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:

Contents 1 Civil aviation 2 Computing 3 Entertainment 4 Ground transportation 5 Military 5.1 Military aircraft and equipment 5.2 Military units 5.3 Other Military 6 Publications 7 Other

[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.