Aviation "Porn" - For those who like Airplanes

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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook​

 

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The F4 Phantom: The Incredible 70-Year-Old Fighter Jet​

 

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The Need for Speed: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat​

 

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RC-135: The Giant Spy Plane​

 

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Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik: The Flying Tank​

 

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The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: Moving the US Military​

 

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The Douglas DC-3: The First (Successful) Commercial Plane​

 

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Convair XF2Y Sea Dart: The Seaplane with a Jet Engine​

 

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Why the Hurricane fought on every front​

 

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Two aircraft collide and crash at the Dallas airshow​

 

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Two aircraft collide and crash at the Dallas airshow​

That is truly horrifying and sad. Especially the day after Veteran's Day.
It was at such a low altitude too that the crew had no chance to bail out.

 

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Northrop Grumman X-47B: The Billion Dollar Drone​

 

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Pentagon Debuts Its New Stealth Bomber, the B-21 Raider
https://www.usnews.com/news/busines...debuts-its-new-stealth-bomber-the-b-21-raider

This is kind of exciting. I guess the fact it looks practically identical to the B2 means we've hit the apex in outer designs for stealth, at least for now.

 

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Saab J29 Tunnan

This makes me smile.

 

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This unusual new Air Force tactic is likely raising alarms in China, expert says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ising-alarms-in-china-expert-says/ar-AA15XPIh

Launching cruise missiles from cargo planes is a cool idea, and would create all sorts of headaches for the Chinese. But I do wonder whether they'll just respond by treating every cargo plane as hostile. Could be deadly since I don't think you can equip every cargo plane with countermeasues.