Questions tagged [aircraft-identification]
For questions seeking to identify an aircraft, e.g. by description or photograph.
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What is the seaplane in this old photograph?
Can you help identify this large apparently water-borne machine?
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Here's another German aircraft of unknown descent?
A most unusual all-white single-engine pusher tri-plane
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What does an XXXX ident mean? [closed]
A couple of guys who I met online yesterday claim to have been in the military. One of them was tracking flights earlier and saw a plane with a callsign of XXXX. He said that this was very bad and is ...
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What aircraft (real or fictional) does this look most like? [closed]
I just finished building a foam board plane. I did not follow any plans and this is just me being stupid and making a plane that I hope will fly. pic below.
Its a flying wing with a bit of dihedral, ...
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What aircraft has a sustained bright orange light visible at night/early morning?
This morning around 6 a.m. in Durham, N.C. I was sitting on my porch and saw a bright orange light, I thought it was Mars it was so orange, but it was very bright. After looking at it for a moment it ...
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Is this a 747 or a 380?
I got a video of a 4-engine jet landing at LAX on December 28, 2018 at 12:40 PM. Here's some screen shots from the video:
I think it is a 380, but....
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STRANGE VERY CLOSE MID AIR FLY BY
During a flight this week from Kefalonia, Greece to London Gatwick, about halfway through the flight. I looked out of my window on the right of the plane and was shocked to see a Silver plane, with it ...
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What is the type of this plane?
I tried looking with aircraft tag on engine but no answers. I just need to find the type of this jet.
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Very low, difficult to see, SILENT, Aircraft [closed]
I live in Oklahoma, and at about 7-7:30 pm on 11/20/22, something massive flew over my house(going east), bigger than any cargo plane I have seen. It was completely silent, with 3 red lights along the ...
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What are those aircraft flying over my house? [closed]
I took pictures of 6 aircraft at Long Beach, California. Although I see them a lot of times, I have yet to hear the name.
These photos were taken on August 6, 2020:
A blue and orange biplane on 5:34 ...
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As a General Rule, who is authorized to taxi aircraft [closed]
Need Help with this question it is giving me a hard time
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What is this aircraft seen over Southern California? [closed]
It looked similar in shape to the DH108 Swallow seen at the top of this website
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailless_aircraft
The best likeness I have found online (except the wings were flat and ...
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Does anyone know what plane this is? [closed]
I have looked at hundreds of photos on line but nothing that has the upswept wings and the downswept rear wings with just one tail. I'd like to see a picture so I can paint it properly - thanks
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What is this 11-engine airplane? [closed]
I thought it looked similar to an An-225, but there are too many engines.
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Is this free flight data really correct? [closed]
In recent years, I'm being terrorized by airplanes flying over here all the time at low height. For this reason, I'm trying to set up a little notification system to see if these are actually "...
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What is this aircraft, and when was it used operationally?
What is this aircraft, when did it serve with the US army, and what was its role?
source: americaloveshorsepower.com
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