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Airplanes in Flight

Various aircraft captured in flight showcasing landing and takeoff moments, with dynamic skies and dramatic angles.

Airliner at take off from Washington Reagan airport.

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Aircrafts - HH-65 Dolphin - 26-HK-54-8. HH-65 in hazy air. Hurricane Katrina

A 43rd Bombardment Wing B-52G Stratofortress aircraft passes over the city as it flies into Yokota Air Base for the annual Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The aircraft is based at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Subject Operation/Series: JAPANESE/AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL Base: Yokota Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)

NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 chase plane during a flyover of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) takes off the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey and Pilot Eric Boe are flying the modified Gulfstream II business jets to mimic the shuttle's handling during the final phase of landing. Practice landings are part of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), which provides each shuttle crew and launch team an opportunity to participate in various simulated activities, including equipment familiarization and emergency training at the launch pad.Space shuttle Discovery and its STS-133 crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m.

A C-47 Skytrain aircraft touches down on a runway at Tempelhof Central Airport as it arrives for ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift. Skytrain aircraft were used extensively to move material during the airlift. Base: West Berlin Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

A Porter airplane is taking off from the tarmac at Billy Bishop Toronto Island airport Toronto Ont., on Wednesday Jul. 29, 2015.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-133 Pilot Eric Boe is ready to take off and perform touch-and-go landings aboard a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. An STA is a Gulfstream II business jet that is modified to mimic the shuttle's handling during the final phase of landing. Boe and STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey will practice landings as part of standard training before space shuttle Discovery's launch to the International Space Station.Scheduled to lift off Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST, Discovery and its six-member crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the orbiting outpost.

A 147th Attack Wing MQ-9 Reaper flys over Galveston, Texas on January 10, 2024. The Wing tested satellite launch and recovery operations at Scholes International Airport in Galveston as part of its innovative approach to the Agile Combat Employment Concept.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery lands on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9 08 a.m. EDT, completing the 15-day STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 9 08 35 a.m. EDT followed by nose gear touchdown at 9 08 47 a.m. and wheelstop at 9 09 33 a.m. Aboard are Commander Alan Poindexter; Pilot James P. Dutton Jr.; and Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clayton Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The seven-member STS-131 crew carried the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that were transferred to the International Space Station's laboratories. The crew also switched out a gyroscope on the stations truss, installed a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieved a Japanese experiment from the stations exterior. STS-131 is the 33rd sh

Airplane view, Ireland , Rural areas. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The U.S. Navy's F/A-18 Blue Angels taxi toward the runway at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will taking off to begin rehearsing their demonstrations for the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Space and Air Show Nov. 8-9. The Navy's elite flight demonstration squadron will take to the skies in military aircraft demonstrations for the second annual Space & Air Show at Kennedy. This years show brings together the best in military aircraft, coupled with precision pilots and veteran astronauts to celebrate spaceflight and aviation. The event also includes demonstrations by the F-16 Fighting Falcon and a water rescue demonstration by the 920th Rescue Wing.

An aerial view of the runway and some facilities on the base. Base: Bitburg Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Plane landing at Rotterdam airport at night with light trails and reflections

A C-17 Globemaster III from the 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte, North Carolina waits on the flightline to be refueled at Travis Air Force Base, California, April 23, 2022. Tail codes identify the aircraft's unit or base assignment and were first introduced during WW2 on aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy.

C-146A Wolfhounds, taxi down the runway at Duke Field, Florida, July 11, 2022. The aircraft were all departing to demonstrate the unit's ability to launch the fleet, also known as an elephant walk, which is a tradition that dates back to World War II. An elephant walk is an Air Force term for the taxiing of military aircraft right before takeoff, when they are in close formation.

Right side rear view, long shot of a USAF C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft as it lifts off the runway at Lajes Field, Azores, upon take off. The C-5, from the 312th Airlift Squadron (AS), Travis AFB, California, is leaving Lajes Field for East Timor with several pallets of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). The MRE's are part of a joint US-Portugal humanitarian relief effort. Base: Lajes Field State: Azores Country: Portugal (PRT)

120417-N-EV723-041WASHINGTON (April 17, 2012) The space shuttle Discovery attached to its 747 transport passes over the nation's capital. It will land in Washington D.C. to become an exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Discovery, along with the rest of the shuttle fleet, has been retired from active service after 32 years of operations.

airplane wing aircraft turbine landing in snow winter runway

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Batavia Air Boeing 737 taking off from Sentani Airport, Papua, Indonesia

Two Westland Lynx Mk.27 (UH-14B) Submarine booth control helicopters (1979-) of the MLD.

Wrecked B-24 Liberator bomber rests in field after running out of fuel in WWII at Bechevin Bay, Atka Island, Alaska

Helo Air Station - 26-HK-147-86. Hurricane Katrina

Landing of a Fokker 100 at Zurich Airport. View of the Swiss Alps

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter at the Leeuwarden airbase.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Its drag chute deployed, Space Shuttle Atlantis slows to a stop after touchdown on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility, completing the 4.5-million-mile journey to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown occurred at 11:43:40 a.m. EDT; nose gear touchdown at 11:43:48 a.m.; and wheel stop at 11:44:35 a.m. Mission elapsed time was 10:19:58:44. Mission STS-112 expanded the size of the Station with the addition of the S1 truss segment. The returning crew of Atlantis are Commander Jeffrey Ashby, Pilot Pamela Melroy, and Mission Specialists David Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus and Fyodor Yurchikhin. This landing is the 60th at KSC in the history of the Shuttle program. .

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. A C-17 Globemaster aircraft with the science canister from NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission aboard takes off from Michael Army Air Field at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, en route to NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Netherlands, Leiden on 2021-05-24. Illustration of daily life in Leiden, the Netherlands. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Pays-Bas, Leyde le 2021-05-24. Illustration de vie quotidienne a Leiden aux Pays-Bas. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

X-14B NASA-704 A Bell single-place, open cockpit, twin-engine, jet-lift VTOL aircraft in flight over Sunnyvale golf course. The X-14 was used by NASA Ames Research Center to advance state-of-the-art jet-powered VTOL aircraft.

Helicopter in flight, liming the forest, Ommerborn, Bergisches Land region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view above of museum airplane on desert landscape, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Project Morpheus prototype lander soars high and moves forward after launching on its third free flight test at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 57-second test began at 1:15 p.m. EST with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over a flame trench and ascending about 187 feet, nearly doubling the target ascent velocity from the last test in December 2013. The lander flew forward, covering about 154 feet in 20 seconds before descending and landing within 11 inches of its target 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, cra

Californias NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center photographer Carla Thomas takes photos on January 31 of the rare opportunity to capture a supermoon, a blue moon and a lunar eclipse at the same time. A supermoon occurs when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit and appearing 14 percent brighter than usual. As the second full moon of the month, this moon is also commonly known as a blue moon, though it will not be blue in appearance. The super blue moon passed through Earths shadow and took on a reddish tint, known as a blood moon. This total lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and a full moon form a near-perfect lineup in space. The Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow).

DN-SC-87-13195. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

McDonnell Douglas MD-11

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Empty airport runway during sunset

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Airport taxiway control vehicle on the taxiway

Aircrafts - HH-60 Jayhawk - 26-HK-53-30. HH-60 nose in front of USCG hangar -- 050924. Hurricane Katrina

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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KEY WEST, Fla. (March 23, 2013) Fat Albert, the C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, performs a high-speed flat pass over Boca Chica Field during the 2013 Southernmost Air Spectacular. More than 26,000 people attended the first day of the air show, March 23.

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