…and this is why we shouldn’t have removed chat. 
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Well, I admit it is painfully obvious on the ground, but when I drive around in Frankfurt and I see a jet on final I think:
- Two engines,
- white
- wings
→ yep, that’s an airliner!
Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier. They look all the same to me.
The jet airliners I can recognize are:
- 747 (don’t ask about the sub-versions. I only see the hump)
- A380 (has two rows of windows)
- 787 (has thin, curved wings)
- Bombardier CRJ…something. Looks like a flying pencil, with a just…too long fuselage. But then, same goes for the Fokker 100 for example (yes, I had to google that. I suck in civil aviation)
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Wait, are people not in on the dank memes?
Also I can generally pick apart the various members of the Boeing family, but Airbuses are indecipherable to me.
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If it’s falling out of the sky due to iced-over pitot tubes while gracefully maintaining its roll/pitch limits of 20 degrees, HON HON, C’EST L’AIRBUS, NON?
Since the thread’s been sidetracked, I’m going to take the initiative and post this one:
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Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Moving along swiftly now.
EDIT: Oh hey, Ivan found a camera.
Alas they don’t… I thought it was hilarious, the only thing missing was a little Pierre Spey ■■■■
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That’s an order of magnitude better than my best guess of ‘Dandruff Sea-Skimmer’.
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MiG Ye-8, Comrade.
Let us continue the Soviet theme.
It’s a really, really cool project that was probably too ambitious and probably would never have worked.
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Yakovlev Yak-28!
Dang I was gonna say Il-28 lol
no, it’s not a MiG-21
Chengdu J-7?
false
Huh. It looks a lot like a 60’s era Sukhoi interceptor (Su-9, Su-11). Warmer?
colder than @Andrew116’s answer, actually
Could it be a J-8-I?
winner! it’s a Shenyang J-8-I
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w00t!
I’m loving the eastern vibe today.
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