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Fieseler Fi 103

Fieseler Fi 103 (also known as Vergeltungswaffe 1 / V-1) flying bomb, exhibited at Deutsches Museum in Munich, October 2012. The idea of an unmanned aircraft able to strike on remote targets is virtually as […]

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Ilyushin Il-78M-90A

Ilyushin Il-78M-90A / Ил-78М-90А, NATO reporting name ´Midas´ (c/n 02-01, Russian Aerospace Forces RF-78741), prototype of aerial tanker based on an Ilyushin Il-76MD-90 strategic airlifter, static display at MAKS aviation fair, August/September 2019. The first […]

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Waco YKS-6

Waco YKS-6 (c/n 4504, NC16512), static exhibition during an open-doors event at Točná airfield, September 2021. Weaver Aircraft Company of Ohio, as the company was initially named, was founded in 1920. It was a joint […]

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Cessna T-37 Tweet

Cessna T-37B-CE Tweet (c/n 40978, formerly 66-8002 USAF), exhibited in Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, Germany; June 2018. From its creation in December of 1947, the independent US Air Force struggled with significantly downsized training structures. All primary […]

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Dassault Falcon DA20 ECM

Dassault Falcon DA20 ECM electronic warfare aircraft, the Royal Norwegian Air Force ´053´, exhibited at static display during Kleine-Brogel spotterday, September 2019. Falcon 20 is originally a business jet, designed and produced by Dassault Aviation. […]

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Pitts S-2S Special

Pitts S-2S Special (c/n S.18, G-EWIZ) aerobatic biplane, flying display at 40th International Sanicole Airshow, September 2017. Pitts Special is a common name used for light aerobatic biplanes, designed by Curtis Pitts in the 1940s.  […]

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Junkers F 13

Junkers F 13 passenger aircraft (c/n 2018 or 2019, D-366), exhibited at Deutsche Museum Munich, October 2013. At the end of 1918, when the Great War was over, Hugo Junkers and his construction team had […]