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Concorde Hunt

Researching my recent Le Bourget Airport post I discovered a couple of Concordes on display and, seeing as there were only ever 20 of them built, I decided to see how many I could find on…

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Monday, 29th August 2005

Concorde

This one shows you how long ago some of this images were taken. Here's Concorde at JFK, presumably before April 2003. I've also beeen wondering if the people at Keyhole (Whom Google bought the technology from)…

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Thursday, 7th April 2005

Airbus, Toulouse

In 2005, the aviation world's eyes lit up with excitement when the first Airbus A380 took into the skies over Toulouse, France. It was the initial flight of the world's largest airliner, and it happened at…

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Wednesday, 26th September 2012

Planes on Google Maps, October 2011

One of the most common subjects that readers post through our suggestion form is planes - whether in flight, parked at airports, or in pieces at crash sites. Here is a collection of some of the…

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Tuesday, 11th October 2011

Konkordski

The Tupolev Tu-144 is a supersonic passenger jet built by the Soviet Union as a competitor to the British/French Concorde. The Tupolev was developed around the same time as Concorde and, with a little help from…

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Thursday, 20th September 2007

Superjumbo

Here in Toulouse, France, Google Earth finally gets its first glimpse of the largest passenger airliner in the world, the Airbus A380 "Superjumbo". The A380 is a double-decker, four-engined aircraft which provides seating for 525 people…

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Friday, 10th August 2007

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