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Shahin; The Royal Plane of Mohammadreza Pahlavi

This Boeing 707, named Shahin, belonged to the Royal Iranian Air Force, which Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi used for domestic and foreign travel. The color of this blue plane and its interior was luxuriously decorated.

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Bees’ Attack to the Airplane

A domestic flight in India was delayed after a swarm of bees landed on the cockpit window,  could not be dispersed and then attacked the staff who tried to remove them.

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The First Pilot of Iranian Women

Akram Monfared Arya is an Iranian-Swedish aircraft pilot, the first woman to earn a pilot’s license to fly aircraft in Iran. She is a writer, artist and politician based in Stockholm, Sweden. However, the first female pilots in Iran were flying in the 1940s.

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