D-36 Ukraine Plane

At take-off power (sea level, static, ISA):
Thrust, kg(f)	6500
Specific fuel consumption, kg/ kg(f)-h	0.350
Air flow rate, kg/s	260
By-pass ratio	5.6
Overall compressor pressure ratio	20.0
TIT, K	1450
At maximum cruise power (H=8000m, Mfl=0.75, ISA):
Thrust, kg(f)	1600
Specific fuel consumption, kg/kg(f)-h	0.620
Overall dimensions, mm:	3469x1541x1711
Dry mass, kg	110

The world's most powerful helicopter engineThis turboshaft engine was designed for the Mi-26 twin-engined transport helicopter. Both the engine and the helicopter are by an enormous margin the most powerful and most capable in the world. The engine's derivation from the D-36 "enabled production to be achieved quite rapidly". Bench testing started in 1977, and series production at the Motor Sich plant began in 1982. According to Mil, by 1999 a total of 280 Mi-26 helicopters had flown, though in 2001 Ivchenko-'Progress' gave the total number of D-136 engines in service as only 470. In 2001, writing as if it was one of his engines, Vyacheslav Boguslayev of Motor Sich gave the number produced as "about 500".

The engine is listed by Motor Sich as a past rather than current programme, although small numbers of Mi-26 helicopters continue to be exported, the most recent (2006-7) being three Mi-26T multirole transports for Venezuela.The D-136 is composed of 10 modules, each of which (except for the main module) can be removed and replaced without disturbing neighbouring modules on an installed engine. Five of the gas-generator modules are identical with those of the D-36.

Folding Plane

A California startup revealed an aircraft

on Wednesday evening built for an increasingly popular new kind of pilot—the weekend aviator with a jones for expensive toys.

Loaded with features like folding wings (so you can keep it in your garage) and seat belt-like parachutes (so you can ease the whole thing down to the ground), ICON Aircraft’s new light sport airplane (LSA), dubbed the A5, might just be the ultimate joyride.

“We designed it so that people who don’t know airplanes know that something has changed,” Kirk Hawkins, ICON’s chief executive officer, told Popular Mechanics.

What’s changed are federal regulations, which created a new form of airplane and a new kind of pilot licence that requires less training and no medical check to obtain. The Federal Aviation Administration created the Sport Pilot category in 2004, but only now are players large and small entering this virgin market. At the “Sun ’n Fun Fly-In,” an aircraft festival held in Florida earlier this year, manufacturers showcased 75 LSAs, up from just 20 in 2006.

For ICON, reaching new customers meant a design that borrowed heavily from automobile marketing. “The product has to have sex appeal and be aesthetically inspirational,” Hawkins says. “It not only has to perform well, it has to look like it performs well.”

ICON faced another design hurdle in ensuring that aspiring pilots were not cowed by the risks of flight. The A5’s cockpit gauges look like they belong on a sports-car’s dashboard, while curved structures guard against accidental contact with the propeller whenever the plane is on the ground. Perhaps most crucial to this goal is that increasingly common parachute: no delicate maneuvers are necessary if the airplane is distressed—it can simply float to the ground.

Engineers at ICON also built the A5 to be a lot less of a hassle than other small aircraft, allowing owners to have a lot more fun. The wings can fold for storage in a large garage, and the airplane even comes with its own trailer. Amphibious models have platforms that connect to docks or piers. Versions of the A5 that can’t land in water will have automatic, rather than manual, folding wings.

Hawkings isn’t shy about his attempt to make flying small airplanes the luxury motor sport of the 21st century. “The passionate consumer will not use these to get to grandma’s house quicker,” he says. —Joe Pappalardo

Antonov-32 Plane

India's state-owned military-plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) said that a joint venture to develop a multi-role transport aircraft is near completion. HAL is partnering with Russia's Ilyushin Design Bureau in the $600 million project, to which the two companies will contribute equally, HAL Chairman Ashok Baweja told a news conference here.

'The funding is ready and the programme is now on,' Baweja said of talks which dragged on since first conceived in the first half of this decade. The 60-tonne tactical transport aircraft, meant to serve the armed forces of the two countries, would take six-to-seven years to develop, with the components coming from Ilyushin production facilities in Russia, Baweja said.

To be used both for transport duties and troop deployment, the aircraft is meant to replace the Indian Air Force's ageing Antonov-32s even as the country also seeks transport aircrafts for the US. Last month, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said India plans to buy six Hercules transport planes, along with ground-support equipment and spares, from Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) of the US for $962 million.

The four-engine turboprop aircraft will be used as the main tactical aircraft for special operations, officials have said. Bangalore-based HAL manufactures under license Russian-designed Sukhoi and MiG fighter planes, British Jaguars and locally designed advanced light helicopters. In about a month, it will deliver to the Indian Air Force the first locally-built Hawk advanced jet trainer to be followed by 14 more over the next year, Baweja said.

The aircraft were among 66 trainer jets ordered by the Indian government in March 2004 from Britain's BAE Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, 24 Hawk trainers were bought off the shelf, while the other 42 are to be built under licence by HAL. In the financial year ended March 31, the state-owned company crossed two billion dollars in sales, which have doubled in three years, according to Baweja. Exports rose by a fifth to $81.25 million.

HAL received orders worth 233.15 billion rupees ($5.83 billion) during the year, including 159 advanced light helicopters to be delivered to the Indian armed forces. The company has 451 billion rupees of orders on hand, Baweja said.

F-86 Sabre Plane

The Canadian version of the North American F-86 Sabre, the Canadair CL-13, had a long career in the Luftwaffe, with which 75 Mk. 5 and 225 Mk. 6 examples served. This preserved aircraft is in the markings of JG 74.

German aviation in general was severely curtailed, and military aviation was completely forbidden when the Luftwaffe was officially disbanded in August 1946 by the Allied Control Commission. This changed when West Germany joined NATO in 1955, as the Western Allies believed that Germany was needed in view of the increasing military threat posed by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Throughout the following decades, the West German Luftwaffe (Bundesluftwaffe: federal air force) was equipped mostly with U.S.-designed aircraft manufactured locally under license. All aircraft sported—and continue to sport—the Iron Cross on the fuselage, harking back to the days of World War I, while the national flag of West Germany is displayed on the tail.

Many well-known fighter pilots who had fought with the Luftwaffe in World War II joined the new post-war air force and underwent refresher training in the U.S. before returning to West Germany to upgrade on the latest U.S.-supplied hardware. These included Erich Hartmann, the highest-ever scoring ace (352 enemy aircraft destroyed), Gerhard Barkhorn (301), Günther Rall (275) and Johannes Steinhoff (176). Steinhoff, who suffered a crash in a Messerschmitt Me 262 shortly before the end of the war that resulted in lifelong scarring of his face and other parts of his body, would eventually become commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, with Rall as his immediate successor. Hartmann retired as an Oberst (colonel) in 1970 at age 48. Josef Kammhuber, mentioned above, also served in the post-war Luftwaffe, retiring in 1962 as Inspekteur der Bundesluftwaffe (chief inspector of the Federal air force).

During the 1960s, the "Starfighter crisis" developed into a political issue, as many of these Lockheed F-104 Starfighters crashed after being modified to serve for Luftwaffe purposes — specifically for terrain, weather, and ground mechanic support issues. In Luftwaffe service, 292 of the 916 Starfighters crashed, claiming the lives of 115 pilots and leading to cries that the Starfighter was fundamentally unsafe from the West German public, which referred to it as the Witwenmacher (widow-maker), fliegender Sarg (flying coffin), and Erdnagel (ground nail).

Steinhoff and his deputy Günther Rall noted that the non-German F-104s proved much safer — Spain, for example, lost none in the same period. The Americans blamed the high loss rate of the Luftwaffe F-104s on the extreme low-level and aggressive flying of German pilots rather than any faults in the aircraft.[2]. Steinhoff and Rall immediately left their daily work and went to America to learn to fly the Starfighter under Lockheed instruction and noted some specifics in the training (a distinct lack of mountain and foggy-weather training), combined with handling capabilities (sharp start high G turns) of the aircraft that could create accident situations.

Steinhoff and Rall immediately changed the training regimen for the F-104 pilots, and the accident rates quickly fell to those comparable or better than other air forces. They also brought about the high level of training and professionalism seen today throughout the Luftwaffe, and the start of a strategic direction for Luftwaffe pilots to tactically and combat train outside Germany. However, the F-104 never lived down its reputation as a widow-maker and was replaced much earlier by the Luftwaffe than other national air forces.

The Starfighter was completely replaced by the American-built McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter and the Panavia Tornado fighter-bomber, where the latter was designed and produced by a cooperative of companies from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. These fighters all remain in Luftwaffe service today, especially with upgrades to their electronics and the addition of the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile for the air defense of Germany.
One of 212 Panavia Tornado IDSs delivered to the Luftwaffe

From 1965 through 1970, two surface-to-surface missile wings (Flugkörpergeschwader) fielded 16 of the Pershing I missile systems with nuclear warheads under U.S. Army custody. In 1970, the system was upgraded to Pershing IA with 72 missiles. Although not directly affected by the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Luftwaffe unilaterally agreed to the removal of the Pershing IA missiles from its inventory in 1991, and the missiles were destroyed.

Beginning in June 1979, the Luftwaffe took delivery of 212 Panavia Tornado fighters.

Embraer Phenom 100 Plane

Three More Brazilian Planes Sold to Middle East 

The Embraer Phenom 100 is a Very Light Jet (VLJ) developed by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. It has a capacity for 4 passengers in its normal configuration, but it can carry up to 6-7 passengers with a single crew, optional side facing seat and belted toilet. It has a maximum flying range of 1,178 nautical miles with 4 occupants and NBAA IFR Reserves. As of 1 January 2009, its price is US$ 3.6 million, (citation needed) with the first aircraft delivered in December 2008. The fourteenth plane was acquired on March, 25th 2009, by a private pilot.

Role                     :Very light jet
Manufacturer  : Embraer
First flight         : July 26, 2007
Status                  : In production
Produced           : 2007-
Number built   : 18
Unit cost            : US$ 3.6 million
Variants             : Embraer Phenom 300

Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, announced the sale of three executive jets to United Aviation, company from Kuwait that operates luxury air charter services.

According to information from the Brazilian company, orders were made for one Phenom 100, one Phenom 300 and one Legacy 600. With this contract, the number of orders for executive aircrafts Embraer has received from the Middle East increases to 10, of which five have already been delivered.

According to Embraer, the Legacy should be delivered in October this year. United Aviation already has two airplanes of this model, which they received in 2004. The two Phenom, new model of the Brazilian industry for executive aviation, should be delivered between 2008 and 2010. The Kuwaiti company will launch the new models in the region.

The Legacy has capacity for taking up to 16 passengers, the Phenom 100 for four and the Phenom 300 for six people. "The Phenom 100 and the Phenom 300 represent a natural choice to complete our current fleet and are part of an expansion strategy in the Middle East," said the president of United Aviation, Abdul Salam Al Bahar, according to a statement released by Embraer.

According to him, the company started working in the field of luxury flights using the two Legacy they already own.

The vice-president for the executive aviation market at Embraer, Luís Carlos Affonso, said in a recent interview that the company considers the Middle East one of the main markets in the world for the sector.

In May the company sold two Legacy in the region, one for the president of the bank Fransabank, the Lebanese Adnan Kassar, and another to Celtel International, subsidiary of the Kuwaiti MTC in Africa. Kassar is also president of General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of the Arab Countries, of which the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce is a member.

Embraer did not disclose the value of the contract, but the stated price of the Legacy 600 is of US$ 24.5 million, the Phenom 100 costs US$ 2.75 million and the Phenom 300 costs US$ 6.65 million. The first units of the Phenom 100 are to get to the market mid 2008 and the Phenom 300 one year later.

United Aviation, which also operates helicopters, belongs to Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO), a holding company that has business in many other areas, like finances, insurance, telecommunications, real estate, food products and industry. According to information from the site Ame Info, specialized in economics in the Arab world, the group manages assets of US$ 15 billion, employs 12,000 people around the world and had a profit of US$ 130 million last year.

Anba - www.anba.com.br

Dassault Falcon 7X Plane

Paris to Los Angeles, New York to Honolulu or San Francisco to Moscow…whatever the chosen route, passengers the world over swear by the French-built Falcon 7X from Dassault, an aircraft which ushers in a new era of luxury business travel.

First unveiled at the 2005 Paris Air Show, the Falcon 7X can carry up to nineteen passengers and flies you at 1100km/h from one end of the earth to the other, making it not only the fastest jet of its class, but also, covering 11,000km, one of the most widely travelled.

Even before its maiden flight, the $41m craft was phenomenally popular, racking up 165 orders in 33 states. Just as modern as the aerodynamics is the cabin construction; three spacious lounge areas - each with private bathroom and kitchen - provide a touch of home comfort on-board. It’s no surprise that the 7X has established itself as the flagship model in the Dassault line.

Author: Ursula Hannan

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Embraer Legacy 600 Plane

Far above the clouds the world is silently beautiful and where better to enjoy such views than from the spacious cabin of Embraer’s luxury business jet, the Legacy 600, which provides a spacious on-board environment for up to thirteen passengers.

The luxuriously appointed cabin is divided into three separate areas, perfect for that moment’s privacy whilst in the air and the interior is stylishly designed with touches of quality hardwoods and good quality fabrics, whilst DVD, telephone and fax facilities are also at your disposal.

The craft is capable of a non-stop flight of up to 6019km and can hit speeds of around 850km/h. The Legacy 600 is also equipped and passed for steep approach landings, necessary when touching down in urban airports such as London City. Since its launch six years ago, Embraer have sold around 100 of these aircraft in nineteen different countries and for those who can, such an aircraft will set you back around $23m.

Author: Ursula Hannan

Hawker 400 XP, Hawker Beechcraft Plane

Whether you planned your flight months in advance or the travel bug caught you quite by surprise, the Hawker 400 XP is the perfect mode of transport for any kind of trip.

Hawker Beechcraft machines have a reputation for high performance and luxurious comfort and the 400 XP is certainly no exception; with the largest and most luxurious cabin, fitted out in stylish cherry wood, gold inlaid tables and real leather seats, it offers a touch of home comfort in the air. Interior temperature and lighting levels can of course be controlled to create the perfect travelling atmosphere and personal on-board monitors keep you up to date on the flight status for the duration of your time in the air. Capable of speeds up to 867 km/h the 400 XP provides speedy and luxurious travel and is yours for $19m.

Author: Ursula Hannan

Falcon 900 EX Plane

Soar effortlessly through the clouds in the Falcon 900 EX from Dassault, a $56m aircraft.

Not only the fastest, but also one of the best equipped. The spacious cabin is 10 meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 2 meters high so there is ample room for you and your colleagues to move around in flight. Comfy leather seats and thick, plush carpeting help you to relax.

The business/conference facilities are extremely impressive; a conference table, copy machine and video wall are all at your disposal for the more business-oriented flight. The twelve panorama windows flood the cabin with natural light providing a pleasant on-board environment whether you choose to relax or to work. For longer flights the craft boasts a well-equipped kitchen serving up a selection of culinary delights.

Author: Ursula Hannan

Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream Plane

Luxury Business Jets – Limos Of The Sky

Those who spend their average day in a spacious country mansion or townhouse, also require that little dash of luxury in the air and with the popular Gulfstream G550 that’s exactly what you get.

The flagship model of the Gulfstream range, the G550 has also become the jet of choice for Hollywood’s top stars; Tom Cruise and Barbara Streisand swear by the airplane’s high performance and John Travolta has his own baby parked out in the front garden.

Faster than many other business jets of its kind, the G550 is capable of reaching up to Mac 0.87 and performs equally well in strong winds; it can also fly 10,863 km without a stop-off – that’s the equivalent of an uninterrupted passage from New York to Tokyo. Relax in the spacious 15.3m cabin, offering comfortable seating for up to sixteen passengers and enjoy an in-flight DVD or the views from the panorama windows.

In addition, an external camera system provides spectacular on-board images of take-off and landing. Needless to say, such luxury comes with a price; this time $46m.

www.gulfstream.com

Author: Ursula Hannan

Learjet 60 XR, Bombardier plane

One of the most famous names in private aircraft, the new Learjet 60 XR is an absolute rocket with class and sets new standards in the world of private aviation for performance, comfort and versatility.

With such a legendary name behind it and a price tag of $19m, the 60 XR is the number one choice for the well-heeled businessman. The craft combines the most modern cockpit technology with top-performance and speeds that have become synonymous with the Learjet brand; the airplane can achieve speeds of 863km/h at heights of around 15,000 meters.

The craft handles extremely well and flies at such an altitude that it avoids air turbulence; for example, the flight path from Atlanta to Los Angeles can be made without a stop over. The ‘wide-aisle’ stand up cabin is extremely spacious and provides up to nine passengers with a luxurious and comfortable trip.

Piaggio P-180 Avanti plane

The P180 Avanti II is Piaggio Aero’s flagship product. It is the world’s fastest turboprop business aircraft. It offers customers the speed of a light jet aircraft, the comfort of a large, quiet, midsize cabin, and fuel efficiencies that are nearly 40% higher than most business jets and 25% higher than the most efficient twin turboprops.

The P180 Avanti II is the culmination of an effort by Piaggio Aero engineers to design, without compromise, an aircraft to meet the objectives of jet-like speed, a wide-body, stand-up cabin, and turboprop efficiency. After an intensive aerodynamic analysis and thousands of hours of wind tunnel testing, Piaggio engineers concluded that these goals could not be achieved utilizing conventional aircraft configurations.

Thus the P180 design evolved to include the following:

• PIAGGIO’s patented Three-Lifting-Surface Configuration (3LSC), which permits a 34-percent reduction in total wing area over conventional designs, thereby reducing weight and drag;

• A non-cylindrical, low-drag fuselage shapedeveloped through extensive wind tunnel testing to allow a large cabin cross section without a large drag penalty;

While its surface appearance is radically different from other aircraft, there is much to the
P.180 that pilots and maintenance personnel will find conventional and familiar:

• Well known and widely used systems;
• 95-percent aluminium construction;
• Conventional flight controls.

Thanks to this unique combination of the innovative and the conventional, you can enjoy the P.180’s exhilarating performance and exceptional comfort, while flying with confidence in the Avanti II’s proven technologies and systems.

As you read through the following aircraft specifications, you will reach the inevitable conclusion. The Avanti II offers more performance, more comfort and greater efficiency at a lower price than any other business aircraft available today.

emirates airlines planes

Emirates doesn’t have First Class, they offer Private Suites. Yes first class isn’t a very large lay flat seat anymore - its a complete cabin - with a door - you don’t have to interact with anyone for the entire fight if that’s what you want. There is also an exclusive, first class only, lounge with mood lighting no less, if you do want to talk to humans. If you are feeling like pushing your boundaries than you can also choose to mingle with the hoi-polloi in the upper-level business class lounge

Emirates first class suites look like a mini-cruise ship cabin; complete with sliding door, a personal mini-bar, vanity table, mirror and wardrobe. Faux woodgrain features prominently in the interior design. In contrast Qantas’s First class offering is - well a bit minimal on the design front really. And its not completely private, and the TV is smaller, and there’s no shower, and there’s no exclusive 1st class on-board lounge, and - and this one is a surprising omission - there is no private mini-bar - you will have to call the help for a drink!

Airbus A380 planes

Once it enters service, the A380 will become the world's largest airliner and at least the second largest plane. Additional stretched models are also planned, and one of these will almost surely supersede the An-225 to take the official title as world's largest plane.

Your question also mentions two other classic aircraft that were certainly enormous by any measure. Unfortunately, both proved to be disastrous follies that were great embarrassments to their proponents. The Spruce Goose, officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, was the brainchild of flamboyant billionaire Howard Hughes.

The aircraft had originally been ordered by the US government during World War II as a giant cargo plane ferrying up to 750 armed troops or two 30-ton tanks. As the war concluded, Hughes believed he could adapt the massive plane to revolutionize long-distance transportation in the fledgling airline and air cargo industires.

His creation was the world's largest plane at the time and is still the largest flying boat ever built with a maximum takeoff weight of 400,000 lb (180,000 kg). The enormous craft also holds records for the largest wingspan at 319 ft 11 in (97.5 m), tallest airplane at 79 ft 3 3/8 in (24.2 m), and the largest aircraft ever made from wood.

DC-3 planes

The Transportation Security Administration is writing some rules (.pdf) it says will increase the security of general aviation, a category so broad it covers everything that isn't a military or scheduled commercial flight. The edict, if adopted, would hold the operators of small planes to a rash of new regulations, some of which mirror those now in place for commercial aircraft.

The TSA puts a forward spin on the regs, which would, among other things, require fingerprinting and background-checking of flight crews, cross-referencing pasenger manifests with no-fly lists and conducting "safety threat assessments" on passengers and crew members. "General aviation operators are excellent security partners and this will give them a strong common framework for security," TSA Administrator Kip Hawley said in announcing the proposed rules. "This will reduce risk while supporting the open nature of the general aviation industry."

The people who will have to follow the new rules don't see it that way.

The new guidelines would apply to all general aviation aircraft over 12,500 pounds, a category that by some estimates includes more than 10,000 aircraft nationwide. The feds would tap an unspecified third party to establish and run a "compliance assurance program." In other words, aircraft operators would face annual inspections.

The general aviation community bristles at many of the proposed rules because not only will they be time consuming and annoying, but some of them will incur financial costs. For example, nearly 300 general aviation airports will be required to adopt potentially expensive security programs and they'll almost certainly pass those costs on to those who use those airports.

The Experimental Aircraft Association, which represents private pilots and aircraft enthusiasts, has had a look at the TSA proposal and isn't happy with it. “These new regulations would compel many operators of large vintage aircraft, warbirds, turboprops and others over 12,500 pounds to comply with new, costly, and burdensome requirements which, frankly, do not appear to equate with their risk assessment profiles,” says Douglas Macnair, vice president of government relations. “General aviation aircraft are not carrying the public and are in all instances pilots are personally acquainted with their passengers."

The EAA also plays the patriotism card, saying the proposed rules would bring restrictive requirements to range of aircraft "flown in tribute to those who fought to secure the very freedoms now being threatened." Take that, TSA.

The EAA has compiled a fairly comprehensive list of aircraft that would fall under the new rules. It includes the DC-2 and DC-3, the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter and the Convair CV-240, the last of which was manufactured in 1956. The TSA will seek 60 days of public comment before moving forward.

It's likely to get an earful.

Cessna 310 planes

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FALCON 20D-5 plane

Year : 1969

TTAF : 11,199

S/N : 191

Reg : N20HF

Price : Make Offer

Location : TX, USA

Total Landings: 8,577 As of Feb, 2009, Both Engines Enrolled on MSP APU: Garrett GTCP 26-150, Avionics: Dual Collins VHF-20A Comms, Dual Collins VIR-30A Navs, Dual Collins TDR-90 Transponders, Collins ADF-60A ADF, Ten (10) passenger configuration with four swiveling captain chairs, two fixed captain chairs, and a four-place side facing divan with shoulder harness – all in Taupe leathe

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Airbus A380 Plane

You've been reading about it, you've been hearing about it, and now it's finally happened: those two tickets up for auction for a luxury suite (plus all kinds of other goodies) on the maiden voyage of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 have finally sold -- for $100,000. That sounds like a lot of money to pay for a flight from Singapore to Sydney, but of course it's on an Airbus, it includes a lot of other perks, and that's actually a lot less than what the airline was hoping to get for charity (the "Buy it now" was $380,000).

What a bargain!Ask and you shall receive! Well, little by little at least. Last month Deidre wished for pictures of something other than the dining room of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 (as glorious as it may be) and today we have them. They might not be of the whirlpool, master bedroom suite, or the game room, but we do have a sketch of the desert-themed lounge and some very glamorous-looking photos of the grand entrance and VIP lounge.

Beechcraft King Air 90 Plane