | N190AJ (cn 18878/236) in front of the Northern Air Cargo hangar. | | 10/10/2007 | 223 |
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 | HL7424 (cn 22169/472) on the apron of Ted Stevens International (ANC / PANC). | | 10/10/2007 | 240 |
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 | The Balls Eight is a NASA NB-52B Mothership, NASA tail number 52-008. It was retired from active service with NASA on 17 December 2004 after almost 50 years flying service. The Balls 8 was famous for dropping aerospace research vehicles for 106 flights of the X-15. It flew a total of 159 captive-carry and launch missions in support of the X-15 program from June 1959 to October 1968. It also fle... | | 10/08/2007 | 246 |
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 | The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3+ reconnaissance drone that began development in October 1962. Originally known by the Lockheed designation Q-12, it was intended to be launched off the back of the A-12 Oxcart for extra-long range flights and/or missions that were too dangerous for a manned vehicle. The A-12 variant developed to launch the D-21 drone was designated the M-21. The D-21, with a singl... | | 10/08/2007 | 188 |
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 | A Boeing 757-200 aircraft obtained by NASA in 1994 is now serving as a "flying laboratory" for aeronautical research. The aircraft is being modified extensively for a broad range of flight research programs in the next 20 years to benefit the U.S. aviation industry and commercial airline customers. Called ARIES, or Airborne Research Integrated Experiments System, the aircraft is being... | | 10/08/2007 | 112 |
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 | The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, with a cranked-arrow delta wing that is over twice the size of that of the standard F-16 wing. It was entered in the U.S. Air Force's Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) competition but ultimately lost to the F-15E Strike Eagle. Several years after the prototypes were shelved, they were turned over to NASA for aeronautical stu... | | 10/08/2007 | 179 |
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 | French airforce jets parked at St Symphorien airport in Tours, France. | | 10/08/2007 | 258 |
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 | The AN-2 known as "Anhalt" parked at Dessau airport in Dessau, Germany. | | 10/08/2007 | 123 |
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 | North American T6 in downtown of Erechim RS Brazil, donated to city in 1970's. | | 10/06/2007 | 289 |
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