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Recommended as a proper analysis (knowing the author and his resources!) of a complex, fascinating, and often confused period of air combat. H/T Harry Raffal

“So, if you were to drop the asking rent, it would decrease the property’s value. Some landlords looking to protect the value of their portfolio or key assets do so by maintaining or raising rents.” Grim note in Contessa Balmain shows why Sydney is broken news.com.au/national/this-…

Like owner, like woodworm: "In some cases, the cost of exterminating the pests exceeds the value... of the paintings." ...or society. STILL loving this article weeks later... bbc.com/news/world-eur…

"Mary Ross, as her team called her, was assigned as a computer to the team tasked to fix the design of the [Lockheed] P-38." Cherokee pioneer woman does transonics, Lockheed Skunk Works and Space. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/m…

For those who like a bit of retro film, may I recommend my friend (and former colleague) Alison Strauss' report on the excellent sounding Silent Film Fest? Enjoy! hippfest.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/hap…

Next Aviation Cultures Conferences event lining up in Feb next year. Will be a cracker, with Daniel J. Leahy is on Bluesky & T J Heap organising. See you there!

Of course all of this is built on the insight - learned in 1917 and again in 1941 - that when the United States decides to go isolationist and disengage and let the other major powers do what they want abroad, we end up getting dragged in later anyway and at greater cost. 13/

Arrived last week, both @NavalAirHistory’s magnum opus on the Focke Wulf Fw 200, and Paul Beaver @ Beaver Westminster’s book on Capt Eric Brown. As well as the books overlapping, their authors do too! Great reading in both so far.

HIGHLY recommend @NavalAirHistory's Fw 200 book from mortonsbooks on the Condor's war use, and pre-war story. Not expensive, and a tight (but better than Twitter-length) answer to this Q.

Io Saturnalia! I cooked some Ancient Roman recipes for us and two friends so that we could celebrate Saturnalia with a mini feast. Lots of wonderfully strange and alien flavour combinations packed with the ever-present asafoetida and fish sauce. We had: 🧵

I borrowed this book from the VaughanEvansLibrary for a quick summer read. It's a good brief overview that's well illustrated from the Qantas heritage collection.

With the current owner enabling ignorance and bigotry over basic manners, and while what made Twitter a phenomenal multi-direction comms medium are crippled by the current failings, I'm putting my account into stasis. I can be found in other places inc where the skies are bluer.

My obituary for Geoff Goodall, 1947-2024, on Vintage Aviation News. Sad to report the loss of aviation fact compiler and raconteur, lovely gent, friend, and someone who laid a solid foundation for those of us keeping tabs on surviving historic aircraft. vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/…

This Saturday, 17 February (starting Friday in the Americas!) Aviation Cultures Conferences is hosting a FREE Spotlight event looking at #AviationArchaeology. Expert presentations from the UK, US, Aus & Hong Kong! Register here: aviationcultures.org/spotlight-avia…

Just dropping by to share that Nigel Hitchman and I produced a report on the latest Warbirds Downunder airshow at Temora, NSW, Australia. Join us 'there' through the words and pics. (PS. You shouldn't be here, you should be somewhere healthier. Toodles.) vintageaviationnews.com/airshow-news/i…