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  • Collection of test and prototype racing cars belonging to ‘F1 In Schools’  National champions ‘Team Momentus’ from Gryphon school in Dorset.  The cars are pocket rockets, gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to  0.532m. per second.<br />
<br />
 Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools UK national champions including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta helicopters for aerodynamics  mentoring and  earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Nathan Riley, 17,  holding  the Team Momentus test car.<br />
The cars are pocket rockets: gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined  balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to 0.532m. per second.<br />
Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools  Uk national champions, including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta Helicopters for aerodynamics, mentoring and earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Team Momentus from The Gryphon School in Dorset: (from left) Tom Long, 19, Matthew Bugler,18, and Nathan Riley,17, explore the aerodynamics of their F1 car with their home-made computer-controlled wind tunnel. <br />
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Racing model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature Formula 1 cars
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  • Team Momentus from The Gryphon School in Dorset: (from left) Tom Long, 19, Matthew Bugler,18, and Nathan Riley,17, explore the aerodynamics of their F1 car with their home-made computer-controlled wind tunnel. <br />
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Racing model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature Formula 1 cars
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  • Wing tips and tails from British Airways 747-400 jet airliners are almost touching during their respective turnrounds while on the apron outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 building. A passing aircraft taxies past on the left and the other two planes have wingtip devices increase the lift generated at the wingtip which smooth the airflow across the upper wing near the tip and reduce the lift-induced drag caused by wingtip vortices. This improves lift-to-drag ratio and increases fuel efficiency, in powered aircraft. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • The cockpit window and nose design of a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 at the Farnborough Air Show, UK. Having just taken delivery of their new generation ''Deamliner" three years late, the middle-east based airline is displaying on the ground. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-range, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It seats 210 to 290 passengers, depending on the variant. Boeing states that it is the company's most fuel-efficient airliner and the world's first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction. According to Boeing, the 787 consumes 20% less fuel than the similarly-sized 767.
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  • A Boeing 737 8 Max jet airliner SP-LVD with the Polish airline LOT, flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • Anonymous buyers discuss deals behind the model of a Boeing 747 jet airliner at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Farnborough International Airshow is a week-long event that combines a major trade exhibition for the aerospace and defence industries with a public airshow. According to the organisers, the 2012 Farnborough show attracted 109,000 trade visitors over the first five days, and 100,000 public visitors on the Saturday and Sunday. Orders and commitments for 758 aircraft were announced, worth US$72 billion.
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  • A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 crosses the perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination. Seen from below, the passing Jumbo takes-off and climbs under full take-off power over the surrounding airfield security fence. Its razor-wire is an effective deterrent against protesters or terrorists and symbolises the lengths that airport authorities (in this case BAA) need go to to ensure their property is safe. The aircraft is seen almost entangled in the secure wire as if passing through the mesh. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • We look down on the zigzag of passenger jetties that transport air travellers from their aircraft, towards the arrivals concourse in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. A series of walkways that are covered from above but which have window light to the side are connected to the fuselage of a British Airways 747-400 series airliner that is parked at its gate on the apron of this aviation hub. These jetties are owned by the airport operator, used by British Airways and sponsored by HSBC. Air travellers walk briskly after their long-haul flight either carrying light carry-on bags or towing small cases on wheels. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • The nose and cockpit windshield of a Mitsubishi CRJ regional jet at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • A flock of nervous pigeons take-off en-masse in front of  Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    heathrow_landing10-23-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Team Pulse, of Devonport High School for Boys take a break from testing their car: (from left) Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16 and Samuel Wood, 16.  This year Team Pulse competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become World champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs, Ferrari:  a race, which of course, they won.
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  • Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17 working on the development of Team Pulse’s miniature Formula One car in preparation of the F1 In School’s World Championship. At this point they have no idea they are going to go to become world champions, meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won.
    F1inschools6_1.jpg
  • A Kratos MQM-178 'Firejet' drone target at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Firejet fills a variety of mission roles, including anti-aircraft artillery training, surface-to-air and air-to-air missile testing. Capable of flying low-and-slow or high-and-fast, Firejet offers users the opportunity to test multiple platforms with one flexible, affordable aerial target system.
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  • A British military officer walks past the Rolls-Royce corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The corporate message promising a trusted deliverence of excellence is read by the man as he passes the model of the aerospace company's jet engine.
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  • Detail of the Airbus A350 XWB at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The A350 XWB is the only all-new aircraft in the 300-400 seat category. The A350 XWB is a family of long-range, two-engined wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. It's scheduled to enter commercial service later in 2014.
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  • Detail of the catapult that propels F-A/18 fighters from the deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. The cable drives $38 million F/A-18s fighters off the ship's deck and into the air from a standing position. The angled flight decks of the carriers use a CATOBAR arrangement to operate aircraft, with steam catapults and arrestor wires for launch and recovery. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.
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  • Young boys play with supersonic Air France Concorde models beneath the shadow of a fighter jet at the Le Bourget airport, days after the crash at nearby Gonesse which ended the life of the Concorde airliner. The wingspan of the fighter plane spreads itself across the ground as the young lads fantasise about the end of the era of supersonic airliners, brought to a close with the French national tragedy. Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France which was scheduled to fly from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On 25 July 2000, it crashed into a hotel in Gonesse, France. All one hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one seriously injured.
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  • From an airliner passenger seat, bright sunshine causes lens flare during a flight across the English Channel between Paris and London. We see out at a cruising altitide across the clouds that blanket the ground below. The curve of the Airbus window makes for a corner along the right-hand side of the image.
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  • A Royal Navy Admiral and an RAF Air Chief Marshal inspect a missile on the wing tip of a Eurofighter (now called Typhoon) fighter jet. VIPs and special military guests celebrate the success of the aviation defence project at the BAE Systems factory at Warton, Lancashire, England. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole combat aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of three companies. Its maiden flight took place on 27 March 1994 watched by VIPs from UK industry and military.
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  • A Boeing 777-222ER jet airliner N228UA flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • A Boeing 777-F1H jet airliner A6-EFF with Emirates flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • An Airbus 737-320 jet airliner G-EUYH with British Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • The nose and cockpit windshield of a Mitsubishi CRJ regional jet at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-20-16-07-2018.jpg
  • The nose and cockpit windshield of a Mitsubishi CRJ regional jet at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-18-16-07-2018.jpg
  • A burred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport, coming in over the perimeter fence on the southern runway. As the plane descends, we see its blurred shape against the dusk sky - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    heathrow_landing30-23-09-2014_1.jpg
  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    heathrow_landing18-23-09-2014_1.jpg
  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    heathrow_landing07-23-09-2014_1.jpg
  • A airliner window seat view of mid-Channel airspace. Clouds and blue sky is seen below and beyong a passenger's commercial aviation experience. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17 working on the development of Team Pulse’s miniature Formula One car in preparation of the F1 In School’s World Championship. At this point they have no idea they are going to go to become world champions, meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won.
    F1inschools11_1.jpg
  • Thomas Simpson explores the lines of a Prototype miniature formula 1 car during a team Pulse development session at Devonport high school, Plymouth. <br />
<br />
Racing Model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature formula 1 cars.
    F1inschools8_1.jpg
  • Team Pulse: (Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16, and Samuel Wood, 16.) and 1200 other students of Devonport High school are taught in the shadow of The Royal Albert Bridge, (shown in background), Brunel’s 1859 Engineering masterpiece. These students, not to be outdone competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become world champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top  London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won. The competition primarily
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  • Team Pulse: (Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16, and Samuel Wood, 16.) and 1200 other students of Devonport High school are taught in the shadow of The Royal Albert Bridge, (shown in background), Brunel’s 1859 Engineering masterpiece. These students, not to be outdone competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become world champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top  London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won. The competition primarily
    F1inschools4_1.jpg
  • Visitors beneath a large billboard of the Airbus A350 XWB on the side of the Airbus corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The A350 XWB is the only all-new aircraft in the 300-400 seat category. The A350 XWB is a family of long-range, two-engined wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. It's scheduled to enter commercial service later in 2014.
    farnborough_air_show60-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • An Asian visitor passes beneath a large billboard of the Airbus A350 XWB on the side of the Airbus corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The A350 XWB is the only all-new aircraft in the 300-400 seat category. The A350 XWB is a family of long-range, two-engined wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. It's scheduled to enter commercial service later in 2014.
    farnborough_air_show58-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • A full-size Trent jet engine is admired by delegates visiting British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • A full-size Trent jet engine is admired by delegates visiting British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • Exterior of the exhibition chalet of the Japanese aviation corporation Mitsubishi at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) is a regional jet aircraft seating 70–90 passengers manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, a partnership between majority owner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyota Motor Corporation.
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  • Detail of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet airliner fuselage at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the super-efficient 787 family. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 bring the economics of large jets to the middle of the market, with 20 percent less fuel use and 20 percent fewer emissions.
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  • Detail of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet airliner fuselage at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the super-efficient 787 family. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 bring the economics of large jets to the middle of the market, with 20 percent less fuel use and 20 percent fewer emissions.
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  • Detail of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet airliner fuselage at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the super-efficient 787 family. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 bring the economics of large jets to the middle of the market, with 20 percent less fuel use and 20 percent fewer emissions.
    farnborough_air_show04-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Up on the top deck, we see a lone sailor brushing off the grubby surfaces of parked F/A-18C Hornets and S-3 Vikings on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. Stacked together in tight formation to fit them all together during a daytime break in operations, the man bends into his task during the hottest time of day. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the
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  • The glow and trails of night manoeuvres seen from an upper deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. <br />
The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • A four-engined airliner takes-off into distant darkening skies during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough in southern England. Lifting off from an unseen runway, the aircraft leaves the ground to climb away towards its unknown destination - its modern navigation aides pointing it to foreign lands and skies.
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  • A night-time exposure during the flight over a city in rural Arizona whose lights are blurred underneath the twin-propeller powered aircraft, an air ambulance ferrying a patient to hospital. The British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 31 is an air ambulance en-route from San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona, USA. Native American Air Services, provides critical care level air ambulance services in Arizona. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Mesa, Arizona. The San Carlos Reservation is one of the poorest Native American communities in the United States, with an annual median household income of approximately $14,000 in 2000, according to the US Census. About 60% of the people live under the poverty line, and 68% of the active labor force is unemployed
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  • We look through the windscreen of a Royal Air Force C-130-J Hercules to see a pilots-eye view of his fixed head-up-display (HUD), while in flight over Hampshire during the Farnborough Air Show. We see the aircraft flying data in green set against the magenta colour (color) of the clouds and sky beyond. The pilot will see the statistics that are important aspects of his aeroplane's altitude, compass heading, localiser, air speed, pitch, roll and yaw. Head-up displays are increasingly important to military and commercial aircraft (airplanes) when information can be displayed without obstructing the user's front view front. The second type of HUD is mounted within a protective helmet visor. The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the tactical portion of airlift operations. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for air dropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. The C-130-J is the newer generation digital version with fully integrated digital avionics; color multifunctional liquid crystal displays including the HUD; state-of-the-art navigation systems with dual inertial navigation system and global positioning system; fully integrated defensive systems; low-power color radar; digital moving map display; new turboprop engines with six-bladed, all-composite propellers; digital auto pilot; improved fuel, environmental and ice-protection systems; and an enhanced cargo-handling system.
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  • A lone propeller-driven aeoplane banks right into evening skies during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
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  • The owner of a home-built aeroplane polishes its shiny surfaces during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
    oshkosh_airshow07-07-01-2000.jpg
  • During the turnround of the British Airways jet aircraft, a refueller checks the safety of heavy fuel nozzles that connect from his bowser truck on the apron at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. He is ensuring the correct plugging of the connections as some 109 tons of Jet A1 aviation fuel flow at a rate of 3,000 litres a minute which is being uplifted into the wing tanks of this Boeing 747-300, a typical quantity of extra fuel for this aeroplane bound for Los Angeles. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • With traffic cones arranged to avoid accidents in the darkness, the spinning turbofan blades of a British Airways Boeing jet aircraft are highlighted by the headlights of an airfield vehicle during the airliner's overnight turnaround at Heathrow Airport. The beauty of the engine’s cowling and the wing to which it is attached shows the marvel of its engineering, of its magnificent aviation design. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).  Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • The main nose wheel of a British Airways airliner is parked on a stand at Heathrow Airport. The identifying names of the Boeing type range such as 777s, 767, 747 and 757s are also stencilled on the apron concrete to allow exact distances for expandable air bridges and other airfield vehicles to connect and service these differing-sized commercial airliners. The pilot has devices inside and outside to gauge the exact spot to break to a standstill though these marks are largely unsighted to them, high up in the cockpit. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A young girl in transit between India and the US, entertains herself by throwing her pet toy tiger as far as the ceiling in a departure window of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. In front of a Boeing 777 jet airliner's nose and cockpit, the girl is a silhouette against the large windows that allow in the natural light. Behind the parked aircraft, another British Airways passenger jet taxies past, its tail at right-angles to the stationary airplane although they both look like the same plane. With her family baggage next to her, the child is enjoying some hours of freedom before another long-haul flight westwards. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in norhtern France watch aerobatics overhead - in front of a scaled replica of The Flyer, the first powered aeroplane by the American Wright Brothers. The Wright Flyer is the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it for the first time on December 17th, 1903 for 12 seconds over 120 feet near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. though many scaled copies exist at similar events such as this.
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  • A detail of a Boeing 777 airliner during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. The plane's colour scheme across its fuselage and cabin has been carefully chosen and applied by Boeing whose aircraft this is as it makes a European press and PR tour to help foreign airlines make their choice of an American manufacturer.
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  • Emirates airlines announce the purchase of the very first Airbus A380 during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. Executives congratulate themselves and speak into a micophone for the benefit of the press conference in the Emirates chalet at this important aviation and aerospace exposition. A scaled model of this new-generation of composite material aircraft sits on a table pointing to officials excited at their new business deal.
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  • Anglo-American flags with helicopter and stealth jet fighters in the hospitality chalet of Lockheed Martin at the Farnborough Airshow.
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  • Glowing cockpit instrumentation of a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. The F-35 Lightning II is a fifth-generation, single-seat, single-engine stealth multi-role fighter that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air defence missions. The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Its development is being principally funded by the United States, with the United Kingdom and other partner governments providing additional funding. It is being designed and built by an aerospace industry team led by Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as major partners. The F-35's first flight took place on 15 December 2006. The US intends to buy a total of 2,443 aircraft for an estimated US$323 billion, making it the most expensive defense program ever.[
    farnborough_airshow45-21-07-2010_1.jpg
  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff who perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
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  • During a lull in activity, a Boeing 747 is swathed in engineering gantries during a major check (maintenance schedule) at the British Airways Heathrow base in London England. As if in a hospital ER several metres off the ground, yellow struts surround the aircraft's forward nose section and the first class windows along the white fuselage allowing mechanics, engineers and avionics specialists unimpeded access to every element of the air frame. Neon tubes illuminate the hangar that houses airliners, serviced here between transcontinental commercial passenger flights.
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  • A Boeing 787-9 jet airliner with Virgin Atlantic G-VOWS flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • A large and aggressive seagull, squawks and looks angry as it takes-off in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
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  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • With bright landing lights on, blurred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport. As the plane passes overhead, we see its blurred shape against a darkening sky at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A burred jet airliner lands at London Heathrow airport, coming in over the perimeter fence on the southern runway. As the plane descends, we see its blurred shape against the dusk sky - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A airliner window seat view of west London as the aircraft comes in to land at London's Heathrow airport. The campaign for a 3rd runway at Heathrow is being met by fierce opposition due to the nature of constantly low-flying planes over residential areas. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Thomas Simpson explores the lines of a Prototype miniature formula 1 car during a team Pulse development session at Devonport high school, Plymouth. <br />
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Racing Model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature formula 1 cars.
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  • Detail of images of Russian aviation at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Russia's deputy prime minister told his country's defence delegates to withdraw from the Farnborough International Airshow and return home after being snubbed by the British government over the Ukraine conflict. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defence sector as deputy prime minister, said: "I recommend our delegation to wind up its participation in the show and return home."
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  • A delegate passes Russian aviation images at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Russia's deputy prime minister told his country's defence delegates to withdraw from the Farnborough International Airshow and return home after being snubbed by the British government over the Ukraine conflict. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defence sector as deputy prime minister, said: "I recommend our delegation to wind up its participation in the show and return home."
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  • A large billboard of the Airbus A350 XWB on the side of the Airbus corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The A350 XWB is the only all-new aircraft in the 300-400 seat category. The A350 XWB is a family of long-range, two-engined wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. It's scheduled to enter commercial service later in 2014.
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  • An Asian visitor passes beneath a large billboard of the Airbus A350 XWB on the side of the Airbus corporate chalet at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The A350 XWB is the only all-new aircraft in the 300-400 seat category. The A350 XWB is a family of long-range, two-engined wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. It's scheduled to enter commercial service later in 2014.
    farnborough_air_show52-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • Detail of a Trent jet engine at British Rolls-Royce manufacturer's exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Rolls-Royce Trent is the name given to a family of three-spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is named after the River Trent in the Midlands of England. The civil aerospace business is a major manufacturer of aero engines for all sectors of the airliner and corporate jet market. Rolls-Royce powers more than 30 types of commercial aircraft and has almost 13,000 engines in service around the world.
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  • Detail of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet airliner tailplane at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the super-efficient 787 family. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 bring the economics of large jets to the middle of the market, with 20 percent less fuel use and 20 percent fewer emissions.
    farnborough_air_show21-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • On a grey day in the metropolis of Hong Kong, a giant airliner belonging to an Asian airline passes overhead, seemingly just over the roofs of apartment buildings and offices. The aircraft is nearly at the point of touching down on the runway which is just beyond this street in Kowloon district in the days when Hong Kong was still a British colony and before its handover to Chinese law. The dominating shape of the jet is flying into the former airport called Kai Tak whose runway jutted out into the city’s harbour before the airfield was closed and a new location was opened in an outlying island. We look up to see a wide expanse of overcast sky with the red vertical Cantonese characters of a local business and which echoes the red beacon on the plane’s belly that flashes during the last moments of flight before the actual landing.
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  • The main nose wheel of a British Airways airliner is parked on a stand at Heathrow Airport. The identifying names of the Boeing type range such as 777s, 767, 747 and 757s are also stencilled on the apron concrete to allow exact distances for expandable air bridges and other airfield vehicles to connect and service these differing-sized commercial airliners. The pilot has devices inside and outside to gauge the exact spot to break to a standstill though these marks are largely unsighted to them, high up in the cockpit. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • The giant nosewheel of a Boeing 747-400 airliner is parked on the apron area during its overnight turnround at Heathrow Airport. The engineering of this magnificent piece of aviation design is highlighted by the headlights of an airfield vehicle and the tyres sit firmly on the tarmac at an exact parking spot according to the aircraft's length in order for it to be met by air bridges and service trucks. The nose wheel is used for steering the jet when on the ground. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Glowing cockpit instrumentation of a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. The F-35 Lightning II is a fifth-generation, single-seat, single-engine stealth multi-role fighter that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air defence missions. The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Its development is being principally funded by the United States, with the United Kingdom and other partner governments providing additional funding. It is being designed and built by an aerospace industry team led by Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as major partners. The F-35's first flight took place on 15 December 2006. The US intends to buy a total of 2,443 aircraft for an estimated US$323 billion, making it the most expensive defense program ever.[
    farnborough_airshow47-21-07-2010_1.jpg
  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
    ba_engineering03-23-11-2000_1.jpg
  • A Boeing 777-35RER jet airliner with Jet Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • A bird in flight against the distant background of a landing hot air balloon in a West Bank village of the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Having taken off from the pole on the left, the bird is a Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis).
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  • Airliners landing at London Heathrow airport. With landing lights on like stars in distant skies, we see the jets coming in one after another at dusk - a busy time in the airport's day. London Heathrow is a major international airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the busiest airport in Europe by passenger traffic. It is also the third busiest airport in the world by total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe. From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    heathrow_landing08-23-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Detail of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet airliner tailplane at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the super-efficient 787 family. Both the 787-8 and 787-9 bring the economics of large jets to the middle of the market, with 20 percent less fuel use and 20 percent fewer emissions.
    farnborough_air_show23-14-07-2014_1.jpg
  • In mid-flight over Greater London, we see a passenger’s view of a turning airliner's wing and the capital's dusk landscape below at a low altitude. As the starboard (right) wing dips, the Virgin Atlantic Airbus banks and a long exposure blurs the city lights below. A small curved portion of the passenger window, red engines and the Union Jack colours are seen. As aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird’s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • In mid-flight between Hamburg in Germany and London Heathrow, we see a passenger’s view of a climbing airliner's port wing and the hazy German landscape below at a high altitude. The sky above reflects its soft blue hue on the upper surface of the left wing but the air below is a soft pink, a rural patchwork of fields and villages. As an example of aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird’s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • The nose detail of a de Havilland Comet in the colours of the long-defunct airline Dan Air is seen in profile at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford airfield, Cambridgeshire, England. The British de Havilland Comet first flew in July 1949 and is noted as the world's first commercial jet airliner as well as one of the first pressurized commercial aircraft. Early models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue and the aircraft was redesigned. Here, the nose structure is held together with rivets that sit askew of the aircraft skin making it aerodynamically unfit to fly. It remains however, one of the classic and iconic designs in the history of commercial aviation. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event attempts to fly at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ‘wearing’ their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform – a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire sponsored by a milk company drops vertically. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis22-27-05-2001_1.jpg
  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis13-17-08-1997_1.jpg
  • A jet airliner passes overhead in bright skies, blurred purposely using a slow camera speed.
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  • Looking up from the ground to the underside of a jet airliner passing overhead in bright skies, blurred purposely using a slow camera speed, creating a separate, staggered double-image. Viewed through the foliage and flowers of a garden shrub, the plane descends in slightly hazy skies above south London, where aircraft pass overhead a few thousand feet above suburban homes, the plane is seen as a diagonal, edging across the airspace on its way to the runways at Heathrow airport, approximately 20 miles to the West. The jet is generic, minus airline markings though we see it is a twin-engined model, its two powerplants mounted beneath its wings.
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event stands on the pier floor boards at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ‘wearing’ their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform – a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire pilot sponsored by a milk company eventually dropped vertically. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis23-27-05-2001_1.jpg
  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
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  • A visitor to the General Electric (GE) exhibition stand at Britain's Farnborough Air Show, points to a feature on a massive, GE90-115B turbofan jet engine. Powering Boeing 777 airliners with up to 115,000 Pounds of thrust, this is a state-of-the-art engine that entered service in April 2004 with Air France. Its giant blades are lit with blue stage lighting to make it look iconic and imposing, dominating this picture of technology and innovation. Such mechanical excellence attached to the world's aircraft are helping to make them quieter and more energy and fuel efficient at a time when oil prices are making air travel an expensive mode of transport.
    farnborough_air_show14-14-07-2008_1.jpg
  • Looking up from the ground to the underside of a jet airliner passing overhead in bright skies, blurred purposely using a slow camera speed, creating a separate, staggered double-image. In slightly hazy skies above south London, where aircraft pass overhead a few thousand feet above suburban homes, the plane is seen as a diagonal, edging across the airspace on its way to the runways at Heathrow airport, approximately 20 miles to the West. The jet is generic, minus airline markings though we see it is a twin-engined model, its two powerplants mounted on the rear section of the fuselage.
    blurred_aviation09-16-08-2010_1.jpg
  • Looking up from the ground to the underside of a jet airliner passing overhead in bright skies, blurred purposely using a slow camera speed, creating a separate, staggered double-image. In blue skies afternoon skies above south London, where aircraft pass overhead a few thousand feet above suburban homes, the plane is seen as a vertical form as it turns and edges across the airspace on its way to the runways at Heathrow airport, approximately 20 miles to the West. The jet is generic, minus airline markings though we see it is a twin-engined model, its two powerplants mounted beneath its wings.
    blurred_aviation08-16-08-2010_1.jpg
  • A Rolls-Royce turbofan has been fixed to the exterior of the company’s sales stand at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. The British-owned company have been making aircraft engines since 1914 at the start of the First World War, in response to the nation's needs, Royce designed his first aero engine – the Eagle. Modern airliners have the Trent engine's technology embedded in its power plants and Farnborough is a major showcase for its many designs. Here, their chalet has a mocked-up garden feature complete railings and the turbine blades attached to the wall above. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis25-23-07-2002_1.jpg
  • In a farmer's tool shed, a painted mural depicting B-24 Liberators sweeping over the cracked brick wall of what was once an officers’ mess at the WW2 Wendling airfield, Norfolk England. Below this scene of heroic military might, young officers flying Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group gathered before and after raids into Germany from November 1943 to July 1945. The runway is now partly covered by a turkey farm and this building is now full of car and tractor parts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis19-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis13-17-08-1997_1.jpg
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