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@clark_aviation "Exactly XX years ago today in 1945 Wright Field in Ohio hosted an 'Army Air Forces Fair'. This was an open house event and a chance for the public to see displays of the (recently captured) equipment being tested and developed there the estimated attendance was 250000 people"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-13T05:35Z 44.1K followers, 57K engagements

"The SAAB XX Lansen was a trans-sonic Swedish attack aircraft from the 1950s. A useful type that only retired in 1997 which surprisingly was never sold to any other operators"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-18T06:53Z 44.1K followers, 12K engagements

"'Open wide please' Armourers wheel a 4000-lb HC bomb ('Cookie') for loading into a De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IV (modified) of No XXX Squadron RAF. Despite being made of plywood the Mossie could carry a huge bomb load for its size. exceeding that of a B17 Flying Fortress"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-22T05:51Z 44.1K followers, 17K engagements

"In THE early 1950s someone decided that people would like to buy their own personal 'Chinook' 😂😂 The rather odd McCulloch MC-4 helicopter from the USA"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-09-28T06:13Z 44.1K followers, 43.3K engagements

"At last Something good (well very amusing) from Artificial Intelligence. Ryan Air customers will recognise so much in this video. 👏"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-14T17:08Z 44.1K followers, 7649 engagements

"@stuartroxy The Fleet Air Arm was indeed under RAF control but I thought (given the limited character count) it would be confusing to write it as 'Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force' which would indeed have been factually correct"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-21T18:06Z 44.1K followers, XX engagements

"If ever there was a reason to invent a 'time machine' this advert must be quite high up the list🧐"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-11T07:26Z 44.1K followers, 44.5K engagements

"In this (colourised) image there are just two aircraft.and eleven engines"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-15T05:50Z 44.1K followers, 22K engagements

"A (rather wild looking and bearded) Fleet Air Arm telegraphist/air gunner Leading Aircrewman C. H. Clark (no relation) exits a Fairey Albacore aircraft carrying his flying kit after his aircraft returned from a patrol to HMS Victorious off the coast of Iceland"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-19T05:54Z 44.1K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Fred Hatton the last senior naval officer at Pembroke Dock and also an ex-Hunter and Gannet pilot before going on to a distinguished rotary wing career"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-20T21:28Z 44.1K followers, 2612 engagements

"A Blackburn Shark from XXX NAS crashes on landing aboard HMS Courageous XX October 1936. At this time the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm was a mix of Naval and RAF pilots with much of the servicing carried out by RAF personnel. a situation not dissimilar to today's F-35 fleet"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-21T05:39Z 44.1K followers, 6296 engagements

"A scary image circa 1982 and signed by pilot Lefty Gardner a WWII veteran and air race legend flying at 400mph and XX feet off the deck in his Lockheed P-38 Lightning at the Reno Air Races"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-23T06:05Z 44.1K followers, 52.1K engagements

"Technically its not 'shutting down 'half' of its Double Mamba engine' as it was powered by two independent AS Mamba gas turbine engines each capable of driving one propeller through a gearbox. The name 'Twin Mamba' never caught on but probably described it more accurately"
X Link @clark_aviation 2025-10-23T07:25Z 44.1K followers, 8668 engagements