Variety of Aircraft in Flight

A collection of aircraft including a Piper, a bright yellow plane, and a human-powered model, showcasing aviating themes against blue skies and dramatic sunsets.

Kamikaze Drone, military drone on the blue sky. 3D rendering Kamikaze Drone, military drone on the blue sky. 3D rendering Copyright: xZoonar.com/alexlmxx 21223775

Yellow bright flying airplane in the blue sky. The concept of movement and freedom.. Yellow bright flying airplane in the blue sky

Daedalus Project's Light Eagle - Human powered aircraft

Catalina Flying Boat

Small aircraft flying above in the blue sunset sky. Small aircraft flying above in the blue sky

Flight demonstration of a replica Bleriot XI La Manche by Mikael Carlson as part of the 16th vintage air meeting on Hahnweide, Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, for editorial use only

Kamikaze Drone, military drone on the blue sky. 3D rendering Kamikaze Drone, military drone on the blue sky. 3D rendering Copyright: xZoonar.com/alexlmxx 21223775

Glider about to land, Germany, Europe

Pathfinder-Plus flight in Hawaii June 2002

Aircraft AN-2 in a turn against the sky with clouds Aircraft AN-2 in a turn against the sky with clouds. Copyright: xZoonar.com/aarrowsx 11642602

MOSCOW REGION, CHERNOE AIRFIELD 22 May 2021: airplane amphibious aircraft L-65 - Seagull the Sky aviation festival, theory and practice MOSCOW REGION, CHERNOE AIRFIELD 22 May 2021: airplane amphibious aircraft L-65 - Seagull the Sky aviation festival, theory and practice. Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlexanderxStrelax 18312747

Glider about to land, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson and Pilot Doug Hurley perform touch-and-go landings on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pilot and commander of every shuttle mission routinely practice landings aboard Shuttle Training Aircraft, which are Gulfstream II jets modified to mimic the shuttle's handling during the final phase of landing. The STS-135 flight crew of four arrived aboard T-38 training jets to watch two historic milestones of NASA's Space Shuttle Program -- the final landing of shuttle Endeavour, which will bookend its STS-134 mission to the International Space Station, and the final rollout of their vehicle, space shuttle Atlantis, to Launch Pad 39A.STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of the shuttle program.

A plane circles around for a water landing on a cloudy day

Gliders fly in the sky, Germany, Europe

Glider flying in the sky, Germany, Europe

Balashikha Russia Black Airfield 22 May 2021: gyroplane Gyro Classic demonstration flight the Sky aviation festival, theory and practice Balashikha Russia Black Airfield 22 May 2021: gyroplane Gyro Classic demonstration flight the Sky aviation festival, theory and practice. Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlexanderxStrelax 18316897

Pathfinder-Plus on a flight over the Hawaiian island of N'ihau in 1998.

New Zealand, Otago, Wanaka, Warbirds Over Wanaka, De Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth Biplanes

Glider about to land, Germany, Europe

A historic Grumman Goose, operated by Wilderness Seaplanes, at the small airport of Bella Bella, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.

North American General Aviation Fixed Wing Aviat Airplanes P-51 Mustang polished green propeller blades

A P-51 Mustang performs in the skies during the Montanas Military Open House “Flight Over the Falls” at Montana Air National Guard Base, Great Falls, Montana, July 24, 2022. The Mustang operated primarily as a long-range escort fighter and as a ground attack figher-bomber during World War II and the Korean War.

Glider Pilot Tilo Holighaus (Germany) and Shadow, Racing in FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix, Andes Mountains, Chile, South America - aerial

Brad Bollig, a LIFT team member, tows out the Hexa, an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, for its first flight April 4 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The Hexa team completed the aircrafts first unmanned flight test via remote control. The aircraft, which used 18 motors and propellers, flew for approximately 10 minutes and reached a height of about 50 feet. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Namibia, Uis. A microlight soars overhead with an appropriate registration number.

Lunar Lander Research Vehicle in Flight

Aerial view, yellow gyrocopter, helicopter over the Muensterland area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

A rubber band powered, wind up balsa-wood model airplane flies thousands of feet aloft after being launched from a hot air balloon.

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Seaplane above Rudyard Bay, Misty Fiords National Monument, Alaska, USA; Alaska, United States of America

The e-Genius aircraft takes off during the 2011 Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation are having the challenge with the goal to advance technologies in fuel efficiency and reduced emissions with cleaner renewable fuels and electric aircraft.

Round-the-World Flight of Burt Rutan's Global Flyer Aircraft

A Meyers 200D departing Flabob airport in Riverside, CA. The Meyers 200 is a single engine piston airplane and was designed by Al Meyers in the late 1950's and built by the Meyers Aircraft Company until 1965. Aero Commander then built them until 1967. It has a cruise speed of 210 mph and is considered one of the fastest airplanes in it's class.

Original Thulin-Bleriot XI, built in 1918, Europe's largest meeting of vintage aircraft at Hahnweide, Kirchheim-Teck, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Germany, Bavaria, motor glider, climb,

Helicopter (R44) used in White rhinoceros (rhino) or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) capture. Phinda / Munyawana / Zuka Game Reserve. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa

NASA's Ikhana unmanned science demonstration aircraft over the U.S. Borax mine, Boron, California, near the Dryden/Edwards Air Force Base complex. NASA took possession of the new aircraft in November, 2006, and it arrived at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., on June 23, 2007.

Glider Pilot Dieter Betz (Denmark), Omarama, South Island, New Zealand

United States Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Miami, training at Homestead ARB.

Small aircraft untertaking an evasive manouvre, avoiding collision with a commercial airliner

North America, USA, Washington, Seattle. WWII era fighter planes on display for Veteran's Day (Editorial Usage Only)

French built Fouga Magister CM-170 jet trainer owned and flown by Larry Salganek of Jet Warbird Training in Santa Fe, NM.

The X-56A flies a mission Oct. 18, 2018.

Model aircraft model aircraft

T-46A aircraft in flight

Prop General Aviation Fixed Wing Cessna Aviat Airplanes charter Caravan amphibian floats seaplane floatplane amphibious

Pathfinder-Plus in Flight

The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron Thunderbirds perform during the Arctic Thunder Open House at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 30, 2022. The Thunderbirds have the honor of representing nearly 700,000 active duty, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and civilian Airmen across America and deployed around the world.

Burt Rutan's Proteus Aircraft

A P-51 Mustang flies over Klamath Falls, Oregon, June 24, 2022. The P-51 flew alongside a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II as part of a Heritage Flight formation. Heritage Flights are flown with current and former U.S. Air Force aircraft that pay tribute to Airmen, past and present, for their service and dedication to ensuring national security.

Sierra Uninhaited Aerial System (UAV plane) in the Ames hangar. aks; Sierra Unpiloted Aerial system (UAS)

Its white surfaces in contrast with the deep blue sky, NASA's Ikhana unmanned science and technology development aircraft soars over California's high desert.

The Pathfinder solar-powered remotely piloted aircraft climbs to a record-setting altitude of 50,567 feet during a flight Sept. 11, 1995, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The flight was part of the NASA ERAST (Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology) program.The Pathfinder was designed and built by AeroVironment Inc., Monrovia, California. Solar arrays cover nearly all of the upper wing surface and produce electricity to power the aircraft's six motors.

Three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones flying above empty dirt road

Two small aircraft in a dog fight, chasing each other in the sky

After initial ground-tow flights of the M2-F1 using the Pontiac as a tow vehicle, the way was clear to make air tows behind a C-47. The first air tow took place on 16 August 1963. Pilot Milt Thompson found that the M2-F1 flew well, with good control. This first flight lasted less than two minutes from tow-line release to touchdown. The descent rate was 4,000 feet per minute.

NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) DC-8 deployment to Cape Verde, Sal island, Africa

Israel, The Negev, Be-er Sheva, Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim Israeli Air Force base, US-built Mustang fighter

One of two small APV-3 aircraft flown in the joint Ames-Dryden Networked UAV Teaming Experiment flares for landing on a roadway on a remote area of Edwards AFB.

Aircraft Swiss, Airbus A320neo, HB-JDA

helicopter at the take-off site of the aerodrome

Glider flying in a cloudy sky, Germany, Europe

Young woman with sunglasses in overall and boots posing in front of double-decker airplane, fashion, lifestyle, photo shoot

Biplane with businessman and blank banner

The X-56A flies a research flight in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base.

helicopter at the take-off site of the aerodrome

The Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric flying wing lifts off Rogers Dry Lake adjoining NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on a turbulence-measurement flight.

Museum copy of the aircraft. Monument of Fighter Aircraft Military Hill Museum

Perseus After Flight on Roger Dry Lake

PTERA takes off from the Rogers Dry Lakebed on a flight to test the ability of an innovative, lightweight material, called shape memory alloy, to fold the outer portion of an aircrafts wings in flight.

Gyrocopter, air, clouds, horizon

Refueling planes at the airport

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airplane on the ground airport executive business miami

An air-to-air right side view of a restored PBY Catalina aircraft over Naval Air Station, Pensacola, during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of naval aviation. State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Old vintage airplane with banner ribbon

Woman in drawn airplane. Young funny woman flying in air in drawn airplane

Canada, Yukon, Kluane National Park. Airplane on Columbia Ice Field.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Students and their flight instructors arrive at NASA Kennedy Space Centers Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, in Florida in Cherokee Warrior and Cessna 172S lightweight aircraft from Florida Tech, or FIT, in Melbourne.The middle and high school students are participating in FITs Av/Aero summer camp experience. They and their flight instructors toured the SLF midfield control tower, viewed F104 Starfighters and NASA Huey helicopters in the RLV Hangar, viewed the runway plaques marking wheels stop for each of the three space shuttles, and toured the Vehicle Assembly Building where space shuttle Atlantis currently is stored.

Marchetti SF-260 SF260 performing a break / wing-over. Over the deserts of Southern California.

Glider tow plane pulls away in the air.

two airplanes flying over the ocean

USA, Arkansas, Jacksonville, Lockheed C-130 propellers

Woman in drawn airplane. Funny image of woman flying in drawn airplane

Close up barbwire fence West Texas

USA, ALASKA, ANCHORAGE: Lake Hood Air Harbor, Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum; Old Bush Floatplane;

A Beech T-34C mission support aircraft flown by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center shows off its classic lines as it soars over the desert near Edwards Air Force Base.

Germany, Bavaria, motor glider, runway,

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