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nocternalrandomness · 4 months
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Daks at Prestwick
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reality-detective · 3 months
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Aircraft: Boeing C-17A Globemaster III 🤔
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amayasnep · 1 year
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My dude’s literally flying a Twinkie
I bet it’s cream filled too.
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aviationd · 1 year
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Military transport aircraft are freight transport aircraft and helicopters that have been carefully built, have a high cargo capacity, and are designed to deliver military people, equipment, and vehicles quickly. Large cargo holds on military transport aircraft can accommodate a variety of cargo. In order to support military operations, it is primarily utilized to airlift soldiers and military hardware. Due to their use, they are often referred to as military cargo aircraft, airlifts, and military transport aircraft in the market. Maintaining supply lines to cutting-edge locations that are difficult to reach by land or water requires the use of military transport aircraft, which can be deployed for tactical and strategic missions.
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jttlpgroup · 8 days
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carbone14 · 6 months
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Réplique du planeur Airspeed AS. 51 Horsa – Mémorial Pegasus – Ranville – Calvados – Février 2008
Photograhe : Fodfish
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science70 · 6 months
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Indian Navy aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, 1971.
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deadpresidents · 3 months
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What is the closest military base to the white house?
The White House IS a military installation.
It is the home and workplace of the Commander-in-Chief of United States military forces, so that alone makes it an important command and control headquarters. The various branches of the military have an active role in the everyday logistics of running the White House campus and supporting the Executive Office of the President. The White House's complex and extensive communications agency is staffed by members of each individual branch of the military. The U.S. Navy is responsible for the White House Mess and providing food services to the President, the First Family, any potential guests, and the President's staff. The White House Medical Unit is staffed by military doctors who have a round-the-clock presence in the White House and the official Physician to the President is usually an active-duty military officer.
While the Secret Service -- which includes the traditional plainclothes agents and the more visible uniformed division -- is responsible for protecting the President, his family, and the White House itself, the military also has a protective footprint in and around the White House complex. It's believed that amongst the White House's protective measures -- most of which are highly classified -- are anti-aircraft defenses, which are almost certainly manned by the military rather than the Secret Service. Marine Corps guards also are stationed at the White House (often seen opening and closing doors while manning the entry and exit points around the West Wing) as sentries and sometimes act as military valets during events hosted by the President in the White House. The role of the Marine sentries is purely ceremonial as opposed to protective.
And one of the most important White House responsibilities of the military is transportation. The White House Transportation Agency is responsible for all aspects of the President's travel, and the military works in tandem with the Secret Service on planning and carrying out the immense logistical challenges of transporting the President anywhere in the world -- a challenge magnified by the sheer size of Presidential traveling parties. A Presidential motorcade consists of, on average, 50-60 vehicles. And the majority of those vehicles actually have to be transported from the United States to wherever the President is traveling -- even if it is to several different foreign countries or continents. The Air Force is, obviously, responsible for the President's plane, along with any other aircraft making the trip which are usually carrying White House staff, members of the press, or cargo. For short distances that can be made by helicopter, the Marine Corps takes the lead. And any ground travel by motor vehicles is handled by the Army.
Security and the President's personal protective detail is always led by the Secret Service, but the military is responsible for many of the day-to-day logistics of the institution of the Presidency, which illustrates why the White House is an important military command and control base.
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blueiskewl · 15 days
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Crash and Burn
A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
It said the Il-76 aircraft with eight crew and seven passengers crashed in the Ivanovo region. It didn’t say whether there were any survivors.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that an engine fire during takeoff was the likely cause of the crash. It said a team of investigators flew to Ivanovo to conduct a probe.
Russian media broadcast a video showing the aircraft heading down with at least one of its engines ablaze.
The four-engine Il-76 is a heavy-lift transport plane that has been in service since the 1970s with the Soviet and then Russian air force.
Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the fighting in Ukraine, so has the number of crashes.
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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nocternalrandomness · 5 months
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Rolling onto final at RIAT
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stone-cold-groove · 2 months
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Air transport Cannonball. Douglas Aircraft - 1944.
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transingthoseformers · 6 months
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Tfa skyfire?
Tfa Skyfire would be a STORY considering how flying in tfa is heavily associated with decepticons, and many autobots would point this out
So
I feel like he's likely to be either a veteran from the War who was exiled (whether officially, unofficially, or even unintentionally), or you can even go for a Netflix trilogy style situation where tfa Skyfire starts out as a decepticon but we see him defect
O O or it's a situation like Omega Supreme where he's locked in his shuttle altmode and stasis!!!!
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jttlpgroup · 2 months
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bigglesworld · 3 months
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Amiot AAC.1 Toucan. French Aéronautique navale. At RAF Northolt EGWU. September 1951. Avions Amiot built the Ju-52 during wartime occupation and approx 400 post-WWII
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carbone14 · 1 year
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Curtiss C-46 Commando – 1944
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