🙏 Photo credits
Real photos, honestly borrowed.
Every aircraft, rocket and airport photo on this site is a real photograph of the real machine — from NASA, ISRO-related archives and Wikimedia Commons photographers, used under their open licenses. Thank you for sharing your work with curious kids.
| Subject | Author | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A220-300 in flight | Romain COUPY | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Airbus A320neo in flight | Bahnfrend | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Airbus A321XLR in flight | Acroterion | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Airbus A350 in flight | Julian Herzog | CC BY 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Airbus A380 in flight | HARRY HUGHES, WIGAN UK User:JulianHerzog/UserInfoTemplate | CC BY 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Antonov An-225 Mriya in flight | Laurent ERRERA from L'Union, France | CC BY-SA 2.0 | view ↗ |
| Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Apollo 11 | Neil A. Armstrong | Public domain | view ↗ |
| IndiGo ATR 72-600 in flight | Dylan Agbagni (CC0) from Bordeaux, France | CC0 | view ↗ |
| Airbus BelugaXL in flight | Julien Jeany | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok — terminal concourse | This Photo was taken by Supanut Arunoprayote . Feel free to use any of my images, but please mention me as the author and may send me a message. (สามารถใช้ภา... | CC BY 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru | anumodbalan | CC BY 2.0 | view ↗ |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 in flight | Acroterion | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Boeing 747-8 in flight | Acroterion | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Boeing 777-300ER landing | 4300streetcar | CC BY 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Boeing 777-9 (777X) prototype N779XX | Tomás Del Coro from Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Boeing 787 Dreamliner in flight | Spaceaero2; derivative work by Altair78 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | view ↗ |
| Cessna 172 in flight | Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | CC BY-SA 2.0 | view ↗ |
| Concorde in flight | Eduard Marmet | CC BY-SA 3.0 | view ↗ |
| Douglas DC-3 (C-53D Dakota) in flight | Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK | CC BY-SA 2.0 | view ↗ |
| Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi — Terminal 3 | Biswarup Ganguly | CC BY 3.0 | view ↗ |
| Hamad International Airport, Doha — terminal interior | Iash16 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 | Chris Olszewski | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Blue Marble full-disk Earth | NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Earthrise, Apollo 8, 24 December 1968 | NASA/Bill Anders | Public domain | view ↗ |
| SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage landing | SpaceX Photos | CC0 | view ↗ |
| London Heathrow Airport aerial view | Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz (Mariordo) | CC BY 3.0 | view ↗ |
| Tokyo Haneda Airport, Terminal 3 interior | ウィ貴公子 This photo was taken with iPhone 12 Pro | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| International Space Station in orbit | NASA/Crew of STS-132 | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Rain Vortex, Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore | kallerna | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Planet Jupiter imaged by Hubble | NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) | Public domain | view ↗ |
| James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror segments | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from Greenbelt, MD, USA | Public domain | view ↗ |
| ISRO LVM3 M4 launch of Chandrayaan-3, 2023 | Indian Space Research Organisation Derivative work: UnpetitproleX | GODL-India | view ↗ |
| NASA Perseverance rover selfie on Mars | NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Apollo 11 Saturn V launch, 16 July 1969 | Project Apollo Archive | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Planet Saturn imaged by Cassini | NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe in flight | Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK | CC BY-SA 2.0 | view ↗ |
| Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in flight | USAF / Judson Brohmer | Public domain | view ↗ |
| SpaceX Starship launch | Shujianyang | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Sydney Airport aerial view | Maksym Kozlenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 | view ↗ |
| Blank world political outline map | Canuckguy and many others (see File history) | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Equirectangular Earth texture for the Explorer map | Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory, modified by NordNordWest | Public domain | view ↗ |
| First powered flight, Wright Flyer, 17 December 1903 | John T. Daniels | Public domain | view ↗ |
| Zurich Airport aerial view | Rama | CC BY-SA 2.0 fr | view ↗ |