# ![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) @ron_eisele Ron Eisele

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

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[$7846t](/topic/$7846t) #546, [ace](/topic/ace) #725, [the first](/topic/the-first) #645, [ron](/topic/ron) #43, [air force](/topic/air-force) 3.61%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 3.16%, [art](/topic/art) 2.93%, [london](/topic/london) 2.71%, [france](/topic/france) #3826, [observer](/topic/observer) #248

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022033895731200498)  2026-02-12T19:43Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"1 October [----]. First flight of the Bell Model 409/YAH-63 (73-22246). American experimental attack helicopter for the Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) competition. Hughes' Model 77/YAH-64 (the AH-64 Apache) was finally selected over Bell's entry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1973165497995952561)  2025-09-30T23:18Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"15 November [----]. First powered flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B experimental US aircraft to test lifting body concepts experimenting with the concept of unpowered re-entry and landing later used by the Space Shuttle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1989438278626643985)  2025-11-14T21:00Z 66.1K followers, 48.5K engagements


"5 January [----]. Avro Vulcan B.2a XM657 (873M) the last Vulcan built and delivered on [--] January [----] was flown to Manston to become a RAF Fire School instructional airframe. Scrapped in November [----]. Seen here landing at the RAF Waddington Open Day in June 1981"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2007893274183471550)  2026-01-04T19:13Z 65.9K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2009718809993658857)  2026-01-09T20:07Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"11 January [----]. First transitional flight (vertical take-off forward flight & vertical landing of the Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 American tiltwing experimental aircraft designed to investigate the operational suitability of vertical/short take-off and landing transports"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2010080060871700564)  2026-01-10T20:03Z 65.9K followers, 52.7K engagements


"4 May [----]. Sea Harrier FRS1 (XZ450) of [---] Naval Air Squadron FAA HMS Hermes was downed over Goose Green by an enemy radar-controlled 35mm Oerlikon cannon. Lt. Nick Taylor RN was killed. The first Sea Harrier combat loss during the Falklands Conflict"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2012660993021669579)  2026-01-17T22:59Z 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2014778742288080984)  2026-01-23T19:14Z 65.9K followers, 104.4K engagements


"27 January [----]. 13.44.51 GMT/UTC. First 'Able' test of Operation Ranger. For free air drop test a B-50D dropped a Mk-4 Type D one kiloton yield bomb over the Nevada test site (Frenchman Flat Area 5) testing compression against critical mass using an all-oralloy core"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2015867934032175588)  2026-01-26T19:22Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Killed in a flying accident on [--] January [----] at Norbury London [--] victory observer ace Lieutenant William Geoffrey Meggitt MC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016217117326991512)  2026-01-27T18:29Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"Flight Lieutenant William Geoffrey Meggitt MC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016217203490586840)  2026-01-27T18:30Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"28 January [----]. A Soviet MiG-19 shot down a USAF North American T-39A Sabreliner twin engine jet trainer 62-4448 which accidentally entered East German airspace. All three crew were killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016225040933560321)  2026-01-27T19:01Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"CAC CA-27 Avon Sabre Mk.32 A94-983 in the colours of [--] Squadron. The aircraft was provided to the Royal Malaysian Air Force as military aid during the 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016235346124529844)  2026-01-27T19:42Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Air Vice Marshal William Dickson A.O.C. Desert Air Force in cockpit of his Spitfire LF Mark VIII (JF814 WFD) Northern Italy circa 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016235400440754387)  2026-01-27T19:42Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] January [----] in Fort Wayne Indiana [--] victory ace with 103rdAero United States 1st Lieutenant Paul Frank Baer DSC and Oak Leaf Cluster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016554251716100554)  2026-01-28T16:49Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"NATO Night Hunters - Gloster Meteor NF14. Art by Martin Cairns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016570481902584142)  2026-01-28T17:54Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Oberleutnant Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk and Pfalz DIII. Art by Ivan Berryman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016950756759249221)  2026-01-29T19:05Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Keith Park and Arthur Coningham in a MG roadster. Malta June 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016951023508627809)  2026-01-29T19:06Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"30 January [----]. Qantas Imperial Airways Short Empire S.23 Mk.1 'Corio' G-AEUH enroute to Surabaya to transport refugees from the Japanese invasion of Java to Australia was shot down by [--] Japanese Mitsubishi A6M-2 Zero off the coast of West Timor killing [--] over 18"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016963407556022421)  2026-01-29T19:55Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"30 January [----]. First flight of the sole gas turbine powered prototype Sikorsky HSS-1F (SH-34H) equipped with two General Electric T58 turboshaft engines. Flight test platform for operation of such engines on helicopters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016964830167490594)  2026-01-29T20:01Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow). The only inline-engine fighter aircraft to see service with Japan during the Second World War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016981183339372653)  2026-01-29T21:06Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Boeing B-29 Superfortress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016981608310460581)  2026-01-29T21:07Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] January [----] in Walsum Rheinland [--] victory German ace with Jasta [--] Leutnant Heinrich Bongartz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017317597016936695)  2026-01-30T19:22Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Leutnant Heinrich Bongartz [--] January [----] [--] January 1946"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017317700830122382)  2026-01-30T19:23Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] January [----] in Plymouth [--] victory ace with [--] Squadron RNAS Major Richard Burnard Munday DSC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017317867637649879)  2026-01-30T19:23Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"31 January [----]. Birth of Andr-Jacques Garnerin (d. [--] August 1823). French inventor of the frameless parachute and Official Aeronaut of France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017318315383763275)  2026-01-30T19:25Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"31 January [----]. 11.45.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Luna [--]. Soviet unmanned space mission and first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on any planetary body other than Earth and transmit back photographic data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017320960601334157)  2026-01-30T19:36Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017321342568153356)  2026-01-30T19:37Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Boeing B-17G-20-BO Flying Fortress 42-31581 Ole Miss 305th Bomb Group"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017346705855824185)  2026-01-30T21:18Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Starfighters over Tulips"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017346946688581788)  2026-01-30T21:19Z 65.9K followers, 34.2K engagements


"P-47 Thunderbolts of the 509th Fighter Squadron 405th Fighter Group pass low over paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. January 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017347102620189110)  2026-01-30T21:20Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017726713153659219)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017726904216797587)  2026-01-31T22:29Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"B.E.2 Army biplane at the [----] Olympia Show Aero Exhibition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017727575393546293)  2026-01-31T22:31Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"The original B.E.2 modified to include decking between cockpits. Exhaust pipes now completely outboard. The pilot was Geoffrey de Havilland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017727710223565169)  2026-01-31T22:32Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017728741510644109)  2026-01-31T22:36Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"February [----]. First flight of the sole prototype Boulton Paul Bobolink. The first aeroplane designed by Boulton & Paul Limited of Norwich intended (unsuccessfully) as a replacement for the Sopwith Camel powered by a [---] hp Bentley BR2 nine-cylinder rotary engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017728987930280040)  2026-01-31T22:37Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"1 February [----]. Shot to pieces ace Godwin Brumowski found himself engaged by Sopwith Camels of [--] Squadron RFC close to the Lagoon of Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017729261344350477)  2026-01-31T22:38Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"February [----]. Zeppelin Staaken RVI R.27-16 Riesenflugzeugabteilunge [---] Art by Taras Shtyk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017729856155381987)  2026-01-31T22:40Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017733734959546697)  2026-01-31T22:56Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"1 February [----]. [--] US Navy Grumman F9F Panthers landed on the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) to complete the first aircraft carrier night landing trials by jets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017734010747646072)  2026-01-31T22:57Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIV of [---] (Polish) Squadron Royal Air Force 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017754024112464110)  2026-02-01T00:17Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Mk IX Spitfire PL344 (right) and Mk XVI Spitfire TD248 (left)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017754305697059182)  2026-02-01T00:18Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Spitfire Mk LF IXe MK356 UF-Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017754356913700920)  2026-02-01T00:18Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"'Jurassic Bird' - Westland Pterodactyl Mk.IV. Art by Roy Garner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017754949115863376)  2026-02-01T00:20Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"'First Splash to Gibson'. Lancaster type [---] (Provisioning). Art by Trevor Colegate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017755283422896347)  2026-02-01T00:22Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Lieutenant Richard Pearman Minifie DSC and two Bars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018027747486871781)  2026-02-01T18:24Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018030732149440679)  2026-02-01T18:36Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"2 February1951. First flight of the Douglas DC-6B. Extended all-passenger variant of the DC-6A without cargo door"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018034720974483624)  2026-02-01T18:52Z 65.9K followers, 10.2K engagements


"2 February [----]. Swedish jet fighter prototype JAS 39-1 Gripen crashed when landing in Linkping because of software and pilot-induced oscillation. Test pilot Lars Rdestrm was able to walk away albeit with a broken arm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018035602420101511)  2026-02-01T18:55Z 65.9K followers, 94.2K engagements


"Canada Goose - Ford Tri-Motor 'The Tin Goose' art by James Colthorpe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018047439266058447)  2026-02-01T19:42Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. First flight of the Blriot-SPAD S.56/1. French single engine biplane transport aircraft prototype. An S.33 variant with a metal structure wing and an air-cooled [---] hp Gnome-Rhone (Bristol) Jupiter engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018390198124486760)  2026-02-02T18:24Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018390897310789812)  2026-02-02T18:27Z 66K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018392437220057170)  2026-02-02T18:33Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. The first de Havilland Canada DHC-7 (Dash 7) turboprop-powered regional airliner with STOL capabilities was introduced in service by Rocky Mountain Airways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394028320907699)  2026-02-02T18:40Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394133203755143)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394292717277613)  2026-02-02T18:41Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"3 February [----]. First flight of the first of two Dassault Mirage 2000N prototypes. Two seat variant of the French jet fighter Mirage [----] designed for nuclear strike. here carrying a mock ASMP rocket Magic [--] missiles and early underwing fuel tanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394428046553107)  2026-02-02T18:41Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. 05.22.04 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-63. Second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program. The flight carried out the first rendezvous (not docking) of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394790040072321)  2026-02-02T18:43Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Castor oil and exhaust stains on a Sopwith Camel shortly after flight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018472323297476993)  2026-02-02T23:51Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Comfortably seated in the 'office' ready for the off. Note the starter magneto handle just behind the exhaust extension outlet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018472665154306408)  2026-02-02T23:52Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"The Vintage Aeroplane Collection's L.V.G. CVI in New Zealand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018473383219105900)  2026-02-02T23:55Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"Nakajima B5N2 Kate torpedo bomber shot down by a PB4Y Liberator over the sea near Truk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018473437640245655)  2026-02-02T23:55Z 65.9K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Squadron Leader Douglas Bader C.O. of [---] (Canadian) Squadron with Major Alexander 'Sasha' Hess CO of [---] (Czechoslovak) Squadron Duxford October 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018474098192732649)  2026-02-02T23:58Z 65.9K followers, 35.1K engagements


"A captured German V-2 rocket on display in Trafalgar Square London. Saturday 15th of September 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018474533666304063)  2026-02-03T00:00Z 65.9K followers, 26.4K engagements


"Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is (including L7026 PS-V and N1535 PS-A) of [---] Squadron RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey Lincolnshire late July 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018474628092719279)  2026-02-03T00:00Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Lieutenant Paul Joseph "Ginty" McGinness DFC. [--] February [----] [--] January 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018744534461804707)  2026-02-03T17:52Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"The McCauchey Bristol Fighter Battleplane Palestine Paul McGinness (pilot) on left Hudson Fysh (gunner) on right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018744619479998867)  2026-02-03T17:53Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Died aged [--] on [--] February [----] in Rome [--] victory Italian ace with 76a Tenente Giorgio Michetti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018745046284091826)  2026-02-03T17:55Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"4 February [----]. Birth of Geoffrey Arthur Virley Tyson OBE (d.9 January 1987). British RAF officer barnstormer and test pilot. Remembered for his aerobatic skills and the test flying of the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 and Princess flying boats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018757330268024992)  2026-02-03T18:43Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018758155581133108)  2026-02-03T18:47Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"4 February [----]. Pierre van Ryneveld (left) and Quintin Brand (right) set out from Brooklands in Vickers Vimy G-UABA from Cairo to cross Africa by air from North to South"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018758349400002797)  2026-02-03T18:47Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"4 February [----]. Final flight of the North American Aviation XB-70A-1-NA Valkyrie 62-0001. It flew from Edwards Air Force Base California to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio and the National Museum of the United States Air Force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018760737686974887)  2026-02-03T18:57Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"4 February [----]. First flight of the X-47B a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle designed for aircraft carrier-based operations. Designated Air Vehicle [--] (AV-1) at Edwards Air Force Base California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018762259460223100)  2026-02-03T19:03Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Vickers Wellesley Mark I (L2673 KU-C) of [--] Squadron RAF based at Agordat in flight over the rugged landscape of Eritrea. c. April 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018766764310475186)  2026-02-03T19:21Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Dutch Fokker T. V twin-engine bomber with unique tricolour camo scheme and bright orange ID markings used by Dutch Air Force onset of WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018766811689271357)  2026-02-03T19:21Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Messerschmitt Bf [---] G-6 believed the aircraft of Major Ludwig Franzisket Gruppenkommandeur of I./JG [--] probable date: Feb/March 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018767218637492302)  2026-02-03T19:23Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Bf 109E 'Red 9' of Oberleutnant Helmut Wick leader of the [--]. Staffel of I./JG2 'Richthofen' flying over France. July 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018767513702859245)  2026-02-03T19:24Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018767562587439421)  2026-02-03T19:24Z 66K followers, 12.1K engagements


"A Swordfish Mk. I of [---] Naval Air Squadron flies over the British aircraft-carrier HMS Ark Royal during 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018769968289005905)  2026-02-03T19:34Z 65.9K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771171890913568)  2026-02-03T19:38Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"31 May [----]. Squadron Leader P. A. Hunter (far left) Commanding Officer of [---] Squadron RAF briefing his pilots by one of the Squadron's Boulton-Paul Defiants. Duxford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771542134391187)  2026-02-03T19:40Z 65.8K followers, [---] engagements


"A US serviceman (appears to be a paratrooper) looks at recently recaptured P-47D (T9+LK) at Gttingen Germany (probably April) 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771626159186242)  2026-02-03T19:40Z 66K followers, 10.3K engagements


"The German submarine U-155 on display in St. Katherine docks London England December 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771738100715524)  2026-02-03T19:41Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Munsterdorf [--] victory German ace Leutnant Carl "Charly" Degelow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019116733563564067)  2026-02-04T18:31Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Fokker D.VII Carl Degelow art by Taras Shtyk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019116936366551524)  2026-02-04T18:32Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Thames Waikato New Zealand [--] victory Brisfit pilot ace with [--] Squadron AFC Lieutenant Carrick Stewart Paul DFC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019117111994642742)  2026-02-04T18:33Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Lieutenant Carrick Stewart Paul DFC. Group portrait of Officers of [--] Squadron Australian Flying Corps at their camp in the Ottoman Empire: Palestine Mejdel Jaffa area Philistine Plain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019117205263380720)  2026-02-04T18:33Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Lieutenant Carrick Stewart Paul DFC. [--] February [----] [--] January 1919"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019117357894103517)  2026-02-04T18:34Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Villefranche-sur-Saone [--] victory French Air Service ace Sergent Paul Joannes Sauvage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019117677294612819)  2026-02-04T18:35Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Sergent Paul Joannes Sauvage. [--] February [----] - [--] January 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019117936603197833)  2026-02-04T18:36Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Kingston Jamaica [--] victory SE5a ace with [--] Squadron Lieutenant John Albert Edward Robertson Daley DFC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019118011450556466)  2026-02-04T18:37Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019118913435627903)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019120425423499683)  2026-02-04T18:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. Clyde V. Cessna Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman founded Travel Air Manufacturing Company Ltd. Their Model R 'Mystery Ships' came first in [----] Thompson Trophy race and 2nd in [----] easily beating the U.S. Army and Navy entries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019121611555889420)  2026-02-04T18:51Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. Birth of Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten (d. [--] March 1977). Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. Captain of the ill-fated KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight [----] Boeing [---] which was involved in the Tenerife airport disaster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019121946991161736)  2026-02-04T18:52Z 66K followers, 19.3K engagements


"5 February [----]. First air-to-air battle of the Shanghai Incident took place between [--] Japanese aircraft from the aircraft carrier Hosho (at the mouth of the Yangtze River) and [--] Nationalist Chinese fighters over Shanghai. One Chinese fighter was damaged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019122832916246927)  2026-02-04T18:56Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. Alex Henshaw took off in his Percival Mew Gull from Gravesend near London to Cape Town in South Africa for a record-breaking flight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019123075133108425)  2026-02-04T18:57Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019123187381072120)  2026-02-04T18:57Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. The American NASA and de Havilland Canada extensively modified DHC-5 (C-8/V-7) Buffalo N715NA (NASA 715) for STOL experiments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019126618858614987)  2026-02-04T19:11Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Fokker Dr.1 replica SE-XXZ standing on its nose after a landing accident at Duxford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019130215264612833)  2026-02-04T19:25Z 65.9K followers, 24.6K engagements


"BMW IIIa inline 6-cylinder SOHC valvetrain water-cooled aircraft engine powerplant of the Fokker D.VIIF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019130562875936827)  2026-02-04T19:26Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"No. [--] Squadron Australian Flying Corps in Palestine 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019130935644680523)  2026-02-04T19:28Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"A British Flight Commander starting off on a raid flying an Airco DH.2 biplane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019131039881531538)  2026-02-04T19:28Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"A Sopwith [--] 1/2 Strutter biplane aircraft taking off from a platform constructed on top of HMAS Australia's midships "Q" turret in 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019131249949044919)  2026-02-04T19:29Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"25 September [----]. Flieger Abteilung [---] Unteroffizier Richard Scholl (pilot) and Leutnant Anderer (observer) posted missing at Mars-sous-Boureg near the river Aisne while flying LVG C.V 1069/18. They took this photograph near Guignicourt [--] August 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019131751499722927)  2026-02-04T19:31Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Alex Henshaw chatting with prime minister Winston Churchill about the Spitfire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019131918600835444)  2026-02-04T19:32Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"My thanks to all of today's followers old and new 'likes' contributors and readers. (Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat & Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Zero)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019448197660221883)  2026-02-05T16:29Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Ivan Alexandrovich Loiko (second from right) graduated Alekseevsky military school in [----] and the school of military pilots in Sevastopol in [----]. He was awarded [--] orders of Russia. In [----] was arrested and charged with spying for Romania"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019462799089402212)  2026-02-05T17:27Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"The prototype Fokker Triplane F.1 102/17 was shot down by British flying ace Norman Miers MacGregor on [--] September [----] flying a Sopwith Camel near Wervik Belgium. The Fokker pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff was killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019463345380773911)  2026-02-05T17:29Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Shepherd's Bush London [--] victory D.H.4 pilot ace with [--] Squadron RNAS Flight Commander Thomas Frederick Le Mesurier DSC and Two Bars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019464114251182462)  2026-02-05T17:32Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Died aged [--] on [--] February [----] in Buenos Aires Argentina [--] victory Brisfit observer ace with [--] Squadron Lieutenant Bertram Hutchinson Smyth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019465000369229887)  2026-02-05T17:35Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019472586887868722)  2026-02-05T18:05Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. Birth of Captain David Wayne Howe (d. [--] May 1995). American [--] victory WWII flying ace with the 4th Fighter Group 8th Air Force and later test pilot for Bell flying the USAs first jet VTOL Bell Model 65). Awarded the DSC and Air Medal with [--] Oak Leaf Clusters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019472765972070510)  2026-02-05T18:06Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 January [----]. Junkers Ju [--] V1 D-AALU "Der Grosse Dessauer". Forty seat airliner developed for and used by Deutsche Luft Hansa shortly before WW2 based on the rejected Junkers Ju [--] V3 bomber broke up in flight while undergoing flutter tests out of Dessau Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019473428651131141)  2026-02-05T18:09Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. Vickers Wellington Mk. IC L7842 KX-T of [---] (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF mistakenly landed at Flers northern France. Aircraft and crew were captured. The Luftwaffe transferred it to its Erprobungsstelle (experimental and test facility) Mecklenburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019473650697621868)  2026-02-05T18:10Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"6 February [----]. Ground crew manhandle a Gloster Meteor F.3 of the [---] Squadron Detachment at B58/Melsbroek Belgium. The aircraft had deployed to the Continent to counter the threat of the German Me262 jet fighter which had started to enter service with the Luftwaffe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019474237191295456)  2026-02-05T18:12Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. Airspeed Ambassador (G-ALZU) British European Airways Flight [---] crashed on take-off from Munich. [--] of the [--] passengers on board the aircraft died including [--] team members and staff of Manchester United football club"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019474673981940071)  2026-02-05T18:14Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. First successful launch of a Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I. First US multistage ICBM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019474815208345858)  2026-02-05T18:14Z 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019474959865696724)  2026-02-05T18:15Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. First flight of the Sud Aviation 'Caravelle' [---] VI-R. Version of the French short/medium-range jet airliner powered by two [-----] kN Rolls-Royce Avon Mk.532R engines. First Caravelle with thrust reversers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475059790778644)  2026-02-05T18:15Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. First flight of the Argentine state aviation conglomerate DINFIA's Guarani I. Prototype utility aircraft refined version of the Huanquero. Powered by two Turbomeca Bastan III engines each rated at [---] shaft horsepower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475162706375074)  2026-02-05T18:16Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. LAN Chile Flight [---] Douglas DC-6B-404 CC-CCG crashed into the side of La Corona Mountain (Las Melosas area of the Andes) approximately [----] feet below its summit killing all 87"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475254523871544)  2026-02-05T18:16Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. Boeing 757-225 TC-GEN Birgenair Flight [---] crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata's Gregorio Lupern International Airport in the Dominican Republic killing all [---] occupants after a wasp nest in the pitot tube caused incorrect airspeed information"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475654043910435)  2026-02-05T18:18Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"6 February [----]. Death of Anthony W. "Tony" LeVier (b. [--] February 1913). American air racer and test pilot for the Lockheed Corporation from the 1940s to the 1970s. Among many others he flew the first flights of the XF-104 Starfighter and the U-2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475891865202688)  2026-02-05T18:19Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


""During World War Two I was responsible for the destruction of six aircraft fortunately three were enemy". Captain Ray Lancaster USAAF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019476535279768005)  2026-02-05T18:21Z 65.9K followers, 12.4K engagements


"'Bud Anderson and Chuck Yeager of the 357th Fighter Group.Both P-51 Mustang pilots racing at low level through an Alpine landscape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019476619535045050)  2026-02-05T18:22Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Boeing [---] Pan Am 'Yankee Clipper'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019476677156274567)  2026-02-05T18:22Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Halberstadt CL.II. A German two-seat escort fighter/ground attack aircraft of WW1. Served in large numbers with the German Luftstreitkrfte"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019486390593917395)  2026-02-05T19:00Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019486617602244624)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019486816215204037)  2026-02-05T19:02Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Albatros CXII reconnaissance aircraft differed from previous Albatros C-type with an elliptical-section fuselage similar to the Albatros D.V"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019486904031256648)  2026-02-05T19:02Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"German pilot Richard Scholl and his co-pilot Lieutenant Anderer in flight gear beside their Hannover CL.II biplane in 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019487503439294595)  2026-02-05T19:05Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019488448160149672)  2026-02-05T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Pilot Maureen Dunlop sleeps after ferrying aircraft from factories to airports during WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019488564229157043)  2026-02-05T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Nassau Wrttemburg [--] victory German ace Hauptmann Otto Hartmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019804861156729014)  2026-02-06T16:06Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in St. Brieuc [--] victory French Air Service ace with Spa88 Sous Lieutenant Arthur Marie Marcel Coadou"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019805096033538317)  2026-02-06T16:07Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Sous Lieutenant Arthur Marie Marcel Coadou. [--] February [----] - [--] October 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019805244214096322)  2026-02-06T16:07Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Died aged [--] years on [--] February [----] [--] victory German ace with Jasta [--] and [--] Leutnant Walter Bning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019809436106379489)  2026-02-06T16:24Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Jasta 76b Albatros DV of Leutnant Walter Bning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019809550661230629)  2026-02-06T16:24Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Albatros DVa reproduction with the Bavarian motif of blue and white diamonds with the horizontal tail plane in blue and white stripes. As flown by ace Lieutenant Walter Bning in February 1918"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019809648434688111)  2026-02-06T16:25Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"One of two Albatros believed to have been flown by Walter Bning while commanding Jasta 76b from October [----] to May [----]. This one is D.5765/17. http://D.Va http://D.Va"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019809749563543962)  2026-02-06T16:25Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Death of James Glaisher FRS (b. [--] April 1809). English meteorologist aeronaut and astronomer. On [--] September [----] he broke the world record for altitude rising to between [-----] and [-----] feet (estimated)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019810501963002096)  2026-02-06T16:28Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Birth of Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (d. [--] April 1984). Soviet aircraft designer and founder of the Research and Design Bureau [---] in Novosibirsk Russia named in his honour after his death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019810656606982542)  2026-02-06T16:29Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Zeppelin LZ82 (L36) launched [--] November [----] and based at Nordholz was wrecked after a forced landing in fog at Rehben-an-der-Aller. In total it had conducted [--] flights around the North Sea and England including four reconnaissance missions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019810826937585937)  2026-02-06T16:30Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Herbert John Louis Hinkler departed Croydon London to make the first solo flight to Darwin Northern Territories Australia where he landed on [--] February flying his Avro 581E Avian G-EBOV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019812621160255500)  2026-02-06T16:37Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. The Boeing XP-15 prototype American monoplane fighter was destroyed when a propeller blade failed and the engine tore loose from its mountings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019812757429006748)  2026-02-06T16:37Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019812853486883288)  2026-02-06T16:38Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"7 February [----]. Test pilot Robert Michael "Bob" White (6 July [----] [--] March 2010) on his return from the X-15s final powered flight with the XLR11 liquid-propellant rocket engine. Flight: 1-21-36"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019826159886938520)  2026-02-06T17:30Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Death of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE CB DSO (b [--] August 1890). Australian WWI pilot WWII high ranking officer postwar director Australian Civil aviation first military pilot trained in Australia named "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019827024039477499)  2026-02-06T17:34Z 65.9K followers, [---] engagements


"7 February [----]. Death of Secondo Campini (b. [--] August 1904). Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine. Developed themotorjet which powered the Caproni Campini C.C.2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019827968617640188)  2026-02-06T17:38Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019829331015659829)  2026-02-06T17:43Z 66.1K followers, 11.6K engagements


"7 February [----]. British Airways Concorde G-BOAD landed at Heathrow London after flying [----] Nautical Miles from New York in [--] hours [--] minutes [--] seconds at an average speed of [----] knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019830514765689124)  2026-02-06T17:48Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019831310089613354)  2026-02-06T17:51Z 65.9K followers, [----] engagements


"2011 photo of Great Britain on a clear night while orbiting [---] miles above Earth aboard the ISS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019859837996396992)  2026-02-06T19:44Z 66K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019868797038129642)  2026-02-06T20:20Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Bremersdorp Swaziland South Africa [--] victory SE5a ace with [--] Squadron Lieutenant Percy Frank Charles "Swazi" Howe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020252544031973543)  2026-02-07T21:45Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. Birth of French Captain Louis Ferdinand Ferber (d. [--] September 1909). A major influence on the development of aviation in Europe he was only the third victim of an aeroplane accident after Thomas Selfridge and Eugne Lefebvre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020256252496916525)  2026-02-07T21:59Z 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020256612217471272)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020256872222355584)  2026-02-07T22:02Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"8 February [----]. Birth of Lester James Maitland (d. [--] March 1990). American aviation pioneer. In [----] with Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger he completed the first transpacific flight from California to Hawaii flying the modified Fokker C-2 transport Bird of Paradise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020257105958301732)  2026-02-07T22:03Z 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020257913047306332)  2026-02-07T22:06Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"8 February [----]. Robert Grant Fowler (10 August [----] [--] June 1966) landed his Wright biplane in Jacksonville Florida after a four month west to east coast-to-coast journey from San Francisco. He became the first man to traverse the US from the West to the East Coast by air"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020258114365464762)  2026-02-07T22:07Z 66K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020259413509173303)  2026-02-07T22:12Z 66K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020260134686195928)  2026-02-07T22:15Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"8 February [----]. First flight of the Saab [--] Viggen. Swedish single-seat single-engine short-medium range fighter and attack aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020260745301356838)  2026-02-07T22:17Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. 09:36 UTC/GMT. Launch of Diadme D1C by CNES from the Hammaguir Joint Test Center in Algeria. French scientific satellite carrying a scientific payload consisting of two radio transmitters and a laser reflector"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020260833226596730)  2026-02-07T22:18Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. The Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as seen by the departing Skylab [--] mission crew"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020261150991200638)  2026-02-07T22:19Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"8 February [----]. Death of Vladimir Yevgeniyevich Turovets (b. [--] February 1949). Russian test pilot at the Gromov Flight Research Institute and part of the 1977-1980 cosmonaut training group. Killed in the crash of a Mi-8 Helicopter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020268250584535533)  2026-02-07T22:47Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020268455593906465)  2026-02-07T22:48Z 66K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020268606395936793)  2026-02-07T22:49Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"8 February [----]. First flight of the Boeing 747-8F (Freighter). American wide-body jet cargo liner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020269058810392993)  2026-02-07T22:50Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. NASA [---] a modified Boeing 747-146 transport FAA registration N911NA one of two NASA Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft made its final landing at Air Force Plant [--] Palmdale California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020269154696151057)  2026-02-07T22:51Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. A fleet of Junkers Ju 52s were used for a large-scale airlift of German troops to North Africa reinforcing Erwin Rommel's initial Afrika Korps units as they secured positions in Libya"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020276501665706232)  2026-02-07T23:20Z 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020287716966166879)  2026-02-08T00:05Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is always directly in the pilot's face. (Horatio C. Barber 1916)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292096918196320)  2026-02-08T00:22Z 65.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292307329941633)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292658787451369)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292715108266150)  2026-02-08T00:24Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. Brian Trubshaw Concorde Chief Test Pilot 1967"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292877771804921)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020293025084174811)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020293070206415279)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020293497690157552)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020547243921576439)  2026-02-08T17:16Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"Second Lieutenant Stanley Cockerell AFC Royal Flying Corps. [--] February [----] [--] November 1940"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020547335806194073)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020567196326404384)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020567854299418767)  2026-02-08T18:38Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"9 February [----]. USS Macon (ZRS-5) passes over San Diego California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020567948004339741)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020568129596776875)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020568551078146553)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020568743051419726)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020568806494462287)  2026-02-08T18:41Z 66K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020574797332152335)  2026-02-08T19:05Z 66K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020575607004782899)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020575730351190290)  2026-02-08T19:09Z 66K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020575920197665104)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020577025837486569)  2026-02-08T19:14Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"9 February [----]. RAF Tornado on a desert airstrip in Kuwait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020577508362715321)  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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020578730633257412)  2026-02-08T19:21Z 66K followers, [----] engagements

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