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Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to dat...
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV‑104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in...
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA 905) carried space shuttles 223 times and amassed 11,017 flight hours over 42 years. It is the first of two shuttle carrier aircrafts. NASA 905 is on display it at Space Center Houston with the mockup shuttle Independence mounted on its back.
This living history collection, features close to 30 unique and one-of-a-kind aircraft from America's Golden Age of Aviation (1920's-1930's). This private collection is housed within a modern 45,000 square-foot hangar, located at the Anoka County Airport in Blaine, Minnesota. Among rarities are NASA's first aircraft, a stainless steel amphibian and the first airpl...
Lake Hood Seaplane Base is a state-owned seaplane base located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Lake Hood Strip (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD) is a gravel runway located adjacent to the seaplane base. The gravel strip airport's previous code of (FAA LID: Z41) has been decommissioned and co...
The Bleaklow Bomber was a US Air Force (USAF) Boeing RB-29A Superfortress which crashed near Higher Shelf Stones on Bleaklow in the Peak District in 1948. It was modified as a reconnaissance aircraft, rather than as a B-29 bomber.
Boeing 'RB-29A 44-61999 was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division in the Str...
Miss Piggy is a Curtiss C-46 freight plane owned by Lamb Air. On a 1979 flight, the plane had engine trouble during its approach to the runway and managed to land among the rocks without a fatality.
Be careful the bears. It's amazing that the crew survived landing on these rocks! some pretty intricate artwork now adorns the plane.
The Lun-class ekranoplan (also called Project 903) is a ground effect vehicle (GEV) designed by Rostislav Alexeyev in 1975 and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 until sometime in the late 1990s.
It flew using lift generated by the ground effect acting on its large wings when within about four metres (13 ft) above the surface of the water. Although they m...
Silent Wings Museum, "The Legacy of The World War II Glider Pilots," is a museum in Lubbock, Texas. The museum is housed in the former tower and terminal building of Lubbock's airport during the 1950s, and 1960s.
The museum is located on the site of World War II South Plains Army Air Field, where glider pilots were trained between 1942 and 1945, and after which time t...
During the Second World War two German Heinkel He 111 bombers crash landed on the island in 1941. The first was on 3 March, when all the crew survived and were taken prisoner.
The second was on 1 April when the pilot was killed and the other crew members were taken prisoner. This plane had bombed a British ship and one engine was damaged by anti aircraft fire, forcin...
Kuçovë Air Base (ICAO: LAKV) is an air base located near Kuçovë, Berat, Albania.
Construction of the air base began in 1952 and was completed in 1955.
During the 1997 crisis, Kuçovë Air Base was captured by rebels. The damage caused by the protesters was not repaired until 1999.
From 2002 to 2004 the base was renovated to NATO stand...
Zhukovsky Airfield is home to Russia's Gromov Flight Research Institute, as well as an impressive boneyard of decommissioned jets quietly rusting away.
A Tupolev Tu-144, tail number CCCP-77107, is on open display in Kazan. The aircraft was constructed in 1975 and was a production model intended for passenger use. However, it was only used during test flights. On 29 March 1976 it made its last flight to Kazan. This aircraft was put on sale on eBay in 2017.
In 1946 an RCAF DC-3 Dakota struck a mountain in bad weather and crashed near the headwaters of North York Creek, killing all seven on board. Remnants of the plane wreckage can still be seen via a moderately difficult hike of 6.2km each way. If you visit, please do not disturb any of the plane wreckage.
Take the York Creek Road south from Coleman, and park at the bri...
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