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The Flyer
The very first aircraft made by the Wright Brothers and flown by Orville Wright on a cold winter morning of 17th December 1903 at Kitty Hawk.[Picture courtesy hawaii.cogsci.uiuc.edu/]




Douglas DC-3
Probably the most famous of all airliners and certainly the most widely used, the DC-3 sold more than 10,000 pieces. Even now, in some countries around the world the DC-3 is still being used as air taxis, by small airlines or as private aircraft.


Vickers Viscount
Flew for the first time on the 16th of July, 1948 at Wilsley, England to become the world's first turboprop airliner. Gradually, it managed to become the UK's most produced turboprop airliner.


Hawker Siddeley DH 106 Comet
The Comet secured its place in aviation history when it flew for the first time on the 2nd of May, 1952. This was the first jet airliner to be operated by any airline. This BOAC plane flew from London to Johannesburg via Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe and Livingstone. The picture that you see on the right is incidentally the first and one of the two pictures of the DH 106 Comet on the Net.


Boeing 707
The world's third jetliner after the Comet and the Tupulev 104, it entered service with Pan Am and flew New York to London on 20th December, 1957. It came up to be the most widely used jetliner till date with sales registering upto over 4000. There have been different versions of this plane from an airliner to a cargo version to an air to air refueller to an AWACS plane and also a simulator for space travel. [Picture courtesy Boeing]


Boeing 747
The first wide body and the largest airliner till date. The 747 was developed as a logical extrapolation of the Boeing 707 concept. This was the first time an aircraft provided 10 abreast seating in the main deck with a smaller passenger lounge and the flight deck at a higher level. The 747 has come in different versions, the latest being the 747-400 (winglets being a discernible feature) to the earlier built super long distance version called the 747-SP (for special performance).



Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde
When the first Concorde flew in 1976, it became the world's first Supersonic Transport to enter regular service carrying passengers at Mach=2.0 over the Atlantic. The very first Supersonic Transport, however, was the Tupulev 144.See this Quick Time movie of a Concorde (2Mb). [Picture courtesy Helen Trillian Rose]





Airbus A300
The first truly international jetliner being made by the joint efforts of BAe(G Britain), Aerospatialé (France), the German Airbus Group(Germany), Fokker(Netherlands), CASA(Spain) and HAL(India). This also is the fourth wide body airliner to become operational and the first of the type from Europe. One very unique thins (at least when it came out) about its cabin design is the twin aisle, eight abreast seating which keeps no passenger not more than one seat away from the aisle. [Picture courtesy Airbus Industrie]





Anotonov 225 - Mrija
This monstrosity is the largest aircraft ever built. This giant lovingly called the Mrija ('dream' - in Russian) operates on 6 engines and countless number of wheels (I managed to get a rough count of 40+ when I saw it at Bombay). This aircraft, like many other Russian planes, can land on semi-prepared airstrips.[Picture courtesy Universitet Utrecht]





Airbus A320
The first all fly by wire aicraft and also Airbus Industrie's third model of aircraft to roll out. This aircraft has a stretch version called the A321 and a shortened fuselage version called the A319. Initially some sceptisim about the aircraft did crop up since one A320 crashed while taking off on the first ever test flight at Tolouse, France. However, since then it has done rather well in the short and short medium haul sector.Check out this picture of an A320 taking off and of the assembly line at Hamburg. [Picture Courtesy Modern Airliners]

Boeing 777
This is the first ever aircraft to be designed completely on a computer. In this case no wind tunnels were used either. The simulations were all computer based. This is Boeing's latest offering and has managed to raise the sales for the company quite a bit. It also happens to be Boeing's latest weapon in the Boeing - Airbus rivalry. [Picture Courtesy British Airways and Boeing]

Some Great Links
Airlines Aircraft Manufacturers Airports Institutions and Organizations Aviation Pages
Live Audio Feed from O'Hare Chicago ATC
British Airways Boeing Corporation Schipol, Amsterdam Jane's Weekly The home site for #aviation...one of my favourite IRC channels..I log in as Fulcrum
Aeroflot - Russian International Airline Airbus Industrie Changi, Singapore USAF Museum - Modern Flight GalleryWOW!!
 Helen Rose's Page - Check out the tremendous pix!
Lufthansa Lockheed Martin Corp O'Hare, Chicago Pan Am archives Another Aviation Page
Qantas McDonnel Douglas Corp Metorpolitan Airports, Washington DC British Airways Gallery A Spotter's Page
British Midland General Dynamics Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt Air & Space Magazine Aviation Home Page
Cathay Pacific Aerospatiale De Gaulle and Orly, Paris Professional Pilot Magazine Aircraft Nose Art
US Air Cessna Hartsfield, Atlanta Aviation Museums Another Home Page
Singapore Airlines Dassault Aviation Airport Codes Federal Aviation Administration Landings
Airline Codes Daimler Benz Aviation GmbH. Airport Maps Worldwide Aircraft Propeller Association World War II Aircraft
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