Condor (disambiguation)

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Condor may refer to:

• Condor, a bird belonging to the New World vultures
  • Vultur gryphus (Vultur) the Andean condor
  • Gymnogyps californianus (Gymnogyps), the California condor

Aircraft:

• ADI Condor, an American motor glider
• AGM-53 Condor, an American air-to-surface missile
• Antonov An-124, a Russian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
• C-30 Condor, an American transport
• Focke-Wulf Fw 200, a German aircraft used for long range maritime patrol and reconnaissance during World War II

Airlines:

• Condor Airlines, a German airline
• Aero Condor Peru, an airline from Peru

Military related:

• Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which intervened on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
• Condor missile, 1,500 km range missile developed by Argentina
• Operation Condor, a campaign of assassination and "counter-terrorism" by right-wing military governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s
• Condor (APC), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces.

Other uses:

• Condor Soaring, a Glider Soaring Simulator.
• Condor (journal), the quarterly journal of the Cooper Ornithological Society
• The Condor (ride), an amusement ride
• El Cóndor Pasa a Peruvian zarzuela
• Condor cycle scavenger, a software framework for parallel/distributed computing developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Condor, nickname of famous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick
• Condor, in golf, the name given for scoring 4-under on 1 hole.
• Condor, a combination consisting of four options with different striking prices and the same maturity on the same underlying security. A long condor profits if the underlying security price stays within a narrow range. A short condor profits if the underlying security price ends outside the narrow range.
• Condor Ferries, a ferry company running services from the Channel Islands to the United Kingdom and France.
• Bakersfield Condors, a minor league ice hockey team based in Bakersfield, California.
• In modern hip slang the word condor can also be used to describe a condominium.^{[citation needed]}
• Condor (band), a San Francisco band that played between 1999-2004. The band released two albums: A Big One and Do It Everywhere.
• The Condor is a superhero in the film Stan Lee Presents The Condor.