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@ron_eisele Ron EiseleRon Eisele posts on X about the first, $7846t, ace, art the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence countries XXXXX% automotive brands XXXX% stocks #3238 technology brands XXXX% luxury brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% premier league #2864 formula 1 XXXX% fashion brands XXXX%
Social topic influence the first 6.73%, $7846t #1834, ace #1108, art 2.4%, ron #376, air force #607, mitsubishi 1.44%, $8306t 1.44%, $8058t 1.44%, flew #8
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"11 November 1935. Jean Gardner Batten became the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic Ocean in her Percival D.3 Gull Six G-ADPR from Dakar French West Africa to Natal Brazil in XX hours the fastest Atlantic crossing up to that time"
X Link 2025-11-10T18:59Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"1 December 1931. French aviator Ren Lefvre departed Paris with a Peyret-Mauboussin PM XI (two-seat high wing touring aircraft) for a 6835-mile flight to Tananarive Madagascar"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:57Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"December 1933. First flight of the Yokosuka K5Y (Willow). Imperial Japanese Navy two-seat unequal-span biplane trainer. A total of 5591 were manufactured. Powered by a XXX hp Hitachi Amakaze XX air-cooled radial engine"
X Link 2025-11-30T23:03Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"3 December 1941. Death of Wolfgang Lippert (b. XX September 1914). German XX victory fighter ace of the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Died from injuries sustained bailing from his stricken Bf XXX F-4 in combat near Bir el Gubi. He hit the tailplane"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:00Z 64.6K followers, 8786 engagements
"1975. Three Phantoms two Buccaneers a Lightning and a Harrier. The backbone of the RAF Germany supporting the British Army of the Rhine"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:02Z 64.5K followers, 1498 engagements
"Hansa Brandenburg W.12 of Oberleutnant sur Zee Freidrich Christiansen. Art by Russell Smith"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:10Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Aerial reconnaissance sketch of the Battle of Mons"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:39Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"For those who've never seen film of Ernst Udet's unpowered landing at the 1933 Chicago International Air Race here's a re-post"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:41Z 64.5K followers, 73.2K engagements
"7 December 1941. First flight of the Nakajima A6M2-N 'Rufe'. Japanese single-crew float seaplane based on the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Model II"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:42Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"B-17 bombardier station showing gun-sight mount (centre above Norden bomb sight) & stowed chin turret control column (centre/right)"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:09Z 64.5K followers, 1667 engagements
"10 June 1918. The PKZ-2 tethered observation helicopter designed by Lieutenant Stefan Petroczy of the Austro-Hungarian Army was demonstrated to military commanding officers. Powered by three XXX hp Gnome rotary engines the first helicopter to climb XX m"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:17Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX December 1898 in Jamaica Plain Boston Massachusetts XX victory French Air Service/United States Air Service ace Lieutenant David Endicott Putnam DSC"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:15Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1927. Four Supermarine Southampton flying boats of the RAF Far East Flight under the command of Group Captain Henry Meyrick Cave-Browne-Cave completed 27000-mile flight in Singapore from Plymouth England through Egypt India Australia & Japan"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:32Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1941. Mitsubishi G3M Rikko Nell attack on HMS Prince of Wales Art by Peter Dennis. The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:39Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1960. Death of Frank Trenholm Coffyn (b XX October 1878). American pioneer aviator. He flew with the Wright Exhibition Team until December 1910 trained pilots in Dayton Ohio and took the first aerial film footage of New York"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:45Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1973. First flight of the Saab SH-37 Viggen. Single-seat maritime reconnaissance and strike version of the Swedish short-medium range fighter and attack aircraft"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:47Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"23 October 1943. First flight of the first prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 447) DW506. Powered by four 1315 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. British heavy bomber prototype. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"
X Link 2025-10-22T18:06Z 64.6K followers, 13.7K engagements
"25 October 2000. Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-18D RA-74295 struck Mtirala Mountain Batumi (Georgia) in adverse weather on approach to Batumi-Chorokh Airport Georgia killing all XX on board"
X Link 2025-10-24T18:48Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Low flying RAF Hercules over Stanley Falkland Islands 1982"
X Link 2025-11-20T20:59Z 64.5K followers, 42.8K engagements
"29 November 2012. The U.S. Navy successfully conducted the first land-based catapult launch of the Northrop Grumman X-47B (unmanned combat air vehicle) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River Maryland"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:44Z 64.5K followers, 1042 engagements
"30 November 1979. First flight of the Piper PA-46-300T. American unpressurized experimental prototype light aircraft precursor of the pressurized six seat single engine Piper PA-46 Malibu"
X Link 2025-11-29T20:08Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Sopwith Camel replica flying in formation with a Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI. Wanaka New Zealand April 2004"
X Link 2025-12-01T00:20Z 64.5K followers, 10K engagements
"Maintenance work on Spitfire TE311 LF XVIE in the Battle of Britain Memorial Hangar at RAF Coningsby"
X Link 2025-12-01T00:21Z 64.6K followers, 6443 engagements
"2 December 2012. XXXXX GMT/UTC. Launch of Pliades-HR 1B via a Russian Soyuz STA rocket out of the Guiana Space Centre Kourou French Guiana. High-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellite for European defence as well as civil and commercial needs"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:09Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"3 December 1945. First purely jet-powered aeroplane to operate from an aircraft carrier was a de Havilland Sea Vampire piloted by Lieutenant-Commander Eric Winkle Brown MBE DSC RNVR on HMS Ocean"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:01Z 64.6K followers, 49K engagements
"3 December 2005. First manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail was accomplished by XCOR Aerospaces EZ-Rocket. Test pilot Dick Rutan made the 10-minute 10-mile flight carrying US mail from the Mojave post office to California City"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:16Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"4 December 1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations after XX years. Captain Mark S. Pyle piloted 'Clipper Goodwill' a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV (N368PA) from Bridgetown Barbados to Miami International Airport"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:02Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Squadron Leader Tom Gleave of XXX Squadron attacking a Junkers Ju88 high above the village Shoreham Kent on 31st August 1940"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:10Z 64.6K followers, 2378 engagements
"TU-95MS of the Russian Federation"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:19Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"5 December 1997. 12.20.00 UTC/GMT. Landing of Shuttle Columbia at Kennedy SLF Runway XX after mission STS-87. The 88th Space Shuttle flight and 24th of Columbia conducted experiments with the United States Microgravity Payload two EVAs and deployed the SPARTAN-201 experiment"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:03Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Swift World Record - Swift F4 Libya 1953 XXXXX mph by Keith Woodcock"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:32Z 64.5K followers, 1397 engagements
"Close Call - Spitfire Mk IX pilot and ground crew. Art by Keith Burns"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:37Z 64.6K followers, 21.9K engagements
"6 December 1928. Founding of North American Aviation major US aerospace manufacturer responsible for the T-6 Texan trainer P-51 Mustang fighter X-15 rocket plane XB-70 bomber B-1 Lancer Apollo CSM Saturn V second stage and the Space Shuttle orbiter"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:20Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"6 December 1959. The second McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (XF4H-1) Build Number 142260 performed a zoom climb to a world record of 98560 ft. during operation Top Flight. The pilot was Commander Lawrence E. Flint Jr. U.S. Navy"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:33Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"7 December 1996. 11.49.05 UTC/GMT. Landing of Space Shuttle Columbia at Kennedy SLF Runway XX after mission STS-80. Deployed/recaptured the Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II. Longest Shuttle mission XX days XX hours"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:52Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"7 December 2018. XXXXX UTC/GMT. Launch of China's Chang'e X. On X February 2019 it achieved mankind's first soft landing on the far side of the Moon. The Yutu-2 rover was deployed about XX hours after the landing"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:54Z 64.6K followers, 1425 engagements
"8 December1885. Birth of Ren Simon (d. XX April 1947). French aviator. In 1910 New Orleans Aviation Tournament USA flying a Blriot monoplane he broke the world record for one mile in XX seconds. 1911 he made the first flight in South Bend Indiana before a 30000 crowd"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:08Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"8 December 1931. Italian aviator Vittorio Suster flying Caproni Ca.100 Limousine I-AAYG won a race against racing driver Tazio Nuvolari driving an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 at an average speed of XXXXXXX mph on a five-lap race of XXXXXX miles"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:13Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"8 December 1945. Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden and Cpt. Glen W. Edwards U.S. Army Air Corps flew the second prototype Douglas XB-42 s/n 43-50225 from Long Beach California to Washington D.C. in X hours XX minutes XX seconds averaging XXXXX miles per hour"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:17Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1926. Western Canada Airways was incorporated with headquarters in Winnipeg eventually evolving into Canadian Airways through mergers and expansion into bush flying and scheduled services"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:27Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1927. Death of Pierre-Charles Corbu (b. X February 1902). French airliner pilot and test pilot (right). Killed with his mechanic Lacoste at Le Bourget in the crash of an experimental monoplane he was testing. The wings reportedly failed"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:31Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1944. Heinkel He XXX V1 prototype (Wk-Nr 200001) crashed at Schwechat during a 330ft high XXX mph pass killing pilot Flugkapitn Gotthold Peter. Part of the wing and ailerons were torn off causing loss of control"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:40Z 64.5K followers, 5026 engagements
"10 December 1958. The first domestic U.S. airline to operate jet airliners within the USA was National Airlines with a leased Pan American Boeing 707-121 (N710PA) Clipper America. It flew XXX passengers XXX nautical miles from Idlewild New York to Miami International"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:44Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Rolls Royce Falcon engine now fitted to Shuttleworth Old Warden's Bristol Fighter F2b"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:17Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 1917. Katherine Stinson flew her custom-built Curtiss-Stinson Special from Rockwell Field North Island San Diego to San Francisco a distance of XXX miles in X hours XX minutes setting a new American duration distance record"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:13Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 1941. Death of Masaaki Iinuma (b. XX November 1912). Japanese navy aviator and test pilot who on X April 1937 flew prototype Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane J-BAAI 9542 miles from Japan (Tokyo) to (Croydon England. The first Japanese-built aircraft to do so"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:18Z 64.6K followers, 1029 engagements
"11 December 1949. Death of First Lieutenant Croston K. Stead (b. XX March 1922). WWII USAF pilot killed in the crash of his North American F-51D-25-NT Mustang 45-11353 at Reno Air Force Base Nevada during a mock dogfight during training mission"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:26Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 1954. USS Forrestal (CV-59) American aircraft carrier was launched. First American aircraft carrier to be constructed with an angled flight deck steam catapult and an optical landing system"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:26Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 1959. USAF commander of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing Brigadier General Joseph Harold Moore flew a Republic F-105B Thunderchief to a world record of 1216.48 mph over a 62-mile circuit. He received the Bendix Trophy"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:28Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 1984. Death of Krafft Arnold Ehricke (24 March 1917). German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonisation. Co-designer of the first Centaur liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper stage which first flew XX November 1963 atop Atlas-Centaur AC-2"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:38Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 2000. 23.04.00 UTC/GMT. Landing of Shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy SLF Runway XX after mission STS-97. Installed first set of ISS solar arrays prepared docking port for Destiny Laboratory Module and delivered supplies. The final manned spaceflight of the 20th century"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:52Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"11 December 2009. First flight of the Airbus A400M from Seville. Also known as the Atlas. A multi-national four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed by Airbus Military as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:53Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire PR Mk.XIX PS915 + Lancaster PA474 + Spitfire LF Mk.IXe MK356 Mk.I:"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:42Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Mounting up a Typhoon FGR4 at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:46Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX December 1896 in Lithuania X victory Russian ace with the 9th Corps Fighter Detachment Praporshik Grigory Eduardovich Suk"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:48Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1918. Captain Ross M. Smith Brigadier General A.E. Borton (both pictured) with Major General W. Salmond and X mechanics from X Squadron AFC completed the first flight from Egypt (29 November) to India with Handley Page O/400 C9700 from Heliopolis to Karachi"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:25Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1919. Captain Henry Wrigley (right) and Sergeant Arthur Murphy landed their Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e after a 47-hour flight from Melbourne to Port Darwin. They flew without radio over unmapped and often hazardous terrain. The first aerial crossing of Australia"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:26Z 64.5K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1920. Joseph Sadi-Lecointe test pilot for the Socit Pour LAviation et ses Drivs set a new speed record of XXXXXXX mph with the Nieuport-Delage NiD-29VBis. Prototype with reduced wing area and powered by a XXX hp Hispano-Suiza 8Fb engine"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:28Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1940. At 11:40 pm approximately XX people were killed in the Marples Hotel Fitzalan Square Sheffield after a direct hit by a German high explosive bomb that demolished the building"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:32Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1946. First flight of the Westland Wyvern TF.1 (TS371) from Boscombe Down flown by Westland test pilot Harald Penrose. British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft. Powered by a Rolls Royce Eagle engine with distinctive contra-rotating propellers"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:36Z 64.6K followers, 1019 engagements
"12 December 1951. First flight of the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (CF-DYK-X). Canadian single-engine high-wing propeller-driven STOL aircraft. Enlarged all-metal copy of the Beaver with a 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R.1340 Wasp star engine"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:36Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December1952. The first official French aviator to break the sound barrier was Commander Roger Carpentier with the Dassault Mystre II in Brtign. The flight was conducted in a controlled dive"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:37Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1979. First flight of the Sikorsky SH-60B/MH-60 Seahawk (No. 161169). American twin turboshaft engine multi-mission helicopter designed for the USN and based on the US Army UH-60 Black Hawk"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:46Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"12 December 1994. Death of Stuart Allen Roosa (b XX August 1933). American aeronautical engineer smokejumper USAF pilot test pilot and NASA astronaut. The Command Module Pilot for the Apollo XX mission he was one of only XX men to travel to the Moon"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:48Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX December 1894 in Indianapolis Indiana USA X victory United States Air Service ace with 91stObservation Captain Everett Richard Cook DSC"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:00Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"13 December 1958. Gordo aka Old Reliable" a squirrel monkey was launched from the Atlantic Missile Range at Cape Canaveral in a Jupiter PGM-19 rocket on mission AM-13 for a 15-minute 310-mile altitude space flight. Capsule was lost parachute failure"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:20Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"A Duxford Icon - Spitfire Mk VB Duxford. Art by Phil Jackson"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:08Z 64.6K followers, 4001 engagements
"13 December 1951. XX victory ace Major George Andrew Davis Jr. of the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron shot down four MiG-15s in a single day with his F-86 Sabre"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:18Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"14 December 1903. Wilbur Wright made the first (unsuccessful) attempt at powered flight at Kill Devil Hills North Carolina. Wilbur never had the airplane under control and the X 1/2 second flight ended in a crash that broke the front elevator"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:48Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"28 November 1916. Zeppelin L21 (LZ61) destroyed with phosphor rounds by BE2C pilots Flight Lieutenant. Egbert Cadbury (8265) Flt.SubLt. Gerard W.R. Fane (8421) and Flt.SubLt. Edward L. Pulling (8626). On fire L XX fell into sea X miles east of Lowestoft. No survivors"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:48Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"4 December 1965. 19.30.03 UTC/GMT. Launch of Gemini X from Cape Kennedy LC-19 with astronauts Frank F. Borman II and James A. Lovell Jr. NASA spaceflight to investigate the effects of XX days in space on the human body"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:57Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Norfolk Island X July 1963. Short Sandringham VH-BRE was caught by a storm and broke its moorings. The next day another storm wrecked what remained of the aeroplane"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:38Z 64.6K followers, 36K engagements
"9 December 1995. Death of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (b. XX January 1907). Planning a transcontinental flight from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn New York to Long Beach California he flew his Curtiss Model XX Robin B to Ireland denying having flown to Ireland intentionally"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:26Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"10 December 1946. First flight of the Avia S XX Turbina CS XXXX. Two seat version of the Czechoslovakian built Messerschmitt Me XXX jet fighter"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:40Z 64.6K followers, 13.7K engagements
"11 December 1998. Thai Airways Flight XXX Airbus A310-204 HS-TIA XXX Phitsanulok crashed near Surat Thani Airport killing XXX of XXX occupants. The investigation revealed that the crew were disoriented their attempts to land at the airport had failed multiple times"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:51Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire XIVE"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:44Z 64.6K followers, 1942 engagements
"Sopwith Camel Supermarine Spitfire and Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (Lightning II)"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:47Z 64.6K followers, 15.6K engagements
"12 December 1931. First flight of the SPCA 41T. French high-wing trimotor mailplane version of the 40T powered by three XXX hp Salmson 9Nc nine-cylinder engines"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:31Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Pair of Spitfire IX of XXX Squadron. The slopes of Vesuvius Italy as a backdrop. January 1944"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:14Z 64.6K followers, 3327 engagements
"Born XX December 1898 in in Grahamstown Eastern Cape South Africa X victory Sopwith Dolphin ace with XX Squadron Lieutenant Arthur Winston Blake"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:01Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"13 December1935. USAAC officer Arthur K. Ladd of the General Headquarters Air Force was killed in the crash of Boeing P-12F 32-100 three miles east of Dale South Carolina while enroute from Langley Field Virginia to Miami Florida for an air race and exhibition"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:16Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"13 December 1969. Boeing 747-121 s/n 19638 line number RA003 landed at Renton Airport at 11:11 a.m. then struck an embankment about XX feet short of Runway XX. None of the XX Boeing employees on board were injured"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:23Z 64.6K followers, 43.3K engagements
"13 December 1994. American Eagle Flight 3379 British Aerospace 3201 Jetstream XX N918AE crashed into a wooded area four miles southwest of Raleigh-Durham International Airport near Morrisville NC killing XX over XX occupants"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:26Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"14 December 1918. X Squadron AFC were the first to arrive at Colognes Bickendorf aerodrome which had the luxury of permanent hangars and accommodation after their previous existence in tents and canvas Bessonneau hangars"
X Link 2025-12-13T19:33Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Camera attached to ball-turret .50 BMG on a B24 Liberator"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:32Z 64.6K followers, 41.7K engagements
"Pearl Harbour X December 1941"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:38Z 64.6K followers, 24.1K engagements
"German pilot Wolfgang Rose with a cameraman in the rear equipment compartment of his Focke-Wulf XXX fighter Fw.190A-8"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:11Z 64.6K followers, 10.4K engagements
"8 December 1941. Birth of Randall Harold Cunningham (d. XX August 2015). USN X victory Vietnam War ace. Flying an F-4 Phantom II from USS Constellation (CV-64). He and William Driscoll downed North Vietnamese MiG-21 and MiG-17 aircraft between January and May 1972"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:16Z 64.6K followers, 2121 engagements
"10 December 2006. 01.47.35 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-116 to deliver and attach the International Space Station's P5 truss segment rewire the station's power system and exchange of ISS Expedition XX personnel"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:52Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Sopwith X 1/2 Strutter taking off from HMS Barham's B Turret 1917"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:12Z 64.6K followers, 7935 engagements
"13 December 1939. Lieutenant Edgar Duncan Goodenough Lewin CB CBE DSO DSC in a Fairey Seafox catapulted from HMS Ajax spotted fire for her guns while attacking the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:18Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"13 December 2003. First flight of the Guizhou JL-9 (also known as the FTC-2000 Mountain Eagle 'Shanying'). People's Republic of China two-seat fighter trainer"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:26Z 64.6K followers, 1516 engagements
"Ready for Tomorrow Sir - Sunderland Maintenance Pembroke Dock. Art by Ieuan Layton-Matthews"
X Link 2025-12-12T21:31Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"14 December 1944. First flight of the Short Shetland British high-speed long-range four-engine flying-boat. The design used the company's experience with large scale production of the Short Sunderland. The end of WW2 prevented the Shetland from entering production"
X Link 2025-12-13T20:16Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"14 December 1956. The Convair F-106A Delta Dart 56-451 was loaded on a trailer at the Convair plant in San Diego California to be transported to Edwards Air Force Base for its first flight"
X Link 2025-12-13T20:18Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements
"14 December 1959. The existing absolute altitude record for turbojet-powered aircraft was broken by Lockheed F-104C-5-LO Starfighter (560885) at Edwards AFB. It was flown by Captain 'Joe' Bailey Jordan to a height of 103389 feet"
X Link 2025-12-13T20:19Z 64.6K followers, XXX engagements