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How to tell airplanes apart?

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List of identifying features of some popular airplanes in service today.

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NASA Released truly breathtaking footage of Earth

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Editor Dmitry Pisanko of inspiremore.com took publicly available footage from the International Space Station (ISS) and set it to the beautiful music of composer Ludovico Einaudi. The resulting 4-minute timelapse video is truly breathtaking.

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Breathtaking Boeing 747 Cockpit Scenes

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Some Aviation Facts

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  • It may comfort you to know 95.7 percent of people involved in plane crashes survive.
  • Two million passengers in the U.S. board more than 30,000 flights every day.
  • The oldest airline still operating under the same name is Dutch airline KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
  • The BD-5 Micro is the world's smallest jet aircraft. It has a wingspan of 14 to 21 ft. and weighs 358 lbs. Only 100 were made, but many variants still fly today; one famously appeared in the Bond film Octopussy.
  • One of the largest military aircraft, the C-5 stands six stories tall. Its length of 143 feet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight of 120 ft.
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Flying at 70,000 ft

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The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, very high-altitude (70,000 feet / 21,000 m), all-weather intelligence gathering. The U-2 has also been used for electronic sensor research, satellite calibration, and communications purposes.

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