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Extra 330SC

Extra 330SC (c/n SC018, OK-KOP), rehearsal for the Red Bull Air Race demo, on the eve of the 29th Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show, Pardubice, May 2019. A series of aerobatic aeroplanes manufactured under […]

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Sukhoi Su-47

Sukhoi Su-47 „Berkut“ (technology demonstrator, NATO reporting name: Firkin), exhibited at the XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, Zhukovsky, August 2019. In the early 1980s, the United States launched the Advanced Tactical Fighter programme, […]

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Enstrom 280FX Shark

Enstrom 280FX Shark (c/n 2143, OK-EFX / currently N136HA), flying display at the 18th Helicopter Show, Hradec Králové, May 2019. In 1943, Rudolph “Rudy” John Enstrom, an American engineer and aviation enthusiast, began work on […]

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VFW 614

VFW 614 (c/n G18, D-AXDB, formerly 17+02 of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), exhibited at the Aeronauticum Nordholz aviation museum, June 2019. The VFW 614 (also known as the VFW-Fokker 614) was a twin-engine […]

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Christen Eagle II

Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]

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Fairchild Model 24

Fairchild Model 24 W46 (c/n W-46-251, formerly N8155) exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. The economic downturn of the early 1930s, caused by the Great Depression, forced the Fairchild Aviation Corporation […]