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Advanced Military and Space Aircraft

Images of large military and space aircraft, including modifications and preparations for significant missions, showcased against clear skies.

DF-ST-87-13278. Base: John F Kennedy Airport, New York State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)
DF-ST-87-13278. Base: John F Kennedy Airport, New York State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DF-ST-89-09807. Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Left side view of a C-7 Caribou aircraft landing. Aboard are members of the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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DF-ST-85-13455. Base: Raf Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)
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Tu-134AK airliner of Russian Air Force taking off, Chkalovsky, Russia.
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An IL-76MD military transport aircraft of the Russian Air Force taking off, Zhukovsky, Russia.
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Czech Air Force A319 plane on the runway.
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NASA's highly modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA observatory banks low over the Texas countryside as it heads for landing at Waco to conclude its second check flight.
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A right side view of a C-9C Nightinglae aircraft from the 99th Military Airlift Squadron in flight. Country: Unknown
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Lufthansa City Airbus A320neo on the taxiway to the runway at Cologne/Bonn Airport, CGN, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Zeppelin dirigible airship in sky
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An An-72 military transport airplane of the Russian Air Force prepares for landing.
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KLM airplanes at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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C-141 KAO (NASA-714) on ramp
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SOFIA visit to Ames overheads of event
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air crafts show, sahar, bombay mumbai, maharashtra, India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox
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American Eagle Commuter Jet Landing at Pearson Airport, Toronto
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SOFIA visit to Ames overheads of event
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DF-ST-86-08015. Base: Cairo West Country: Egypt (EGY)
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Propeller airplane of KLM landing
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DN-SC-89-00485. Base: Naval Air Station, Moffett Field State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A close-up view of the nose of a CT-39G Sabreliner aircraft parked in front of the terminal building. The aircraft is decorated with the emblems commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Naval Air Reserve. Base: Naval Air Facility, Andrews Afb State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Commercial jet aircraft landing at airport.
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Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane in Bremen, Germany on Nov. 5, 2018 for transport to Kennedy Space Center...For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESAs prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASAs human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
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U.S. military personnel offload from a contract Pan American Airlines 747 jetliner. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown
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DN-ST-86-01518. Base: Helsinki Country: Finland (FIN)
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A Singapore Airlines Cargo Boeing 747-400F aircraft with registration number 9V-SFQ at Los Angeles Airport, USA, North America
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Maintenance work of Air India plane at Sahar airport Chatrapati Shivaji International airport in Bombay Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Beluga Airbus parks at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. The aircraft carries the newest module for the International Space Station, the Tranquility Node 3. Tranquility will eventually house the life support equipment necessary for the International Space Station's permanent crew of six. It will also accommodate the European Space Agency's Cupola observation module, a seven window dome-shaped structure. Tranquility is the payload on the STS-130 mission, targeted for launch in February 2010.
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CV-990 (NASA-712) air to air view of flight up California coastline
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A view of some of the aircraft on display at the 1991 Paris Air Show, including a Soviet I1-114 twin-turboprop aircraft in the center background.. Base: Paris Country: France(FRA)
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Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida.
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This artists concept depicts a Magnetic Launch Assist vehicle in orbit. Formerly referred to as the Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) system, the Magnetic Launch Assist system is a launch system developed and tested by engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) that could levitate and accelerate a launch vehicle along a track at high speeds before it leaves the ground. Using electricity and magnetic fields, a Magnetic Launch Assist system would drive a spacecraft along a horizontal track until it reaches desired speeds. The system is similar to high-speed trains and roller coasters that use high-strength magnets to lift and propel a vehicle a couple of inches above a guideway. A full-scale, operational track would be about 1.5-miles long, capable of accelerating a vehicle to 600 mph in 9.5 seconds, and the vehicle would then shift to rocket engines for launch into orbit. The major advantages of launch assist for NASA launch vehicles is that it reduces the weight of the take-off,
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SOFIA visit to Ames overheads of event
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A NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), lands on the Edwards AFB main runway in test of the space shuttle landing gear system. In this case, the shuttle tire failed, bursting into flame during the rollout.The space shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic system, allowed engineers to assess and document the performance of space shuttle main and nose landing gear systems, tires and wheel assemblies, plus braking and nose wheel steering performance. The series of 155 test missions for the space shuttle program provided extensive data about the life and endurance of the shuttle tire systems and helped raise the shuttle crosswind landing limits at Kennedy.The CV-990 used as the LSRA was built in 1962 by the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., Ft. Worth, Texas, served as a research aircraft at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, before it came to Dryden.
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Air Force One, the air transport of the President of the United States of America, flying over Mount Rushmore. 2001
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A Boeing 737-800 of Enter Air with the registration SP-ESC at Corfu Airport, Greece, Europe
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Newly arrived DC-8 (NASA-717) in flight over Ames
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IL-76TD airplane of the Uzbekistan Air Force.
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Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), flies over the Washington skyline as seen from a NASA T-38 aircraft, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASAs shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers.
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Air Force One, the VC-137C Stratoliner aircraft used to transport the president, sits in a roped-off area near the terminal building at Tempelhof Central Airport.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An Airbus Beluga transporter taxis down the Shuttle Landing Facility to deliver the first of three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules (MPLMs), designed to transport experiments and supplies in a pressurized environment to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The MPLMs will be carried in the payload bay of a Shuttle orbiter, and will provide storage and additional work space for up to two astronauts when docked to the ISS. The modules are being provided by Alenia Aerospazio, in Italy, and will be operated by NASA and supported by ASI, the Italian space agency. The first MPLM has been named Leonardo and is scheduled to be launched on STS-100 in December 1999. The second, to be handed over in April 1999, is named Raffaello. A third module, to be named Donatello, is due to be delivered in October 2000 for launch in January 2001
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The concorde at a museum
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Northeast Airlines Boeing 727 , Airplanes, Airlines, Boeing 727 Jet transports, Northeast Airlines, Inc.. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Toy Airplane on Map
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Fire crews getting ready to board Champion Air large plane to fly to location to fight wildfires. Subjects: Aircraft; Aviation; Fire management; Fires; Work of the Service. . 1998 - 2011.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A Beluga aircraft arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility with its cargo of the Italian-built module, U.S. Node 2, for the International Space Station. The second of three Station connecting modules, Node 2 attaches to the end of the U.S. Lab and provides attach locations for the Japanese laboratory, European laboratory, the Centrifuge Accommodation Module and, later, Multipurpose Logistics Modules. It will provide the primary docking location for the Shuttle when a pressurized mating adapter is attached to Node 2. Installation of the module will complete the U.S. Core of the ISS. Node 2 is the designated payload for mission STS-120. No orbiter or launch date has been determined yet.
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Several commercial aircraft have diverted to Yokota Air Base from Narita International Airport, after it closed in response to an earthquake that hit mainland Japan at 2:50 p.m. today.
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Madrid, Spain, Europe, A Star Alliance aircraft of Spanair stands on the runway of an airport, Europe
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A right side view of a crashed Tupelov Tu-154C cargo aircraft belonging to the Soviet national airline Aeroflot. The aircraft failed to clear the ground on takeoff and skidded to a halt in a ditch approximately 200 meters past the runway at Roberts Field. Base: Monrovia Country: Liberia (LBR)
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A crashed DC-3 aircraft under the Northern Lights Aurora Borealis in Iceland, Polar Regions Copyright: SpencerxClark 1320-268
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Scraps of the airplane lying at the Chattrapati Shivaji domestic airport at Santa Cruz, Bombay now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox
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Taxiway bridge over a canal near Hoofddorp, on the Polderbaan, a runway in the west of Amsterdam Schiphol airport, Silkway Boeing 747-4R7F cargo aircraft rolls to the terminal after landing, the Netherlands
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Pilot looking at an plane
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Air 2000, Private Jet, Boeing 757, Stanford Group Photo
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Computer graphics about the technical specifications of the commercial aircraft Boeing 777 200ER, that started operating in 1993. Encapsulated Postscript File (.eps); 5000x3125.
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Hague, Netherlands, April 8, 2016: Madurodam, Holland miniature park and tourist attraction with airport and planes copy
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Signposts the direct way to Wanderlust - BILDMONTAGE Image shows a signpost and a sign in the direction of emigration and wanderlust in German. Copyright: xZoonar.com/ThomasxxReimerx 21727087
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1970's Cessna C150 C 150 Aerobat. Built from 1970 to 1977. This variant of the Cessna 150 trainer is structurally enhanced for limited +6/-3g aerobatics. The Aerobat features skylights four point harnesses G-meter quick jettison doors and removable seat cushions so parachutes can be worn. This particular plane is flying over a midwestern town.
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Greece, Kos, Southern Europe, Detail of typical boats
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Taxiway bridge over a canal near Hoofddorp, on the Polderbaan, a runway in the west of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, KLM Boeing 737-800, aircraft rolls to the terminal after landing, Netherlands
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Aircraft in front of a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center.
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Significant for the direct path to the subsidy - image assembly guide for the direct path to the subsidy - image assembly copyright: xzoonar.com/thomaxxxreimerx 22470023
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Flight schedule on the monitor at airport
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970427-F-1277M-004. Base: Grand Forks Air Force Base State: North Dakota (ND) Country: United States Of America (USA)