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Soyuz" launch vehicles model series on MAKS-2021
Kirill Borisenko (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Soyuz 5 first stage
Soyuz 5 at pad
Abdullah1099 (CC BY), vía commons
Soyuz rocket engines
Soyuz rocket assembly cropped
Soyuz-5" launch vehicle model on MAKS-2021 (cropped)
Kirill Borisenko (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Rockets

Soyuz-5

Soyuz-5, also known as Irtysh and formerly codenamed Fenix in Russian and Sunkar in Kazakh, is a Russian medium-lift launch vehicle developed by RKTs Progress. It is intended to replace the Ukrainian-built Zenit and to serve as the basis…

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Hawker Hurricanes of No 1 Squadron, Royal Air Force, based at Wittering, Cambridgeshire, followed by a similar formation of Supermarine Spitfires of No 266 Squadron, during a flying display for aircraft factory workers, CH1561
BBMF Hurricane Radiator fairing.
Roland Turner from Birmingham, Great Britain (CC BY SA), vía commons
Trooping the Colour Flypast 2008 BBMF
Hawker Hurricane F I Ic
Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Squadron Leader Peter Townsend chatting with ground crew on his Hawker Hurricane at Wick, Scotland, 1940. CH87
Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, commanding No. 257 Squadron, in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane at Martelsham Heath, November 1940. CH1680

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Hawker Hurricane

The Hawker Hurricane was the single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force went to war in 1939, and the first British fighter monoplane to combine a retractable undercarriage with eight machine guns buried in the wings. Designed by…

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OH-BLG Blue1 Boeing 717-2CM - cn 55059 taxiing, 25august2013 pic-005
Delta Boeing 717-200 N942AT BWI MD1
Acroterion (CC BY SA), vía commons
Delta Boeing 717 N971AT BWI MD1
Acroterion (CC BY SA), vía commons
Delta Boeing 717-200 N988AT BWI MD1
Acroterion (CC BY SA), vía commons
OH BLH Boeing 717 Blue 1
Aeroprints.com (CC BY SA), vía commons
Cockpit of Boeing 717
Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Boeing 717

The Boeing 717 is an American five-abreast narrow-body airliner with two rear-mounted engines, conceived for the 100-seat market. It originated inside McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as the MD-95, a shortened derivative of the MD-80…

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Luftwaffe MiG-29 in flight
Foto: USAF, TSgt. Gary Tomoyasu (dominio público)
Mig 29 Fulcrum
Khanklatt (CC BY SA), vía commons
Mikoyan MiG-29 BM Variant - Jet fighter - 36100 - Bangladesh Air Force - VGHS
Md Shaifuzzaman Ayon (CC BY SA), vía commons
105 Polish Air Force MiG-29A Fulcrum ILA Berlin 2016 10
Julian Herzog (Website) (CC BY), vía commons
MiG-29 "Fulcrum" (6586733933) (6)
Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany (CC BY), vía commons
NASA at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

MiG-29

The MiG-29 is the light air-superiority fighter with which the Soviet Union answered America's fourth generation. Christened "Fulcrum" by NATO, its low-speed agility and famous cobra manoeuvre made it the airshow star of the late Cold…

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F-117A Nighthawk 79-10784 en tierra
Bottom view of an F-117A on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton
Ducatipierre (CC BY SA), vía commons
Underside view of the Lockheed Have Blue, the demonstrator that led to the F-117
F-117 Nighthawk, rear view showing the flat exhaust nozzles in detail
Extrapolaris (CC BY SA), vía commons
F-117A Nighthawk in flight
F-117A Nighthawks flying in formation

From the encyclopedia · Attack

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk was the world's first operational aircraft designed from the outset around low observability: a single-seat, subsonic, twin-engined attack aircraft built by Lockheed's Skunk Works division and flown exclusively…

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German Messerschmitt Bf 109G in flight over Regensburg, Germany, 25 February 1944 (342 FH-3A20348 50137AC)
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-160-0178-14A, Balkan, Flugzeug Me 109
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-160-0178-14A / Baehr (CC BY SA), vía commons
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-398-1794-18, Flugzeug Messerschmitt Me 109 G-2
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-398-1794-18 / Reiners (CC BY SA), vía commons
Messerschmitt Bf-109G-10 Gustav Erich Hartmann engine EASM 4Feb2010
Valder137 (CC BY), vía commons
Bf 109Es JG 27 on flight over North Africa c1941
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-395-1533-06A, Russland, Wartung einer Me 109
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-395-1533-06A / Leo (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Messerschmitt Bf 109

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German single-seat monoplane fighter laid out in the mid-1930s by the team of Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, the company whose initials gave the aircraft its «Bf» prefix. It…

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F-86Fs 51FIW over Korea 1953
Radar dish of a F-86K
Buzz Aldrin in the cockpit of an F-86 Sabre
Mc Connell in F-86 cockpit
North American NA-191 RF-86F-30 NA Sabre (USAF sn 52-4492, cn 191-188) (5-18-2023)
ZLEA (CC BY SA), vía commons
North American FJ-4 Fury in flight c1957

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

North American F-86 Sabre

The North American F-86 Sabre was the United States' first swept-wing fighter and the aircraft that carried Western air combat into the transonic regime. Drawn from a US Army Air Forces requirement for a medium-range, single-seat day…

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Balair Douglas DC-6 Basle Airport - 1976
Eduard Marmet (CC BY SA), vía commons
Douglas DC-6 de Everts Air Cargo despegando de Anchorage
Frank Kovalchek (CC BY), vía commons
Reclutas de la RVNN embarcando en un C-118 de la US Navy en Tan Son Nhut
Douglas DC-6A/C swing tail de Northern Air Cargo en Anchorage (1989)
Uli Elch (CC BY SA), vía commons
Douglas DC-6 de American Airlines (postal, 1949)
Douglas DC-6 de KLM "Flying Dutchman" en el aeropuerto de Zanderij

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Douglas DC-6

The Douglas DC-6 is the piston-engined four-motor airliner with which the Douglas Aircraft Company took on Lockheed in the post-war long-range commercial market. It began as a military order: in 1944 the United States Army Air Forces asked…

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Falcon rocket family
Craigboy (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Falcon Heavy version comparison
Avialuh (based on work of Lucabon) (CC BY SA), vía commons
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Press Site Activities
Falcon Heavy Side Boosters landing on LZ1 and LZ2 - 2018

From the encyclopedia · Falcon 9 Vehicle Family

Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed, manufactured and operated by the American company SpaceX. Its architecture consists of a center core onto which two Falcon 9-derived boosters are attached, with…

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Lockheed L-188 Electra, Varig JP
Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Lockheed L-188 Electra, Varig JP
Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons
Lockheed L-188 Electra Flight Deck
Sebastian Barheier (CC BY SA), vía commons
FAA Lockheed L-188 Electra N111 63-0774D

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Lockheed L-188 Electra

First flown on December 6, 1957, the Lockheed L-188 Electra was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States. Its passenger career proved short, yet the sturdy airframe went on to a long second life hauling cargo and…

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