Condor (disambiguation)
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The term Condor may refer to one of two birds belonging to the New World vultures:
- Vultur gryphus (Vultur) the Andean condor
- Gymnogyps californianus (Gymnogyps), the California condor
The term may also refer to any of the below:
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[edit] Civil aviation
- ADI Condor, an American motor glider
- Rolls-Royce Condor, an aircraft piston engine.
- Condor Airlines, a German airline
- Aero Condor Peru, an airline from Peru
[edit] Computing
- Condor High-Throughput Computing System, a framework for distributed computing developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condor Games, the name of Blizzard North before it was bought by Blizzard
- Condor, nickname of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick
[edit] Entertainment
- Condor (film), a 1986 TV-movie starring Ray Wise
- ConDor (convention), the annual San Diego convention of fantasy and science fiction
- El Cóndor Pasa, a Peruvian zarzuela
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes a Chinese novel
- Armour of God II: Operation Condor a movie with Jackie Chan
- Three Days of the Condor, a film adapted from the novel Six Days of the Condor
- El Condor is a superhero in The Condor, a film by Stan Lee
- The Condor (ride), an amusement ride
- Condor, in golf, the name given for scoring 4-under on 1 hole.
- Bakersfield Condors, a minor league ice hockey team based in the U.S. state of California.
- A U.S. band that played between 1999-2004. The band released two albums: A Big One and Do It Everywhere.[citation needed]
- Condor (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- The Condor Club, a famous early strip club in San Francisco that helped set precedent for the legality of nude
- The Condor, the vehicle that the storm hawks ride and live in
performances
- Condorito, a cartoon character
[edit] Ground transportation
- Condor Ferries, a ferry company running services from the Channel Islands to the United Kingdom and France
- Cóndor station, a railway station in Bolivia
- Condor Werke, a Swiss former motorcycle manufacturer
- Condor (delivery service) brand name of a British Railways service for delivering containerised goods door to door.
[edit] Military
[edit] Military aircraft and equipment
- 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
- Condor missile, 1,500 km range missile developed by Argentina
- Condor (APC), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces.
- Stoeger Condor, a type of shotgun.
- RU-38 Twin Condor covert reconnaissance aircraft
[edit] Military units
- Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which intervened on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
- HMH-464 - United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Condors.
[edit] Other Military
- Operation Condor (disambiguation) has been the codename of a number of military operations, one of them: 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
- RM Condor, the home base of 45 Commando, Royal Marines situated in Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland
[edit] Publications
- Cóndor (newspaper), German-language newspaper published in Chile
- The Condor (journal), the quarterly journal of the Cooper Ornithological Society
[edit] Other
- Condor Sea Scouts, a Scout Troop established in Chua Chu Kang Secondary School
- Condor, in finance, a combination consisting of four options with different striking prices and the same maturity on the same underlying security.