[BITList] Eye Candy for Aviation Enthusiasts

[John Feltham]

In flight

Just over 100 years since the first sustained and controlled heavier- 
than- air powered flight, flying machines are now commonplace, used  
for transport, freight, warfare, rescue and pleasure just for  
starters. Aerospace technology is still the realm of both big business  
and entrepreneurs - Moscow recently hosted an airshow in which  
contracts totaling $10 billion were signed, and Virgin Galactic is  
still working toward a private spaceliner business. Collected here are  
recent photographs of various flying machines in action or on display  
around the world. (40 photos total)








Eurocopter EC120 Colibri helicopters from the Spanish Air Force's  
aerobatic team Patrulla Aspa perform during an aerial exhibition over  
San Lorenzo beach in Gijon, northern Spain July 26, 2009. (REUTERS/ 
Eloy Alonso)




2

A U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refuels a F15 fighter jet in the air above  
the Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar Province, Afghanistan on  
July 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) #




3

Residents watch a fire fighting helicopter drop water on a burning  
forest at Agios Stephanos, a suburb north of Athens, Sunday, Aug. 23,  
2009. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis) #




4

People standing near a Russian Tu-144 watch fighter jets perfoming  
tricks overhead during the MAKS 2009 international aerospace show  
outside Moscow in Zhukovsky on August 20, 2009. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/  
Getty Images) #




5

The new 90 foot high tech catamaran belonging to America's Cup  
defender Alinghi is airlifted on August 7, 2009 near Aosta, Italy,  
flying from Switzerland over the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.  
(FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/ Getty Images) #




6

The Virgin Galactic WhiteKnight2 mothership "Eve" makes its first  
public debut at the world's largest air show at Oshkosh, Wisconsin  
July 27, 2009. WhiteKnight2 is the largest composite aircraft ever  
built and will be the aircraft that ferries the first commercial  
SpaceShip2 aloft for passenger flight to space. (REUTERS/Mark  
Greenberg/Virgin Galactic) #




7

Vortices from rotoer tips are visible in the air as Marine One, with  
President Barack Obama on board, prepares to land on the South Lawn at  
the White House in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2009. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/ 
Getty Images) #




8

A Russian MIG-29 performs during the MAKS 2009 international aerospace  
show outside Moscow on August 22, 2009. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/ Getty  
Images) #




9

Farmer Wu Zhongyuan, 22, sits in his self-made helicopter in Jiuxian  
county, Henan province, China on August 1, 2009. The local government  
later halted Wu's plan to fly the helicopter out of safety concerns.  
The aircraft, powered by a 150cc engine, took Wu two months to build  
and cost more than 10,000 yuan ($1,460), China Daily reported.  
(REUTERS/China Daily) #




10

A helicopter with tourists on board flies in front of Angel Falls, the  
world's highest waterfall, also known as "Salto Angel" at Canaima  
National Park, in southeastern Venezuela on August 23, 2009. (REUTERS/ 
Jorge Silva) #




11

A Macedonian army Mi-24 helicopter fires rockets during a military  
exercise at Krivolak's training centre, 100 km (60 miles) from Skopje,  
Macedonia on July 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski) #




12

A helicopter flies over a controlled burn behind an evacuated home in  
an attempt to reduce the amount of fuel for a wildfire burning on  
Mount McLean in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada on Tuesday, Aug. 4,  
2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck) #




13

A MiG-35 jet performs a low pass during the MAKS-2009 international  
air show in Zhukovsky, Russia on August 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Sergei  
Karpukhin) #




14

South Korean special warfare command soldiers parachute down from a  
helicopter during a sea infiltration drill in Taean, south of Seoul,  
August 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Lee Jin-man) #




15

The aerobatics team "Russkie vityazi" (Russian Knights) in Su-27  
fighter jets fly away from just-launched defensive flares during the  
MAKS 2009 international aerospace show outside Moscow on August 23,  
2009. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/ Getty Images) #




16

Hungarian pilot Peter Besenyei flies over the Hungarian Parliament  
Building during a practice session for the fourth round of the 2009  
Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Budapest on August 17, 2009.  
(REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh) #




17

On his way to place second, British Paul Bonhomme flies over the river  
Danube in front of the Parliament building during the final of the  
2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Budapest on August 20,  
2009. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/ Getty Images) #




18

Beach-goers watch as flying C-101 Aviojets from the Spanish Air Force  
aerobatic group Patrulla Aguila fly over San Lorenzo beach in Gijon,  
northern Spain, during an aerial exhibition on July 26, 2009. (REUTERS/ 
Eloy Alonso) #




19

A U.S. Chinook helicopter carries an M777A2 howitzer to a base in the  
outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of  
Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, July 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio  
Morenatti) #




20

In this Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009 photo, Spc. Paul Pickett, 22, of  
Minden La., right, of the U.S. Army's Apache Company, 2nd Battalion  
87th Infantry Regiment, covers an injured U.S. soldier as a helicopter  
lands to evacuate the wounded after their armored vehicle hit an  
improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's  
Wardak Province. (AP Photo/David Goldman) #




21

A Russian Mig-29 fighter jet flies in front of the sun during the MAKS  
air show outside Moscow on August 22, 2009. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/  
Getty Images) #




22

A view of the wreckage of an Ilyushin Il-62 passenger jet in Mashhad,  
Iran on July 24, 2009. The jet overshot the runway on landing, with  
160 people on board, smashing through a perimiter fence, killing at  
least 17 and injuring 30 others. (REUTERS/ IRNA Stringer) #




23

A British Airways passenger jet flies past the moon over Zurich in  
this June 30, 2009 photo. (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann) #




24

A member of the ground crew works in the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force  
F-16 fighter jet at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan on  
August 10, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne) #




25

The Italian Air Force aerobatic team "Frecce Tricolori" performs  
during their training flight at the Moscow International Air Show in  
Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) #




26

A firefighting helicopter flies over the village of Marathon, Greece  
on August 22, 2009. A raging forest fire threatened homes near Athens,  
causing authorities to declare a state of emergency and ordering  
residents to evacuate, as they worked to bring the blaze under  
control. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/ Getty Images) #




27

French aerobatics team Patrouille de France performs during the MAKS  
2009 international aerospace show in Zhukovsky, Russia on August 22,  
2009. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/ Getty Images) #




28

A Canadian Navy CH-124 Sea King helicopter from the frigate HMCS  
Toronto flies by the terrain of Baffin Island along the shores of  
Frobisher Bay in the Canadian Arctic August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy  
Clark) #




29

The aerobatics team Russian Falcons in Su-27 fighter jets perform at  
the Moscow International Air Show on August 23, 2009. (DMITRY  
KOSTYUKOV/AFP/ Getty Images) #




30

Condensation clouds form over the wings of a Sukhoi Su-35 jet as it  
peforms a tight turn during the Moscow International Air Show on  
Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) #




31

Women sunbathe on the beach while firefighting planes fill up with  
water in a resort of Nea Makri in eastern Athens, Greece on August 24,  
2009. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/ Getty Images) #




32

The passenger plane carrying Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al- 
Megrahi home to Libya, takes off from Glasgow airport on August 20,  
2009 in Glasgow, Scotland. Abdelbaset ali al-Megrahi had been serving  
a life sentence for the 1988 Pan-AM flight 103 Lockerbie bombing,  
which killed 270 people, and had been released on compassionate  
grounds due to his health - he is terminally ill with prostate cancer.  
(Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #




33

A drone equipped with a thermic camera for sea pollution surveillance  
overflies a beach in Saint-Jean-Cap- Ferrat and Villefranche harbour,  
southern France on July 30, 2009. (STEPHANE DANNA/AFP/Getty Images) #




34

Hungarian Air Force's Gripens fly over Budapest's Heroes Square during  
Hungary's National Day on August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh) #




35

French military Patrouille de France Alphajet airplanes perform during  
the MAKS-2009 International air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow,  
August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin) #




36

A badly damaged Su-27 jet from the Russian air force elite aerobatic  
team Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights), dives toward the ground just  
seconds after the aircraft collided with a two-seat Su-27 (not seen)  
near Zhukovsky airfield on Aug. 16, 2009. The two Russian air force  
jets collided Sunday, killing one pilot and sending one fighter  
crashing into nearby vacation homes, a military official said. One  
pilot and a civilian on the ground were killed. (AP Photo/Dmitry  
Karpov) #




37

A fire-fighting airplane drops water over a fire in Varnava village,  
northeast of Athens, Greece on August 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Yiorgos  
Karahalis) #




38

A B-17 Flying Fortress, from the Yankee Air Museum performs a flyover  
prior to the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Michigan International  
Speedway on August 15, 2009 in Brooklyn, Michigan. (Jerry Markland/ 
Getty Images for NASCAR) #




39

An army helicopter flies over a bombarded area in Cano Cabra during a  
media trip organised by the Colombian military on July 25, 2009.  
Colombian forces killed at least 18 leftist guerrillas of the 27th  
Front of the FARC on Saturday in an aerial bombardment in the southern  
jungle province of Meta, the country's military command said. (REUTERS/ 
Fredy Builes) #




40

A hot-air balloon flies over the morning mist near Immenstadt in  
Allgaeu, southern Germany, on August 24, 2009. (SEBASTIAN WIDMANN/AFP/  
Getty Images)


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