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[@ron_eisele](/creator/twitter/ron_eisele)
"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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977120967794069591) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-11T21:15Z 63.3K followers, 52.3K engagements


"23 October 1962. Operation Blue Moon. X U.S. Navy RF-8 Crusader photographic reconnaissance aircraft of Photo Reconnaissance Squadron XX (VFP-62) conducted the first American low-level flights over the Cuba missile bases flying at XXX mph a few hundred feet off the ground"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981060651528163397) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:10Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1976741451183931409) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-10T20:07Z 63.3K followers, 7449 engagements


"Grumman F6F Hellcat at Henderson Field Guadalcanal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980338078381404558) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:19Z 63.3K followers, 11.9K engagements


"22 October 1940. Catalina over San Diego Bay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980698384098030082) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:11Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"North American P-51D-20-NA Mustang 44-72035 'Jumpin Jaques'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980703387202003404) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:31Z 63.3K followers, 4800 engagements


"Shard by SAC Andy Masson in the 2013 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980705165930832168) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:38Z 63.3K followers, 1170 engagements


"Corsair Majuro Marshall Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1974928626757087740) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-05T20:04Z 63.3K followers, 26.9K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977796324666872125) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-13T17:59Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978130828921073870) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T16:08Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978133092716929189) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T16:17Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and crew prior to mission"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980337412313383258) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:16Z 63.3K followers, 6801 engagements


"Praporshik Ivan Vasilievich Smirnov (Smirnoff)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981054612896456941) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:46Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1868. Birth of Frederick William Lanchester LLD Hon FRAeS FRS (d.8 March 1946). English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981055389748605321) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:49Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1933. First flight of the Polikarpov I-15 (TsKB-3/CDB-3). Soviet biplane fighter aircraft named Chaik (Gull) powered by an imported Wright R-1820 Cyclone engine. Operated by the Soviet Air Force and a standard Spanish Republican fighter during the Spanish Civil War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981058122073723138) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:00Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1944. First flight of the Nakajima G8N Renzan 'Rita' Japanese four-engine long-range bomber prototype. After the war one prototype was taken to the United States and scrapped after testing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981059752982659103) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:07Z 63.3K followers, 11.7K engagements


"23 October 1972. End of Operation Linebacker. The U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force XX air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam. Aerial interdiction campaign to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981060869619343514) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:11Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 2007. 15.38.19 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy LC-39A on mission STS-120. Delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the International Space Station in preparation for future assembly missions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981061208733339682) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:12Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"P-47 Thunderbolt cockpit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981064847413403976) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:27Z 63.3K followers, 6187 engagements


"Mirage F1CR of the French Air Force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981064906947313767) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:27Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Mitsubishi F-2A (Japan) with supersonic anti-ship missiles XASM-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981064951159538091) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:27Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"The RAF Red Arrows arrived at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Tuesday afternoon 28th September before moving onto the United Arab Emirates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981066359170605148) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:33Z 63.3K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1950991665247715494) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-07-31T18:47Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"8 September 1974. TWA flight XXX Boeing 707-331B N8734 flying from Tel Aviv to New York via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea XX minutes after take-off after a Palestinian bomb exploded in the hold. All XX occupants were killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1964761917135949870) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-09-07T18:45Z 63.3K followers, 1029 engagements


"10 October 1962. Trans-Canada Air Lines Vickers XXX Viscount CF-THA collided on the ground with a RCAF CF-101B Voodoo at Bagotville airport killing a flight attendant and a passenger. The crew of the Voodoo ejected. The Viscount was damaged but repaired and returned to service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1976383848331284925) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-09T20:26Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Hellcat Ondonga Solomon islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1976406939509969164) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-09T21:58Z 63.3K followers, 2810 engagements


"12 October 2001. First flight of the Aerokopter AK-1. Russian helicopter two-seat side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit single main rotor with a tail rotor skid-type landing gear and a four-cylinder air-cooled four-stroke XXX hp Subaru EJ25 automotive engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977104271587066164) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-11T20:09Z 63.3K followers, 1054 engagements


"P-51 Mustangs at the North American Aviation Inc. Inglewood California plant 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977121416236425670) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-11T21:17Z 63.3K followers, 9419 engagements


"LSO (Landing Signals Officer) USS Wasp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977121672504524871) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-11T21:18Z 63.3K followers, 1245 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977483582676652510) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:16Z 63.3K followers, 1077 engagements


"Four Seafire Mk Ibs peel off in a quick-succession left break from echelon in May of 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977484345519624451) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:19Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977484660608540984) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.3K followers, 14.6K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977800543050613076) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-13T18:16Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Corsair "Marines Dream""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977853731879243881) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-13T21:47Z 63.3K followers, 8181 engagements


"15 October 1920. Canada. 1st commercial passenger flight north of the 53rd parallel was made by an Avro 504K with Hector Dougall (pilot) Frank Ellis (engineer) and passenger Frank J. Stanley (a fur buyer) who chartered the flight between Winnipeg & his home in The Pas Manitoba"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978130117558776303) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T16:05Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"15 October 1933. First run of the Rolls-Royce Merlin. British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 1650 cu in capacity. Rolls-Royce Limited designed and built the engine which was initially known as the PV-12"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978131133406531707) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T16:09Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978132266204246320) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T16:14Z 63.3K followers, 8168 engagements


"P-51B WZ-S at Duxford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978165734632014207) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-14T18:27Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"16 October 1952. First flight of the Sud-Ouest Aviation (SNCASO) S.O. 4050-01 Vautour II. French Two-seat all-weather twin engine jet fighter aircraft. Powered by two 5291-lb Atar 101B turbojet engines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978524887309263329) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:14Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"16 October 1961. Cork Airport one of the three principal international airports of Ireland opened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978525351899803867) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:16Z 63.3K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978531526657667359) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:40Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978531575403893031) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.3K followers, 6154 engagements


"F-51's being loaded with rockets Korea 1951. (South African Air Force Mustangs in background)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978531651492704618) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.3K followers, 9860 engagements


"Avenger USS Siborney 1949"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978531810192540045) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.3K followers, 11.6K engagements


"My thanks to all of today's followers old and new re-tweeters likes contributors and readers. Very much appreciated. (F-14 Tomcat)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978856983374504210) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-16T16:14Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"17 October 1884. Birth of James Floyd Smith (d.18 April 1956). Early American aviator aeroplane designer (J.Floyd Smith Tractor Type pictured) pioneer U.S. Army test pilot and inventor of the free type manually operated pack parachute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978864890816209335) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-16T16:45Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"B-25 over Winston-Salem NC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978947963767443686) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-16T22:15Z 63.3K followers, 5627 engagements


"F4U Corsair over Southern California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978948017689428316) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-16T22:15Z 63.3K followers, 9152 engagements


"18 October 1979. First flight of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 N908DC from the Douglas Aircraft Company airfield in Long Beach California. American twin-engine short- to medium-range single-aisle commercial jet airliner developed from the McDonnell Douglas DC-9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979271275093569798) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T19:40Z 63.3K followers, 1083 engagements


"B-25 over Winston-Salem NC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979277371187270126) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T20:04Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Dauntless USS Lexington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979277516494835952) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T20:05Z 63.3K followers, 18.2K engagements


"Hellcat mishap USS Barnes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979277703447744997) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T20:05Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Vought OS2U Kingfisher on USS Missouri Atlantic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979634864174555364) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-18T19:45Z 63.3K followers, 1401 engagements


"Vought F4u Corsair 'Jolly Rogers' No.8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979636249645461707) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-18T19:50Z 63.3K followers, 5718 engagements


"Vought F4U Corsair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979636409817567418) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-18T19:51Z 63.3K followers, 9931 engagements


"Born XX October 1898 in Ipswich Suffolk X victory D.H.4 pilot ace with XX Squadron Captain William Edward Green DFC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979982402966458711) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:46Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1811. Birth of Franz Freiherr von Uchatius Austrian artillery general and inventor. In 1849 he designed and manufactured paper balloons filled with hot air used in the first air raid on a city during the siege of revolutionary Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979983201507360955) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:49Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1883. Birth of Thodore Clovis Edmond Lemartin (d. XX June 1911). French pioneer aviator who set a world record on X February 1911 at Pau France when he carried seven passengers in a Blriot XIII Aerobus. The world's first professional test pilot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979983342859592108) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:49Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October1899. Birth of Max Constant (d. XX May 1943). 1930s air racer placed fourth in the 1938 Bendix Trophy races. Flight instructor at Burbank Airport. Northrop test pilot killed during flight test of the Northrop N-9M-1 for the U.S. Army Air Corps at Muroc Army Airfield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979983540851781748) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:50Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1911. Birth of Eddie August Henry Schneider (d. XX December 1940). American aviator record setter and Spanish civil war pilot. In 1930 he set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one flying a Cessna Model AW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979983980624577011) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:52Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1916. Birth of Martin Summerfield (d. XX July 1996). American physicist early rocket pioneer co-founder of Aerojet head of Princeton University. In spring 1942 he led the group developing installation of liquid propellant rocket on an aircraft (Douglas A20 bomber)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979984205393035276) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:53Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1918. Death of Lon Morane (b.11 April 1885). French early aviator and aircraft designer who with Raymond Saulnier formed the Socit Anonyme des Aroplanes Morane Saulnier in 1911. Lon's brother Robert was their test-pilot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979985380762861580) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:57Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1920. Paul Marcel Teste (2 October 1892 XX June 1925). French Naval officer and aviator became the first French pilot to land on an aircraft carrier (the Barn). He gave his name to the seaplane transport Commandant Teste 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979985661995131040) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:59Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1922. First Lieutenant Harold Ross Harris became the first pilot to bail out of a stricken aircraft using a free-fall parachute. Flying a Loening monoplane a modified aileron began oscillating badly pulling the control stick from his hands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979985767452549150) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:59Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1941. Death of J. Skalski WWII Polish pilot serving with the RAF. Killed in a crash while evaluating the captured Messerschmitt Bf XXX F2 Werknummer 3756 (RAF serial ES906) at the Air Fighting Development Unit RAF Duxford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979987545795579997) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:06Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1944. Death of Milo Garrett Burcham (b.24 May 1903). American aviator stunt pilot airshow pilot and Lockheed test pilot. Killed in an engine flame-out on take-off of the third production prototype YP-80A (44-83025) one mile north of Burbank Airport CA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979988020167082210) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:08Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1948. KLM Lockheed L-049-46-25 Constellation 'Nijmegen' crashed into high ground on approach to Prestwick Airport Scotland in poor weather killing all XX including KLM's chief pilot Koene Dirk Parmentier (pictured) one of the MacRobertson Air Race winners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979988827289596048) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:11Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"A McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee build number 125663 of Fighter Squadron VF-11 (Red Rippers) from USS Kearsarge (CV-33) over Wonson 'Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea'. Pilot: Ensign Buffkin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979989039328399468) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:12Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1952. First XX minute 'official' flight of the Douglas Aircraft Company X-3 (49-2892) aeroplane built for the Air Force and NACA to research flight in the Mach X to Mach X range. Flown by William Barton Bridgeman at Edwards Air Force Base California"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979989190063312910) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:13Z 63.3K followers, 1218 engagements


"20 October 1953. First non-stop scheduled passenger flight across the United States was made by a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979989272825344143) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:13Z 63.3K followers, 8002 engagements


"20 October 1953. Death of Werner Baumbach (b. XX December 1916). Luftwaffe bomber pilot commander of Kampfgeschwader XXX. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for the destruction of over 300000 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979989373832601753) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:13Z 63.3K followers, 2893 engagements


"20 October 1953. Death of Walter P. Jones American Test pilot killed in the crash of Northrop YF-89D Scorpion 49-2463 near Edwards AFB on return from a test mission. Also aboard and killed in the crash was Jack Collingsworth a civilian radar operator for Northrop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979990264077840658) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:17Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1975. First flight of the Wassmer WA-80 'Piranha' F-WVKR. French two-seat low-wing cabin monoplane trainer. Powered by a XXX hp Rolls-Royce Continental O-200-A engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979991467473907746) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:22Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1987. USAF A-7D-4-CV Corsair II 69-6207 piloted by Major Bruce L. Teagarden sustained an in-flight engine failure. In adverse weather attempting an emergency landing it crashed into the Ramada Inn Indianapolis. The pilot ejected. X were killed in the hotel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979991818797219944) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:23Z 63.3K followers, 1095 engagements


"20 October 1988. Death of Sheila Scott OBE (b. Sheila Christine Hopkins XX April 1922). English aviatrix who broke over XXX aviation records through her long-distance flight endeavours which included a 34000-mile "world and a half" flight in 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979991907456414005) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:23Z 63.3K followers, 1049 engagements


"20 October 1996. Death of Alfred William Bill Bedford OBE AFC FRAeS (b. XX November 1920). British WWII fighter pilot instructor and Hawker Siddeley test pilot who pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979992684413493633) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:26Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 2005. Death of Chalmers Hubert "Slick" Goodlin (b. X January 1923). The second test pilot of the Bell X-1 supersonic rocket aeroplane and the first to operate it in powered flight (on X December 1946 in the #2 aircraft)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979992793498997030) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:27Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Ryan PT-22 Recruit the main military version of the Ryan ST was a military trainer aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980010708478685191) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T20:38Z 63.3K followers, 1992 engagements


"B-25J-15-NC SN 44-28938 "Old Glory" was delivered on X August 1944 to the 12th Air Force in Italy. Recalled for use in an administrative role in Spokane Washington in 1946. Retired from service in December 1957"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980010767450546203) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T20:38Z 63.3K followers, 1255 engagements


"21 October 1918. Birth of Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. (d. XX April 1949). X victory American WWII ace and USAF reserve pilot. Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Killed in the crash of Lockheed F-80A-10-LO Shooting Star 44-85438 he was co-piloting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980325159019089945) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:28Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1926. Birth of First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. (presumed dead XX November 1953). USAF pilot who disappeared while performing an air defence intercept over Lake Superior of a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) C-47 aircraft which was off course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980326142755389519) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:31Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1961. First flight of the Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic at Toulouse. French long-range reconnaissance patrol and anti-submarine aircraft. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Tyne RTy.20 Mk XX turboprop engines 6100 hp each. Flown by Bernard Witt Romeo Zinzoni and Ren Prineau"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980328403548160375) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:40Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1989. Tan-Sahsa Flight XXX Boeing 727-224 N88705 crashed into a hill near Toncontin International Airport Honduras killing XXX of XXX ocupants. The pilots failed to follow a special landing procedure required for the airport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980330131618255063) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:47Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1998. Launch of the European Advanced Re-entry Demonstrator on the third Ariane X flight from the Guiana Space Centre Kourou French Guiana. It reached an altitude of XXX miles and after a guided entry splashed down within X miles of the target area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980330378146746389) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:48Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Flying Tigers. The Flying Tigers known officially as the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) were a unit of the Chinese Air Force recruited from U.S. Navy Marines and Army aviators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980337742799335693) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:18Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Born XX October 1883 in Prague Czechoslovakia X victory Austro-Hungarian Empire ace Hauptmann Heinrich Kostrba"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980690540690657534) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T17:39Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1910. The Belmont International Aviation Tournament began in Belmont Park New York. Events ranged from competitions for the best altitude speed and distance to contests for the most precise landing and the best mechanic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980695973690224830) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:01Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1955. First flight of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief at Edwards Air Force Base California. Republic Aviation Corporation test pilot Russell M. Roth took the first of two prototype YF-105A-1-REs s/n 54-0098 for its first flight. It attained a speed of Mach 1.2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980698782418497845) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:12Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1968. The crew of Apollo X on the flight deck of USS Essex (CVS-9). Left to right Captain Walter M. Schirra USN; Major Donn F. Eisele USAF; Major R. Walter Cunningham USMC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980699545567719672) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:15Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Short Sunderland at RAF Pembroke Dock a Royal Air Force Seaplane and Flying Boat station located in Pembrokeshire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977484547248799962) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.3K followers, 1202 engagements


"18 October 1989. 16.53.40 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-34. During the mission the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe was deployed into space to study the planet and its moons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979271524914991244) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T19:41Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"18 October 1993. 14.53.00 UTC/GMT. Launch Space Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-58. Conducted experiments concerning the physiological effects of spaceflight and the first in-flight use of "Portable In-flight Landing Operations Trainer" simulation software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979271684629655584) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-17T19:41Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1913. First landing at high altitude. Italian Carlo Maria Piazza flying a Blriot XI at 10500 ft. around Mont Cenis landed on a short plateau at about 6500 ft. above sea level"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979984080247681334) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:52Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1944. First flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich I-224. Soviet high-altitude fighter prototype"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979987878865142169) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:07Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"20 October 1995. 13.53.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-73. The second flight of the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The mission also included several detailed test objectives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979992621150765324) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T19:26Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1918. The RAF experimented with parachutes. A modified Sopwith Snipe (E8137) was fitted with an enlarged top decking to accommodate a Calthrop Guardian Angel automatic parachute and 'rigging incapable of entanglement'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980325234436936072) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:28Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1922. In the first Royal Aero Club glider meeting Lympne Light Aircraft Trials at Itford Hill Sussex South Downs. Frenchman Alexis Maneyrol in a Peyret tandem monoplane (pictured) set a world record of XXX min. Englishman Fred Raynham in a Handasyde managed XXX min"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980325710846951814) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:30Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1934. During the MacRobertson England to Australia Air Race Amy Johnson with Jim Mollison in their de Havilland Comet 'Black Magic' retired in India with engine problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980326563242733974) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:33Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1937. A float mounted Yakovlev UT-1 (AIR-14) Soviet compact monoplane aerobatic trainer with open cockpit flew from Moscow to Ufa covering XXX miles non-stop with D. N. Fedoseev at controls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980326804276855144) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:34Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"21 October 1944. First deliberate kamikaze attack. At the start of the Battle of Leyte Gulf a Japanese Aichi D3A dive-bomber or a Mitsubishi Ki-51 carrying a XXX lb bomb attacked HMAS Australia off Leyte Island in the Philippines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980327203478110654) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:36Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"B-25 plant Kansas City 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980336154919793118) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:11Z 63.3K followers, 1383 engagements


"B-17 picture taken when the US Air Force Museum collection was moved from Patterson Field to Wright Field in 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980337093290389599) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:15Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1916. First flight of the LFG Roland D.II. German single-seat fighter manufactured by Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft and by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke under licence. Powered by a XXX hp Mercedes D.III engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980696404604617024) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1968. 11.11.48 UTC/GMT. Splashdown of Apollo X in the North Atlantic Ocean after completing the first successful manned Apollo mission. The crew and spacecraft were recovered by the USS Essex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980699387224551542) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:15Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"1 March 1945. Death of German test pilot Lothar Sieber. Killed while making the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight in a Bachem Ba XXX "Natter" a WWII German point-defence rocket powered interceptor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1895565930920624348) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-02-28T20:05Z 63.3K followers, 1424 engagements


"1 September 1962. 02.12.30 GMT/UTC. Launch of Venera 2MV-1 No.2 (Sputnik 20). Soviet spacecraft intended to become the first to land on Venus but failed to leave low Earth orbit due to a problem with its upper stage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1962276683458740592) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-08-31T22:09Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1974916626278666605) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-05T19:16Z 63.3K followers, 2006 engagements


"14 October 1929. First flight of the R101. British rigid airship from the Royal Airship Works in Cardington Bedfordshire. It flew to London and back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977796721456373882) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-13T18:00Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"B-17's Boeing Seattle plant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978948123104838073) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-16T22:16Z 63.3K followers, 4464 engagements


"Republic P-47D Thunderbolt Wicked Wabbit. Powered by a 2430 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979635963128406216) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-18T19:49Z 63.3K followers, 2638 engagements


"First Lieutenant Harris first pilot to bail from a stricken aircraft using a free-fall parachute landed suffering bruises on his legs and hand from fighting the joystick. His Loening crashed into the side yard of a house three blocks away. No injuries to anyone on the ground"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979985873572618466) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T18:59Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Vought OS2U Kingfisher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980011284402692393) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T20:40Z 63.3K followers, 5262 engagements


"21 October 1973. The Militky-Brditschka Elektroflieger No. X (Militky MBE1) became the first electrically powered piloted aeroplane to fly at Wels Austria. The Bosch motor was driven by four rechargeable Varta nickel cadmium batteries. Its maiden flight lasted for X minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980329782996005144) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T17:46Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Born XX October 1897 in Birkenhead Cheshire XX victory ace with XX Squadron Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery MC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980691174848651417) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T17:42Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery (22 October 1897 XX February 1965) Medal Group. Left to right Military Cross British War Medal Italian War Cross (Croce di Guerra). Italian newspaper account of the Montgomery Rugby Cup in Rustign di Oderzo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980691444835971199) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T17:43Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Died aged XX on XX October 1924 on Yule Island British New Guinea XX victory French Air Service ace with Spa152 Lieutenant Lon Jean Pierre Bourjade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980691804308623387) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T17:45Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1797. First use of a silk parachute was made by Frenchman Andr-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 1769 - XX August 1823) at Parc Monceau Paris. He jumped from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3000 feet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980695147068228021) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T17:58Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"22 October 1929. Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Barling NB-3 NX881H "Golden Hind" (constructor number 31) with forward cockpit replaced with a 165-gallon fuel tank flown by Urban F Diteman Jr. departed Harbour Grace NL on an Atlantic crossing attempt. Not seen again lost at sea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980697107872047173) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:06Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"7 August 1951. First flight of the McDonnell F3H Demon XF3H-1 prototype by test pilot Robert Edholm. US subsonic swept-wing carrier-based jet fighter aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1953156401628614828) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-08-06T18:09Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Corsair Majuro Marshall Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1969504424218313175) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-09-20T20:50Z 63.3K followers, 29.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1973840340898468307) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-02T19:59Z 63.3K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977473532155314408) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T20:36Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"de Havilland Sea Hornet F. Mk20 (TT202) painted in high altitude colours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977484218478592243) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:19Z 63.3K followers, 1304 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977484605939662912) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-12T21:20Z 63.3K followers, 21.7K 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](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977801106320507270) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-13T18:18Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


""Monie" a Douglas B-26C "Invader" s/n 44-34517 of the 37th BS 17th BG in Korea 1952. Twin-engine light bomber and ground attack aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1978531697248379240) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-15T18:41Z 63.3K followers, 7941 engagements


"Stinson L-5 Sentinel Bouncing Betsy II of the 25th Liaison Squadron in New Guinea. Sgt pilots of the Guinea Short Line rescued downed fliers and guided fighters to concealed jungle targets. SSGT Jim Nichols standing by the pilots door"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1979634754900423011) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-18T19:44Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Dauntless on USS Essex damaged over Tarawa 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980008400499970186) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-19T20:29Z 63.3K followers, 9539 engagements


"22 October 1958. British European Airways Flight XXX Vickers Viscount 701C (G-ANHC) collided with an Italian Air Force North American F-86E Sabre leading aircraft of X on a tactical training exercise over Anzio in Italy killing all XX Only survivor the F-86 pilot who ejected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980698874869416247) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:13Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Captain John Henry "Tud" Tudhope MC and Bar. His second combat victory was the capture of Albatros D.V 2284/17 flown six victory German ace Oberleutnant Hans Waldhausen who was forced to land at Souchez at XXXXX hrs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1977093652242636846) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-11T19:27Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 'Texas Raiders'. Of all the B-17s ever built Texas Raiders is credited with the 5th most military time and is the 3rd youngest still in existence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980337454302523743) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:16Z 63.3K followers, 1195 engagements


"Avenger take off mishap USS Bataan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980337947644948853) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-20T18:18Z 63.3K followers, 1070 engagements


"Mustang Mk.III of XXX Sqn. departs Bingley in Yorkshire for continental Europe with a pair of underwing bombs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1980705218393428165) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-21T18:38Z 63.3K followers, 3877 engagements


"23 October 1916. X victory German ace Leutnant Hermann Karl Ludwig Kunz achieved his first air combat success. A Nieuport shot down over Maucourt at 15.15"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981053588391563523) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:42Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Killed in action XX October 1918 near Termonde Belgium X victory Sopwith Camel ace with XXX Squadron Captain Thomas Walter Nash DFC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981053771489697815) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:43Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Killed in action XX October 1918 near Termonde Belgium X victory Sopwith Camel ace with XXX Squadron Lieutenant Osborne John Orr DFC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981053970065084543) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:44Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1921. Birth of Major Andr douard Marcel Turcat (d. X January 1916). French Air Force pilot and test pilot who flew the first prototype of Concorde for its 1969 maiden flight. In 1983 he founded the Acadmie nationale de l'air et de l'espace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981057210261111017) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:56Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1929. First North American transcontinental air service began between New York City and Los Angeles California operated by Universal Aviation Corporation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981057840191324605) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T17:59Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1939. First flight of the Mitsubishi G4M 'Betty' Japanese twin-engine land-based bomber. Prototype had two Mitsubishi Kasei XX (1530-hp) radial engines. After satisfactory trials it was ordered into production as the G4M1 Model 11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981058786799309050) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:03Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1941. First flight of the third prototype Hawker Tornado (HG641) constructed using surplus wings and fuselage components and fitted with a Bristol 18-cylinder Centaurus sleeve-valve radial engine of 2210 hp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981059245236801658) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:05Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1942. All XX passengers and crew of American Airlines Flight XX DC-3 NC16017 "Connecticut" were killed in a mid-air with a USAF Lockeed Ventura IIA B-34 bomber near Palm Springs California. The B-34 suffered minor damage and landed safely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981059485163786516) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:06Z 63.3K followers, XXX engagements


"23 October 1943. First flight of the first prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 447) DW506. Powered by four 1315 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. British heavy bomber prototype. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"  
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"23 October 1959. American Airlines accepted delivery of its first jet airliner Boeing 707-123 N7501A (serial number 17628 line number 7). The aeroplane made its first flight on X October. Christened Flagship Michigan American Airlines advertised it as the Astrojet"  
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"Abu Dhabi makes for a perfect backdrop for a display by the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows. The UK display team performed along the Corniche as part of a visit to the United Arab Emirates"  
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"The RAF Red Arrows at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus before moving on to the United Arab Emirates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981066495204741199) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) 2025-10-22T18:33Z 63.3K followers, 1059 engagements