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@ron_eisele Avatar @ron_eisele Ron Eisele

Ron Eisele posts on X about $7846t, air force, $4732t, ace the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1590 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"B-17 delivering the groceries vegetable transport Bahamas to Florida 1960's"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T21:15Z 63.1K followers, 1121 engagements

"14 October 1895. Birth of Mariano Barbern y Tros de Ilarduya (d. XX June 1933). Spanish military aviator who took part in the historic flight of the Cuatro Vientos a Br.19 TF Super Bidon built specially for the flight from Seville Spain to Camagey Cuba"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:55Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Curtiss-Wright CW-22 1940s American general-purpose advanced training monoplane aircraft operated by the United States Navy as a scout trainer with the designation SNC-1 Falcon. Seen here at Corpus Christi Texas 1942"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T18:14Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1917. Sopwiths first production 2F1 Ships Camel N6600 with its 150hp Bentley BR1 engine single Vickers gun over-wing Lewis gun detachable rear fuselage and floatation bags was delivered directly to RNAS Yarmouth from Brooklands"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:15Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Lockheed C-69 Constellation. Military transport aeroplane"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:54Z 63.1K followers, 4385 engagements

"1 August 1973. First (glide) flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B experimental US aircraft. Designed and built to test lifting body concepts experimenting with the concept of unpowered re-entry and landing later used by the Space Shuttle"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-07-31T18:47Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1972. Death of William Gosnell Tomlinson (b. XX December 1897). US navy pilot and record setter. Vice Admiral United States Navy. Winner of Navy Cross Legion of Merit Combat V -Gold Star Presidential Unit Citation"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:35Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1927. Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix landed their Breguet XIX GR 'Nungesser-Coli' in Port Natal in Brazil after flying fom Saint-Louis Senegal as a part of their round-the-world 35000-mile trip. (First non-stop air crossing of the South Atlantic)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:08Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"6 October 1932. German engineer and rocket enthusiast Johannes Winkler (29 May 1897 XX December 1947) launched his HW-2 rocket from Pillau on the Baltic. Unfortunately the rocket exploded within seconds of ignition because of a faulty fuel valve"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T18:58Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Avenger USS Siborney 1949"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"10 October 1984. Death of Darrell Eugene Cornell USAF test pilot Chef test pilot for Northrop killed in the crash of his Northrop F-20 Tigershark 82-0062 c/n GG1001 N4416T while performing a demonstration flight for the South Korean Air Force"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T20:28Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"The Miles M.25 Martinet was a target tug aircraft of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm that was in service during the Second World War. It was the first British aircraft to be designed specifically for the role of towing targets"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:18Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1996. First flight of the Bombardier Global Express. Canadian ultra-long-range corporate and VIP high speed jet aircraft"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:42Z 63.2K followers, 1012 engagements

"10 October 1939. First flight of the SNCAC NC-130. French pressurised twin-engine high-altitude research aircraft prototype"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T20:18Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"The prototype Avro CF-105 Arrow (RL201) on the ramp at Avro's Malton Ontario"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:16Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Boeing P-26 Peashooter"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:40Z 63.2K followers, 1082 engagements

"9 October 1977. 02.40.35 UTC/GMT. Launch of Soyuz XX Soviet manned space flight first to the new Salyut X space station. Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Valery Ryumin failed to engage the docking latches of the station despite five attempts and they returned to Earth"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T18:09Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1799. French aeronaut Jeanne Genevive Garnerin (17751847) ne Labrosse wife of Andr-Jacques Garnerin hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute became the first woman to perform a parachute jump from 3000 feet above Parc Monceau Paris"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:28Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Jasta XX pilots meet Hauptmann Wilhelm Haehnelt (with cane) then commander of the Air Force of the 2nd Army. The tall man opposite him is Lothar von Richthofen to Lothar's right Hans Weiss to his left Eberhard Mohnicke far right is Manfred von Richthofen"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:50Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Sea Fury F.10 (4/4)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T21:08Z 63.2K followers, 10.4K engagements

"10 October 1944. Death of USAF fighter pilot Major Harry Robinette Bolster of the American Voluteer Group in China. Killed in the prototype General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle (44-44549) after propeller failure. Bolster attempted a dead-stick landing but crashed short on approach"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T20:21Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"October 1941. First flight of the pressurised high altitude Vickers Wellington B. The prototype W5795 crashed on XX July 1942 after a propeller blade failure. XX were produced and were operated by XXX Squadron and as Gee radio navigation trainers"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:13Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"P-47 Thunderbolt 44-19566 'No Guts-No Glory'. Assigned to 82FS 78FG 8AF USAAF. Transferred to HQ Sqn 78FG 8AF USAAF. Pictured with Captain Benjamin Mayo"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:40Z 63.1K followers, 9087 engagements

"Born XX October 1895 in Wellington New Zealand XX victory ace Major Keith Logan "Grid" Caldwell MC DFC"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T17:56Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Three new bare metal Canadair Sabres close up formation for the photographer with new RCAF classic roundels and a Type C fin flash. The Canadair F-86 Sabre was to become the RCAF's most famous and unanimously well-liked operational fighter"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:16Z 63.1K followers, 1058 engagements

"Hellcat USS Princeton"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:55Z 63.1K followers, 1285 engagements

"Four Seafire Mk Ibs peel off in a quick-succession left break from echelon in May of 1943"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:19Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"4 October 2009. Death of Gnther Rall (b. XX March 1918). German WW2 ace credited with the destruction of XXX enemy aircraft in XXX combat missions. Third most successful fighter ace in history and Luftwaffe high ranking officer post war"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-03T19:02Z 63.1K followers, 32.2K engagements

"Boeing P-26 Peashooter at Duxford"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:40Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Killed in action XX October 1918 XX victory Sopwith Camel ace with XXX Squadron Captain John Edmund Greene DFC. He was shot down by German ace Reinhold Poss the Commander of Marine Feldjasta IV. Buried in Plot II. K. X. Coxyde Military Cemetery Belgium"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:45Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1977. 03.25.20 GMT/UTC. Soyuz XX Soviet manned space flight first to the new Salyut X space station returned to Earth. The mission was aborted when cosmonauts failed to engage the docking latches of the station despite five attempts"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:13Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram Karl Ludwig Moritz Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen XX October 1895-12 July 1945"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T19:58Z 63.2K followers, 4637 engagements

"11 October 1956. First flight of the Lockheed L-1649A prototype Starliner (N1649). American airliner last model of the Lockheed Constellation line. Powered by four Wright R-3350 XXX TC18-EA-2 engines"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:08Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"910 October 1900. The Aro-Club de France held a long-distance balloon race coinciding with the Worlds Fair and Olympic Games. Six balloon teams competed for the Grand Prix"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T17:48Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1994. 10.05.00 UTC/GMT. NASA lost radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as it deorbited and descended into the atmosphere of Venus presumably burned up. The first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:41Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"27 May 1999. First flight of the Bombardier CRJ700. Regional airliner based on the Bombardier CRJ200"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-05-26T22:11Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"The Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber designed in the late 1930s to replace the biplane Albacores and Swordfish. It didn't enter service until 1943 but soon became a mainstay of the Fleet Air Arm operating in home waters the Mediterranean and the Far East"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.2K followers, 14.4K engagements

"F-51's being loaded with rockets Korea 1951. (South African Air Force Mustangs in background)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 2024. 16.06.00 GMT/UTC. Launch of Europa Clipper from Kennedy LC-39A on a Falcon Heavy Block X. NASA probe to study Europa a Galilean moon of Jupiter that could possibly harbour microbial extraterrestrial life"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:18Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 1997. On the 50th anniversary of his Mach X flight General "Chuck" Yeager flew Glamorous Glennis III an F-15D Eagle past Mach 1"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:15Z 63.2K followers, 51.3K engagements

"8 October 1970. Lockheed Constellation C-121 'Pegasus' made a forced landing on unprepared terrain in bad weather at McMurdo Station Ross Island Antarctica. No injuries the Constellation remains in-situ half-buried in snow"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-07T23:16Z 63.2K followers, 61K engagements

"11 October 2000. 23.17.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy LC-39A on mission STS-92. The 100th Shuttle flight was a 12-day mission to the International Space Station installing the Zenith Z1 Truss and a docking port for subsequent visits"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:17Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1957. Pan American World Airways Boeing Model XXX Stratocruiser Clipper America flew from Christchurch New Zealand to the United States Navys Antarctic research station on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound. The first commercial aircraft flight to Antarctica"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:19Z 63.2K followers, 1032 engagements

"P-47's and P-51's at Las Vegas 1950"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:36Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"1 June 1918. XX victory Australian ace Major Roderic Stanley "Brguet" Dallas DSC in SE5a D3530 of XX Squadron RAF encountered X members of Jasta XX and was killed in action shot down south east of Lens by Leutnant Johannes Werner in Fokker DR.I. 583/17"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T21:09Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 2004. First autonomous flight (with safety pilot) of the Boeing AH-6 Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) demonstrator. American light helicopter gunship built from a civilian MD 530F and developed by Boeing Rotorcraft Systems"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:22Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"PBY from 'The Greatest Generation Naval Museum' San Diego 1/4"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:37Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1992. First female Royal Air Force helicopter pilot Flight Lieutenant Nicky Smith graduated from No.89 Course No.2 Flying Training School at RAF Shawbury"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:20Z 63.2K followers, 1018 engagements

"9 October 1966. Death of Leslie Leroy Irvin (b. XX September 1895) American stuntman and early parachutist founder of Irving Air Chute Company later Irvin Aerospace Inc. He made the first free-fall parachute jump in 1919"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T18:01Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 August 1928. The Blackburn R.B.1A Iris II (N185) reached Karachi from England carrying Sir Philip Sassoon the Under-Secretary of State for Air and Air Commodore Sir Arthur Longmore on a tour of RAF Stations of the Mediterranean and Middle East"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:00Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"P-47 pilot Lieutenant Edwin King's oil tank was hit by flak. Italy January 1945"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-06T18:38Z 63.1K followers, 15.6K engagements

"16/17 October 1940. First ground-radar-controlled air victory at night. Luftwaffe Leutnant Ludwig Becker (pictured) of Nachtjagdgeschwader X used the Freya radar to close to within visual range of a Vickers Wellington bomber over the Netherlands and shot it down"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:11Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1972. Fairchild-Hiller FH-227B (T-571) departed Montevideo on a charter flight to Santiago de Chile with XX occupants including XX members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team. It crashed in the Andes Mountains. XX survivors rescued"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:34Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Boeing XXX Clipper San Francisco Bay"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T21:14Z 63.2K followers, 1527 engagements

"16 October 1912. First air-dropped bomb. Designed during the Balkan War and used by the Bulgarian air force pilots Radul Milkov (in the cockpit) and Prodan Toprakchiev on the Turkish railway station of Karaagac. First use of an aeroplane (Albatros F.II) as bomber"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:02Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"9 October 1937. American aviator James Crawford "Jimmie" Angel and passengers (uninjured) crash landed Metal Aircraft Halpin Flamingo G-2-W NC9487 El Ro Caron atop Ayuantepui Table Mountain Venezuela. Source of 3212 ft. waterfall "Angel Falls" named after its discoverer"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T17:56Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"P-47 pilot briefing 56th Fighter Group England"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T21:46Z 63.2K followers, 12.4K engagements

"SB2U Vindicator on USS Charger. The Vought SB2U Vindicator was an American carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s the first monoplane in this role"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:40Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Corsair Majuro Marshall Islands"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-09-20T20:50Z 63.2K followers, 29.3K engagements

"Curtiss C-46 Commando"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:46Z 63.2K followers, 7956 engagements

"Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire PR Mk XI (PS915) displays SEAC markings commemorating XXX (Hyderabad) Squadron. XXX Squadron moved to Burma on XX December 1943 and joined the RAF Third Tactical Air Force"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"PBY from 'The Greatest Generation Naval Museum' San Diego 4/4"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:37Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Hellcat Ondonga Solomon islands"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T21:58Z 63.2K followers, 2798 engagements

"11 October 1938. First flight of the Westland Whirlwind (L6844). British twin-engine heavy fighter Royal Air Force's first single-seat twin-engine cannon-armed fighter. The engines were developments of the Rolls-Royce Kestrel K.26 later renamed Peregrine"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:05Z 63.2K followers, 4467 engagements

"12 October 1941. The British Overseas Airways Corporation began a service to Cairo. The first flight operated by Short C-Class flying boat Clare (G-AFCZ) and routed through Lisbon Gibraltar and Malta"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:42Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Douglas SBD Dauntless (nearest camera) and TBD Devastators from USN Scouting Squadron No.2 on the USS Lexington (CV2) hangar deck (near Hawaii in 1941)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"2 October 1998. Death of Orvon Grover 'Gene' Autry (b. XX September 1907). American celebrity with five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame who served as a USAAF WW2 C-47 Skytrain pilot flying missions over the Himalayas nicknamed the Hump between Burma and China"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-01T19:11Z 63.2K followers, 1020 engagements

"16 October 1941. In the first phase of Operation Callboy further Fleet Air Arm aircraft eleven Fairey Albacores and one Fairey Swordfish were flown to Malta from the deck of HMS Ark Royal to reinforce Maltas torpedo bomber force against Axis supply lines to North Africa"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:12Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"B-17 'Yankee Lady'"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T21:47Z 63.2K followers, 16.1K engagements

"23 September 1966. XXXXX UTC/GMT. Surveyor X second lunar lander in the unmanned NASA Surveyor program to explore the Moon crashed near Copernicus crater after a vernier thruster failed to ignite during a mid-course correction"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-09-22T18:35Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1947. Westland's assistant test pilot Squadron Ldr Peter Garner was killed in the crash of the Westland Wyvern prototype. British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft. He was attempting an emergency landing after the propeller bearings failed in flight"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:17Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"P-38's arriving at Noumea New Caledonia November 1942"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T20:06Z 63.1K followers, 7625 engagements

"Killed in action XX October 1918 east of Roulers Belgium X victory SE5a ace with XX Squadron Lieutenant Claude Melnot Wilson DFC"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:46Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1918. First flight of the Zeppelin-Lindau Dornier RS IV powered by four Maybach Mb IVa engines. The German military flying boat prototype was rebuilt with a cabin for six passengers and used for flights at the Bodensee until the autumn of 1920"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:35Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1983. Lloyd Areo Boliviano Boeing 707-131F N730JP on a cargo flight crashed in residential area of Santa Cruz Bolivia killing XX (of whom XX were killed on the ground when the aircraft crashed into a school football game)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:36Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Sub Lieutenant H H Salisbury Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve a fighter pilot of the Fleet Air Arm adjusting his helmet before a flight at Naval Air Station Yeovilton in 1943"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:18Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. A short-to medium-range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the European and Pacific theatres. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T20:49Z 63.2K followers, 1136 engagements

"6 October 2005. FedEx / Morningstar Air Express Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster C-FEXS carrying cargo for FedEx crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The female pilot the only occupant was killed but there were no injuries on the ground"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:21Z 63.2K followers, 1043 engagements

"16 October 2005. 20.33.00 UTC/GMT. Shenzhou X the second manned spaceflight of the People's Republic of China returned to Earth at Inner Mongolia"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:22Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"6 October 1955. United Airlines Douglas DC-4 N30062 flying from Denver to Salt Lake City crashed into rock cliffs at Medicine Bow Peak Wyoming in poor visibility and altitude of 12000 ft. with the loss of all XX onboard. The worst airliner accident of 1955"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:06Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"6 October 2010. Tajik National Guard Mil Mi-8 crashed in the Rasht Valley close to Ezgand and Tavildara Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Tajikistan. Caught in power lines it crashed while attempting to land killing all 28"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:22Z 63.2K followers, 1149 engagements

"9 October 1999. Final flight of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" (AF Ser. No. 61-7980/NASA 844) took place during the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow. American advanced long-range Mach X plus strategic reconnaissance aircraft"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T18:12Z 63.2K followers, 1149 engagements

"14 October 1910. English aviator Claude Grahame-White landed his Farman III Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington D.C"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:57Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1955. At Edwards Air Force Base Lieutenant Gordon L. Gray Jr. U.S. Navy set a FAI World Record for Speed in a pre-production Douglas Aircraft Company YA4D-1 Skyhawk light attack bomber 137820 reaching an average speed of XXXXXXX miles per hour"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:19Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"8 October 1885. Birth of Vice Admiral Patrick Nieson Lynch Bellinger CBE (d. XX May 1962). Pioneering US Naval aviator and high-ranking officer in WWII. First American to encounter enemy ground fire in an aeroplane during the occupation of Veracruz Mexico"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-07T22:58Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1907. Auguste Eugene Gaudron hot air balloon manufacturer and pilot of the first British public airmail flight in 1902 landed at Lake Vnern Sweden having crossed the North Sea in a hot air balloon named Mammoth. He flew XXX miles from the Crystal Palace London"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:12Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"25 September 1978. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight XXX Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner N533PS collided with a private Cessna XXX light aircraft N7711G over San Diego California. It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first fatal accident"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-09-24T18:59Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1954. George S. Welchs Super Sabre encountered Inertial Roll Coupling lost control and disintegrated. Its nose folded over the windshield. The vertical fin broke away. His ejection seat fired but because of the supersonic speed the parachute shredded"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:55Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1992. Antonov An-124 CCCP-82002 operated by Antonov Airlines crashed in a forest near Kiev Ukraine after nose cargo door failure during high-speed descent resulting in loss of control killing eight of the nine crew on board"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:37Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 2007. Death of David Lee "Tex" Hill (b. XX July 1915). American WWII fighter ace and Korean War fighter pilot. One of the first pilots of 1st American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) and credited with XX XX victories as a Squadron Leader"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:18Z 63.2K followers, 1811 engagements

"The Breguet XIX GR (Grand Raid) had been named Nungesser-Coli in honour of the two pilots who disappeared while attempting a crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the White Bird X May 1927"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:59Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"The Hawker Tempest originally known as the Typhoon II was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon intended to address the Typhoon's unexpected fall-off of performance at high altitude"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.2K followers, 21.5K engagements

"8 October 2008. Yeti Airlines Flight XXX De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series XXX 9N-AFE crashed in adverse weather conditions and heavy fog on final approach to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla Nepal killing XX of the XX people on board"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-07T23:19Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"P-47 "Jacky's Revenge""
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T21:47Z 63.2K followers, 7474 engagements

"Mercury-Maia"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:40Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1971. Salyut X the world's first space station launched by the Soviet Union was intentionally destroyed by de-orbiting it after six months in orbit. It ran out of fuel before a redesigned Soyuz spacecraft could be launched to it"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:12Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

""Noamie Vee" (HL-H) P-47D-21-RA P-47 Thunderbolt s/n 43-25528 83rd Fighter Squadron 78th Fighter Group 8th Air Force after belly landing at Duxford by Lt. Peter W. Klaassen on X September 1944. Repaired it was lost in action on XX March 1945"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T18:26Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"25 September 1893. Birth of Tydeo Larre Borges (d. X Septembr 1984). First South American to cross the South Atlantic Ocean flying a Breguet XIX "Bidon" with French aviator Lon Challe (15 December 1929 from Sevilla Spain arriving XX December 1929 near Maracaja Brazil)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-09-24T18:36Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"F-111 Royal Australian Air Force"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:21Z 63.1K followers, 1285 engagements

"13 October 2022. Death of Brigadier General James Alton McDivitt (b. XX June 1929). American test pilot United States Air Force pilot aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:44Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"PBY from 'The Greatest Generation Naval Museum' San Diego 2/4"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:37Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1956. A Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant B.1 (WZ366) of XX Squadron RAF deployed Britain's first air-dropped atomic bomb 'Blue Danube' over Maralinga South Australia"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:07Z 63.1K followers, 7422 engagements

"13 October 1950. First flight of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation. American four engine airliner with lengthened fuselage strengthening for higher gross weight increased fuel capacity and more powerful engines. Accommodate XX first-class or XX coach-class passengers"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:26Z 63.2K followers, 5998 engagements

"Leutnant Otto Kissenberth by Ivan Berryman. At XXXXX on XX October 1916 his Fokker D-II of KEK E intercepted and shot down a British-flown Breguet V (9181) above Oberenzen for his third confirmed victory"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:34Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"C-46's Chalon France. March 1945. Curtiss C-46 Commando twin-engine transport aircraft was derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner. Used as a military transport during WW2 by the USAAF and U.S. Navy/Marine Corps (as the R5C)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:46Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1967. Cyprus Airways Flight XXX de Havilland DH.106 Comet 4B G-ARCO broke up during a flight to Nicosia International Airport after an explosive device detonated in the cabin and crashed in the Mediterranean XXX miles southeast of Rhodes. All XX occupants killed"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T20:01Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Lancaster XX Sqn Swinderby England"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T21:05Z 63.1K followers, 2114 engagements

"13 October 2011. Airlines PNG Flight 1600 a de Havilland Canada Dash 8-103 (P2-MCJ) crashed near the mouth of the Gogol River Papua New Guinea XX miles south of its destination killing XX of the XX on board. The deadliest plane crash in the history of Papua New Guinea"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:42Z 63.1K followers, 1080 engagements

"13 October 1870. Birth of Lelio Gaviglio (d. XX April 1924). Italian aviator. Colonel commanding the Italian Air Force Corps during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto on XX October 1918. The Italian victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:10Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Seversky changed name to Republic and built the P-43 Lancer as an advance on the Seversky P-35"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:38Z 63.2K followers, 23.8K engagements

"2 October 1970. Golden Eagle Aviation Martin 4-0-4 N464M charter flight carrying the Wichita State University football team administrators and supporters crashed in Colorado killing XX of the XX occupants"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-01T19:09Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1959. 15.30.04 GMT/UTC. Launch of Explorer X from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA unmanned spacecraft designed to measure solar x-ray and Lyman-alpha flux trapped energetic particles and heavy primary cosmic rays"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:26Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1907. French pioneering balloonist Auguste Eugene Gaudron (1868-1913) with J.L. Tanner (owner) and C. Turner of the Daily Graphic flew from Crystal Palace London to Lake Vnern Sweden (705 miles) making a 19-hour North Sea crossing in the hot air balloon 'Mammoth'"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:31Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"10 October 1927. Dieudonne Costes and Joseph le Brix took off from Paris in Brguet 19GR 'Nungesser-Coli' for a round-the-world 35652-mile trip which they completed on XX April 1928"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T20:13Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1918. Pilots of the 185th Aero (Pursuit) Squadron carried out the first American night fighter operations in France (against enemy bombers). The only U.S. unit specifically organised and tasked with both defensive and offensive night missions"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:36Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1932. Canadian Godfrey Webster Dean pilot for Fairchild Aircraft Co. of Quebec Canada became the first pilot to loop a rotorcraft when he performed the manoeuvre in a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro over the Pitcairn Aircraft Inc. airfield Willow Grove Pennsylvania"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:22Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1984. 16.26.33 UTC/GMT. Landing of Space Shuttle Challenger at Kennedy SLF Runway XX after mission STS-41-G. First shuttle mission with seven crewmembers deployed the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite and operated the Shuttle Imaging Radar. First American female EVA"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:36Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"de Havilland Sea Hornet F. Mk20 (TT202) painted in high altitude colours"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:19Z 63.2K followers, 1281 engagements

"Republic P-43 Lancer the only American fighter capable of catching a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah" reconnaissance plane at the speeds and heights at which they flew"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:37Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1944. First flight of the Mitsubishi A7M2 'Reppu'. Development of the A7M1 with a more powerful engine. Japanese carrier-based fighter prototype. Powered by a 2200 hp Mitsubishi Ha-43 engine with a maximum speed of XXX mph"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:25Z 63.2K followers, 4931 engagements

"14 October 2004. MK Airlines Flight 1602 Boeing 747-244B/SF 9G-MKJ crashed on take-off at rom Halifax Stanfield International Airport Nova Scotia Canada killing the crew of X after incorrect speeds and thrust setting during the take-off attempt"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"6 October 1977. First flight of the Mikoyan MiG-29 "Fulcrum". Soviet 4th-generation jet fighter aircraft. Developed to counter new U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:16Z 63.2K followers, 1993 engagements

"14 October 1944. The seven Australian Canadian British and New Zealand aircrew of XXX Squadron Avro Lancaster (A-Able) disembark following a daylight operation to Duisburg"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:06Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Consolidated PBY Catalina on the Sepik River New Guinea"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T21:57Z 63.1K followers, 4981 engagements

"B-17E Flying Fortress 41-9234 "Gray Ghost" crashed near Black Cat Pass Papua New Guinea X January 1943. The tail-gunner died of his wounds. Last remaining well-preserved B-17 wreckage on land. USAAF markings have weathered away revealing the RAF roundel"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T21:15Z 63.2K followers, 52.1K engagements

"12 October 1944. First Lieutenant Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager U.S. Army Air Corps standing on the wing of his North American Aviation P-51D-5-NA Mustang 44-13897 Glamorous Glenn II at Air Station 373"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:43Z 63.1K followers, 3053 engagements

"16 October 1956. Pan American World Airways Boeing Model XXX Stratocruiser N90943 Sovereign of the Skies enroute to San Francisco suffered engine failure and came down in the North Pacific Ocean near USCGC Pontchartrain. All aboard rescued"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:15Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1893. Birth of John Jay Hopkins (d. X May 1957). Founder President/CEO of General Dynamics Corporation a leader in the development of atomic energy business aviation shipbuilding and marine systems and land and amphibious combat systems"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:00Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"13 October 1943. Italian royal government declared war on Germany its air force formed as the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force fighting on the Allied side for the rest of WW2. Benito Mussolinis Italian Social Republic aircraft operated as Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T20:24Z 63.2K followers, 6216 engagements

"12 October 1976. Indian Airlines Flight XXX Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N VT-DWN suffered number X engine failure on take-off. Immediately turning back to attempt an emergency landing on Bombay Airport's the aircraft suffered a loss of control and crashed killing all 95"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T20:04Z 63.2K followers, 1542 engagements

"3 October 1985. 15.15.30 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy LC-39A on mission STS-51-J. The first flight of Atlantis carried a payload for the U.S. Department of Defence"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-02T19:59Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"The morning of X October 1914 French pilot Sergeant Joseph Frantz and his mechanic/gunner Louis Qunault shot down a German Aviatik biplane near the village of Jonchery-sur-Vesle to record what is considered the first official WW1 aerial combat victory. Art by Merv Corning"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T19:29Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1961. Cork Airport one of the three principal international airports of Ireland opened"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Hellcat USS Takanis Bay 1945"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T18:30Z 63.1K followers, 1409 engagements

"PBY from 'The Greatest Generation Naval Museum' San Diego 3/4"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:37Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 2004. Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 Bombardier CRJ-200 N8396A crashed near Jefferson City Missouri after engines flamed out during an overnight ferry flight. The two pilots were killed"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Wildcat 1942 wave-off"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T21:19Z 63.1K followers, 4057 engagements

"In October 1944 the first Boeing XC-97 rolled out. Later to become the C-97 transport KC-97 Tanker and B-377 commercial Stratocruiser"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:35Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"5 October1969. Cuban Air force pilot Lieut. Eduardo Guerra Jimenez defected with his MiG-17 to Homestead Air Force Base of Miami. The plane was returned to the Cubans. On XX June 1979 he hijacked Delta Air Lines Flight 1061 back to Havana"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T20:00Z 63.2K followers, 1142 engagements

"16 October 1915. Birth of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (d. XX January 2009). Pioneering Australian aviatrix aged XX youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot's licence. Founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:03Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 1976. 17.39.18 GMT/UTC. Launch of Soyuz XX. Soviet manned flight to Salyut X space station with Cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky. Mission aborted without docking and crew returned the icy Lake Tengizto on Earth"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:13Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1936. New Zealand aviatrix Jane 'Jean' Gardner Batten CBE OSC landed her Percival D.3 Gull VI (G-ADPR) in Darwin after flying from Lympne in a record X days XX hrs X min. She then flew across the Tasman Sea to Auckland to set another record time of XX days XX min"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:07Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Hellcat pilot is rescued aboard USS Lexington after landing mishap"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-08T00:40Z 63.2K followers, 11.8K engagements

"12 October 1944. First Boeing B-29 Superfortress landed at Isley Field Saipan beginning the 20th Air Forces build-up of a strategic bombing capability in the Mariana Islands. For the first time all of Japan was within range of USAAF strategic bombers"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:45Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1997. First flight of the Boeing 777-300. Evolution of the American long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:21Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 1922. American Second Lieutenant Donald F. Stace (1900-1968) on duty with the First Pursuit Group won the Mitchell Trophy Air Race at Selfridge Field flying a Boeing-built Thomas Morse MB-3A at XXXXX miles per hour over a 200-mile course"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:58Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Short Sunderland at RAF Pembroke Dock a Royal Air Force Seaplane and Flying Boat station located in Pembrokeshire"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.1K followers, 1172 engagements

"Corsair Majuro Marshall Islands"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T20:04Z 63.2K followers, 26.8K engagements

"6 October 1948. An engine of USAF Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress 45-21866 from the 3150th Electronics Squadron caught fire shortly after departing Robins AFB and crashed in Waycross Georgia killing X over XX. The flight was a secret test of the "sunseeker" heat-seeking device"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:04Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"5 October 1984. 11.03.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy LC-39A on mission STS-41-G. First shuttle mission with seven crewmembers. Deployed the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite and operated the Shuttle Imaging Radar. First American female EVA"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T20:01Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"7 October 2002. 19.45.51 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-112 to deliver the 28000-pound Starboard X (S1) truss segment to the International Space Station"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-06T18:35Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1984. Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-41-G astronaut Dr. Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan became the first American woman to perform an EVA"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:15Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"October 1942. U.S. Army Air Force North American B-25C Mitchell bomber (s/n 41-12823) in flight near Inglewood California (USA)"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:14Z 63.2K followers, 6838 engagements

"6 October 1918. Lieutenants Harold Goettler and Erwin Bleckley in a DH4 of 50th Aero attempted to locate and resupply the famous Lost Battalion (1st Battalion 308th Infantry Regiment 77th Division) in the Argonne Forest of northeast France"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T18:55Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"P-51 Mustangs at the North American Aviation Inc. Inglewood California plant 1942"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T21:17Z 63.2K followers, 9344 engagements

"16 October 1939. The Luftwaffe attacked its first British targets Royal Navy warships in the Firth of Forth. Spitfires of the Auxiliary Air Force XXX (City of Glasgow) and XXX (City of Edinburgh) claimed the first German aircraft destroyed over Britain in WWII"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:10Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1980. 09.49.57 UTC/GMT. Soyuz XX (7K-T No. 53) Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut X space station returned to Earth southeast of Dzhezkazganwith cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin after XXX days in space aboard the Salyut X laboratory"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-10T20:14Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"7 October 1995. First flight of the Mitsubishi F-2. American-Japanese multirole fighter aircraft for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-06T18:33Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1963. Major Sidney J. Kubesch Major John Barrett and Captain Gerard Williamson flew Convair B-58A-20-CF Hustler s/n 61-2059 Greased Lightning from Tokyo to London non-stop in a record X hours XX minutes XXXX seconds"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:17Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1944. Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager achieved five Messerschmitt Bf XXX victories during a single mission with his North American Mustang"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:43Z 63.1K followers, 10.7K engagements

"15 October 1943. First flight of the Sikorsky XR-6 (R6). American-built light two-seat helicopter. The prototype powered by a XXX hp Lycoming O-435-7. In Royal Air Force and Royal Navy service it was named the Hoverfly II"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1954. North American Aviation Chief Engineering Test Pilot George S. Welch died testing the ninth production F-100A-1-NA Super Sabre serial number 52-5764 after making a XXX G pull-out from a Mach XXXX dive while verifying the aircrafts design limits"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:54Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1943. American Airlines Flight XX Douglas DC-3-178 the 'Flagship Missouri' NC 16008 crashed near Centerville Tennessee after ice formed on its wings and propeller killing all XX on board"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Lieutenant Claude Melnot Wilson DFC. was killed in action on XX October 1918 and buried in the Dadizeele New British Cemetery Moorslede West-Vlaanderen Belgium"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:47Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"5 October 1965. Birth of USN Lieutenant Kara Spears Hultgreen (d. XX October 1994). The U.S. Navys first female carrier-based fighter pilot. First U.S. military female fighter pilot to die in a crash when her F-14 Tomcat crashed on final approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T19:58Z 63.2K followers, 1157 engagements

"14 October 1943. The American Eighth Air Force lost XX B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:05Z 63.2K followers, 1210 engagements

"4 October 2004. Death of Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper Jr. American aeronautical engineer test pilot and NASA astronaut. First American to sleep in orbit flew the longest Mercury spaceflight. Last American to be launched alone into Earth orbit and conduct a solo orbital mission"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-03T19:01Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"An Avro York a transport adaptation of the legendary Lancaster heavy bomber awaits VIPs on an Egyptian ramp in 1946"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T21:17Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber over the USS Yorktown"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-04T20:50Z 63.1K followers, 13.5K engagements

"29 September 1990. First eighteen-minute flight of the Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics YF-22 (87-0700 N22YF). American single-seat twin-engine prototype fighter aircraft which led to the F-22 Raptor. It flew from Palmdale piloted by David L. Ferguson"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-09-28T22:49Z 63.2K followers, 1471 engagements

"Major Victor Henry Huston MC. XX October 1890 - XX April 1941"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-12T19:49Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"15 October 1924. Zeppelin-Airship "LZ 126" (USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)) under guidance of Hugo Eckener was delivered to the USA after a XX hours and X minutes flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-14T16:07Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"1415 October 1927. Dieudonn Costes and Joseph Le Brix flew a Breguet XIX GR s/n 1685 across the South Atlantic from Saint-Louis Senegal to Port Natal Brazil in over XX hours. The first non-stop 2100-mile South Atlantic crossing by an aeroplane"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T17:59Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1963. Death of Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto (b. XX August 1912). Finnish Air Force pilot and the foremost Finnish fighter ace of the Winter War with XX victories"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:16Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"14 October 2011. Moremi Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan A2-AKD crashed shortly after take-off from Xakanaka Airstrip Botswana killing X over 12"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-13T18:17Z 63.1K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1977. Death of Jrgen Schumann (b. XX April 1940). German military and commercial pilot. He escaped from his hijacked Lufthansa Flight XXX Boeing 737-230C D-ABCE to talk to authorities. He returned and was subsequently murdered by the Palestinian terrorists"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:20Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"16 October 1955. The Boeing Model 367-80 (Boeing XXX prototype) flew non-stop from Seattle to Washington D.C. in X hours XX minutes and back in X hours X minutes averaging speeds of 592mph and 567mph respectively"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-15T18:15Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Hellcat on USS Yorktown's hangar deck catapult 1943"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:54Z 63.1K followers, 22.5K engagements

"10 October 1941. Mitsubishi G3M Rikko Nell attack on Prince of Wales. Art by Peter Dennis"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-09T20:20Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements

"12 October 1964. The first XB-70A Valkyrie prototype 62-0001 achieved supersonic flight for the first time (Mach 1.1) above Edwards AFB California"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-11T19:59Z 63.1K followers, 1465 engagements

"6 October 1956. First flight of the Breguet Br.1050-01 Aliz. French carrier-based anti-submarine warfare aircraft flown by Breguet test pilot Yves Bruno. Developed from the Breguet Br.960 Vultur prototype"
X Link @ron_eisele 2025-10-05T19:07Z 63.2K followers, XXX engagements