@ron_eisele Ron Eisele

Ron Eisele posts on X about $7846t, air force, ace, ron the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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"16 February [----]. China Airlines Flight [---] Airbus A300-600R B1814 stalled and crashed into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan killing all [---] aboard and six more on the ground. At the time the deadliest aviation accident on Taiwanese soil"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:05Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Vulcan XH558 on a test flight in [----] painted in antiflash white to help protect the crew from thermal radiation emitted by a nuclear explosion"
X Link 2024-01-08T15:12Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"28 October [----]. 00.34.07 GMT/UTC. SpaceX CRS-1 Dragon partially reusable spacecraft to resupply the ISS splashed down a few hundred miles west of Baja California after its first successful commercial mission"
X Link 2025-10-27T19:08Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

""Shortly after nightfall 5th of January [----] a series of devastating explosions tore through the German Navy's mighty Zeppelin sheds at Ahlhorn. In less than a minute six hangars and five airships had been turned into a burning heap of rubble." https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ahlhorn-Ron-Eisele/dp/B0C63RQ1HY https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ahlhorn-Ron-Eisele/dp/B0C63RQ1HY"
X Link 2026-01-04T18:43Z 66.1K followers, 12.5K engagements

"10 January [----]. First flight of the Consolidated P2Y. American flying boat maritime patrol aircraft parasol monoplane with a fabric covered wing and aluminium hull. Piloted by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton out of Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington DC United States"
X Link 2026-01-09T20:07Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"20 January [----]. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test the GD test pilot Phil Oestricher decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine and safely landed it six minutes later"
X Link 2026-01-19T18:09Z 66.1K followers, 918.7K engagements

"3 February [----]. Birth of Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon KT GCVO AFC PC DL FRCSE FRGS (d.30 March 1973). Pioneering aviator and the first man to fly over Mount Everest in 1933"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Royal Flying Corps Bristol Fighter F2b Observer 1917"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:33Z 66.1K followers, 65K engagements

"6 February [----]. First flight of the Falcomposite Furio. New Zealand two-seat low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear kitplane of carbon fibre construction"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:19Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. Birth of Horst Ademeit (d. [--] August 1944). [---] victory Luftwaffe Battle of Britain and Eastern Front WW2 fighter ace. Recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. War II. He disappeared during a mission over Latvia"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:06Z 66.1K followers, 11.5K engagements

"8 February [----]. 09.14.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of STS-130 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to the International Space Station. Payloads included the Tranquillity module and the Cupola with seven windows providing a 360-degree view around the station"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:50Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"First Australian Beaufighter Mk [--] A8-1 armed with rockets"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:24Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. First flight of the Fiat BR.20 Cicogna (Stork) serial number M.M.274. Italian low-wing twin-engine medium bomber"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:51Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. First operation by British airborne forces (Operation Colossus). [--] men of 'X' Troop No.11 Special Air Service Battalion assaulted two aqueducts at Traqino in Southern Italy. Dropped by six modified [--] Squadron Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk.Vs"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:52Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

""The first time I ever saw a jet I shot it down". General Chuck Yeager USAF"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:19Z 66.1K followers, 442.6K engagements

"11 February [----]. Death of Benjamin L. Abruzzo (b. [--] June 1930). American hot air balloonist. Part of the first Atlantic Ocean crossing crew by balloon (Double Eagle II) and first Pacific Ocean crossing (Double Eagle V.) Killed in the crash of his Cessna 421C near Albuquerque"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:16Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Focke-Wulf Fw [---] D-9"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:39Z 66.1K followers, 33.5K engagements

"12 February [----]. The prototype Mil V-12 (Mi-12) SSSR-21142 the world's largest helicopter established several load-to-height records including lifting a [-----] lb payload to an altitude of [----] ft"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:06Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"25th anniversary celebration of the NATO E-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control Force aircraft's initial operations out of the NATO installation in western Germany"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:48Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. The Indian Air Force (28 Squadron Chandigarh) received its first batch of Soviet fighters Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (type 74s). They saw limited combat during the [----] Indo-Pakistani War due to the small number of aircraft and ongoing pilot training"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:42Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. First flight of the Blkow-Entwicklungen KG Bo-46 V-1 (D-9514). An experimental helicopter built to test the Derschmidt rotor system that aimed to allow much higher speeds than traditional helicopter designs"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:42Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. First flight of the prototype Short Tucano T1 (S.312) in Brazil before being delivered to Shorts as a pattern aircraft and modified to meet RAF requirements. British two-seat turboprop basic trainer licence-built version of the Brazilian Embraer EMB-312 Tucano"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:45Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Memphis Belle"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:27Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Lockheed EC-121T Constellation N548GF"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:29Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet (replica)"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:29Z 66.1K followers, 14.6K engagements

"15 February [----]. The Ford Motor Co. (Ford Air Transport) became the first U.S. private air carrier to operate a contract airmail (CAM) route (with six Ford built Stout 2-AT aircraft). CAM-6 flew between Detroit and Chicago and CAM-7 between Detroit and Cleveland"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:45Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Birth of Roger Bruce Chaffee (d. [--] January [----] in the Apollo [--] fire). American aeronautical engineer Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy and NASA astronaut"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. Six USAAC B-17 Flying Fortress bomber departed Langley Field Virginia for a goodwill tour of Latin America traveling [-----] miles to Lima Buenos Aires Santiago and back. The flight demonstrated the ability of the B-17 to operate over long distances"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. First flight of the second prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 457) DW512. British four-engine heavy bomber. Powered by four [----] horsepower Merlin [--] engines. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:48Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Birth of Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (d. [--] September 2023). American aerospace engineer and lecturer. Sentenced to death in the Soviet Union for treason having successfully defected to the West in his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 "Foxbat" to Hakodate Japan"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:49Z 66.1K followers, 34.7K engagements

"15 February [----]. First flight of F-WFAM the prototype Breguet Br [---] 'Deux-Ponts' (Double Deck). Powered by four [----] hp SNECMA 14R-24 radial engines the Breguets serving with Air France had up to [---] seats and an elevator between the two floors"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:51Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Boeing 707-329 SABENA OO-SJB enroute from Idlewild New York to Brussels-Zaventem crashed northeast of Brussels killing all [--] passengers including the entire U.S. Figure Skating Association team [--] crew members and [--] on the ground"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:54Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. A North Vietnamese T-28 Trojan trainer aircraft (Laotian Air Force defected aircraft) used as a night fighter shot down USAF Fairchild C-123B Provider 55-4557 first air to air victory of the North Vietnamese Air Force"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:55Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Staci Maher departed Culver City California on a journey to become the first woman to cross the United States by helicopter with a Hughes [---]. She arrived in New Jersey roughly [--] days later"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:56Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. Death of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding 1st Baron Dowding British officer in the Royal Air Force. Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Pictured (left) with Douglas Bader"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:57Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. [--] years ago today. At the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China a Long March 3B rocket carrying Intelsat [---] crashed into a rural town after lift-off resulting in a substantial but unconfirmed number of civilian casualties"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:00Z 66.1K followers, 67.9K engagements

"15 February [----]. Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett broke an American two-place soaring record by covering [---] miles at altitudes up to [-----] feet on a 9-hour 19-minute flight out and back to Minden Nevada in 100-mph winds with a tandem seat Schempp-Hirth Duo Discuss glider"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:03Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

""I loved this book. It was excellent. The ending really grabbed my heart strings." "I love books with depth. This book has it in buckets. The story is amazing." Available in paperback and on Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0139SAELY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0139SAELY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:29Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"P-51D Mustang N351BD Big Beautiful Doll"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:29Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Seafires on the deck of the aircraft carrier Indomitable in the Mediterranean 1942"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:29Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"C-130J Super Hercules"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The wreck of a downed Dornier Do.17Z from 2nd Bomber Squadron Holzhammer (KG 2) near the Cathedra Church Dormition in the town of Demidov Russia"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Avro Lancaster from [--] Squadron photographed 28th August 1942"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Nieuport 17/23 Scout replica in the markings of Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard's B3459 of [--] Squadron RFC based at Bailleul aerodrome September 1917"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Lockheed Hudson at [--] Fighter Group of the USAAF base Bassingbourne Cambridgeshire 1943"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:31Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Messerschmitt Bf [---] G2"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:31Z 66.1K followers, 10.2K engagements

"He [---] German bombers with Messerschmitt Bf [---] escort"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Messerschmitt Bf-109G-4 (D-FWME / 7)"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Nord [----] Pingouin II (Me108) G-ETME/ yellow 14"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"1939 Messerschmitt [---] E1 White 14"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Messerschmitt BF-109"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Spitfire Mk.XVI from [---] Canadian Squadron Belgium 1945"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Vickers Wellington Mk.X of [--] OTU 1944"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Experimental Avro Lancastrian two outboard Merlins replaced by Rolls-Royce Nene jets. 1946"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:37Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Lancastrians delivering fuel to West Berlin. 1948"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:37Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Avro Lancaster Mk BI PA474 'The Phantom of the Ruhr'"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:38Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Islington London [--] victory Sopwith [--] Strutter observer ace with [--] Squadron Lieutenant John Thompson Guy Murison"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:41Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Shepherds Bush London [--] victory D.H.4 pilot ace with [--] Naval Squadron Flight Commander Thomas Frederick Le Mesurier"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:44Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Flight Commander Thomas Frederick Le Mesurier DSC and [--] Bars. [--] February [----] - [--] May 1918"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:44Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"16 February [----]. Pioneer American aviator Frank Trenholm Coffyn (24 October [----] [--] December 1960) took the first aerial views of New York City with a cinema camera while controlling his Wright Flyer Model B with his feet and knees"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:52Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"16 February [----]. British ace Captain James Thomas Byford "Mac" McCudden VC DSO and Bar MC and Bar MM shot down [--] Rumpler C and [--] DFW C with his SE5a in a single day"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:52Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"16 February [----]. The "Vindication of the Light 'Plane". Daimler L2 D-818 (Klemm-Daimler L20) crossed the Alps from Daimlers Sindelfingen base to near Zeller See. demonstrating a small aircraft was a practical vehicle for travel over difficult terrain and in uncertain weather"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:54Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"16 Februa [----]. Birth of Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko (d. [--] March 1961). Soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut who died from burns sustained in an oxygen fire during a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow. A Lunar far-side crater is named after him"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:55Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"16 February [----]. First flight of the Curtiss SC Seahawk prototype XSC-1 at the Columbus Ohio Curtiss plant. American scout seaplane powered by a [----] hp Wright R-1820-62 Cyclone 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:56Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Avro Shackleton MR.2 WR963"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:45Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"American Helicopter Co. XH-26 Jet Jeep (Serial No. 01841). The XH-26 was a one-man pulsejet-driven helicopter powered by two pulsejets on the end of each rotor blade tip"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"General Dynamics F-16C Block 42F/G Fighting Falcons (Serial Nos. 89-2098 and 89-2112) 112th Fighter Squadron "Stingers" 180th Fighter Wing Ohio Air National Guard during "Exercise Northern Edge '06" over Alaska on [--] June 2006"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 November [----]. First powered flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B experimental US aircraft to test lifting body concepts experimenting with the concept of unpowered re-entry and landing later used by the Space Shuttle"
X Link 2025-11-14T21:00Z 66.1K followers, 48.5K engagements

"OA-10A Catalina in the 8th Air Force colours of 44-33915"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:22Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. Birth of Werner Utter (d. [--] November 2006). German aviator Luftwaffe officer during WW2 and one the first Deutsche Lufthansa pilots to receive a licence as Flight Captain post-war. He flew more of [---] types of aircraft from sailplanes to the Boeing 747"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:33Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. The first Airbus A320 was officially presented in Toulouse. It made its first flight on [--] February and on [--] February [----] received its airworthiness certificate. In April [----] Air France and British Airways began regular flights"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:46Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. Minutes before Voyager 1's cameras were intentionally switched off to conserve power it took this photograph of Earth as a pale blue dot"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:01Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February1990. Indian Airlines Flight [---] Airbus A320-231 VT-EPN crashed on its final approach to Bangalore airport killing [--] people with [--] survivors"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:01Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. Polish paraglider champion Ewa Wisnierska Cieslewicz (b. [--] December 1971) survived lightning pounding hail minus 40-degree C and oxygen deprivation after a storm system drew her to an altitude of [-----] ft. over Australia"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:02Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 February [----]. Final flight of the Boeing YAL-1. American Airborne Laser Testbed megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser weapon inside a modified Boeing 747-400F. Missile defence system against tactical ballistic missiles while in boost phase"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:03Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"North American P-51D Mustang 44-13586/C5-T 'Hurry Home Honey' Capt. Richard A 'Pete' Peterson 364th Fighter Squadron 357th Fighter Group"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Mosquito Mk II of [--] Squadron Malta"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk VI (AE626) of the Middle East Communications Flight flying over the Egyptian pyramids 1942"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Killed in action [--] February [----] at St. Mihiel [--] victory French Air Service ace with N57 Marechal-des-Logis Marcel Hauss"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Marechal-des-Logis Marcel Hauss. [--] July [----] - [--] February 1917"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:31Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Lieutenant John Thompson Guy Murison [--] February [----] [--] February [----]. His Royal Air Force Officer's Commission to the rank of Lieutenant [--] November 1918"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:35Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. Birth of ric Vicomte de Spoelberch (d. [--] January 1939). Belgian military test pilot & [----] Olympic bobsledder. One of two Belgian pilots sent to Britain to evaluate the Hawker Hurricane & Supermarine Spitfire. Killed flying the Renard R.36 prototype OO-ARW"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:41Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. Hansa Brandeburg W12 of SFL1. The fourth victory of German ace Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Christiansen. A Curtiss H12B Flying Boat (N4338) at North Hinder. Art by Mark Postlethwaite"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. First flight of the Bloch MB-170. French three seat reconnaissance bomber prototype powered by two Gnome-Rhne 14N-06 engines. Too few to affect the Battle of France they continued in service with the Vichy forces after the war"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. Formation of the Air Transport Auxiliary. British civilian organisation that ferried new repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories assembly plants maintenance units and active service squadrons"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. First flight of the Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep (company designation PA-59). American prototype vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Developed to fulfil a [----] U.S. Army Transportation Research Command contract for a flying jeep"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:55Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Dakota to Dakota shot taken over Benghazi Libya August 1943"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"24 August [----]. First flight of the second prototype Aero-Spacelines B-377-SGT Super Guppy Turbine. (Boeing Model-377G). Converted from a YC-97J prototype stored at the USAF Storage and Destruction Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona"
X Link 2025-08-23T22:24Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"23 October [----]. First flight of the first prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 447) DW506. Powered by four [----] horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin [--] engines. British heavy bomber prototype. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"
X Link 2025-10-22T18:06Z 66.1K followers, 13.8K engagements

"17 January [----]. British WWI flying ace Eustace Osborne Grenfell shot down [--] Albatros C and [--] Fokker E on a single mission over Houthoulst Forest with his Morane Parasol N. (s/n 5068)"
X Link 2026-01-16T19:41Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. First flight of the prototype Airbus A300B1 (F-WUAB then F-OCAZ). European short- to medium-range widebody jet airliner evolution of the A-300B"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:11Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"2129 United States Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:23Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Leutnant Rudolf Stark and the Fokker Dr.I he used at Jasta 34b"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"US Army Cessna 'Bird Dog'"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:42Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"12 February [----]. First flight of the Morane-Saulnier MS-880B 'Rallye' (Rallye 100S). French twin seat Training version of the initial MS-880A low wing single engine aircraft"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:04Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. First flight of the Short Calcutta (S.8) G-EBVG. British three engine biplane airliner flying boat first airliner with a full kitchen. Shorts' Chief Test Pilot John Lankester Parker at the controls with Major Herbert Brackley of Imperial Airways as co-pilot"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:34Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. First day of bombing Dresden capital of the German state of Saxony the RAF and the USAAF fire-bombed the city. Prague was also bombed by the USAAF likely due to a mistake in navigation. Pictured bomb damage to Pragues Emmaus Monastery"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:37Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. The Voyager [--] spacecraft took the first ever "family portrait" of our Solar System as seen from outside"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:00Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:28Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Sunderland Mk.III ML828"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:46Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"2 February [----]. First official flight of the General Dynamics YF-16 Fighter prototype 72-1567 at Edwards Air Force Base California flown by Philip F. Oestricher. During the 90-minute flight it reached [---] knots and [-----] feet"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:55Z 66.1K followers, 11.1K engagements

"7 February [----]. Birth of Colonel Alfred Merrill Worden (d. [--] March 2020). American test pilot and astronaut. Command Module Pilot for the Apollo [--] and one of only twenty-four men to have flown to the Moon"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:38Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"7 February [----]. Death of Hugh Montague Trenchard 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO. British officer who was instrumental in establishing the RAF described as the Father of the Royal Air Force"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:28Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"7 February [----]. 23.13.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of STS-98. Atlantis Space Shuttle mission. The first manned spaceflight launch of the 21st century delivered the Destiny Laboratory Module to the International Space Station. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on [--] February 2001"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:49Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Tokuya Sudo (d. [--] September 1939). Japanese [--] victory Polikarpov I-15 biplane Imperial Japanese Army Air Force ace during the pre-World War II Sino-Japanese war"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:48Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. American Airlines Flight [--] Douglas DC-3-277A NC21767 crashed on approach for unknown reason into the Mississippi River approximately [--] miles southwest of Memphis Municipal Airport killing all 24"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:53Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Hawker Hurricane Mk XIIb Finnish Air Force HC-465"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:24Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"11 February [----]. First flight of the Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (serial 44-91000). American single seat long range escort fighter prototype that combined use of both turbojet and turboprop engines"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:01Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"11 February [----]. First flight of the Sud Aviation 'Caravelle' IA. Evolution of the French short/medium-range jet airliner powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon RA-29/1 Mk.526 engines. [--] built delivered to Air France SAS Air Algrie Finnair and Royal Air Maroc"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:13Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Republic P-47 Thunderbolt "Tallahassee Lassie""
X Link 2026-02-10T19:43Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress N9563Z/297400/K/E"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:23Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Jasta [--] Fokker E.V parasol-monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Depicted here as flown by Leutnant Richard Wenzl and Gefr. Kurt Blmener making a test flight around Bernes in August [----]. Art by Anastasios Polychronis"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:56Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"14 February [----]. 15:33 UTC/GMT. The unmanned NASA spacecraft Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker) entered orbit around asteroid [---] Eros the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:02Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Tupolev Tu-95 Bear"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:27Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Birth of Sqn Ldr Eric Clifford 'Jumbo' Genders AFC DFM (d. [--] May 1950). English RAF WW2 [--] victory fighter ace and test pilot. Empire Tests Pilots' School graduate and later Commanding Officer of the RAE's Aero Flight. Killed in the crash of DH.108 TG283"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:44Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. [---] Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses [--] North American B-25 Mitchells and [--] Martin B-26 Marauders dropped [----] tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs on Monte Cassino to a smoking mass of rubble"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:48Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"15 February [----]. De Havilland DH [---] Swallow VW120 British tailless swept wing experimental aeroplane was destroyed in a fatal crash near Brickhill Buckinghamshire killing test pilot Squadron Leader Stuart Muller-Rowland. A faulty oxygen system incapacitated the pilot"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:51Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. First flight of the first production Saab J 35A Draken (serial 35001) Adam. Swedish interceptor with test pilot Carl-Eric Fernberg at the controls. A revolutionary double-delta wing design capable of speeds over Mach 2"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:53Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"15 February [----]. Death of Jean Boulet (b. [--] November 1920). French aeroplane and helicopter test pilot who broke [--] records including the world helicopter altitude record (35617 feet [----] in an Arospatiale SA [---] Lama) still valid in 2020"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:01Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Died aged [--] on [--] February [----] in Hastings Barbados [--] victory Sopwith Camel ace with [---] Squadron RAF Lieutenant George Arthur Welsh"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"General Dynamics F-16C Block 30E Fighting Falcon (Serial No. 86-0364) assigned to the 162nd Fighter Squadron 178th Fighter Wing Ohio air National Guard"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"20 January [----]. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test the GD test pilot Phil Oestricher decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine and safely landed it six minutes later"
X Link 2019-01-20T14:44Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"24 October [----]. Last commercial flight of the Arospatiale-BAC Concorde"
X Link 2019-10-23T23:04Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Thrust vectoring on a F-35"
X Link 2019-12-17T15:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing"
X Link 2020-02-24T00:29Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"One of six Mirage 2000Cs of the French Air Force deployed to RAF Leuchars takes off on an Exercise Neptune Warrior sortie"
X Link 2021-01-26T19:55Z 66.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing"
X Link 2022-06-11T18:50Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"13 June [----]. Along England's south coast Concorde and a Spitfire of the BBMF"
X Link 2022-06-12T18:14Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The tipping point"
X Link 2022-06-14T18:50Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

""A remarkable flying machine" - John Young astronaut"
X Link 2022-06-24T17:37Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"B-1Bs flying over the Devils Tower in Wyoming"
X Link 2022-07-15T19:54Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"After many requests a popular re-post. Thrust vectoring:"
X Link 2022-07-18T19:02Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"7 August [----]. Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston performed a barrel-roll in the Boing 367-80 (707) prototype"
X Link 2022-08-06T22:09Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Lancasters in the mist"
X Link 2022-08-17T18:29Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"4 September [----]. First transatlantic crossing of the Arospatiale-BAC Concorde"
X Link 2022-09-03T20:19Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"19 September [----]. English Electric Lightning F1 crashed near Hatfield aerodrome. De Havilland test pilot George Aird ejected at low altitude and landed through the roof of a nearby tomato greenhouse. The moment was captured by photographer Jim Meads"
X Link 2022-09-18T19:07Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing"
X Link 2022-10-01T18:19Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"A specially painted RAF Typhoon jet fighter takes to the skies over RAF Coningsby with a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) in the lead up to commemorations of the Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary"
X Link 2022-10-03T17:36Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"SR-71 Blackbird"
X Link 2022-10-08T19:28Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"U2 cockpit view from 70000ft"
X Link 2022-10-15T16:08Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"3 December [----] Captain Eric Brown became the first pilot to land and take-off from aircraft carrier (HMS Ocean) in a jet aircraft"
X Link 2022-10-15T19:54Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Junkers Ju-87"
X Link 2022-10-21T16:05Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Engineering excellence"
X Link 2022-10-23T19:28Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"24 October [----]. Concorde's final take-off from JFK airport"
X Link 2022-10-23T20:26Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"How winglets reduce wingtip vortices"
X Link 2022-10-25T17:03Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan"
X Link 2022-10-26T18:31Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet flying low through the canyons of Northern California"
X Link 2022-10-26T19:05Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The result of a Kamikaze strike on HMS Sussex"
X Link 2022-10-27T13:13Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron 'Blue Angels'"
X Link 2022-10-27T16:53Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"C-130 modified (special duties - rescue - Iran 1980) to land and take off in a confined area"
X Link 2022-10-29T17:22Z 66.1K followers, 12.5K engagements

"A US serviceman (appears to be a paratrooper) looks at recently recaptured P-47D (T9+LK) at Gttingen Germany (probably April) 1945"
X Link 2022-11-01T14:01Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The Battlefield of Verdun in 2016"
X Link 2022-11-01T18:48Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Thrust vectoring on the F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing"
X Link 2022-11-05T18:40Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"SR-71 Blackbirds"
X Link 2022-11-08T18:21Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"For those curious as to how a radial engine works"
X Link 2022-11-09T18:47Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Me [---] Komet flies past an American B-17 Flying Fortress"
X Link 2022-11-11T18:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Sopwith [--] 1/2 Strutter taking off from HMS Barham's B Turret 1917"
X Link 2022-11-16T13:45Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"De Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber. 400mph 4x.303 machine guns 4x20mm cannon 8x60mm rockets and bombs as well"
X Link 2022-11-20T19:23Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"7 June [----]. U.S. Marine Corps Captain William Mahoney AV-8B Harrier pilot performed a controlled landing on the USS Bataan at sea after his front landing gear malfunctioned"
X Link 2022-11-21T19:49Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Lockheed SR-71A cockpit"
X Link 2022-11-23T10:04Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"24 November [----]. Captain Walter Waddy Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress"
X Link 2022-11-23T19:43Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"For those who have never seen German WW1 ace Ernst Udet's unpowered landing at the Chicago International Air Race in 1933"
X Link 2022-12-02T21:05Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Two examples of pilot Ray Hanna's Spitfire low-flying prowess. (1/2)"
X Link 2022-12-19T19:58Z 66.1K followers, 289.6K engagements

"The last two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world fly over the Derwent Reservoir in tribute to the Dambusters"
X Link 2022-12-29T19:01Z 66.1K followers, 107.5K engagements

"Two bullets that collided at Gallipoli During WW1. Found on the [----] battlefield"
X Link 2023-01-06T13:59Z 66.1K followers, 185.9K engagements

""A remarkable flying machine" - John Young astronaut"
X Link 2023-01-09T17:33Z 66.1K followers, 78.9K engagements

"The Horten Ho [---] late WW2 German prototype fighter/bomber. The first flying wing powered by a jet engine and first to incorporate stealth technology. (2/2)"
X Link 2023-01-09T18:33Z 66.1K followers, 142.9K engagements

""The first time I ever saw a jet I shot it down". General Chuck Yeager USAF"
X Link 2023-01-12T14:44Z 66.1K followers, 90.3K engagements

"Lancasters in the mist"
X Link 2023-01-28T13:19Z 66.1K followers, 71.4K engagements

"1 February [----]. The moment in Mission Control when NASA personnel realised there had been a major malfunction"
X Link 2023-02-01T13:42Z 66.1K followers, 412.7K engagements

"Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan"
X Link 2023-02-14T17:02Z 66.1K followers, 164.3K engagements

"Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan"
X Link 2023-03-26T17:19Z 66.1K followers, 240.9K engagements

"Thrust vectoring on a F-35"
X Link 2023-03-27T19:11Z 66.1K followers, 183.8K engagements

"A re-post of thrust vectoring. For those with an engineering inclination"
X Link 2023-03-27T19:11Z 66.1K followers, 112.8K engagements

"The tipping point"
X Link 2023-06-02T17:59Z 66.1K followers, 286K engagements

"Visiting the locals"
X Link 2023-06-25T12:54Z 66.1K followers, 139.9K engagements

"Lancasters in the mist"
X Link 2023-07-21T18:43Z 66.1K followers, 51.4K engagements

"NAA XB-70 Valkyrie: The White Swan. NASA first prototype (AV-1) flying with wings hinged down to ride its own shock wave"
X Link 2023-07-27T16:20Z 66.1K followers, 161.3K engagements

"Horten Ho [---] V3 at the National Air and Space Museum"
X Link 2023-08-01T15:04Z 66.1K followers, 178.4K engagements

"Nimrod MR2 (Royal Air Force)"
X Link 2023-08-27T19:53Z 66.1K followers, 158K engagements

"PBY-5A Catalina (433915)"
X Link 2023-08-28T12:58Z 66.1K followers, 97K engagements

"Rockwell B-1 Lancer"
X Link 2023-08-28T18:43Z 66.1K followers, 54.2K engagements

"30 August [----]. First flight of the Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) American privately-financed light fighter prototype"
X Link 2023-08-29T19:02Z 66.1K followers, 146.8K engagements

"North American P-51D Mustangs"
X Link 2023-08-30T14:49Z 66.1K followers, 46.6K engagements

"Replica Albatros Dva"
X Link 2023-08-31T16:33Z 66.1K followers, 49.2K engagements

"FG-1D Corsair "Marine's Dream""
X Link 2023-09-01T15:20Z 66.1K followers, 64.5K engagements

"The Last of The Few: Sole surviving Battle of Britain pilot Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway. Born [--] July [----] he served during the Second World War in the Battle of Dunkirk the Battle of Britain the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy"
X Link 2023-09-15T22:28Z 66.1K followers, 91K engagements

"One of six Mirage 2000Cs of the French Air Force deployed to RAF Leuchars takes off on an Exercise Neptune Warrior sortie"
X Link 2023-09-23T20:19Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

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