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Gemini-Titan 4 lifts off from Pad 19, Cape Kennedy, 3 June 1965

LGM-25C Titan II missile launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, 1975

Titan II 23G-7 launch carrying Quik SCAT

Titan II GLV launching Gemini 4 (GT-4) from Pad 19, 3 June 1965

Launch of Gemini-Titan 3, the first crewed Gemini flight, 23 March 1965

From the encyclopedia · Titan

Titan II

The Titan II was the two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile that the Glenn L. Martin Company derived from the Titan I, and it carried the largest single warhead in the American arsenal. Later adapted as a space launch vehicle, it…

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Canadair CF-104 Starfighter ‘730 — Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons

Lockheed F-104D Starfighter, Sacramento Aerospace Museum, California — Greg Goebel (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was a single-engine American supersonic fighter, conceived as a day interceptor in the United States Air Force's "Century Series". Its designer, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, head of Lockheed's Skunk Works,…

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CASA C-212-200 Aviocar - EC-ECD — Pedro Argao (CC BY SA), vía commons

CASA C-212A (series 100), Spanish Air Force — CASA C-212-100 Aviocar, Spain - Air Force JP — Peter Bakema (GFDL), vía commons

CASA C-212-200 Aviocar EC DHO — Ken Videan (GFDL), vía commons

c-212-200 — Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons

CASA C-212A (series 100), Ejército del Aire — Casa C-212-100 Aviocar of the Spanish Air Force (3727953512) — Contando Estrelas from Vigo, España / Spain (CC BY SA), vía commons

CASA C-212A (series 100), Spanish Air Force — CASA C-212-100 Aviocar, Spain - Air Force AN — Pedro Aragão (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Transport

CASA C-212 Aviocar

The CASA C-212 Aviocar is a twin-turboprop light transport with short-field capability, conceived by the Spanish manufacturer CASA to serve military and civil operators alike. It first flew on 26 March 1971 and became the greatest…

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Mc Donnell F-4C Phantom I Is of the 558th TFS in flight over South Vietnam, in December 1968

Randall H. Cunningham and William P. Driscoll it in the cockpit of a Mc Donnell F-4J Phantom II of VF-96, in May 1972 (KN-27357)

Mc Donnell - Mitsubishi F-4EJ Kai Phantom II ’431 - 07-8431

F-4B of VF-114 landing on USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in March 1969

Mc Donnell Douglas F-4E(AUP) Phantom II '01508', Hellenic Air Force, RIAT 2017 — Alan Wilson (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a large two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather fighter that McDonnell Aircraft designed for the United States Navy as a fleet defence interceptor and which proved equally capable as a fighter-bomber and…

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RAF Eurofighter Typhoon — Peter Gronemann (CC BY), vía commons

Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3A, Luftwaffe 31 26 — André Gerwing (CC BY SA), vía commons

Eurofighter Typhoon DA1 98 29, head on, Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Oberschleißheim — Valder137 (CC BY), vía commons

Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3A, Royal Air Force ZK428 — Alan Wilson (CC BY SA), vía commons

Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3A, Luftwaffe 31 37 — André Gerwing (CC BY SA), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Fighter

Eurofighter Typhoon

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta multirole fighter, designed originally as an air-superiority fighter and built by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that runs most of the programme…

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Stampe SV 4 D EBHL OTT 2013 01 — Julian Herzog (Website) (CC BY), vía commons

Brasschaat Stampe SV4b OO MON 05 — Ad Meskens (CC BY SA), vía commons

Museum Stampe & Vertongen SV 4B (OO GWD) 07 — Ad Meskens (CC BY SA), vía commons

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Stampe SV-4 OO KAT 09 — Ad Meskens (CC BY SA), vía commons

Stampe et Vertongen SV4C L Side Front FOF 11Feb2012 — Valder137 (CC BY), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Trainer

Stampe SV-4

The Stampe SV-4 is a two-seat biplane trainer and touring aircraft designed at Antwerp by the Belgian firm Stampe et Vertongen. First flown on 17 May 1933 with Jean Stampe at the controls, it reached its definitive form in 1937 as the…

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AS-203 liftoff, Cape Canaveral, 5 July 1966

From the encyclopedia · Apollo program

AS-203

AS-203 was the second flight of the Saturn IB series and the only Apollo mission to lift off with no spacecraft aboard. Launched from Complex 37B at Cape Kennedy on 5 July 1966, it replaced the command and service module with an…

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Silver Airways Saab 340 Aircraft Cabin Window View at Sunset — EgorovaSvetlana (CC BY SA), vía commons

Saab 340A, N109TA, Tempelhof Airways USA (TEH) — Ralf Manteufel (GFDL), vía commons

Saab 340 - Saab 340A (cn 87) 2023-06-11 Andre Gerwing Collection ID — André Gerwing (CC BY SA), vía commons

Saab S100B Argus (340AEW), Swedish Air Force, October 2004 (1) — Luc Willems (GFDL), vía commons

Saab 340 - Untitled Saab Fairchild SF-340A N727DL — Martin Oertle (CC BY), vía commons

From the encyclopedia · Airliner

Saab 340

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…

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