🇹🇭 Royal Thai Air Force Celebrates 15 Years of Gripen C/D and Saab 340 Service
A Gripen C sports new commemorative tail art and a shark-mouth nose to mark the occasion.
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You don't see an airplane drive out of the water every day.
This is the legendary Grumman HU-16 Albatross, an amphibious aircraft built for U.S. Air Force search-and-rescue missions. Watch it power through the water before climbing effortlessly onto land using its retractable landing gear.
Capable of operating from both open water and conventional runways, the Albatross rescued countless downed aircrews and stranded sailors in places where few other aircraft could reach.
Aviation engineering at its finest. 🌊✈️