| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| parikka | 2007-01-29 11:36:14 | Rogachevo Airbase | There are couple of Antonov An-72/74's on the tarmac. They are easy to spot because the jet engines are located above and in front of the wing.
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| parikka | 2007-01-26 12:16:04 | US NAVY Blue Angel on static display | It is Grumman F11F-1 Tiger that Blue Angels used from 1957-1969. It was their first supersonic jet.
More info on Blue Angels:
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| parikka | 2007-01-23 07:47:37 | Airplane landing at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (HEL) | The airport's full name is Helsinki-Vantaa (it's Helsinki metropolitan area's main airport, but located in suburb of Vantaa).
The aircraft is most likely Aero Oy's (Finnair's Estonian... |
| parikka | 2007-01-08 13:05:10 | Jefferson Proving Grounds | More info:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IN/Airfields_IN_S.htm#jefferson
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| parikka | 2007-01-02 09:19:23 | Classic Aircraft at Kissimmee Municipal | Former site of Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum
http://www.warbirdmuseum.com/index.htm
The museum has... |
| parikka | 2007-01-01 08:21:02 | Barreiras Airport | The shape hints this airfield has been previously used as (military) training site, possibly a outlaying field for a larger airbase for landing practice. The multiple runways normally suggests that... |
| parikka | 2006-12-30 14:52:10 | 3d cube rooftop | Those are
Official site:
http://www.kubuswoning.nl/
Article in Wikipedia:
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| parikka | 2006-12-30 14:37:52 | Conroy Aircraft CL-44-O Skymonster a.k.a. Guppy CL44 | It's a Conroy Aircraft CL-44-O Skymonster a.k.a. Guppy CL44
About the type:
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| parikka | 2006-12-20 11:04:56 | Pilot advisory symbols | Those are signals for how to manouver within aerodrome:
Line with dots on the ends (dumb-bell): Movements of aeroplanes and gliders on the ground shall be confined to paved, metalled... |
| parikka | 2006-11-30 05:40:15 | White F-117 Nighthawk | More info: There has been two F-117 with light gray paint because of evaluation of best paint scheme for 24h operations (initially Nighthawk was used only in night-time operations). They were named... |
| parikka | 2006-11-29 03:18:59 | Unidentified Runway | Strange indeed. There should be Ultraflyte Inc's landing field nearby, but the field that can be found on the published lon/lat location doesn't really look like a proper place to land. Both the... |
| parikka | 2006-10-24 13:26:20 | Airfield symbols | Those are signals for how to manouver within aerodrome:
Line with dots on the ends (dumb-bell): Movements of aeroplanes and gliders on the ground shall be confined to paved, metalled... |
| parikka | 2006-10-16 01:38:18 | Odd Chinese aircraft facility | Yes, it seems to be a sort of catapult. And because there nothing nearby that is suitable for landing strip, one possible answer is that it is only for rapid exit (in emergency?). Tying up an... |
| parikka | 2006-10-05 05:06:06 | White F-117 Nighthawk | Could it be one of the Full Scale Development (FSD) aircraft located 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works. There is mention that at least one of them was painted gray for a while... |
| parikka | 2006-09-20 07:27:04 | Military Issue Water Slides? | I guess those are vertical launch stands for missiles etc. Those slides are emergency exits. At least the Woomera missile/rocket launch pads in Down Under had similar. |
| parikka | 2006-08-01 07:23:45 | Iraqi AWACS in Iran | You are right - almost. The engines are closer to the body and also closer together. The paint scheme close to the E-3 (the stripe on radome), which confused me along the location of radome, which is... |
| parikka | 2006-07-29 05:37:42 | Iraqi AWACS in Iran | There should not be any Boeing 707-based AWACS planes (E-3 Sentry) in Iran, because Imperial Iran never recieved the Sentrys they ordered due to revolution and only AWACS Iraq had was the Il-76-based... |
| parikka | 2005-09-23 04:45:09 | Multi-colored Fighters at Nellis AFB | Those are F-16 fighters that belong to the 414th Combat Training Squadron, that is Air Force's dissimilar air-to-air combat training (DACT) squadron. They operate aircrafts with non-US colours and... |
