My aviation fiction reading this week features something a little lighter (but perhaps more iconic?) than most..although I'm not sure crew chiefs still play bridge these days?! #Aviation #PopularGeopolitics #MilitaryFiction #TheMostFamousFlyingAce

Still reading lots of military aviation fiction, but not sure this one will make the cut ;) Pity it wasn't a combat mission, she could have shot him with her sidearm...

In the 1950s, a viable solution to the problem of intercepting high altitude bombers seemed to be a mixed-power plant fighter. The Avro 720 achieved 40kft 1.5mins after T/O with help from a rocket engine. Designed for M=2.0; tested at RAE Bedford. Note the model is very small!

On Feb 10, 1908, the US Army awarded the Wright Brothers a contract for an airplane. The contract was two pages long. You probably can't even get the table of contents onto two pages for most modern government contracts!

Time to look at buying #LockheedMartin shares I guess...surely this can be tweaked for the future of #balloon popping at altitude ;) #Aviation #military #USAF #ChineseSpyBalloon #ResurrectTheYAL1 lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/fea…

BREAKING: USAF is hunting for faulty tail pins in its KC-135, WC-135 and RC-135 fleets, & grounded planes until they can be inspected. If a pin fails, a plane could lose its tail in flight. New on Air Force Times and Defense News from me and Rachel S. Cohen: defensenews.com/news/your-air-…

Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community. bit.ly/3lFEwMt

Eye caught by this dramatic portrait of a fighter pilot. Evan Mackie, New Zealand fighter ace, photographed while in command of No.92 Squadron in Italy. 🇳🇿 Photo by Flying Officer Bridge, RAF Imperial War Museums CNA 2314 / iwm.org.uk/collections/it…

Good morning from Tucson, we are getting ready for back to back #boneyardsafari Hands on Tours, check out T-43A 71-0406 #handsontour #aviationpreservation #aviationsafari #t43a #737 #737200

The NASA Johnson Space Center’s WB-57 regularly images astronauts returning from the ISS and soon to be from the Moon! This mission was to perform a calibration on the imagery sensor prior to the Crew-5 capsule on its fiery return to Earth! Godspeed Crew-5!!!

#OTD 26 February 1918 David McLellan took this magnificent photograph of the 34th Division lending library at Frevent, France. Are the sceptical readers 11th Suffolks Taff? Imperial War Museums Q 8535 iwm.org.uk/collections/it…

The last Basler (AWI) leaving the continent for the season. We've got one more Twin Otter to fly north and a few more Dash-7 rotations before we fully closeout the flying season down here. British Antarctic Survey 🐧

Isolated Thunderstorms & rain 🌧️ 🤩 View in the North late this afternoon on our way to Butaritari atoll where I picked up my precious cargo, pre-ordered taro leaves 😁 #Kiribati 🇰🇮

Queens of the Air (1931). The first all-women’s flying meeting at Sywell, near Northampton. Most of the big names were there including Mildred Bruce, Lady Mary Bailey & Winifred Spooner. Dorothy Spicer swings a prop for Pauline Gower.

Occasionally a library patron mentions something from history you had no idea about...like chlorine gas for treating colds. Mmm...chlorine...

Half of British television always starts like this.

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Major Vadym "Karaya" Voroshylov known as Ghost of Vinnytsia: «One plane can destroy entire units of the enemy. This is incredible power and strength.» Ukraine’s ace pilots need F-16s! 📷 Mariana Shafro

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Saying goodbye one last time as one of my crew bids farewell to ZH871 after completing the Herc 3-Ship Finale Flypast I'm not crying... you are 😢