@ron_eisele Ron Eisele

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

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Social topic influence flight #752, the first #3167, $7846t #1759, ace #2059, february #1292, air 4.94%, in the 4.47%, ron #89, air force 2.59%, art 2.35%

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Top assets mentioned General Electric Company (GE) Boeing Co (BA) Lancaster Colony Corp (LANC) OKB (OKB) General Dynamics Corporation (GD)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The tipping point"
X Link 2022-06-14T18:50Z 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

"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

"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

"US Navy Catalina over the Aleutian Islands 1943"
X Link 2025-07-16T23:11Z 66.1K followers, 126.4K 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

"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

"Norfolk Island [--] July [----]. 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 66.1K followers, 36.6K 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

"24 January [----]. First flight of the Convair Model 30-5 the [---] Coronado. American narrow body jet airliner a stretched version of the earlier Convair [---]. Powered by four engine General Electric CJ-805-23B turbojets"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:14Z 66.1K followers, 104.5K engagements

"26 January [----]. French aviatrix Maryse Hilsz (7 March [----] [--] January 1946) took off from Paris in a Breguet (Bre.27S) christened 'Joe III' for a tour of Asia to Tokyo"
X Link 2026-01-25T19:55Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Norfolk Island on [--] July [----]. Short Sandringham VH-BRE was caught by a storm and broke its moorings. The next day another storm deemed it unrepairable"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:52Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"30 January [----]. First flight of the Breguet 39T. French large three-engine sesquiplane of all-metal construction with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Transport prototype"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:54Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Heinkel He 111Z (Zwilling) Utility Transport"
X Link 2026-01-29T20:26Z 66.2K followers, [----] engagements

"31 January [----]. First flight of the British Army version Westland-assembled Aerospatiale SA 341B Gazelle AH.1. (XW843 AAC). All-purpose lightweight helicopter"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:37Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"1 February [----]. Birth of Georges James Denis (d. [--] June 2003). French aviator and [--] victory RAF WW2 ace with [--] victories who escaped Vichy France and fought on the side of the exiled government of Free France in the North African and Middle Eastern regions"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:28Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"1 February [----]. Burgess Company and Curtiss Inc. became Americas first licensed aircraft manufacturer receiving a license to build Wright aircraft from the Wright Brothers who held several key aeronautical patents. Their first machine was the Curtiss Model D pusher-biplane"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:29Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"B.E.2 Army biplane at the [----] Olympia Show Aero Exhibition"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:31Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"February [----]. First flight of the Nieuport B.N.1. Prototype British fighter intended to replace the Sopwith Camel. Powered by a [---] hp Bentley BR2 9-cylinder rotary engine the sole example was destroyed in a crash. The Sopwith Snipe instead replaced the Camel"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:36Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"February [----]. First flight of the sole Westland PV.3. British two-seat torpedo bomber A private venture development based on the Westland Wapiti it never entered production but became the first two to fly over Everest during the Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"1 February [----]. First flight of the Kawasaki Ki-100. Japanese fighter aircraft. The Ki-100 was a stressed-skin cantilever low-wing single-seat enclosed-cockpit radial engine monoplane with retractable undercarriage. Control surfaces were fabric covered"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:56Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"1 February [----]. The moment in Mission Control when NASA personnel realised there had been a major malfunction"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:13Z 66.1K followers, 138.9K engagements

"Spitfire Mk LF IXe MK356 UF-Q"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:18Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"'Jurassic Bird' - Westland Pterodactyl Mk.IV. Art by Roy Garner"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:20Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"2 February [----]. Birth of Wilhelm Balthasar (d. [--] July 1941). German Luftwaffe ace credited with [--] victories during the Spanish Civil War and [--] on the WW2 Western Front. He flew [---] combat missions in Spain and [---] during WW2. Killed in action in his Bf [---] F-4"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:36Z 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

"Canada Goose - Ford Tri-Motor 'The Tin Goose' art by James Colthorpe"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:42Z 66K followers, [---] 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

"3 February [----]. Low on fuel after a combat mission American 1st Lieutenant Comstocks Republic P-47C-5-RE Thunderbolt 41-6326 crashed at Lyons Farm Mutford Suffolk England"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:27Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"3 February [----]. Transcontinental and Western Airlines and Pan American World Airways inaugurated passenger services with Lockheed L-049A Constellation Clipper Mayflower NC88836 and Navajo Skychief NC86503 respectively"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:31Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"3 February [----]. The U.S. Federal Aviation Agency launched Operation Bongo Mark [--] to investigate the effects of supersonic flight. Over the coming months a Convair B-58 flew through the sound barrier at low altitude over Oklahoma City"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"3 February [----]. Dwyer Flying Service Beechcraft [--] Bonanza N3794N crashed during a snowstorm near Clear Lake Iowa. All aboard were killed including American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:33Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"3 February [----]. American Airlines Flight [---] Lockheed L-188A Electra Flagship New York N6101A crashed into the East River on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport in marginal weather killing [--] over 73"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:34Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"3 February [----]. An OKB Mil Design Bureau Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter (NATO code-name Halo) crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot) lifted [-----] pounds to [----] ft at Podmoskovnoe Moscow breaking the world record for a helicopter"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:40Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"3 February [----]. 13.00.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-41B. Challenger deployed two communications satellites (Westar [--] and Palapa B2) and the flight also included the first untethered spacewalk (by astronaut Bruce McCandless II)"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:41Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"3 February [----]. During low-altitude training mission Grumman EA-6B Prowler CY-02 [------] Easy [--] cut the cable of a cable-car near the Italian town of Cavalese [--] miles northeast of Trento with the death of [--] people. Both pilot and navigator were dismissed from the USMC"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:44Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The Vintage Aeroplane Collection's L.V.G. CVI in New Zealand"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:55Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"4 February [----]. Death of Franz Reichelt Frantz Reichelt or Franois Reichelt (b. [--] October 1878). Austrian-born French tailor inventor and parachuting pioneer killed after jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:44Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"4 February [----]. Captain Alfred Clayburn Atkey MC and Bar of [--] Squadron downed his first and second of [--] total victories flying D.H.4 (A7798) two Siemens-Schuckert D.III's (example pictured) over Messines"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:47Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"4 February [----]. First flight of the Mitsubishi A5M 'Claude' (Ka-14). Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft. World's first monoplane shipboard fighter and direct ancestor of the Mitsubishi A6M 'Zero'"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:49Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"4 February [----]. First use of the H-II (H2). Japanese rocket satellite launch system developed by NASDA first two-stage liquid-fuelled Japanese rocket using domestic technologies"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Northrop N-3PB of [---] (Norwegian) Squadron RAF formed at Reykjavik Iceland on [--] April [----] from Norwegian personnel escaped from Norway"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:21Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Bf [---] G-8 usually flown by Leutnant Heimo Emmerstorfer of the 2./NAGr. [--] in either Albania or northern Italy during the summer of 1944"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:21Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"July [----] the Bf109 of [--] year old Hauptmann Wilhelm Meyerweissflog JG [--] Stabs Administrative Officer at Guernseys La Villiaze"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Bf [---] F-4 Yellow [--] of 9./JG [--] Udet flown by fighter ace Ofw. Eberhard von Boremski photographed in early May 1942"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:24Z 66K followers, 12.1K engagements

"Wing Cdr. Guy Gibson (centre) O.C. [---] Sqn. RAF with his two Flight Commanders Squadron Leaders J H Searby (left) & P Ward-Hunt. March '43"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:38Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Free French Air Forces Dewoitine D.520s over southern France (probably) late summer of 1944"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:39Z 66.1K followers, 19.5K engagements

"Fokker DVII cockpit interior"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:41Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"5 February [----]. Birth of Hiram Stevens Maxim (d. [--] November 1916). British American-born inventor of the first portable fully automatic machine gun and early aircraft designer"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:40Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. After a bombing raid over Saarbrcken Second Lieutenant Stephen Thompson of the 1st Aero Squadron claimed the first Great War aerial victory for the US Air Service after being attacked by a flight of Albatros D.III fighters"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:46Z 66.2K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. Birth of George Earl Ratsy Preddy Jr. (d. [--] December 1944). American WWII fighter ace top P-51 Mustang ace of WWII and 6th on the list of all-time highest scoring American aces"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:48Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"5 February [----]. The Focke-Achgelis Fa [---] V-1 Drache German helicopter experienced failure of its right rotor pylon in flight. Too low for auto-rotative landing test pilot Carl Bode successfully parachuted but passenger Dr. Ing. Heinz Baer was killed"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:57Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. After nearly [--] months in the jungle of New Britain island Papua New Guinea protected by local villagers from the Nakanai tribe USAAF Major Fred Hargesheimer (pictured) along with other downed airmen was rescued by the submarine USS Gato"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"56 February [----]. Transcontinental and Western Airlines flew Lockheed L-049-46 Constellation s/n [----] NC86511 Star of Paris on their first scheduled revenue international transatlantic passenger flight from La Guardia Field New York to Aroport de Paris-Orly Paris"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-749A Constellation N115A (pictured) flew from Los Angeles to LaGuardia Airport New York in [--] hours [--] minutes [--] seconds setting a new West-to-East transcontinental speed record for transport aircraft"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"5 February [----]. Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King established a new Fdration Aronautique Internationale (FAI) speed record for helicopters of [-------] miles per hour over an [----] mile course between Milford and New Haven Connecticut"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:04Z 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

"5 February [----]. First flight of the Northrop Tacit Blue technology demonstrator at Area [--] Groom Lake Nevada flown by Northrop test pilot Richard G. Thomas. A stealth low observable surveillance aircraft with low-intercept-probability radar"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:12Z 66.1K followers, 29.3K engagements

"After suffering an accident at Crouson Winston's wife pleaded with him to give up flying and so he never got his pilot's licence"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Air Vice Marshal Keith Park taxiing his personal Spitfire V Malta Safi airfield"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:37Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"6 February [----]. Fourteen Grigorovich aircraft from the Imperial Russian Navy Black Sea Fleets seaplane carriers Imperator Nikolai I and Imperator Aleksandr I sank the Ottoman collier Irmingard (4211 grt) the largest ship sunk by air attack in WWI"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:05Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"6 February [----]. First flight of the Kawanishi E7K. Japanese three-seat biplane reconnaissance floatplane"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:07Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"6 February [----]. James Allan Mollison MBE (19 April [----] [--] October 1959) took off in his de Havilland Puss Moth from Lympne Aerodrome for Natal Brazil via Senegal across the South Atlantic becoming the first man to fly solo across the North and South Atlantic"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:08Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"6 February [----]. First successful in-flight separation of the Short-Mayo composite (Short S.21 Maia and Short S.20 Mercury seaplane) from the Shorts works at Borstal near Rochester Medway"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:09Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"6 February [----]. TWA Lockheed L-049 Constellation serial number [----] NC86511 named Star of Paris landed at Orly airport Paris from LaGuardia New York to complete the airline's first scheduled international flight in [--] hours and [--] minutes"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:13Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"6 February [----]. Death of Karl Maybach (b.6 July 1879). German engineer who built innovative engines for dirigibles aircraft and cars. During WW1 he achieved technical success with the overcompressed Mercedes Mb.IVa aircraft engine"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:15Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"6 February [----]. Andy Nelson navigator Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten landed Breitling Orbiter II in Burma setting a world endurance record of [---] hours [--] minutes after attempting around the world flight aborted as China forbade them to fly over the country"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:18Z 66.1K followers, [---] 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

"In [----] Mad Jack Savage experimented making first shapes and then letters in the air. Skywriting was born. His S.E.5a is one of the few original survivors since [----] it has been hanging from the London Science Museum roof displaying civilian markings"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:21Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Rolls Royce's own Spitfire PS853 - an unarmed high-altitude photo reconnaissance"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:22Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Douglas Bader makes his exit: 9th August [----]. He was flying Spitfire Mk VA serial W3185 "D-B" on an offensive patrol over the French coast"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:01Z 66K followers, 24.7K engagements

"Two Short Sunderland flying boats search for survivors after a U.S. supply freighter was destroyed by a U-Boat in the Atlantic near England's coast 1942"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:02Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Heinkel [---] one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately [--] prototypes and pre-production examples were built. None are known to have survived the war"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:05Z 66.1K followers, 22.7K engagements

""A remarkable flying machine" - John Young astronaut"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:07Z 66.1K followers, 15.5K engagements

"Two hours of air traffic passing over Hyde Park London during 2005"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:08Z 66.1K followers, [---] 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. https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1490420149668782080/photo/1 https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1490420149668782080/photo/1"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Pilot Maureen Dunlop sleeps after ferrying aircraft from factories to airports during WW2"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] 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 [----]. [-----] GMT/UTC. Launch of Soyuz [--] from Baikonur Site 1/5.Soviet mission to the Salyut [--] space station third and final mission to the station last purely military crew for the Soviets and the final mission to a military Salyut"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:33Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"7 February [----]. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II made the first untethered EVA using the Shuttle's Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU) while Robert L. Stewart tested the "workstation" foot restraint at the end of the Remote Manipulator System. Mission STS-41-B"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:43Z 66.1K followers, 11.6K engagements

"7 February [----]. Death of Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. (b. [--] September 1909). American Central Intelligence Agency officer responsible for major projects such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:47Z 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

"7 February [----]. Manaus Aerotxi Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante PT-SEA crashed into the Manacapuru River [--] miles southwest of Manaus killing [--] over [--]. Overladen its left engine failed while enroute and crashed while attempting to execute an emergency landing"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:51Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Modern flying reproductions of WWI SE5a's Masterton New Zealand"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:19Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Searching for an outstanding fighting aeroplane Sopwith's experimental department decided in early [----] to build an entirely new design. A triplane"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:20Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"8 February [----]. Birth of Thomas Etholen Selfridge first man and first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a powered aeroplane crash. On [--] September [----] he was Orville Wright's passenger in the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer when the right hand propeller failed"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:01Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. Birth of Gunther Plschow (d.28 January 1931). German aviator and author. First man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air. Only German p.o.w. (in both wars) to escape from Britain back to Germany"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:02Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"8 February [----]. Birth of Yoshio Hirose (d. [--] December 1944). Japanese Sino-Japanese war and WWII ace credited with [--] combat victories. Killed during a raid on Nagoya with Captain Osamu Kawakami. Both rammed a B-29 Yoshio Hiroses aircraft fell into the sea"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:06Z 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 [----]. Robert Fowler completed the first U.S. east to west coast transcontinental flight in a Wright Model B. He landed at Jacksonville Florida after a 4-month journey from San Francisco. Art by Steve Remington"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:07Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St Louis completed the 7800-mile "Good Will Tour" of Latin America and the Caribbean by landing in Havana Cuba having spent [---] hours in the air since departing on [--] December 1927"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:12Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. First flight of the Boeing Model [---]. Early US airliner considered the first such aeroplane to fully incorporate advances such as all-metal semi-monocoque construction a fully cantilevered wing and retractable landing gear"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:13Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. First flight of the Morane-Saulnier M.S.350. French single-seat open-cockpit aerobatic biplane with equal-span wings. The independent main legs of the fixed landing gear were fully faired and fitted with streamlined wheel 'spats'"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:13Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. Lockheed P-2V-3c Neptune Neptune's Atomic Trident" of the US Navy established a distance record for carrier-launched (USS Franklin D. Roosevelt) aircraft flying [----] miles in [--] hours [--] minutes non-stop from Jacksonville Florida to San Francisco"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:15Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"8 February [----]. The Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as seen by the departing Skylab [--] mission crew"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:19Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"8 February [----]. Independent Air Flight [----] Boeing 707-331B N7231T crashed into a hill on approach to Santa Maria Azores due to a misunderstanding between crew and ATC. All [---] occupants killed"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:48Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"8 February [----]. Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154M EP-ITD departing on non-scheduled flight from Mehrabad International Airport Tehran to Khoram Dareh collided midair with an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 on approach to the same airport. [---] fatalities"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:49Z 66K followers, [----] 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

"8 February [----]. First flight of the Boeing 747-8F (Freighter). American wide-body jet cargo liner"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:50Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"Armstrong Whitworth FK.10 Quadruplane (s/n N514) powered by a 130-hp Clerget engine on the ground while under test at Manston"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:05Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"Fokker D.VII cockpit"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:05Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am [-----] feet and Climbing. (SR-71 operations sign Kadena AFB Okinawa)"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

""After about [--] minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self: Man you made a big mistake." ('Chuck' Yeager recalling his first flight)"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:23Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Racing 'planes didn't necessarily require courage but did demand an amount of foolhardiness and a total disregard of one's skin. (Mary Haizlip)"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:24Z 66K followers, 16.9K engagements

"If I had a choice between becoming Air Force chief of staff or a fighter ace I would choose to be a fighter ace. - General Thomas White USAF"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:24Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. Brian Trubshaw Concorde Chief Test Pilot 1967"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:25Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Air racing may not be better than your wedding night but it's better than the second night. (Mickey Rupp air racer and Indianapolis [---] driver)"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:26Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime. Pancho Barnes"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:26Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"The [----] Blackburn Monoplane at Old Warden Bedfordshire is the oldest airworthy aeroplane of British origin in the world"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:27Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Wood Green Middlesex [--] victory D.H.2 ace with [--] Squadron Captain Stanley Cockerell"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:16Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"Second Lieutenant Stanley Cockerell AFC Royal Flying Corps. [--] February [----] [--] November 1940"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:16Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. Death of American pioneer aviator Henry Burnet Post (b. [--] June 1885). The right wing of his hydro-aeroplane Wright Model C "Speed Scout" failed over San Diego Bay just after he established an American altitude record of [-----] feet"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:35Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. Jim Mollison landed his de Havilland Puss Moth G-ABXY "The Heart's Content" in Natal Brazil after flying from Lympne via Senegal across the South Atlantic becoming the first man to fly solo across the North and South Atlantic"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:38Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. USS Macon (ZRS-5) passes over San Diego California"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:38Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. WW1 British ace Captain Thomas Tommy Rose DFC (27 January [----] [--] June 1968) landed the prototype Miles M.3 Falcon G-ADLC at Wingfield Aerodrome in Cape Town South Africa after a record flight from England of [--] days [--] hours [--] minutes"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:39Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. British flyer Alexander Adolphus Dumphries Henshaw MBE landed his Percival Mew Gull G-AEXF at Gravesend in Kent England after a record flight to Cape Town and back in [--] days [--] hours and [--] minutes. The Cape record stood for more than [--] years"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:40Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. First flight of the sole prototype Dewoitine D.521. A development of the French low-wing monoplane fighter D.520 with an in-line [----] hp Rolls-Royce Merlin III engine"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:41Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. Death of Masayuki Nakase Japanese [--] victory WWII fighter ace who committed suicide to avoid capture after his Mitsubishi A6m-5 Zero was downed near Makassar by ground fire during a strafing mission"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:41Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"9 February [----]. First military rescue by a helicopter. Sikorsky S-51 Demonstrator flown by Sikorsky chief pilot Jimmy Viner assisted by Lt. Joe Rullo USN from USS Franklin D. Roosevelt rescued the two-man crew of an SB2C Helldiver crashed into the water after engine failure"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:52Z 66.1K followers, 11.5K engagements

"9 February [----]. North American Test Pilot Scott Crossfield hands the X-15 keys to Bob White and Neil Armstrong representing delivery of the aircraft by North American and acceptance of it for the flight research program conducted jointly by the Air Force and NASA"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:05Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. First one hour fifteen-minute test flight of the prototype Boeing 747-121 (FAA Reg. N7470) City of Everett from Paine Field Washington. Wide body commercial airliner/cargo transport. Powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A high-bypass ratio turbofan engines"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:06Z 66.1K followers, 16.7K engagements

"6 April [----]. The prototype Boeing 747-121 N7470 embarked on its last flight. Still in its test-configuration it was donated to the Museum of Flight located at Boeing Field in Seattle Washington where it was placed on static display"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:08Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"9 February [----]. 21.05.00 UTC/GMT. Spashdown of Apollo [--] in the South Pacific Ocean after completing the third successful manned moon landing mission. The Command Module 'Kitty Hawk' and crew were recovered by USS New Orleans"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"9 February [----]. First flight of the Boeing EC-137D. American airborne warning and control system (AWACS) prototype derived from the Boeing [---] which led to the final version of the E-3 Sentry"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:09Z 66.1K followers, 14.5K engagements

"9 February [----]. Death of Friedrich Fritz Wendel (b. [--] February 1915). German test pilot for Messerschmitt during WWI. On [--] April [----] he set the world air speed record of [-------] mph flying the Messerschmitt Me [---] V1"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:10Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. Death of Elwood Richard Pete Quesada CB CBE (b. [--] April 1904). United States Air Force Lieutenant General FAA administrator. He was also part of the team (with Ira Eaker and Carl Spaatz) that developed and demonstrated air-to-air refuelling in 1929"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:14Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"9 February [----]. Death of Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland (b.19 March 1912). German Luftwaffe General and flying ace who served throughout WWII in Europe"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:15Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"9 February [----]. RAF Tornado on a desert airstrip in Kuwait"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:16Z 66K followers, [---] engagements

"Died [--] February [----]. Royal Canadian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Sid Bregman (b. [--] April 1922). Pictured here with his [---] Squadron RCAF Spitfire IX 9G-Q MJ627 at B70 Airfield Belgium September [----]. This Spitfire converted to a two-seat Mk.IX(T) still flies today"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:21Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito TIII NS838"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:45Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Swordfish at Pembroke Dock Wales"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:03Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Market Garden"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:04Z 66.1K followers, 37.6K engagements

"Hurricane pilots 1940"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:05Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Supermarine Spitfire Mk I of [---] (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force K9795"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:05Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"de Havilland DH98 Mosquito FB.26 KA114 painted as EG-Y to replicate [---] (NZ) Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:07Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

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

"Bristol Beaufighter Mk IV T3177 with Rolls Royce Griffon engines"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:24Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"F-35A Lightning II 388th Fighter Wing taxis during sunset for a night flying operation at Hill Air Force Base Utah Aug. [--] 2019"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:25Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Essen [--] victory German ace Leutnant Erik Thomas"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Manchester Lancashire [--] victory Brisfit observer ace with [--] Squadron Second Lieutenant Thomas Sydney Chiltern"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Air Marshal Sir William Lawrie Welsh KCB DSC AFC (d. [--] January 1962). British Royal Air Force officer who commanded British air operations during Operation Torch and WW1 test pilot one of the first to fly aa aeroplane off a carrier"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Juan Guillermo Villasana Lopez (d. [--] February 1959). Prominent Mexican engineer and early aviator who founded in [----] the first organization in Mexico for aeronautical purposes: "The Aviation Society". He designed the "Anahuac Propeller""
X Link 2026-02-09T23:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Roland Rohlfs (d. [--] March 1974). American early aviator and test pilot. In [----] he was the first to cross the [-----] m altitude barrier in the "Curtiss L-3" triplane and set a world record of [-----] feet"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:44Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Walter Kreiser (d. 1958). German aircraft designer pioneer helicopter developer(W.R.K. Gyroplane pictured) and journalist whose [----] article in Die Weltbhne resulted in his prosecution at the Weltbhne trial for revealing state secrets"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Hauptmann Paul Engelhardt (27 July [----] [--] September 1911). German early aviator and pupil of Orville Wright made the first powered flights over Switzerland circling Lake St. Moritz three times"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Birth of Federico Attilio Marco Cozzolino (d. [--] March 1938). Italian Aviator decorated with the Gold Medal for Military Valour killed in action during the Spanish Civil War"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:46Z 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 [----]. 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 [----]. [---] Squadron C.O. S/Ldr John Woodburn Gillan flew Hawker Hurricane L1555 from Edinburgh to Northolt at a record average speed of [---] mph with tail wind. The first Hurricanes arrived at [---] RAF Northolt December [----]. (Official acceptance date [--] January 1938)"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:51Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. First flight of the third prototype Polikarpov I-180.3 powered by a M-88R engine and fitted with a stressed skin wing (replacing the I-16 type wing structure of previous prototypes). It crashed on [--] July [----] when it entered an inverted spin due to pilot error"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:52Z 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

"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 66.2K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Death of George Andrew Davis Jr. (b. [--] December 1920). USAF WW2 and Korean War fighter pilot. Attacking a flight of [--] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s about to bounce other US aircraft he shot down two before being shot down himself"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:56Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"10 February [----]. First flight of the Gloster Meteor F8 "Prone Pilot" WK-935. A modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter prototype to evaluate the advantages of coping with "g"-forces while flying in a prone position"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:57Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"10 February [----]. First flight of the definitive production Piper PA-28-150 Cherokee (serial number 28-1 registration N5000W). Powered by a [---] hp Lycoming O-320-A2A engine. (N2800W pictured)"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. American U-2 pilot Gary Powers was exchanged for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher (aka Rudolf Abel) at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin Germany"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. First flight of the Dornier Do 31E1 D-9530. West German experimental VTOL jet transport aircraft. Powered by Bristol Pegasus engines the first prototype was designed to test horizontal flight"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:02Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"10 February [----]. Final flight of the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck #100785 painted black to resemble the prototype CF-100 Mark [--] #18101 which first flew [--] January 1950"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:03Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"10 February [----]. The first prototype of the Antonov An-70 cargo aircraft crashed during a test flight in Kiev Oblast after it collided with an escorting Antonov An-72 and fell into a forested area killing all seven in the An-70 The An-72 made a safe emergency landing"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:04Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Ageless Icons - Sopwith Camel over Stonehenge. Art by Patricia Forrest"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:08Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"RAF Museum Hendon: Recreation of Barnes Wallis' office at the Vickers factory at Weybridge just as it was before his retirement in 1971"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:09Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Sopwith F1 Camel. Art by Richard Wheatland"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:16Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

""The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions." Gunther Rall Luftwaffe [---] victories"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:17Z 66.1K followers, 58.3K engagements

""I don't mind being called tough because in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors." - General Curtis LeMay USAF"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:17Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

""To be a good fighter pilot you need to think fast and act faster". - Major John T. Godfrey USAAF"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:18Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Boeing P-26 Peashooter"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:21Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"DreamLifter - Boeing 747-400 LCF"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:21Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Martin P5M Marlin"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

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

"Japanese ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious patrol aircraft"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:23Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess prototype G-ALUN"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:23Z 66.1K followers, 19.8K engagements

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

"Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Omega Air KDC-10 tanker"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:32Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Curtiss H-75A-1"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:33Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Born [--] February [----] in Montreal Quebec [--] victory Sopwith Dolphin ace with [--] Squadron Canadian Lieutenant Lewis Hector "Hec" Ray"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:41Z 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

"Died aged [--] on [--] February [----] in Saint-Baudelle [--] victory French Air Service ace Sous Lieutenant Paul Yvan Robert Waddington"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Sous Lieutenant Paul Yvan Robert Waddington. [--] October [----] - [--] February 1986"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. Escuela de Aviacin del Capitn Manuel valos Prado was founded it later became Fuerza Area de Chile (Chilean Air Force)"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:55Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. A forced landing destroyed Vickers Vimy IV G-UABA Silver Queen at Korosko on the NIle attempting to fly from Brooklands to Youngsfield South Africa with Lt.Col. Hesperus Andrias van Ryneveld DSO MC.and Cpt. Christopher Joseph Quintin Brand DSO MC DFC"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:56Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. First flight of the Couzinet [--] 'Arc en Ciel III' (Rainbow). Developed as a mail aeroplane for use of Aropostale's South Atlantic service. Sole prototype powered by three Hispano-Suiza 12Nb engines. Later converted to the Couzinet 71"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:57Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. The prototype XP-38 37-457 was damaged beyond repair approaching Mitchel Field New York. Both engines failed to accelerate from idle due to carb. icing. Unable to maintain altitude Lt. Benjamin Kelsey crash landed on a golf course and was unhurt"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"11 February [----]. Death of Mario Visintini MOVM (b. [--] April 1913). First Regia Aeronautica WWII ace (16 victories). Killed crashing his Fiat CR42 on Mount Nefasit Eritrea during adverse weather. Flying in Eastern Africa the top biplane fighter ace of WW2"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11-12 February [----]. The Channel Dash. The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm attempted to stop a breakout by the core of the Kriegsmarine from Brest to Germany"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:01Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"11 February [----]. First flight of the CASA C-201 Alcotn (Kestrel). Spanish twin-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane military transport aircraft. Powered by two [---] hp Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah XXVII seven-cylinder radial engines"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:02Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. Test pilot John R. Noll began tethered hovering flight tests of the McDonnell XV-1 (53-4016). US experimental compound helicopter designated as a convertiplane"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:02Z 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

"11 February [----]. [-----] GMT/UTC. Launch of [----] of Osumi (or Ohsumi) from the Kagoshima Space Centre. First Japanese artificial satellite put into orbit. Japan became the fourth nation to independently place a satellite into orbit"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:14Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. Pacific Western Airlines Flight [---] Boeing 737-200 C-FPWC crashed at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport after its thrust reversers did not fully stow following an aborted landing to avoid a snowplough on the runway killing [--] over 49"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:15Z 66.1K followers, [----] 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 66.2K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. Death of Jacqueline Marie-Thrse Suzanne (Auriol nee Douet born [--] November 1917). She qualified as one of the first female test pilots one of the first women to break the sound barrier and set five world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:18Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

"11 February 2008.Death of Frank Piasecki (b. [--] October 1919). American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer. He pioneered the design of tandem rotor helicopters and created the compound helicopter concept of vectored thrust using a ducted propeller"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:20Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

"11 February [----]. The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed weapons system megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted inside a modified Boeing 747-400F successfully destroyed a liquid-fuel ballistic missile less than one minute after its launch"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:20Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements

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