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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · Mar 11

An introduction to the #aircargo, #airfreight and #airmail business: #aircargoknowledge

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Joseph Friesen @josephfriesen.bsky.social · 7h

Prime Air (operated by Air Transport International)
8C3329 PHX-ILN
Boeing 767-300 BDSF
Reg. N389AZ
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, KPHX
October 2, 2025

#primeair #ATI #N389AZ #aviationphotography #planespotting #boeing #boeing767 #B767 #KPHX #phoenix #fujifilm

A side view of an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 freighter, registration N389AZ, climbing steeply. In the background, arid mountains rise above a city under a clear blue sky.

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Big Jet TV @bigjet.tv · 6h

Dramatic DHL A300 Tailstrike at London Heathrow Airport #avgeek #aviation

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 5h

#aircargoknowledge #aerospace

STAT Times @stattimes.bsky.social · 20h

With the global commercial fleet projected to reach nearly 50,000 aircraft by 2044, #aerospace logistics is set for unprecedented growth. Moving aircraft engines isn’t just cargo work, it’s a precision-driven mission that keeps global aviation in motion.

#KuehneNagel #RhenusGroup #ChallengeGroup

From hangar to air: the changing landscape of engine logistics

As Boeing projects 50,000 aircraft by 2044, the race to move engines efficiently is reaching critical altitude.The global aerospace logistics sector is witnessing unprecedented growth, fuelled by...

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 1d

Reverse parking an Airbus A400M

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A400M Tactical Landing & Reverse Turn | #tdbw23

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 1d

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Airbus A400M pulls off incredible loop

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 1d

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Airbus A400M Combat Takeoff at RIAT 2017

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Joris van Boven @jorisvanboven.bsky.social · 1d

20160405 Beauvechain AB (BE)
#Glow on the propellor of this Belgian C-130

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 11, 2025
The theme is #Glow
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Airways Magazine @airwaysmag.bsky.social · 1d

Rain or shine, the Queen delivers

📸: Lorenzo Giacobbo / Airways

#sfairlines #boeing #avgeek

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 1d

#aircargoknowledge

Airways Magazine @airwaysmag.bsky.social · 1d

Among all threats, bird strikes and aircraft/bird collisions are particularly unpredictable and can readily harm engines. www.airwaysmag.com/new-post/tes...

Explained: Testing Jet Engines for Bird Strike Resistance

Among all threats, bird strikes and aircraft/bird collisions are particularly unpredictable and can readily harm engines.

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Burkhard Domke @rlhdlw.bsky.social · Nov 19

Antonov 🇺🇦 An-70 UR-EXA at Paris Airshow 2013

The An-70 is one of a few airplanes that have extendable leading edge slats on the stabilizer to help counter the significant nose-down moment created by highly effective wing trailing edge flaps.
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Antonov 🇺🇦 An-70 UR-EXA in high-lift configuration with slats and flaps deployed on the wing and slats deployed on the stabilizer.

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Joris van Boven @jorisvanboven.bsky.social · Dec 14

20211012 Eindhoven AB (NL). Last visit of a German Transall before the retirement. The weather could have been better.....
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Joris van Boven @jorisvanboven.bsky.social · Dec 14

20211012 Eindhoven AB (NL). Last visit of a German Transall before the retirement. The weather could have been better.....
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Burkhard Domke @rlhdlw.bsky.social · Feb 21

Luftwaffe C.160 Transall 50+46 on takeoff, lifting off by its own without stick input, main landing gear first.

Rostock-Laage Open House 🇩🇪 in 2006.
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Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social · 21d

While an intriguing concept, the usual red flags such as the start-up nature of the company, and the clear commercial focus of the effort, with military applications being a secondary consideration at best, leave me pretty sceptical. breakingdefense.com/2025/09/how-...

How Radia hopes to move DoD cargo with the world's largest airplane - Breaking Defense

While designed primarily to move massive wind turbine blades, the WindRunner aircraft under development by Radia could serve military applications, with the Pentagon and US Congress taking an interest...

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Joseph Trevithick @franticgoat.bsky.social · 19d

C-17 and C-5 Cargo Planes Will Be Replaced With One Aircraft: USAF www.twz.com/air/c-17-and...

C-17 and C-5 Cargo Planes Will Be Replaced With One Aircraft: USAF

Plans for a Next Generation Airlift platform, or NGAL, targeted for entry into service in the 2040s, are starting to coalesce.

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AirHistory.net @airhistorynet.bsky.social · 5d

Embraer has recently applied a new livery to its KC-390 demonstrator PT-ZNG. Miguel Barbosa photographed it at Belo Horizonte on 22 September 2025.

#avgeek #airhistory #embraer #kc390 #c390 #planespotting #aviationphotography

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Aircraft Photo of PT-ZNG | Embraer KC-390 (EMB-390) | Embraer | AirHistory.net #853437

Aircraft photo of PT-ZNG - Embraer KC-390 (EMB-390) - Embraer, taken by Miguel Barbosa at Belo Horizonte - Tancredo Neves (SBCF / CNF) in Brazil on 22 September 2025.

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AirHistory.net @airhistorynet.bsky.social · 4d

Brandon Siska photographed this Kelowna Flightcraft ATR-72 C-GKFW at Vancouver on 1 October 2025. It entered commercial service a day later.

#avgeek #airhistory #atr #atr72 #kelownaflightcraft #purolator #planespotting #aviationphotography

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Aircraft Photo of C-GKFW | ATR ATR-72-500/F (ATR-72-212A) | Purolator Courier | AirHistory.net #853677

Aircraft photo of C-GKFW - ATR ATR-72-500/F (ATR-72-212A) - Purolator Courier / Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, taken by Brandon Siska at Vancouver - International (CYVR / YVR) in British Columbia, C...

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Air Cargo - How It Works @aircargohowitworks.bsky.social · 2d

#aircargohistory 1975

AirHistory.net @airhistorynet.bsky.social · 2d

Lewis Grant photographed this Vickers Merchantman G-APEM at London Heathrow on 13 March 1975.

#avgeek #airhistory #vickers #vickersmerchantman #britishairways #britishairwayscargo #propliner #aviationphotography #planespotting

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Aircraft Photo of G-APEM | Vickers 953C Merchantman | British Airways Cargo | AirHistory.net #376479

Aircraft photo of G-APEM - Vickers 953C Merchantman - British Airways Cargo, taken by Lewis Grant at Glasgow - International (EGPF / GLA) in Scotland, United Kingdom on 13 March 1975. Transitional liv...

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Airplane Pictures @airplane-pictures.net · 6d

#Antonov #An-30 (all models), #Romania - Air Force (1104) by Franek Zakrzewski (#Warsaw - Frederic Chopin) #Military #aviation #photography #avgeeks

Antonov An-30 (all models) photo by Franek Zakrzewski

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Joris van Boven @jorisvanboven.bsky.social · 5d

20201002 Luxembourg-Findel AP (LU) First arrival of the A400M
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Airplane Pictures @airplane-pictures.net · 5d

#Boeing #777F, #AeroLogic (D-AALE) by Aron Teppert (#Frankfurt) #Cargo #aviation #photography #avgeeks

Boeing 777F photo by Aron Teppert

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Airplane Pictures @airplane-pictures.net · 5d

#McDonnell Douglas #DC-10F, #Solar Cargo (YV524T) by José Andrés Salazar Hernández (#San Jose - Juan Santamaría Intl) #Cargo #aviation #photography #avgeeks

McDonnell Douglas DC-10F photo by José Andrés Salazar Hernández

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Eric Lichtenstein Aviation Photos @hatu13.bsky.social · 5d

7Air Cargo 737-86D, N330FL. Originally delivered to Shanghai Airlines on August 14, 2002. MIA. 9-28-2025.

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FreddyB Aviation Photography @freddyb-aviation.bsky.social · 4d

de Havilland Canada DHC-4T Caribou N238PT on final for Pt. Mugu during Grey Flag, September 2025. This plane is registered to Nordluft which makes forestry drones hmmm www.nordluftautomation.com #nasptmugu #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #Z9 #avgeek #photography #cvvhrn #nordluft #deHavilland #DHC4 #Caribou

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Joris van Boven @jorisvanboven.bsky.social · 4d

20240609 Cherbourg airport (FR), 80 years D-DAY commemorations
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