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A captured Japanese Nakajima Ki-43-IB Hayabusa being rebuilt by the Technical Air Intelligence Unit (TAIU) in Hangar 7 at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), in 1943. It was painted with Japanese markings for recognition photos but flown with US markings

 

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Marines of VMF-222 on Bougainville relaxing in between strikes.

 

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Airbus 390 that was being developed.
Wow, what a beast.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Looks like a tick ready to explode.

 

[Basket case]

Looks like a tick ready to explode.

No, that would be The Super Guppy....

 

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The dreamlifter looks like a pregnant 747

 

[Richard Cranium]

The dreamlifter looks like a pregnant 747

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I still regret missing seeing “Vandy 1” the Navy’s bunny Phantom the couple times it came through NAS Glenview in the 80s.
I did see a VX4 F18 and a VX4 F14 with small bunnies on their tails.
Then after the tail hook convention scandal in the early 90s, the Navy made the squadrons get politically correct and the bunnies had to go.

 

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Colorized photo of a Handley Page H.P.42 from 1931

 

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Twin engine C.O.E. tractor with 60-foot-long supertrailer made to haul wings for Consolidated B-24 'Liberator' bombers during WWII . . .

 

[Photon440]

Prior to WWII, this was the largest passenger plane built in Britain. The Armstrong Whitworth Ensign carried forty passengers at a cruising speed of 180mph. (top speed was 210).

 

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[Richard Cranium]

His head is in a shoebox.

 

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McDonnell Douglas FA-18 installed on stands inside NASA's National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex prior to angle-of-attack tests . . .

 

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Employees at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California plant in 1942 complete the installation of a Wright R-2600 Cyclone engine on a Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber . . .

 

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Nose sections for A-20 Havoc bombers are made ready for installation at the Douglas Aircraft Company assembly plant in Long Beach, California (c)1942 . . .