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This page is under constant (well, almost) renovation. I will also keep changing the background GIF every some days, and hopefully have a library of aviation related background GIFs which you, wannabe aviation homepagers, would be able to dig into. So do keep coming back. Without wasting time and space let us go straight to business.
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/]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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