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Fighter · October 31, 2026
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-based multirole fighter that began life as an enlarged development of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and is now built by Boeing. The E is a single-seater, while the F…
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Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford and Largs, United Kingdom (CC BY), vía commons
BrokenSphere (CC BY SA), vía commons
RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada (CC BY SA), vía commons
Transport · October 31, 2026
McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III is the large strategic military transport that the United States Air Force (USAF) ordered in the 1980s to replace the ageing Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and to take over part of the work of the…
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Ashley Dace (CC BY SA), vía commons
Clemens Vasters (CC BY), vía commons
Hippocamelus (CC BY SA), vía commons
Andrew Thomas from Shrewsbury, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Transport · October 31, 2026
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is the jet tanker with which the United States Air Force left piston-engined tankers behind. It grew out of the same demonstrator as the Boeing 707, the 367-80 or "Dash-80", but it is not a militarised 707:…
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Articseahorse (CC BY SA), vía commons
Anidaat (CC BY SA), vía commons
Mike Freer (Touchdown-aviation) (GFDL), vía commons
Michael Barera (CC BY SA), vía commons
Attack · October 31, 2026
Douglas A-1 Skyraider
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider — designated AD until the 1962 unification of US designations — is a single-engine, single-seat attack aircraft conceived during the Second World War as a carrier-based dive and torpedo bomber for the United…
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Transport · October 24, 2026
Airspeed AS.5 Courier
The Airspeed AS.5 Courier was a British single-engined, low-wing cabin monoplane for five or six occupants, a pilot plus five passengers, conceived by Hessell Tiltman, one of the founders of Airspeed Ltd, and built first at York and then…
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Alan Wilson (CC BY SA), vía commons
ZLEA (CC BY SA), vía commons
SAC Neil Chapman (OGL), vía commons
Falcon® Photography from France (CC BY SA), vía commons
David Fierro Iglesias (CC BY), vía commons
Attack · October 24, 2026
British Aerospace Harrier II
The Harrier II is the second generation of the vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) combat aircraft pioneered by the British Harrier. It is a single-engine attack jet, powered by one Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan with four vectoring…
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Mateo fzo (CC BY SA), vía commons
Valder137 (CC BY), vía commons
Thomas Vogt from Paderborn, Deutschland (CC BY), vía commons
Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany (CC BY), vía commons
YSSYguy at English Wikipedia (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · October 24, 2026
Lockheed Constellation
The Lockheed Constellation, nicknamed "Connie", is the family of four-engined propeller airliners that Lockheed built at its Burbank, California, plant from 1943 into the late 1950s. It was the first civil airliner family with a…
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Stefan Krause, Germany (CC BY), vía commons
Valder137 (CC BY), vía commons
Neozoon (CC BY SA), vía commons
Bundesarchiv / Schnitzer (CC BY SA), vía commons
Weides Reinhard (CC BY SA), vía commons
Fortepan / Erky-Nagy Tibor (CC BY SA), vía commons
Transport · October 24, 2026
Junkers Ju 52
The Junkers Ju 52 is Germany's great interwar transport trimotor, instantly recognisable by its corrugated duralumin skin and the third engine in its nose. It was conceived at the Junkers works in Dessau, under engineer Ernst Zindel, as a…
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William Pretrina (CC BY SA), vía commons
Andrew Thomas from Shrewsbury, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Acroterion (CC BY SA), vía commons
Fighter · October 23, 2026
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was an American single-seat, twin-engined fighter of the Second World War, instantly recognisable by its twin tail booms joined by a common tailplane and a central nacelle that housed both the pilot and the…
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Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation (GFDL), vía commons
Pablo Lanza (CC BY), vía commons
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (Ministry of Defense of Japan) (CC BY), vía commons
simon butler from halesowen, uk (CC BY), vía commons
Helicopter · October 23, 2026
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a heavy-lift transport helicopter with tandem rotors, conceived by Vertol in the late 1950s and built today by Boeing. It takes its name from the Chinook people of the American Pacific Northwest. Among Western…
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TJDarmstadt (CC BY), vía commons
Bidgee (CC BY SA), vía commons
4300streetcar (CC BY), vía commons
Julian Herzog (Website) (CC BY), vía commons
Matti Blume (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · October 23, 2026
Airbus A350
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twinjet that Airbus built to take on Boeing in the market for large two-engined airliners. It was the first Airbus airframe made largely of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer, it shares a common type…
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Flickr user "tataquax" : https://www.flickr.com/photos/25451699@N04 (CC BY SA), vía commons
Dave Thompson (CC BY SA), vía commons
allen watkin from London, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany (CC BY), vía commons
Bomber · October 22, 2026
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan was a four-jet, delta-wing strategic bomber built to fly high and fast, and the Royal Air Force kept it in service from 1956 to 1984. A.V. Roe and Company (Avro) designed it to meet Specification B.35/46, and from July 1963…
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