This image from the US Air Force shows pararescuemen with the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron securing the area after being lowered from a Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk during a mission in Afghanistan earlier this month.
US Air Force
November 2012 Archives
To accompany this lovely picture posted on our AirSpace gallery, here's the accompanying caption from contributor EnoAeroPics: "The sun finally broke through in the late afternoon of 7 November 2012 when Boeing 747-406BC c/n 30455 (l/n 1302) PH-BFY "City of Johannesburg" of KLM lifted off runway 06-24 at Schiphol Amsterdam airport. The aircraft first flew on 30 March 2002 as N6005C and was delivered to KLM on 10 April 2002." More of their images here.
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Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand, the self-proclaimed 'airline of Middle-earth', arrived on England's fair shores yesterday in a livery inspired by the soon-to-be-released movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Fresh from releasing its "Unexpected Briefing" in-flight safety video - viewed over 10 million times on YouTube - Air New Zealand painted its 777-300 to take the cast and crew over to New Zealand to attend the film's premiere in Wellington on November 28.
Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Rob Fyfe says the imagery, which extends the full length of the 73 metre long aircraft, is simply stunning. "This aircraft is going to excite passengers and fans of Sir Peter Jackson's award-winning cinema fantasies alike when it begins regular Air New Zealand services between Auckland, Los Angeles and London from this evening. (NZT).
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Continue reading Air New Zealand's unexpected journey with a Hobbit inspired livery.
Fresh from Airbus is this image showing the first flight of a Sharklet-equipped A319, which made its maiden sortie on 23 November from Hamburg to Toulouse. It's the third member of the A320-family to get the wing-tip modification and will enter service in the second quarter of 2013.
Airbus
As the Royal Australian Air Force prepares to say goodbye to its H-model Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules at the end of the month, a specially liveried aircraft has embarked on a tour of the nation, here pictured on a flight over Sydney. The variant has been in-service with the RAAF for 34 years. And yes, that's the second Herc shot this week, for which I make no apology. So there.
Rex Features
Xiamen Airlines joined the SkyTeam alliance this morning and on the back of this, the grouping has released the charming image below. To while away ten minutes, why not see if you can identify which airline each stewardess works for? We managed about half of them, but the plethora of identical blue uniforms had us a little stumped. (We'd also forgotten Tarom was in it).
SkyTeam
Here's a great picture from the US Air Force site showing a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules taking off from Little Rock AFB in Arkansas. Flightglobal's MiliCAS database lists the service operating a total of 363 C-130s, the majority E/H models.
US Air Force
Qatar Airways has received its first Dreamliner this week, but visitors to the Farnborough airshow last summer had a preview. Here's Qatar Airway's Boeing 787 taking off from the Hampshire airfield.
Photo credit: airspace user Hounddogone
Picture: FlyPHANUK
A few weeks ago we posted an image of Alaska Airlines' Salmon-Thirty-Salmon livery, that adapted perfectly to the shape of the Boeing 737.
Here is another example of an animal-themed livery fitting an airframe perfectly, this time an eagle, decorating a Colombian Air Force C-130 Hercules that was visting the Farnborough air show last summer.
Picture: Flyvertosset
Few pictures make it easier to visualize the evolution of figther aircraft since WWII.
How will the USAF heritage flight of 2050 look like?
Pictures: Turkish Airlines
Hardly a day goes by without Turkish Airlines announcing new destinations being added to its huge network, no wonder, then, that its fleet is growing accordingly. It has just received its 200th aircraft, this Boeing 737-900ER.
Picture: @v_saveliev
Aeroflot's CEO, Vitaly Savelyev, has announced the Russian flag carrier's new retro livery on Twitter today.
It will be painted on Aeroflot's new Airbus A320s but it get its inspiration from the colour scheme sported by the carrier's Tupolev Tu-104 aircraft during the Soviet era.
Shot by AirSpace user Ben Mongomery, this great picture shows a Polish air force RAC MiG-29A at teh UK's Royal International Air Tattoo in July.
Ben Montgomery on flightglobal/AirSpace
Despite its size, Boeing's renowned C-17 Globemaster II strategic airlifter displays a suprising degree of agility. This picture was posted by user flyvertosset on our AirSpace gallery and shows the aircraft climbing out of Nellis air base in Nevada.
flyvertosset on flightglobal/AirSpace
Much as the title suggests, this shot, posted by user hounddogone on our AirSpace forum, shows an Airbus A380 operated by Singapore Airlines on approach to London Heathrow. The carrier is celebrating five years of A380 service this year.
Hounddogone on flightglobal/AirSpace
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Picture: British Airways
It is becoming a tradition that, at this time of the year, many men start growing a moustache during the whole month of November in support of the Movember campaign to raise awareness and funds in the fight against prostate cancer.
Well, I said men grow moustaches...but aircraft can too!
Because British Airways has joined the Movember campaign by decorating one of its Airbus A319 with the "connoisseur" moustache that you can see in this picture!
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Picture: Joris van Boven
Getting ready in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to re-enact the famous, and ill-fated, Operation Market Garden...
Pictured on 29 October is this Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor conducting night operations onboard amphibious assault ship USS Boxer off the coast of California.
US Navy
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