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Soyuz-5, also known as Irtysh and formerly codenamed Fenix in Russian and Sunkar in Kazakh, is a Russian medium-lift launch vehicle developed by RKTs Progress. It is intended to replace the Ukrainian-built Zenit and to serve as the basis…
The COMAC ARJ21, rebranded C909 in November 2024, is China's first series-produced commercial jet, a 78- to 90-seat regional twinjet. It first flew on 28 November 2008 and entered service on 28 June 2016 with Chengdu Airlines.
The Lockheed U-2 is a high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft: a single-seater with enormously long, narrow wings, one jet engine and a structure pared down to the lightest airframe its designers could get away with, conceived in…
Soyuz-2.1b is the higher-performance variant of the Russian Soyuz-2 family, and therefore not a separate rocket but a configuration: it shares with the baseline 2.1a its airframe, its four strap-on boosters, its core stage and all of its…
The Hawker Hurricane was the single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force went to war in 1939, and the first British fighter monoplane to combine a retractable undercarriage with eight machine guns buried in the wings. Designed by…
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was a two-seat, twin-engine, variable-geometry carrier fighter built for one very specific job: to hold off, hundreds of kilometres from the carrier, the Soviet bombers that threatened to swamp an entire naval force…
The Douglas DC-7 was the last large piston-engined airliner built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, produced between 1953 and 1958 as a direct derivative of the DC-6. It answered a very specific request from American Airlines: an aircraft…
The Supermarine Spitfire is the British single-seat fighter with which the Royal Air Force fought the Second World War from beginning to end, and the aeroplane in which Britain invests its memory of 1940. It was designed by R. J. Mitchell…
The Sukhoi Su-57 «Felon» is a twin-engine fifth-generation multirole fighter and the first aircraft designed with stealth technology to enter service with the Russian armed forces. It grew out of the PAK FA programme — the Russian acronym…
The Saab 340 is a Swedish regional airliner: a pressurised twin-engine turboprop laid out for 30 to 36 passengers, developed by Saab AB together with the American manufacturer Fairchild. It was the first major civil aeroplane of a company…
News Billboard campaign in military cities connects Iran war to high prices New billboards have gone up around select military... The post Headlines — August 26 appeared first on Aerotech News &…
On August 26, 2026, Danish small satellite manufacturer GomSpace Group AB published its interim report for the second quarter and first half of 2026. The company achieved a 30 percent […]
Gwynne Shotwell joined Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday to announce a high-cadence launch site for future Starship operations. The post SpaceX Announces New Starbase, Louisiana Spaceport…
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