Russia's first entirely domestically produced airliner the MC-21 maiden flight

Configured for 163-211 passengers. After NATO members imposed sanctions on Russia in 2022, Russia had to build its own airliners using entirely domestically produced components.

traffic in Paris, 1950s

 Looking from La Place de la Madeleine down Rue Royal.

Helsinki docks, Finland, early 20th century

As well as railway boxcars in the distance, there are some interesting piece goods in the foreground.

Cayman Airways Short 330-200 twin turboprop

 

Made by Short Brothers (Northern Ireland) with a first flight in 1974, it had the distinctive rectangular "flying boxcar" cross-section with a twin-fin tail configuration. This aircraft was permanently retired and stored in the year 2000, and scrapped at Milwaukee Airport in 2002.

Info on the model

trains in southern Peru video

 

Air France poster featuring a a Douglas DC-4 cargo plane, 1949

It could be the DC-4's military variant, the C-54 Skymaster.

Glory to Soviet aviation! poster, 1974

'would you like to read a good real book with me?'

Stadler FLIRT Elron DMU, Estonia

Passenger train services in small Estonia has since some years been totally entrusted to a fleet of diesel and electric Stadler FLIRT trains of the government-owned corporation Elron, which has been operating since 2014, also on all the railway lines of the private company Edelaraudtee.

The majority of the population is concentrated in the two largest cities, Tallinn and Tartu and traffic is heavy only in the region of the capital and on the line connecting the two cities; on the rest of the network connections are reduced to a few pairs per day.

Specifications

Total Train Length: 74,900 mm
Vehicle Width: 3,500 mm (Broad body profile engineered for 1520 mm Baltic gauge)
Structure Material: Welded, lightweight car body made of extruded aluminium profiles
Crash Safety: Energy absorption structure fully compliant with collision standard EN 15227
Floor Profiling: Low-floor architecture spanning more than 70% of the entire passenger entry and seating layout 

Performance & Propulsion

Maximum Service Speed: 160 km/h
Maximum Acceleration: 0.85 m/s²
Traction System: Diesel-Electric Drive
Diesel Engine Max Power: 1,340 kW
Energy Storage System: Built-in roof supercapacitors (providing an additional 400 kW for kinetic energy recovery and reduced fuel emissions)
Traction Components: Redundant traction chain paired with water-cooled IGBT power converters 

Bogies (trucks) & Wheels

Bogie Layout: Air-suspended power and trailer bogies to absorb broad-gauge tracking vibration
Motor Bogie Wheelbase: 2,700 mm
Trailer Bogie Wheelbase: 2,750 mm
Wheel Diameters (New): 870 mm for motor bogies; 800 mm for trailer bogies

NSB El-9 2063 at Myrdal at the top of the Flam line

No date, 1960s?  See earlier posts.