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Diverse Aircraft in Flight and Parking

A collection of aircraft in various settings, including vintage and modern planes parked at airports and in flight against blue skies.

propeller on a cargo plane, india Copyright: xChouxChiang/DinodiaxPhotox
propeller on a cargo plane, india Copyright: xChouxChiang/DinodiaxPhotox
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The X-38's blue and white parafoil spreads out in front of the research vehicle as it sits on a lakebed near the Dryden Flight Research Center after a March 2000 test flight.
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An E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control system (AWACS) aircraft is backed out of hangar 42-300 in the snow. Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here in flight over Rogers Dry lakebed. Like the other lifting bodies, the HL-10 made a steep descent toward the lakebed, followed by a high-speed landing. This was due to the vehicle's low lift-over-drag ratio. The first 11 flights of the HL-10 were unpowered, flown to check the vehicle's handling and stability before rocket-powered flights began using the XLR-11 rocket engine.
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STS102-S-015 (21 March 2001)--- After a 5.3 million mile mission, The Space Shuttle Discovery approaches touchdown on Runway 15 at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility in this aft view. The landing completed the successful 12-day STS-102 mission. Onboard the shuttle were astronauts James Wetherbee, James Kelly, Andy Thomas, and Paul Richards. Discovery’s touchdown also marked the return of the space station’s first resident crew – Expedition One which were William Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev. STS-102 was the 103rd shuttle flight and the eighth shuttle mission to visit the station.
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Melilla, June 1997. A plane on the airport runway.
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Civil Tilt Rotor Commuter Aircraft concepts by Boeing/Bell
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Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. Will Craig with his 1930s style Waco Classic open cockpit bi-plane for ultimate aerial safaris.
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With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, addressed the audience attending the rollout ceremonies for the Active Aeroelastic Wing flight research project.
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Anefo photo collection. Balloon race Amsterdam helicopters above balloons. September 2, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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May 19, 1938 - experimental auto giro mail delivery service with U.S. Capitol in background .
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1970s 1980s LOCKHEED P-2V NEPTUNE AERIAL FIREFIGHTING TWIN ENGINE PROPELLOR AIRCRAFT DROPPING AN AIR ATTACK OF FIRE RETARDANT
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A Lockheed P-3C (Update II) Orion (1981-2005) above the golf course in 1996
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Air tanker putting out forest fire.
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Members from the Tactical Air Lift Control Element (TALCE) deployed to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia International Airport, off load Aircraft Generation Equipment (AGE) that will be used to support the aircraft during the Operation Support Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the 16th night landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Endeavour approaches Runway 15 to end the STS-123 mission, a 16-day flight to the International Space Station. The main landing gear touched down at 8:39:08 p.m. EDT. The nose landing gear touched down at 8:39:17 p.m. and wheel stop was at 8:40:41 p.m. The mission completed nearly 6.6 million miles. The landing was the second opportunity after the first was waved off due to unstable weather in the Kennedy Space Center area.
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Cropduster spraying rice paddy at Jari Forestal, Brazil.
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The Pathfinder solar-powered research aircraft heads for landing on the bed of Rogers Dry Lake at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, after a successful test flight Nov. 19, 1996.
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N.A., USA, Washington, Ferndale. Hot air balloon inflation (Editorial Usage Only)
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S77-28327 (13 Sept 1977) --- The shuttle orbiter 101 "Enterprise" stirs up a cloud of desert sand and dust as it lands to conclude a five-minute, 28-second unpowered flight during the second free flight of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) conduced on September 13, 1977 at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. The Orbiter 101 crew astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot. The ALT free flights are designed to verify orbiter subsonic airworthiness, integrated systems operations and pilot-guided approach and landing capability and satisfy prerequisites to automatic flight control and navigation mode. On the right a T-38 chase plane comes in for a landing, also. This picture was taken with an Air Force Test Center 70mm Hasselblad camera installed on a tracking mount parked on the lake bed.
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Desert fire fought with a plane.
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The Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker submarine boot boot plane 172 (1962-1971) with hedged cockpit on a foreign airport.
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Aircraft and Airports - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Close-up of propeller blades
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Bundeswehr helicopter detail with emblem, Laupheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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Aviataion, Silver Queen Africa
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Canada, Yukon, Carcross. Whale figure atop totem.
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Trip to California: Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4:08PM. President John F. Kennedy and others watch Atlas 134D missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. President Kennedy's bubble-top limousine sits at left.
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Transport of a Bolkow B-105C helicopter from the Royal Air Force.
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Helicopter, Museums of Science , Helicopters, Aircraft industry, Washburn, Bradford, 1910-2007, Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972, Cabot, Godfrey L. Godfrey Lowell, 1861-1962, Sikorsky Aviation Corporation. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Photo collection Government information service. Fokker products. undated
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city of manchester stadium cables, joint and skyline from roof
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's (JBK) trip to India and Pakistan: Rome, Italy, visit to Pontifical North American College; city views. View of sign identifying First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Air India plane at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, prior to her flight to New Delhi, India. Italian and American flags fly above sign. Rome, Italy.
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