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Aircraft Taking Off and Landing

Dramatic shots of various aircraft during takeoff, including commercial jets and specialized planes, captured on runways.

Airplane Taking Off
Airplane Taking Off
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in commemoration of NASA's 50th anniversary. The aircraft had flown earlier to support the Daytona 500, also celebrating its 50th anniversary, and chose to fly over Kennedy on their way to their next assignment. Below them is space shuttle Endeavour, waiting to launch on the STS-123 mission targeted for March 11.
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Helo Air Station - 26-HK-147-108. Hurricane Katrina
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis' drag chute slows the vehicle as it rolls down Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Landing was at 8:48 a.m. EDT, completing the 12-day STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. The six-member STS-132 crew carried the Russian-built Mini Research Module-1 to the International Space Station. STS-132 is the 34th shuttle mission to the station, the 132nd shuttle mission overall and the last planned flight for Atlantis.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is towed away from the Shuttle Landing Facility. It is being taken to the Orbiter Processing Facility #2. Endeavour landed at 10:48 a.m. EDT, completing a journey of 6.5-million miles on the STS-127 mission. Towing normally begins within four hours after landing and is completed within six hours unless removal of time-sensitive experiments is required on the runway. In the OPF, turnaround processing procedures on Endeavour will include various post-flight deservicing and maintenance functions, which are carried out in parallel with payload removal and the installation of equipment needed for the next mission. The STS-127 mission was the 29th flight to the station, the 23rd flight of Endeavour and the 71st landing at Kennedy.
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220522-N-CR843-0158TOKYO (May 22, 2022) Air Force One approaches Yokota Air Base, during the Japanese - American Friendship Festival 2022, May 22. President Joe Biden arrived on the aircraft as part of a scheduled three-day visit to Japan.
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Proteus aircraft over Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, Fla., the WB-57F aircraft is ready for a test flight. The aircraft will take photos of Space Shuttle Discovery during its launch on Return to Flight mission STS-114. NASA approved the development and implementation of the aircraft-based imaging system, known as the WB-57 Ascent Video Experiment (WAVE). The WAVE provides both ascent and entry imagery and enables better observation of the Shuttle on days of heavier cloud cover and areas obscured from ground cameras by the launch exhaust plume. WAVE comprises a 32-inch-ball turret system mounted on the nose of two WB-57 aircraft. The turret houses an optical bench, providing installation of both HDTV and infrared cameras. Optics consist of an 11-inch-diameter, 4.2 meter fixed-focal-length lens. The system can be operated in both auto track and manual modes.
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S77-28667 (23 Sept 1977) --- The shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" soars above the North Base area of Edwards Air Force Base during its five-minute, 34-second unpowered flight, the third of a series of manned Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). Moments earlier the "Enterprise" had separated from its 747 carrier aircraft, atop which it sat upon takeoff from the Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), with its crew of astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., commander, and C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot. Three T-38 chase planes follow. This photograph was taken from a fourth T-38 chase plane.
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041103-F-1241E-002. Base: Holloman Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Tora, Tora, Tora wows the crowd during the Frontiers in Flight Air Show at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, Sept. 25, 2022. The air show featured 12 performers including Tora Tora Tora, an A-10 demonstration, and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to name a few. An air show, also known as an open house, is a way for military members and installations to show appreciation to local communities as well as showcase Department of Defense and Air Force capabilities. Wichita, home to McConnell AFB, is known as the Air Capital of the World, the birthplace of some very famous airframes.
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Propeller plane parking at the airport in winter
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The Centaur upper stage of the Titan IV expendable launch vehicle that will propel the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn and its moon Titan is transported from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS) after its arrival via a jet cargo aircraft. The Titan IV is currently scheduled to lift off from Launch Pad 40 at CCAS on October 6. Once deployed from the Centaur upper stage, Cassini will conduct gravity-assist flybys of the planets Venus and Jupiter, then arrive at Saturn in July 2004. Once there, it will perform an orbital survey of Saturn and send the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe into the dense and seemingly Earthlike atmosphere of Titan. The Cassini project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A water truck (at right) creates a ghostlike image against the black sky as it sprays the dust on the dry crawlerway in front of space shuttle Endeavour (at left). The shuttle is rolling out to Launch Pad 39A for the STS-123 mission. The journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building began at 11:24 p.m. on Feb. 17, approximately 30 minutes before it's scheduled start time due to favorable weather conditions. The shuttle arrived at the launch pad at 4:45 a.m. Monday and was hard down at 6:22 a.m. On the mission, Endeavour and its crew will deliver the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, Dextre. Launch is targeted for March 11.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Orbiter Discovery and its crew land on KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility runway 15, creating a cloud of smoke as its wheels touch the concrete. Main gear touchdown was at 2:22:58 p.m. EDT; wheel stop, at 2:24:06 p.m. EDT. The 11-day, 21-hour, 12-minute STS-105 mission accomplished the goals set for the 11th flight to the International Space Station: swapout of the resident Station crew; delivery of equipment, supplies and scientific experiments; and installation of the Early Ammonia Servicer and heater cables for the S0 truss on the Station. Discovery traveled 4.3 million miles on its 30th flight into space, the 106th mission of the Space Shuttle program. Out of five missions in 2001, the landing was the first to occur in daylight at KSC
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Project Morpheus prototype lander is transported to a launch pad at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The prototype lander is being prepared for its fourth free flight test at Kennedy. Morpheus will launch from the ground over a flame trench and then descend and land on a dedicated pad inside the autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, hazard field. Project Morpheus tests NASAs ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, or green propellants, into a fully-operational lander that could deliver cargo to other planetary surfaces. The landing facility provides the lander with the kind of field necessary for realistic testing, complete with rocks, craters and hazards to avoid. Morpheus ALHAT payload allows it to navigate to clear landing sites amidst rocks, craters and other hazards during its descent. Project Morpheus is being managed under the Advanced Exploration Syst
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Aerial views of Washington, D.C. buildings, monuments, landscapes, taken during ride by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides on U.S. Park Police helicopter
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour is towed to the Mate-Demate Device, or MDD, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after being backed out of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The MDD is located at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy. The shuttle will be lifted and connected to the top of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA, a modified 747 jetliner. The shuttle has been fitted with an aerodynamic tailcone for its flight aboard the SCA to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display.
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221005-N-ZV473-1465 NORFOLK, Va. (Oct. 05, 2022) Philanthropist and former Mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg, rides in an F/A-18 Hornet, taking off from USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN-78) flight deck and landing on Naval Station Norfolk. The flight was performed by Strike Fighter Squadron 213 Blacklions. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Emily Casavant)
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NASAs F/A-18 research aircraft takes off from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas for a quiet supersonic research flight off the coast of Galveston, as part of the QSF18 flight series. The F/A-18 will climb to 50,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico, where it will perform the quiet supersonic dive maneuver.
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Zurich airport, aviation, airline, Donald Trump, Davos, politics, business, jet, travel, Switzerland, aviation, Boeing, Airbus, Star Alliance, government, economy, world
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A barrier aircraft arresting landing system sits on the flightline after a simulated emergency landing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, Oct. 4, 2022. This emergency landing system may be used on land or on an aircraft carrier in the sea.
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DF-ST-89-06076. Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. - Technicians connect the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft to the L-1011 carrier aircraft known as "Stargazer." The Pegasus will launch NuSTAR into space where the high-energy x-ray telescope will conduct a census for black holes, map radioactive material in young supernovae remnants, and study the origins of cosmic rays and the extreme physics around collapsed stars.
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Tail gun of an IL-76MD military transport aircraft of the Russian Air Force.
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Aircrafts - C-130 - 26-HK-51-16. CG C-130 on flight line. Hurricane Katrina
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Passenger jet taking off from Male International Airport, and Maldivian air taxi ready to take off, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia
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The Soyuz rocket is transported by train to the launch pad, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.
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KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft taxi down a runway as part of a Nuclear Operational Readiness Exercise at the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania May 14, 2022. The routine exercise allows the unit to practice mobilizing aircraft, personnel and equipment at a moments notice.
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Air Force One visit, Rzeszow airport, President of United States, Jasionka, Poland, Europe
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Side profile of airplanes at an air base, KC-135 Stratotankers, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, USA
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A right side view of an F-18 Hornet aircraft on the runway ready for the signal to begin flight demonstrations during the air show. Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Ames DC-8 NASA 717 in flight over San Francisco, Ca
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry points to the skeleton of a blimp hangar after landing at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, following a flight from Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland, on June 22, 2016, so he can attend events around the Global Entrepreneurial Summit at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
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Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Maho Bay, window view of Princess Juliana Airport
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Goodyear Blimp and Crew, Florida
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Ames 70_year picture day on Flight line.
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Tail of an Airbus A330-343x from Air Canada being de-iced at Frankfurt Airport, Flughafen Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
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NASA Lear Jet De-Icing