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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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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
F-35A from the Norwegian Air Force 132nd air wing, stationed in Poland's 31st tactical Air Base, Poland, 2025.
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Polish Air Force MiG-29s and F-16s pose for a photoshoot for photographers inside a CASA C-295M
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