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Tupolev Tu-134 (Interflug) — MercerMJ (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Tupolev Tu-134 of Aviogenex — Eduard Marmet (CC BY SA), vía commons

Interflug Tupolev Tu-134 A DDR-SCX — kitmasterbloke (CC BY), vía commons

HA-LBI (Malev Hungarian Airlines) Tupolev Tu-134-A BUD — kitmasterbloke (CC BY), vía commons

Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Tupolev Tu-134 Osokin — Gleb Osokin (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Tupolev Tu-134

The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined Soviet narrow-body jet airliner with rear-mounted engines and a T-tail, built for short and medium-haul routes between 1966 and 1989. The original version was distinguished by the glazed nose inherited…

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Lanzamiento del MR-1A no tripulado, 19 de diciembre de 1960

Observaciones de la Tierra durante el vuelo MR-1A (DPLA 80c51f2)

Fotograma subexpuesto durante el vuelo MR-1A (DPLA 67be109)

Nubes vistas durante el vuelo MR-1A (DPLA d25c3c7)

Vista de la Tierra durante el vuelo MR-1A (DPLA 9334 efe)

Observaciones de la Tierra durante el vuelo MR-1A (DPLA 76a1870)

From the encyclopedia · Project Mercury

Mercury-Redstone 1A

Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was the uncrewed suborbital flight with which NASA finally carried out, on 19 December 1960 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, the mission that Mercury-Redstone 1 had failed to fly four weeks earlier. It…

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B-24J Liberator del 392º BG atacando Magdeburgo, 3 de marzo de 1945

B-24J Liberator del 461º BG, Italia 1945

B-24H alcanzado por flak sobre Heydebreck, noviembre de 1944

Cabina de mando de un B-24 Liberator (vista 2)

Producción de bombarderos B-24 y transportes C-87, Convair Fort Worth

From the encyclopedia · Bomber

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is the most heavily produced heavy bomber in history and, at the same time, the American four-engined bomber of the Second World War that occupies the least space in popular memory. It was born out of a job…

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Yakovlev Yak-40 — Pavecon (CC BY SA), vía commons

Yakovlev Yak-40 (RA-87226 (cn 9841459) Tulpar Air) — Pavel Adzhigildaev (CC BY SA), vía commons

Yakovlev Yak-40 HA LRA emg exit — Lentokonefani (CC BY SA), vía commons

Samolot Jak-40 w Brzeźnicy pod Krakowem, 20211009 0713 3162 — Jakub Hałun (CC BY SA), vía commons

Bugulma Air Enterprise Yakovlev Yak-40 Maksimov 1 — Maxim Maksimov (CC BY SA), vía commons

Lifting Yak-40 RA-87829 — Aleksandr Markin (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Yakovlev Yak-40

The Yakovlev Yak-40 (Як-40; NATO reporting name "Codling") was the world's first jet airliner designed specifically for local air routes: a straight-winged trijet with a T-tail and retractable tricycle gear, able to work from grass or…

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX MH434 in flight at the 2018 Season Premiere Airshow — Airwolfhound (CC BY SA), vía commons

Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX PV270 in flight in Alan Deere's markings

Spitfire PR Mk XIX of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in flight — SAC Scott Lewis (© Crown copyright) (OGL), vía commons

Cockpit and instrument panel of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX

Narrow-track main undercarriage of Spitfire HF Mk VIIc EN474 seen from the front

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is the British single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force fought the Second World War from beginning to end, and the aeroplane in which Britain invests its memory of 1940. It was designed by R. J. Mitchell…

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Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante at the Brazilian Aerospace Memorial 2023 001 — Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Embraer YC-95 Bandeirante at the Brazilian Aerospace Memorial 2019 (2) — Mike Peel (CC BY SA), vía commons

Air Creebec Embraer EMB-110P1A Bandeirante (1) — John Davies (GFDL), vía commons

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante — Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL), vía commons

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante, Air LA — JetPix (GFDL), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante

The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante is a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed for both civil and military use. Its name recalls the bandeirantes, the Portuguese settlers who pushed ever deeper into the interior of what is…

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A B-52 Stratofortress flies near the North Pole

Bahrain International Airshow 2024 — B-52H Stratofortress en pista

Boeing NB-52B takeoff 061127 F-1234S 007

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flypass — Geoff McKay from Palmerston North, New Zealand (CC BY), vía commons

B-52H parked on the flight line at Minot Air Force Base

Boeing B-52F-70 BW (SN 57-0162) in flight dropping bombs 061128 F-1234S 004

From the encyclopedia · Bomber

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a subsonic, eight-engined heavy strategic bomber conceived in the early Cold War to deliver nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe without relying on intermediate bases. It has flown with the United States…

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The N1 1M1 mockup on the launch pad at Baikonur, late 1967

Kuznetsov NK-33 engine, derived from the N1 first-stage powerplant — Вадим Кондратьев (CC BY SA), vía commons

Structures of the N1 launch complex at Baikonur — Linar Khalitov (CC BY SA), vía commons

Size comparison of the American and Soviet Moon rockets — Ebs08 (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Rockets

N1

The N1 was the super-heavy rocket with which the Soviet Union intended to land cosmonauts on the Moon, its counterpart to the American Saturn V. All four launch attempts, between 1969 and 1972, failed, and the programme stayed secret until…

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Abandoned Mitsubishi A6M3 Hamp, Southwest Pacific 1943

A6M2 Model 21 Zero (Mfr No 500) — port tail detail — J JMesserly (CC BY SA), vía commons

Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Model 52 (1493), Kawaguchiko Motor Museum, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan — Josephus37 (CC BY SA), vía commons

Mitsubishi A6M of the 2nd Kokutai — Othrod (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Mitsubishi A6M Zero

The Mitsubishi A6M was the carrier fighter with which the Imperial Japanese Navy fought the Pacific War from beginning to end. Its official designation was Type 0 carrier fighter (零式艦上戦闘機, rei-shiki kanjō sentōki); the zero came from the…

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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II in flight — Andrew Basterfield (CC BY SA), vía commons

USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II banking in flight — Noah Wulf (CC BY SA), vía commons

A-10 Thunderbolt II on display at the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum

Detail of the GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon — Noah Wulf (CC BY SA), vía commons

A-10 Thunderbolt II con un misil Maverick inerte cargado, ejercicio Balikatan 2016 — RoyKabanlit (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Attack

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, universally known by its "Warthog" nickname, is a single-seat, subsonic, straight-wing, twin-turbofan attack aircraft that has served with the United States Air Force since 1977. The USAF's own…

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