The Albessard tandem monoplane, 1914.
(another view)
December 11, 2009, 10:22pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
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Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
nobody died! friday #41: Continental Air Lines Boeing 707, Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, 1st July 1965
November 13, 2009, 10:32pm
nobody died! friday #38: Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation, 19th July 1951
November 13, 2009, 7:02pm
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation “Red Baron” racer, which was entered - along with the DC-7 “Super Snoopy” - in the 1971 California 1000 Mile Air Race at Mojave
(more info here)
November 12, 2009, 7:02pm
America West Airlines Boeing 757-2S7, 2003
“A one second exposure over Phoenix turning final for runway 26. (Nikon Coolpix 4500).”
photo by Jeremy Irish
September 26, 2009, 6:05pm
“Off the south coast of Borneo flying through high cloud associated with distant storm cells our A320 truly becomes an electric jet. Amazing display of static electricity flowing through our jet in relatively smooth air makes for an amazing sight and luckily had me gear along. EOS1DMK3 14/2.8 II”
(photo by Daren Howie)
September 07, 2009, 10:01pm
“NASA teamed with American and Russian aerospace industries for an extended period in a joint international research program featuring the Russian-built Tu-144LL supersonic aircraft. The object of the program was to develop technologies for a proposed future second-generation supersonic airliner to be developed in the 21st Century.
The aircraft’s initial flight phase began in June 1996 and concluded in February 1998 after 19 research flights. A shorter follow-on program involving seven flights began in September 1998 and concluded in April 1999. All flights were conducted in Russia from Tupolev’s facility at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow..”
August 11, 2009, 3:23pm
The Farman F.120 Jabiru, circa 1923
next up, to make amends, one of the most beautiful aircraft of all time…
July 27, 2009, 9:48pm
nobody died! friday #19: Nippon Cargo Airlines Boeing 747, Hong Kong, 1997
(photo by Colin Parker)
July 10, 2009, 9:21pm
Airbus A380 formation, Toulouse, 2006
(photo by S.Beilliard - AirTeamImages)
July 07, 2009, 9:09am
“The Air France supersonic liner Concorde F-BVFB is placed on the roof of the the Museum of Transport beside a Soviet supersonic liner Tupolev 144 17 March 2004 in Sinsheim, west of Germany” (the other aircraft is a Tupolev Tu-134)
July 07, 2009, 7:27am
