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

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

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  17.62% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  8.7% [stocks](/list/stocks)  5.95% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  4.12% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  2.52% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.6% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  1.37% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  0.92% [finance](/list/finance)  0.92% [premier league](/list/premier-league)  0.69%

**Social topic influence**
[$7846t](/topic/$7846t) #627, [the first](/topic/the-first) 10.53%, [ace](/topic/ace) #1001, [flight](/topic/flight) #693, [february](/topic/february) #554, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.35%, [air force](/topic/air-force) #378, [air](/topic/air) #1671, [ron](/topic/ron) #21, [london](/topic/london) 2.52%

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

"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 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"15 February [----]. The Ford Motor Co. (Ford Air Transport) became the first U.S. private air carrier to operate a contract airmail (CAM) route (with six Ford built Stout 2-AT aircraft). CAM-6 flew between Detroit and Chicago and CAM-7 between Detroit and Cleveland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022774260461195286)  2026-02-14T20:45Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"12 February [----]. The wreck of Avro Avian [--] 'Southern Cross Minor' was found in the Algerian desert along with the remains of Captain William N. Lancaster who attempted to set a time record from Lympne airfield to Cape Town. His [----] diary and personal effects survived intact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021646670162014362)  2026-02-11T18:05Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"14 February [----]. First flight of the Blkow-Entwicklungen KG Bo-46 V-1 (D-9514). An experimental helicopter built to test the Derschmidt rotor system that aimed to allow much higher speeds than traditional helicopter designs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022396081527738374)  2026-02-13T19:42Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Nieuport 17/23 Scout replica in the markings of Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard's B3459 of [--] Squadron RFC based at Bailleul aerodrome September 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022785660222906563)  2026-02-14T21:30Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"A specially painted RAF Typhoon jet fighter takes to the skies over RAF Coningsby with a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) in the lead up to commemorations of the Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1576989478895644673)  2022-10-03T17:36Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"SR-71 Blackbird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1578829742312411136)  2022-10-08T19:28Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Replica Albatros Dva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1697286482027807229)  2023-08-31T16:33Z 66.1K followers, 49.2K engagements


"20 January [----]. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test the GD test pilot Phil Oestricher decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine and safely landed it six minutes later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2013312930297593958)  2026-01-19T18:09Z 66.1K followers, 918.5K engagements


"11 February [----]. The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed weapons system megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted inside a modified Boeing 747-400F successfully destroyed a liquid-fuel ballistic missile less than one minute after its launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021303358129066263)  2026-02-10T19:20Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"'Texas Raiders' Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Douglas-Long Beach built B-17G-95-DL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022035368854663242)  2026-02-12T19:49Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Mosquito Mk II of [--] Squadron Malta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2022427006596796434)  2026-02-13T21:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"23 October [----]. First flight of the first prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 447) DW506. Powered by four [----] horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin [--] engines. British heavy bomber prototype. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1981059607910109257)  2025-10-22T18:06Z 66.1K followers, 13.8K 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


"Norfolk Island [--] July [----]. Short Sandringham VH-BRE was caught by a storm and broke its moorings. The next day another storm wrecked what remained of the aeroplane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1996665376877457855)  2025-12-04T19:38Z 66.1K followers, 36.6K engagements


"10 January [----]. First flight of the Consolidated P2Y. American flying boat maritime patrol aircraft parasol monoplane with a fabric covered wing and aluminium hull. Piloted by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton out of Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington DC United States"  
[X Link](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


"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


"Norfolk Island on [--] July [----]. Short Sandringham VH-BRE was caught by a storm and broke its moorings. The next day another storm deemed it unrepairable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2016570054356222430)  2026-01-28T17:52Z 66.1K 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


"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


"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


"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 [----]. First flight of the sole Westland PV.3. British two-seat torpedo bomber A private venture development based on the Westland Wapiti it never entered production but became the first two to fly over Everest during the Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017731370261389761)  2026-01-31T22:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"1 February [----]. First flight of the Kawasaki Ki-100. Japanese fighter aircraft. The Ki-100 was a stressed-skin cantilever low-wing single-seat enclosed-cockpit radial engine monoplane with retractable undercarriage. Control surfaces were fabric covered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017733734959546697)  2026-01-31T22:56Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"1 February [----]. The moment in Mission Control when NASA personnel realised there had been a major malfunction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2017738157257621690)  2026-01-31T23:13Z 66.1K followers, 138.9K 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 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 [----]. Birth of Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon KT GCVO AFC PC DL FRCSE FRGS (d.30 March 1973). Pioneering aviator and the first man to fly over Mount Everest in 1933"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018389661320695814)  2026-02-02T18:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. Low on fuel after a combat mission American 1st Lieutenant Comstocks Republic P-47C-5-RE Thunderbolt 41-6326 crashed at Lyons Farm Mutford Suffolk England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018390897310789812)  2026-02-02T18:27Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"3 February [----]. The U.S. Federal Aviation Agency launched Operation Bongo Mark [--] to investigate the effects of supersonic flight. Over the coming months a Convair B-58 flew through the sound barrier at low altitude over Oklahoma City"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018392076333764709)  2026-02-02T18:32Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"3 February [----]. Dwyer Flying Service Beechcraft [--] Bonanza N3794N crashed during a snowstorm near Clear Lake Iowa. All aboard were killed including American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018392437220057170)  2026-02-02T18:33Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. American Airlines Flight [---] Lockheed L-188A Electra Flagship New York N6101A crashed into the East River on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport in marginal weather killing [--] over 73"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018392530581152242)  2026-02-02T18:34Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"3 February [----]. An OKB Mil Design Bureau Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter (NATO code-name Halo) crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot) lifted [-----] pounds to [----] ft at Podmoskovnoe Moscow breaking the world record for a helicopter"  
[X Link](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 [----]. During low-altitude training mission Grumman EA-6B Prowler CY-02 [------] Easy [--] cut the cable of a cable-car near the Italian town of Cavalese [--] miles northeast of Trento with the death of [--] people. Both pilot and navigator were dismissed from the USMC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018394992264216611)  2026-02-02T18:44Z 66.1K 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


"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


"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 [----]. First flight of the Mitsubishi A5M 'Claude' (Ka-14). Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft. World's first monoplane shipboard fighter and direct ancestor of the Mitsubishi A6M 'Zero'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018758717492138482)  2026-02-03T18:49Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"4 February [----]. First use of the H-II (H2). Japanese rocket satellite launch system developed by NASDA first two-stage liquid-fuelled Japanese rocket using domestic technologies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018761247479492632)  2026-02-03T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Northrop N-3PB of [---] (Norwegian) Squadron RAF formed at Reykjavik Iceland on [--] April [----] from Norwegian personnel escaped from Norway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018766691350794389)  2026-02-03T19:21Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"July [----] the Bf109 of [--] year old Hauptmann Wilhelm Meyerweissflog JG [--] Stabs Administrative Officer at Guernseys La Villiaze"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018767017034104980)  2026-02-03T19:22Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Bf [---] F-4 Yellow [--] of 9./JG [--] Udet flown by fighter ace Ofw. Eberhard von Boremski photographed in early May 1942"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018767562587439421)  2026-02-03T19:24Z 66K followers, 12.1K engagements


"Wing Cdr. Guy Gibson (centre) O.C. [---] Sqn. RAF with his two Flight Commanders Squadron Leaders J H Searby (left) & P Ward-Hunt. March '43"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771171890913568)  2026-02-03T19:38Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Free French Air Forces Dewoitine D.520s over southern France (probably) late summer of 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771290170028150)  2026-02-03T19:39Z 66.1K followers, 19.5K 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


"Fokker DVII cockpit interior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2018771871982886928)  2026-02-03T19:41Z 66.1K 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


"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 [----]. 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 [----]. 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 [----]. After nearly [--] months in the jungle of New Britain island Papua New Guinea protected by local villagers from the Nakanai tribe USAAF Major Fred Hargesheimer (pictured) along with other downed airmen was rescued by the submarine USS Gato"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019123406873166311)  2026-02-04T18:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"56 February [----]. Transcontinental and Western Airlines flew Lockheed L-049-46 Constellation s/n [----] NC86511 Star of Paris on their first scheduled revenue international transatlantic passenger flight from La Guardia Field New York to Aroport de Paris-Orly Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019123504701149672)  2026-02-04T18:58Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-749A Constellation N115A (pictured) flew from Los Angeles to LaGuardia Airport New York in [--] hours [--] minutes [--] seconds setting a new West-to-East transcontinental speed record for transport aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019123738646835360)  2026-02-04T18:59Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King established a new Fdration Aronautique Internationale (FAI) speed record for helicopters of [-------] miles per hour over an [----] mile course between Milford and New Haven Connecticut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019125037882540246)  2026-02-04T19:04Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"5 February [----]. First flight of the Northrop Tacit Blue technology demonstrator at Area [--] Groom Lake Nevada flown by Northrop test pilot Richard G. Thomas. A stealth low observable surveillance aircraft with low-intercept-probability radar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019126946417017138)  2026-02-04T19:12Z 66.1K followers, 29.3K engagements


"After suffering an accident at Crouson Winston's wife pleaded with him to give up flying and so he never got his pilot's licence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019131997164302502)  2026-02-04T19:32Z 66.1K 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


"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


"Air Vice Marshal Keith Park taxiing his personal Spitfire V Malta Safi airfield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019465475718090904)  2026-02-05T17:37Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"6 February [----]. Fourteen Grigorovich aircraft from the Imperial Russian Navy Black Sea Fleets seaplane carriers Imperator Nikolai I and Imperator Aleksandr I sank the Ottoman collier Irmingard (4211 grt) the largest ship sunk by air attack in WWI"  
[X Link](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 February [----]. First flight of the Kawanishi E7K. Japanese three-seat biplane reconnaissance floatplane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019473053822898667)  2026-02-05T18:07Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"6 February [----]. James Allan Mollison MBE (19 April [----] [--] October 1959) took off in his de Havilland Puss Moth from Lympne Aerodrome for Natal Brazil via Senegal across the South Atlantic becoming the first man to fly solo across the North and South Atlantic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019473198035657159)  2026-02-05T18:08Z 66.1K 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 [----]. 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 [----]. Andy Nelson navigator Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten landed Breitling Orbiter II in Burma setting a world endurance record of [---] hours [--] minutes after attempting around the world flight aborted as China forbade them to fly over the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019475773724172459)  2026-02-05T18:18Z 66.1K 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


"Rolls Royce's own Spitfire PS853 - an unarmed high-altitude photo reconnaissance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019476825118736836)  2026-02-05T18:22Z 66.1K 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


"Heinkel [---] one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately [--] prototypes and pre-production examples were built. None are known to have survived the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019487677603872976)  2026-02-05T19:05Z 66.1K followers, 22.7K engagements


"Two hours of air traffic passing over Hyde Park London during 2005"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019488331839549668)  2026-02-05T19:08Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The Horten Ho [---] late WW2 German prototype fighter/bomber. The first flying wing powered by a jet engine and first to incorporate stealth technology. https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1490420149668782080/photo/1 https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1490420149668782080/photo/1"  
[X Link](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 [----]. 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 [----]. Death of Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. (b. [--] September 1909). American Central Intelligence Agency officer responsible for major projects such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019830431571669438)  2026-02-06T17:47Z 66.1K followers, [---] 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 [----]. 23.13.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of STS-98. Atlantis Space Shuttle mission. The first manned spaceflight launch of the 21st century delivered the Destiny Laboratory Module to the International Space Station. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on [--] February 2001"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019830779342430267)  2026-02-06T17:49Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"7 February [----]. Manaus Aerotxi Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante PT-SEA crashed into the Manacapuru River [--] miles southwest of Manaus killing [--] over [--]. Overladen its left engine failed while enroute and crashed while attempting to execute an emergency landing"  
[X Link](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


"Modern flying reproductions of WWI SE5a's Masterton New Zealand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2019868561062212047)  2026-02-06T20:19Z 66.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Searching for an outstanding fighting aeroplane Sopwith's experimental department decided in early [----] to build an entirely new design. A triplane"  
[X Link](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 Horst Ademeit (d. [--] August 1944). [---] victory Luftwaffe Battle of Britain and Eastern Front WW2 fighter ace. Recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. War II. He disappeared during a mission over Latvia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020258009968935298)  2026-02-07T22:06Z 66.1K followers, 11.4K 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 [----]. Robert Fowler completed the first U.S. east to west coast transcontinental flight in a Wright Model B. He landed at Jacksonville Florida after a 4-month journey from San Francisco. Art by Steve Remington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020258205272551622)  2026-02-07T22:07Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St Louis completed the 7800-mile "Good Will Tour" of Latin America and the Caribbean by landing in Havana Cuba having spent [---] hours in the air since departing on [--] December 1927"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020259413509173303)  2026-02-07T22:12Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. First flight of the Boeing Model [---]. Early US airliner considered the first such aeroplane to fully incorporate advances such as all-metal semi-monocoque construction a fully cantilevered wing and retractable landing gear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020259533315272987)  2026-02-07T22:13Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"8 February [----]. First flight of the Morane-Saulnier M.S.350. French single-seat open-cockpit aerobatic biplane with equal-span wings. The independent main legs of the fixed landing gear were fully faired and fitted with streamlined wheel 'spats'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020259732272132172)  2026-02-07T22:13Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


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


"Fokker D.VII cockpit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020287785131983316)  2026-02-08T00:05Z 66.1K 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


"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020292779847639154)  2026-02-08T00:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. Brian Trubshaw Concorde Chief Test Pilot 1967"  
[X Link](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 [----]. First military rescue by a helicopter. Sikorsky S-51 Demonstrator flown by Sikorsky chief pilot Jimmy Viner assisted by Lt. Joe Rullo USN from USS Franklin D. Roosevelt rescued the two-man crew of an SB2C Helldiver crashed into the water after engine failure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020571416538583248)  2026-02-08T18:52Z 66.1K followers, 11.5K engagements


"9 February [----]. North American Test Pilot Scott Crossfield hands the X-15 keys to Bob White and Neil Armstrong representing delivery of the aircraft by North American and acceptance of it for the flight research program conducted jointly by the Air Force and NASA"  
[X Link](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 [----]. First flight of the Boeing EC-137D. American airborne warning and control system (AWACS) prototype derived from the Boeing [---] which led to the final version of the E-3 Sentry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020575820494909752)  2026-02-08T19:09Z 66.1K followers, 14.5K engagements


"9 February [----]. Death of Friedrich Fritz Wendel (b. [--] February 1915). German test pilot for Messerschmitt during WWI. On [--] April [----] he set the world air speed record of [-------] mph flying the Messerschmitt Me [---] V1"  
[X Link](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 [----]. Death of Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland (b.19 March 1912). German Luftwaffe General and flying ace who served throughout WWII in Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020577315504468075)  2026-02-08T19:15Z 66.1K 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


"De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito TIII NS838"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020584755029586419)  2026-02-08T19:45Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Swordfish at Pembroke Dock Wales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020589319736721788)  2026-02-08T20:03Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Market Garden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020589601732296856)  2026-02-08T20:04Z 66.1K followers, 37.6K engagements


"Supermarine Spitfire Mk I of [---] (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force K9795"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020589760323182903)  2026-02-08T20:05Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"de Havilland DH98 Mosquito FB.26 KA114 painted as EG-Y to replicate [---] (NZ) Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020590292173541689)  2026-02-08T20:07Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"First Australian Beaufighter Mk [--] A8-1 armed with rockets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020594540399468668)  2026-02-08T20:24Z 66K followers, [---] engagements


"Bristol Beaufighter Mk IV T3177 with Rolls Royce Griffon engines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020594721563832497)  2026-02-08T20:24Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"F-35A Lightning II 388th Fighter Wing taxis during sunset for a night flying operation at Hill Air Force Base Utah Aug. [--] 2019"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020594838408761373)  2026-02-08T20:25Z 66K followers, [----] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Essen [--] victory German ace Leutnant Erik Thomas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020957141696381406)  2026-02-09T20:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Born [--] February [----] in Manchester Lancashire [--] victory Brisfit observer ace with [--] Squadron Second Lieutenant Thomas Sydney Chiltern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2020957246868599144)  2026-02-09T20:25Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Air Marshal Sir William Lawrie Welsh KCB DSC AFC (d. [--] January 1962). British Royal Air Force officer who commanded British air operations during Operation Torch and WW1 test pilot one of the first to fly aa aeroplane off a carrier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021006979494445409)  2026-02-09T23:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Juan Guillermo Villasana Lopez (d. [--] February 1959). Prominent Mexican engineer and early aviator who founded in [----] the first organization in Mexico for aeronautical purposes: "The Aviation Society". He designed the "Anahuac Propeller""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021007175120978324)  2026-02-09T23:43Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Roland Rohlfs (d. [--] March 1974). American early aviator and test pilot. In [----] he was the first to cross the [-----] m altitude barrier in the "Curtiss L-3" triplane and set a world record of [-----] feet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021007348056326430)  2026-02-09T23:44Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Walter Kreiser (d. 1958). German aircraft designer pioneer helicopter developer(W.R.K. Gyroplane pictured) and journalist whose [----] article in Die Weltbhne resulted in his prosecution at the Weltbhne trial for revealing state secrets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021007458055880844)  2026-02-09T23:45Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Hauptmann Paul Engelhardt (27 July [----] [--] September 1911). German early aviator and pupil of Orville Wright made the first powered flights over Switzerland circling Lake St. Moritz three times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021007807676608609)  2026-02-09T23:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Federico Attilio Marco Cozzolino (d. [--] March 1938). Italian Aviator decorated with the Gold Medal for Military Valour killed in action during the Spanish Civil War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021007905118617676)  2026-02-09T23:46Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. Birth of Tokuya Sudo (d. [--] September 1939). Japanese [--] victory Polikarpov I-15 biplane Imperial Japanese Army Air Force ace during the pre-World War II Sino-Japanese war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021008328986354049)  2026-02-09T23:48Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements


"10 February [----]. [---] Squadron C.O. S/Ldr John Woodburn Gillan flew Hawker Hurricane L1555 from Edinburgh to Northolt at a record average speed of [---] mph with tail wind. The first Hurricanes arrived at [---] RAF Northolt December [----]. (Official acceptance date [--] January 1938)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/2021009149165752539)  2026-02-09T23:51Z 66.1K followers, [---] engagements

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