This pic comes courtesy of airbus Military and shows a flight of three A330-based multi role tanker transports (MRTT). The lead aircraft, furthest from the camera will join the UK Royal Air Force - rechristened Voyager for the service - the middle aircraft is the original development example which will eventually enter service with the Royal Australian Air Force; and the aircraft nearest the camera is the second for the United Arab Emirates air force.
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Pictured on a pre-delivery test flight from Seattle's Paine Field, here's a shot from Flightglobal's AirSpace gallery of Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-8I (D-AGYA) in its full livery. Handover of the aircraft is due in March.
Credit: Joe G Walker gallery on Flightglobal AirSpace
In a passing nod to the er... passing of the Boeing 747 from Singapore Airlines' fleet, here's a picture from Flightglobal's AirSpace gallery of Boeing's 1,000th 747. The Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered aircraft was delivered to Singapore Airlines in 1993 as 9V-SMU and carried out sterling years of service for the carrier until 2010. It underwent freighter conversion in 2011 and is currently, at least according to our Ascend Online database, plying its trade for Southern Air as N400SA.
Credit: commercial aviation gallery on Flightglobal AirSpace
Much as the title suggests - here's Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB powerplant, which will eventually power the Airbus A350, on its maiden flight on board Airbus's A380 MSN1 flying test bed.
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This picture from the UK Ministry of Defence has been released to coincide with completion of sea trials by the Royal Navy's first AgustaWestland Lynx Wildcat helicopter at the beginning of February on board HMS Iron Duke. Prototype ZZ402 made a total of 390 landings on the frigate, including 148 at night, 76 of which while using night-vision goggles. The first of 28 navalised versions is due to be delivered in the fourth quarter.
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Spotted this on the New Zealand Defence Force's flickr stream. It's an Antonov An-124-100 fresh from delivering the country's first NH Industries NH90 helicopters to 3 Sqn at RNZAF Base Ohakea from Marignane, France.
Credit: New Zealand Defence Force
ESA's new launcher, Vega, made a successful maiden flight today from French Guyana. Aerospace manufacturer Avio coordinated work with 12 different European countries and 45 separate companies to produce 65% of the launcher.
Credit: ESA/Avio
Credit: Embraer
Jackie Chan's executive jet has arrived in Singapore, the first Legacy 650 to be displayed at the Singapore Airshow.
Unfortunately Jackie isn't present, but the aircraft, which has a distinctive 'Dragon' livery, will certainly pull in the crowds during the show.
To get the latest news and views from this year's Singapore Airshow, visit our dedicated show page
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The Boeing 787 landed at Singapore today in anticipation of this week's Singapore Airshow. The Dreamliner is in the midst of a six-month "Dream Tour" taking it around the world and will be on static display between 14-17 February .
You can follow all the latest from the Singapore Airshow on our dedicated show page and make sure you check out our preview of this year's event.
Also, check out how Boeing branded the sky during a recent test flight.
Uzbekistan Airways is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a shiny new present, a Boeing 767-300ER. This is the first of four 767-300ERs from a 2008 order. Uzbekistan Airways, headquartered in Tashkent, also has two 787-8s on order.
Lockheed Martin inducted the 11th aircraft to the C-5M Super Galaxy production line in Marietta, Georgia on February 1, 2012. Based at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, this aircraft has supported operations across the globe, delivering cargo in locations such as Iraq, Italy, Germany, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Spain and Turkey.
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Spanish carrier Air Nostrum has taken delivery of its 75th Bombardier aircraft - a CRJ1000 - at a ceremony in Mirabel, Canada. It follows previous deliveries of nine CRJ1000s (part of an order for 35 of the type), 11 CRJ900s, and 35 CRJ200 regional jets, as well as 19 Q300 turboprops. It's one of just two customers for the CRJ1000, whose backlog - as of 31 October - stood at 32 aircraft (which is now at least down to 28). The overall CRJ backlog, meanwhile, was a dwindling 52 aircraft.
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Replete with dragon motif - to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon - this Airbus A320, the carrier's 100th (registration - we think - 9M-AQM, although that's listed in our database as a 1972-vintage Boeing 737-200 that was parked in 2008) arrived in AirAsia's fleet earlier this week. According to the press bumf, it took a team of 1,000s of painters, a billion hours to complete it (although to be honest, I might have skimmed that bit).
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With yesterday's announcement that the Dassault Rafale has been selected for India's MMRCA fighter contest, I thought it timely to use this picture of the aircraft from Flightglobal's Airspace gallery. Of course it might have been more apt to have a picture of a Eurofighter in a nose dive, given its current sales figures.
Credit: Zhukovsky gallery on Flightglobal Airspace
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