DHL wanted a smaller aircraft for routes that could not support larger planes like the 757 or 767, so they decided to convert a BN737 into a cargo plane for item delivery. The whole process started in 13th of November 2013 and ended on the 9th April 2014. Take a look how it looks like.
Full album is here: Boeing 737 conversion to a freighter
Have a look a these unfortunate planes just rotting somewhere in Ohio.
Full album is here: Abandoned plane graveyard in Ohio
Here is some unique engineering, turning a 307 into a boat. When it was introduced it is the first high-altitude commercial and first four-engine airliner in scheduled domestic service. And it already had 500 flight hours. Unfortunately when hurricane damaged it in 1964 it was never flown again. In 1974, wing and the tail were taken off and the fuselage was made into a yacht. The “plane-boat” features twin V-8 inboards incorporating the original aircraft cockpit controls that were used to fly the plane, propelling the vessel over 20 mph The plane boat can be found, seen and transported by in Miami.
Full album is here: Plane Boat
To drill for oil in the Arctic, Russian oil companies host a fleet of Arctic aviation and ships. The larger companies have hired atomic ice breakers to deliver their teams deep into the Arctic. Those ice breakers often carry helicopters on board. They are used for research and scouting, for human transportation and the delivery of shipments to the drilling operations.
Full album is here: Polar Helicopters Based on Atomic Ice Breakers
The collapse of Russia’s arms industry in the 1990s really hurt the SU-34′s development, but it has recovered. A development journey that began with the aircraft’s maiden flight in 1990, as the T10V/SU-27IB, ended in 2010 with deliveries and fielding under a 5-year production contract, followed by a 2012 full rate production order.
RIA Novosti put the plane’s mission simply: “The Su-34 is meant to deliver a sufficiently large ordnance load to a predetermined area, hit the target accurately and take evasive action against pursuing enemy planes.” Other reports have gone further, stating that the plane is also meant to be able to handle enemy fighters in aerial combat. Given its base platform characteristics, it would likely match up well in the air against many of America’s “teen series” aircraft.
Full album is here: Production Of Newly Adopted Su-34 Bombers
When the first ever copy of Tu-144 supersonic airliner was conceived they didn’t build it all together in one factory area. They built the fuselage in one place, inside Moscow city and then decided to move it to Zhukovski city where it should be supplemented with all other parts and systems. To move such thing out of the Moscow research center thru the city streets they had to build specially built trolleys that could turn the streets, as back in 1968 they didn’t have ready made means of transportation for this task. These are a few photos of this event.
Full album is here: First Tu-144 Body Transported Thru Moscow
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