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Schizo stuff, probably. Oh and a lotta planes. Or birds. Or whatever I feel like talking bout. Remember, you heard it first through the grapevines!
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Upgraded F-16 C/D of the RSAF and A330 MRTT during Exercise Forging Sabre 2023 at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, US, doing evening refuelling
Royal Saudi Air Force Beechcraft King Air 300 (Sub Model: 350i, registration: N699HB) Electronic Warfare (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance [ISR]) / VIP Transport aircraft out of CYYT.
Yak-38U VTOL Trainer aircraft for the soviet navy
(it looks like it was born with down syndrome)
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Alaska-based F-22A moves in for a closeup shot
IIRC they were doing a photo shoot and the camera man asked if he could get closer

Pilot said "how close do you want?"

And this was the result
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A pair of Russian SU-27Ps intercept what looks to be a Danish F-35 (main thing) and a Swedish Gripen

Also in the final still shot it looks like the F-35 pilot is waving to them
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Turkish MMU KAAN on its 2nd test flight.
Blows my mind that the tailplane of this is the size of a wing on the F-16
Spanish Air Force F-1CE(M), September 18, 2010, at Los Llanos Air Base
The fake canopy painted on the underside is a really interesting design choice. I wonder why
Eurasian Blue Tit taking a bath
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One aircraft from each fixed-wing squadron on CVN-70, Carl Vinson, CW-14 circa 1994 flying in formation over it.
The classic 80s air wing was two fighter squadrons with F-14s, two strike fighter squadrons with F/A-18s, one attack squadron with A-6s, one electronic attack squadron with EA-6Bs, one airborne early warning squadron with E-2s, and one sea control / antisubmarine squadron with S-3s.
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Pilots and aircraft aboard the heavy aviation cruiser "Kiev", circa 1987.
Fun fact: The Yak-38/M forger had an automatic ejection system for the pilots should the aircraft roll more than 60 degrees while hovering due to its instability and difficulty to control in that mode.
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Little guy must be having the best nap of his life!
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F-14A of the IRIAF in TAB, Tehran, with its new indigenous landing gear, 2024.
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IRIAF F-4, F-14As refuel with one of the only 2 KC-747 (converted Boeing 747-131SF) in the world, November 29, 2018, Kish Island (OBIK), Iran, for an air show
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U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 25. 2011. 
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CASA C-295M of the Colombian Air Force