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#  @ron_eisele Ron Eisele
Ron Eisele posts on X about air force, ace, $7846t, ron the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 3656 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/interactions)
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### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/posts_active)
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### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/followers)
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### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [finance](/list/finance)
**Social topic influence**
[air force](/topic/air-force) #148, [ace](/topic/ace) #564, [$7846t](/topic/$7846t) #639, [ron](/topic/ron) #62, [german](/topic/german), [breguet](/topic/breguet), [eagle](/topic/eagle), [paris](/topic/paris), [united states](/topic/united-states), [france](/topic/france)
**Top assets mentioned**
[Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT)](/topic/lockheed-martin) [Boeing Co (BA)](/topic/$ba) [General Motors Company (GM)](/topic/general-motors) [Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK)](/topic/$vik) [Crane Holdings, Co. (CR)](/topic/$cr)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::3195245890/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Died age XX on XX July 1963 in Lyon X victory French Air Service Chef d'Escadron Joseph Vuillemin"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947728704454476184) 2025-07-22 18:41:24 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1973. First flight of the Sikorsky S-69 (73-21941) military designation XH-59. American experimental compound co-axial helicopter developed as the demonstrator of the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC)"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846252931608980) 2025-07-25 20:42:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Acting Sqn. Ldr. Robert Stanford-Tuck DSO. CO of XXX (Burma) Sqn. in his Hurricane Mark I V6864 'DT-A' RAF Coltishall Norfolk. January 1941"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948149009786265652) 2025-07-23 22:31:33 UTC 61.2K followers, 8171 engagements
"26 July 1958. Killed in a Lockheed F-104A-15-LO Starfighter flying accident while acting as a chase plane for another F-104A at Edwards Air Force Base U.S. Air Force test pilot Capt. Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834724853788785) 2025-07-25 19:56:20 UTC 61.2K followers, 1526 engagements
"Killed in action along with Captain Laurence Minot MC on XX July 1917 Second Lieutenant Sydney John Leete"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949562014986285064) 2025-07-27 20:06:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1895 in Ipswich Suffolk XX victory Brisfit pilot ace with XX Squadron Captain Stanley Harry S. Wallage MC"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948093621317886093) 2025-07-23 18:51:27 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1972. First flight of the McDonnell Douglas YF-15A-1 (F-15) Eagle. American twin-engine all-weather tactical fighter. Piloted by Irving L. Burrows from Edwards Air Force Base"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949267133147357396) 2025-07-27 00:34:34 UTC 61.2K followers, 6570 engagements
"25 July 1959. Death of Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth B. XX February 1900) after a. heart attack while flying his Wolf Hirth Vogt Lo-150 aerobatic glider. German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer/manufacturer. Founder of the Hirth aircraft engine manufacturing company"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948457126197612679) 2025-07-24 18:55:54 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1950. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Bumper 8"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948141948994511073) 2025-07-23 22:03:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 June 1918. U.S. Army Air Service pilot Harold Ross Harris (20 December 1895-28 July 1988) and co-pilot George Lewis commanded the first American owned & crewed aircraft (Caproni Ca.5) to cross the Alps. Flying a from Turin Italy to Lyon then on to Paris where they crashed"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948453045781889531) 2025-07-24 18:39:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1957. First flight of the Breguet 1001 Taon. French prototype single-seat jet strike fighter aircraft. Powered by a Bristol Orpheus BOr.3 engine"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834628225376290) 2025-07-25 19:55:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1977. First flight of Aero Design DG-1. American racing prototype built to break the world airspeed record for piston-engine aircraft. Single-seat with two XXX hp Mazda RX-3 rotary engines installed one driving a tractor propeller the other a pusher"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948457467710767228) 2025-07-24 18:57:15 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1904. Birth of Edwin Albert Link (d. X September 1981). American pioneer in aviation underwater archaeology and ocean engineering he invented the flight simulator commercialized in 1929 called the "Blue Box" or "Link Trainer""
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948847559709208603) 2025-07-25 20:47:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"11 July 1944. First flight of the third prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 461) NK136. British four-engine heavy bomber. Powered by four 1635 horsepower Merlin XX engines. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1943369284261966136) 2025-07-10 17:58:38 UTC 61.2K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1951 in Ehrwald Austria XX victory ace with Flik 51J Feldwebel Eugen Bnsch"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948094609370083778) 2025-07-23 18:55:23 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1941. First flight of the Westland P.12 Lysander Delanne. British prototype fighter with twin tailed Delanne tandem wing and 4-gun Nash & Thomson power-operated tail gun turret replacing the empennage"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949263076748152934) 2025-07-27 00:18:27 UTC 61.2K followers, 1169 engagements
"25 July 1927. Captain Carleton Cole Champion Jr. (28 September 1896 - XX October 1971) took off from Anacostia D.C. in the Wright XF3W Apache adapted as a landplane and reached 38419 feet establishing a new world record that lasted two years"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948453450242818217) 2025-07-24 18:41:17 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1993. Asiana Air Flight XXX Boeing 737-5L9 HL7229 impacted a ridge of Ungeo Mountain after two missed bad-weather approaches to Mokpo Airport in South Korea killing XX of the XXX on board. The first hull loss of a 737-500"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846464081211866) 2025-07-25 20:42:59 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Saab XX Lansen a two-seat transonic military aircraft designed and manufactured by Saab from 1955 to 1960 for the Swedish Air Force"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948856882472648824) 2025-07-25 21:24:23 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"15 July 1884. Birth of Antnio Jacinto da Silva de Brito Paes (d. XX February 1934). Portuguese aviation pioneer who in 1924 commanded Brguet Type XX Bn. X Ptria flying from Vila Nova Milfontes Portugal to Macau to demonstrate air access between Portugal and her colonies"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1944877007113945134) 2025-07-14 21:49:47 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"3 July 1931. The first prototype Breguet 390T. French three engine sesquiplane of all-metal construction airliner lost a propeller during test flight the pilot was killed when his parachute failed to open after abandoning the aircraft"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1675578221436325890) 2023-07-02 18:52:33 UTC 61.2K followers, 2975 engagements
"27 July 2002. Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed during an air show at Sknyliv Airfield near Lviv Ukraine killing XX and injuring XXX. It was the deadliest air show accident in history"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949268105126949173) 2025-07-27 00:38:26 UTC 61.2K followers, 1190 engagements
"22 July 1944. Hawker Hurricane PZ865 Mk.IIc"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947426953847276006) 2025-07-21 22:42:21 UTC 61.2K followers, 12.7K engagements
"26 July 1959. Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin ejected above a violent thundercloud whose winds kept him aloft for XX minutes. The longest recorded parachute descent in history"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948845692404850878) 2025-07-25 20:39:55 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"17 July 1924. Five victory French ace Georges Pelletier d'Oisy completed a flight from Paris to Tokyo in Breguet 14A2 No.2097 he had borrowed from the Republic of China government. The trip was XXX hours in the air over XX days"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1945557857790767232) 2025-07-16 18:55:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1931. First flight of the de Havilland DH.72. British large three-engine biplane bomber prototype. Powered by three XXX hp Bristol Jupiter XFS supercharged 9-cylinder radial engines"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949262116650917998) 2025-07-27 00:14:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Loose line formation Spitfire Mark VCs of X Sqn. SAAF based at Palata Italy over the Adriatic Sea on bombing mission to the Sangro River"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948524747853070645) 2025-07-24 23:24:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1941. First flight of the Boeing-built Douglas DB-7B attack bomber"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140722017984753) 2025-07-23 21:58:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1989. Korean Air Flight XXX McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 HL7328 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog and reduced visibility in Tripoli Libya killing XX over XXX and X on ground"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949267405399523361) 2025-07-27 00:35:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle fighter aircraft designed by Fisher Body Division of General Motors. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947074823890334054) 2025-07-20 23:23:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 2010. Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F D-ALCQ crashed on landing at King Khalid International Airport Riyadh Saudi Arabia Killing both crewmembers. Touching down too hard it to bounced three times on the runway causing the aft fuselage to rupture"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949269779979944273) 2025-07-27 00:45:05 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"McDonnell Douglas/Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II (1990)"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946712576181629410) 2025-07-19 23:23:40 UTC 61.2K followers, 31.4K engagements
"25 July 1932. Birth of Paul Joseph Weitz (d. XX October 2017). USN Pilot and NASA astronaut who was a member of the three-man Skylab X crew the first manned Skylab mission. He was also commander of the STS-6 mission the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948453628689445233) 2025-07-24 18:42:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hawker Hart at Commonwealth Joint Air Training XX Air School at Waterkloof Pretoria South Africa. January 1943"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948858382489719219) 2025-07-25 21:30:21 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1898 in Leighton Banastre Chester Cheshire X victory D.H.4 pilot ace with X Squadron RNAS (205 Squadron RAF) Captain John Gamon DSC"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948446949750800677) 2025-07-24 18:15:27 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII code EB-B MB882"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948524177822036170) 2025-07-24 23:22:20 UTC 61.2K followers, 1675 engagements
"24 July 1933. Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison in their de Havilland Dragon 'Seafarer' nearly succeeded in their flight from Croydon to New-York; They crash-landed in Connecticut"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140068268654976) 2025-07-23 21:56:01 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1936. On her 39th birthday Amelia Earhart took delivery of Lockheed Electra 10E Special (NR16020) at the Union Air Terminal Burbank California. A gift from the Purdue Research Foundation"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140393654284529) 2025-07-23 21:57:19 UTC 61.2K followers, 1121 engagements
"27 July 1943. XXX RAF bombers attacked Hamburg with a loss of XX aircraft. Atmospheric conditions created a self-propagating tornadic firestorm with winds of XXX mph and flames reaching 1000 feet altitude resulting in one of the most destructive air raids in history"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949263623735677338) 2025-07-27 00:20:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The original Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis while lowered from its suspended position in the National Air and Space Museum for renovation work in 2005"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948858275564257769) 2025-07-25 21:29:55 UTC 61.2K followers, 2023 engagements
"20 May 1965. Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK XXX Boeing 720040B AP-AMH crashed while descending to land on Runway XX at Cairo International Airport resulting in XXX fatalities"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1924534559552459041) 2025-05-19 18:36:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"23 July 1928. First flight of the third Breguet Bre XX TR 'Bidon' (Later XX TF Super Bidon) French 2-3 seat sesquiplane aircraft"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947757541179392082) 2025-07-22 20:36:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"4 July 2001. Vladivostok Air Flight XXX Tupolev Tu-154M RA-85845 crashed while attempting to land in Irkutsk Russia. All XXX passengers and X flight crew members aboard perished making it the third deadliest aircraft crash over Russian territory to date"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1940847318351466979) 2025-07-03 18:57:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 July 1896. 14-year-old Louisa Maud Evans (aka Mademoiselle Albertina') died parachuting 5000 ft. from a balloon during the Cardiff Maritime and Industrial Exhibition at Cathays Park. Landing in the Bristol Channel she drowned under her parachute"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947017951388795144) 2025-07-20 19:37:08 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1967 in Apple Valley California XX victory Sopwith Dolphin ace with XX Squadron Captain Frederic Ives "Fred" Lord DFC and Bar"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947015823236719083) 2025-07-20 19:28:40 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1950. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began operations with the launch of the Bumper X. (V-2 rocket with WAC Corporal sounding rocket)"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948141825061269802) 2025-07-23 22:03:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1947 in Augsburg Germany X victory ace Oberleutnant Hans-Eberhardt Gandert"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948094246503768084) 2025-07-23 18:53:56 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1985 in Woodstock Ontario XX victory Sopwith Camel ace Captain Thomas Frederic Williams MC"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948447558738620583) 2025-07-24 18:17:53 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"P-39Q 42-19597 P-39 flying with the Commemorative Air Force in San Marcos Texas. Registered N6968 it was recovered from a hulk used as a playground in New Mexico"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948858108521893917) 2025-07-25 21:29:15 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1944. Death of James Cairn 'Bud' Mars The Curtiss Daredevil (b. X March 1875). American aviation pioneer who on XX December 1910 made the first aeroplane flight in Hawaii (Curtiss B18 biplane Skylark)"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456231628067282) 2025-07-24 18:52:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1998. First flight of the Scaled Composites Model XXX Proteus. American tandem-wing high-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846554208419898) 2025-07-25 20:43:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Major Stanley James Goble DSO. DSC. XX August 1891 - XX July 1948"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948094543372386598) 2025-07-23 18:55:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Killed in action XX July 1918 near Lestrem France XX victory ace Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock V.C"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948830740218519766) 2025-07-25 19:40:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1923. First Canadian built amphibian aeroplane the Vickers type XX Viking IV was flown from the St. Lawrence at Montreal. Powered by a Rolls Royce Eagle IX engine"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948453185062142345) 2025-07-24 18:40:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1942. Death of Furio Niclot Doglio (b. XX April 1908). Italian test pilot record breaker and WWII fighter pilot shot down over Malta in his Macchi C202 by Canadian fighter ace George Beurling who four victories on that single day"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949263249150456313) 2025-07-27 00:19:08 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1884. Birth of Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (d. XX April 1963). Japanese military aviation pioneer. First Japanese to obtain his pilot's licence from the Aro-Club de France credited with conducting Japans first powered flight (Farman III biplane) on XX December 1910"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948138986653770189) 2025-07-23 21:51:43 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1896 in Toronto Ontario Canada XX victory ace Captain Arthur Bradfield Fairclough MC"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948446733446303885) 2025-07-24 18:14:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2005. 14.39.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-114 to deliver supplies to the ISS. The first flight following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846684978524365) 2025-07-25 20:43:52 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1973 in Paris X victory French Brguet observer ace with BR132 Lieutenant Eugene Weismann"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946680572920598857) 2025-07-19 21:16:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hawker Typhoon showing the elegant profile of the propeller blade"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948149299583590682) 2025-07-23 22:32:42 UTC 61.2K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Hauptmann Godwin Brumowski. XX July 1889 X June 1936 was the most successful Austro-Hungarian Air Force ace of WW1 with XX credited air victories"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948828900823286243) 2025-07-25 19:33:12 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1944. Supermarine Seafire L.III of RNAS XXX Squadron on the deck of HMS Khedive entering the Grand Harbour of Valletta in Malta"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456051210420390) 2025-07-24 18:51:37 UTC 61.2K followers, 17.4K engagements
"On 7th May 1918 John Gurdon and Anthony Thornton of XX Squadron in their Bristol Fighter and Alfred Atkey and Charles Gass in another took on twenty plus German single seat fighters. Art by James Field"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948524251515887629) 2025-07-24 23:22:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1964. Death of Joseph 'Joe' B. Duckworth (b. X September 1902). USAF pilot and commercial pilot pioneer of modern instrument flight noted for being the first man to fly through the eye of a hurricane"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948845958353047989) 2025-07-25 20:40:58 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 2012. Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet of XXX Tactical Fighter Squadron flies along the Oahu Island coast Hawaii"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948145234627453374) 2025-07-23 22:16:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2011. Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules CNA-OQ crashed due to bad weather into Sayyert Mountain approximately six miles from Guelmin Morocco killing all XX on board"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846946610741256) 2025-07-25 20:44:54 UTC 61.2K followers, 1254 engagements
"CAC CA-27 Avon Sabre Mk.32 A94-983 in the colours of XX SQN. The aircraft was provided to the RMAF as military aid during the 1970s and flew with registration FM-1983 until it retirement when it was returned to Australia"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948148810804351450) 2025-07-23 22:30:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1915. Captain Lanoe Hawker became the third British military aviator (and first fighter pilot) to earn the Victoria Cross. He defeated three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day over the Western Front"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948451892583170301) 2025-07-24 18:35:06 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Oeffag Albatros D.III Ba.153 of Flik 42J s/n XXXXXX flown by Stabsfeldwebel Ferdinand Udvardy"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1943001772785557578) 2025-07-09 17:38:16 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"23 July 1958. The first prototype Brguet Br.1001 Taon French jet strike fighter aircraft powered by a Bristol Orpheus B-Or-3 turbojet broke its own international speed record for a 620-mile closed circuit achieving XXXXXX mph. Flown by Bernard Witt"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947765345667699191) 2025-07-22 21:07:00 UTC 61.2K followers, 1029 engagements
"Born XX July 1895 in Edinburgh Midlothian X victory Brisfit observer ace with XX Squadron Lieutenant Herbert Henry Hartley"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948093700007211357) 2025-07-23 18:51:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1896. Birth of Major Alford Joseph Williams (d. XX June 1958). USN USMC and USAAC pioneering aviator. 1930s Naval speed record breaker developed dive bombing techniques for the Marines. 1940s advocate for an independent Air Force. Volunteer in the Army Air Corps"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948831700613582889) 2025-07-25 19:44:19 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 April 1929. French aviator (right) Joanny Burtin (3 October 1893-19 August 1977) set an FAI altitude record of 26531 ft. with a one-ton load in Farman 12We powered Breguet XX GR demonstrating fuel consumption drops considerably at high altitudes along with wind resistance"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948833167877566532) 2025-07-25 19:50:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Catalina PBY flying boat N5593V abandoned in Saudi Arabia in 1960"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1612518036355043329) 2023-01-09 18:33:53 UTC 61.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Fokker D.VII replica owned by the Military Aviation Museum in the markings of Carl-August von Schonebeck of Jasta XX while serving at Beuvry near the end of the Great War"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948857391182700574) 2025-07-25 21:26:24 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Pilot Officer Walter Sinclair Kennedy of XX Sqn RAF inspects the damage to his Vickers Wellesley Mk.I (K7715) 'KU-H' at Agordat Eritrea"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948149077813973423) 2025-07-23 22:31:49 UTC 61.2K followers, 1108 engagements
"Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber built during World War II for the United States Army Air Force"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948145743199396076) 2025-07-23 22:18:34 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1896. Birth of Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC KStJ. (d. XX September 1967). Australian WWI bomber pilot senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949255725123092794) 2025-07-26 23:49:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1952 XX victory Jasta X and XX ace Leutnant Fritz Loerzer"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947015430536593770) 2025-07-20 19:27:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1955. El Al Flight XXX (LondonParisViennaTel Aviv) Lockheed L-049 Constellation 4X-AKC was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 over Bulgarian airspace killing all aboard X crew and XX passengers. The deadliest loss of a Constellation up to that time"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949266389979869643) 2025-07-27 00:31:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 April 1935. Death of Kthe Paulus (b. XX December 1868) German aeronaut aviatrix and parachute pioneer. Inventor of the first collapsible parachute"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948833301558690077) 2025-07-25 19:50:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Killed in action XX July 1917 X victory French Air Service ace Capitaine Alfred Victor Robert Auger"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949561635447750844) 2025-07-27 20:04:49 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"20 July 1951. First flight of the Breguet Br XXX 'Provence'. French double-deck four engine transport aircraft powered by four 2400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA18 engines. It entered service with Air France during autumn 1952"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946701121105301661) 2025-07-19 22:38:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"North American F-82 Twin Mustang was the last American piston-engine fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the P-51 Mustang the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in World War II"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948145802741694756) 2025-07-23 22:18:48 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX June 1977 in San Antonio Texas X victory German ace Leutnant Hans Karl Mller"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947728863175336272) 2025-07-22 18:42:02 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire Mk IXB MH809 LO-P of XXX Squadron RAF at Ford aerodrome Sussex"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948148863451475998) 2025-07-23 22:30:58 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Kittyhawk Spitfire Mustang & Corsair of the 2003 Breitling Fighter Team"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1944142439046119890) 2025-07-12 21:10:52 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1944. North American Aviation P-51 Mustangs The Bottisham Four. Three P-51Ds and one P-51Bof the 375th Fighter Squadron 361st Fighter Group 8th Air Force based at Air Force Station F-374 (RAF Bottisham) Cambridgeshire England"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834022349754389) 2025-07-25 19:53:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1947. First flight of the Bristol Type XXX Sycamore (VL-958). First British-designed helicopter to fly and serve with the Royal Air Force. Powered by a single Pratt & Whitney 450hp Wasp Junior radial engine"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949264274142220644) 2025-07-27 00:23:13 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Dassault Rafale French twin-engine canard delta wing multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947780635457728734) 2025-07-22 22:07:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2010. The sole Sikorsky X2 American experimental high-speed compound helicopter with coaxial rotors unofficially broke the speed record for rotorcraft achieving a maximum XXX knots (259 mph) in a one-hour test flight"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948846838255157454) 2025-07-25 20:44:28 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1938. Colombian Air Force Lieutenant Csar Abadia performing aerobatics at Campo de Marte Santa Ana Colombia crashed his Curtiss Hawk II XXX after misjudging a gap between two grandstands impacting the Presidential stand. XX killed 100+ injured"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140517256257614) 2025-07-23 21:57:48 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2000. Air France Flight 4590 Concorde F-BTSC caught fire after take-off and crashed at Gonesse France killing all XXX passengers nine crew and four people on the ground. The cause was debris left on the runway by a Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948458271385551174) 2025-07-24 19:00:27 UTC 61.2K followers, 1330 engagements
"26 July 1954. Chinese PLAAF Lavochkin La-11 fighters off the coast of Hainan Island attacked two US Navy AD-4 Skyraiders and a Vought F4U Corsair seeking survivors from Air Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 Skymaster shot down three days earlier. The Skyraiders shot down the La-11s"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834465385742590) 2025-07-25 19:55:18 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1880. Birth of Louis Bchereau (d. XX March 1970). French aeronautical engineer and aviation pioneer who designed monocoque fuselage aircraft. Co-founder of Socit des Avions Bernard and the Kellner-Bchereau company where he designed the 1940 Kellner-Bchereau E.60"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948448464343285984) 2025-07-24 18:21:28 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1939. A Deutsche Lufthansa Focke Wulf Fw-200 'Condor' took off from Berlin to Bangkok in Siam inaugurating a regular service"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948454947990704498) 2025-07-24 18:47:14 UTC 61.2K followers, 1230 engagements
"24 July 1934. First flight of the Supermarine Stranraer. British flying boat designed and built by Supermarine Aviation Works which marked the end of biplane flying-boat development for the Royal Air Force"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140225395405108) 2025-07-23 21:56:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1944. North American Aviation P-51D-5-NA Mustang 44-13410 E2 C. flown by group commander Colonel Thomas J.J. Christian Jr. and named Lou IV after his wife Marjorie Lou Ashcroft Christian"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834134261953007) 2025-07-25 19:53:59 UTC 61.2K followers, 1580 engagements
"25 July 1973. 18.55.48 GMT/UTC. Launch of the Soviet Mars X on a Proton-K/D from Baikonur 81/24. Successfully entered an elliptic Martian orbit at XXXXX on XX February 1974 however it failed on XX September"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948457292929655073) 2025-07-24 18:56:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 July 1961. Alaska Airlines Flight XXX Douglas DC-6A N6118C operating under contract with MATS (Military Air Transport Service) crashed and caught fire on landing at Shemya AFB Alaska killing all X on board"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1947034266740601301) 2025-07-20 20:41:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"This Picture of Boston USA from 2000 feet circa 1860 Is the worlds oldest surviving aerial photo. Taken by James Wallace Black from Samuel Kings hot-air balloon the Queen of the Air"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949276707812204932) 2025-07-27 01:12:37 UTC 61.2K followers, 2024 engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1948 in Melbourne Victoria XX victory Australian ace Major Stanley James Goble DSO. DSC"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948094424203817085) 2025-07-23 18:54:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 2009. First flight of the ATR-72-600. French Italian twin-turboprop short-haul regional airliner developed from the ATR-72-500"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948145030138319293) 2025-07-23 22:15:44 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1912. Lieutenant General Carlos Bayo Alessandri (d. X February 1979). XX victory Spanish Nationalist flying ace of the civil war. Volunteered for combat in Russia with 1a Escuadrilla Azul part of the German LuftFlotte X and later in the Spanish Air Force"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949256499806736387) 2025-07-26 23:52:19 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Consolidated XP4Y (company Model 31) was an American twin-engine long-range maritime patrol flying boat built by Consolidated Aircraft for the United States Navy. Only one was built and a production order for XXX was cancelled"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948146489005400258) 2025-07-23 22:21:32 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1897. Birth of Amelia Mary Earhart (disappeared X July 1937). American aviation pioneer record breaker and author. First woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948139130820472938) 2025-07-23 21:52:18 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire Mk.XXI of XXX Squadron Biggin Hill 1947"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948149443208921309) 2025-07-23 22:33:16 UTC 61.2K followers, 12.4K engagements
"28 July 1915. First flight of the prototype Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 British single-seat aeroplane developed from the B.E.2c"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949569533834067994) 2025-07-27 20:36:12 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"JAS XX Gripen entered service with the Swedish Air Force in June 1996. The J XX Tunnan entered service XX years earlier"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948856836813099270) 2025-07-25 21:24:12 UTC 61.2K followers, 1275 engagements
"28 July 1910. Birth of Clive Robertson 'Killer' Caldwell. Leading Australian WWII fighter ace highest-scoring P-40 pilot from any air force and the highest-scoring Allied pilot in North Africa who also served in the Southwest Pacific Theatre"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949569250214998173) 2025-07-27 20:35:05 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2000. The F-22 CTFs Raptor XX successfully fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile over the China Lake test range. The test confirmed the F-22s ability to launch an air-to-air missile from an internal weapons bay"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948458367632244793) 2025-07-24 19:00:50 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The Hanriot HD. X flown Flavio by Baracchini on display at the Italian Air Force Museum near Bracciano Rome"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949560804736475427) 2025-07-27 20:01:31 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hurricane Mk X P3395 JX-B the personal aircraft of Sergeant Pilot Arthur Clowes DFM of X Sqn. during the Battle of Britain"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948148772753547485) 2025-07-23 22:30:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1926. Decorated WW1 French aviator Robert Jean Paul Bajac broke the 2000Kg weight payload class world record while piloting Blriot XXX F-AIEB Wilbur Wright"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948139709827567716) 2025-07-23 21:54:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado was a military trainer aircraft designed and built in Belgium in the 1930s. It saw service with the Belgian Air Force and Latvian Air Force"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948146090865275367) 2025-07-23 22:19:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"20 July 1951. First flight of the SNCASE SE-532 'Mistral'. French production version of the 'Vampire' Mk XX fighter bomber jet aircraft. Powered by a Hispano-Suiza built Rolls-Royce Nene 104B engine"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946701311828791457) 2025-07-19 22:38:55 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1960. Death of Captain John Richard Crane advance pilot and narrator for the US Aerobatic demonstration team 'Thunderbirds'. Killed during a solo proficiency flight in a North American F-100C-1-NA Super Sabre 53-1740 at Nellis AFB Nevada"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949266665688187179) 2025-07-27 00:32:43 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The F4F-3S "Wildcatfish" a floatplane version of the Wildcat F4F-3"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948147396812456262) 2025-07-23 22:25:08 UTC 61.2K followers, 2732 engagements
"The Avro Manchester was designed with an optional catapult launch system"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948455336249360502) 2025-07-24 18:48:47 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2011. Death of Arthur Warren "Kit" Murray (b. XX December 1918). American test pilot who flew the Bell X-1 and the Bell X-5. He was the first pilot to see the curvature of the Earth and set an unofficial altitude record of more than 90000 feet at over Mach 2"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948459058647720267) 2025-07-24 19:03:34 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"XCG-16 was a military transport/assault glider ordered by the Army Air Force from General Airborne Transport Co. for competition against the Waco CG-13A"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948146832418422907) 2025-07-23 22:22:54 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 May 1938. First flight of the Dornier Do.26-V1 D-AGNT Seeadler. German all-metal gull winged flying boat produced before and during WWII. Intended to carry a payload of 1100 lb or four passengers on the Lisbon to New York route. Powered by four Jumo-205C engines"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1924923715705344213) 2025-05-20 20:22:31 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1948. On the 39th anniversary of Bleriot crossing the Channel the Vickers XXX Nene-Viking with passengers flew from London Heathrow to Villacoublay Paris in XX min X sec. Half the regular scheduled time and faster than a previous record set by a Spitfire"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456425203925473) 2025-07-24 18:53:06 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"1918 Italy Airco De Havilland DH9 - art by Tony Theobald"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948524484316549626) 2025-07-24 23:23:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2003. Death of Ludwig Blkow (b. XX June 1912). German aeronautical pioneer. In January 1943 he was appointed head of the Messerschmitt Bf XXX development office in Vienna. Post-war he formed Blkow GmbH in Ottobrunn which became Messerschmitt-Blkow-Blohm (MBB)"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948458675670008273) 2025-07-24 19:02:03 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1944 in Neunkirchen Saarland Germany XX victory ace Oberleutnant Otto Christian Schmidt"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948094165893448050) 2025-07-23 18:53:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Lieutnant Alfred Niederhoff (left) at Jasta XX with Commanding Officer Oblt. Fritz Heising (centre) and Ltn.d.R. Eberhard Voss (right). The Albatros far right is Leutnant Niederhoff's personal machine. The furthest belongs to Eberhard Voss"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949561567634428193) 2025-07-27 20:04:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1997. Death of Commander Peter 'Hoagy' Carmichael OBE DSC (b. XX August 1923). British fighter pilot with the Royal Navy during and after WWII. Korean War pilot credited with downing a MiG-15 while flying piston-engine Hawker Sea Fury VR943"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948458080238191052) 2025-07-24 18:59:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1945. B-24J-170-CO Liberator s/n 44-40559 864th Bomb Squadron 494th Bomb Group 7th Air Force. Kuuipo ('Sweetheart' in Hawaiian) completed XX combat missions before being shot down by Japanese fighters on XX July 1945 while bombing Tsuiki Kyushu. X of XX crew survived"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456311206638044) 2025-07-24 18:52:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Lockheed C-121 Constellation military transport version of the Lockheed Constellation"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948147330500223035) 2025-07-23 22:24:53 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Flight Lieutenant D R Turley George and Flying Officer Fenwick in front of their Sea Hurricane Mk IA on board the SS Empire Tide"
 [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946343242338836602) 2025-07-18 22:56:04 UTC 61.2K followers, 2939 engagements
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@ron_eisele Ron Eisele
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Social topic influence air force #148, ace #564, $7846t #639, ron #62, german, breguet, eagle, paris, united states, france
Top assets mentioned Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) Boeing Co (BA) General Motors Company (GM) Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK) Crane Holdings, Co. (CR)
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"Died age XX on XX July 1963 in Lyon X victory French Air Service Chef d'Escadron Joseph Vuillemin"
@ron_eisele on X 2025-07-22 18:41:24 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1973. First flight of the Sikorsky S-69 (73-21941) military designation XH-59. American experimental compound co-axial helicopter developed as the demonstrator of the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC)" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:42:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Acting Sqn. Ldr. Robert Stanford-Tuck DSO. CO of XXX (Burma) Sqn. in his Hurricane Mark I V6864 'DT-A' RAF Coltishall Norfolk. January 1941" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:31:33 UTC 61.2K followers, 8171 engagements
"26 July 1958. Killed in a Lockheed F-104A-15-LO Starfighter flying accident while acting as a chase plane for another F-104A at Edwards Air Force Base U.S. Air Force test pilot Capt. Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:56:20 UTC 61.2K followers, 1526 engagements
"Killed in action along with Captain Laurence Minot MC on XX July 1917 Second Lieutenant Sydney John Leete" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:06:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1895 in Ipswich Suffolk XX victory Brisfit pilot ace with XX Squadron Captain Stanley Harry S. Wallage MC" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:51:27 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1972. First flight of the McDonnell Douglas YF-15A-1 (F-15) Eagle. American twin-engine all-weather tactical fighter. Piloted by Irving L. Burrows from Edwards Air Force Base" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:34:34 UTC 61.2K followers, 6570 engagements
"25 July 1959. Death of Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth B. XX February 1900) after a. heart attack while flying his Wolf Hirth Vogt Lo-150 aerobatic glider. German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer/manufacturer. Founder of the Hirth aircraft engine manufacturing company" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:55:54 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1950. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Bumper 8" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:03:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 June 1918. U.S. Army Air Service pilot Harold Ross Harris (20 December 1895-28 July 1988) and co-pilot George Lewis commanded the first American owned & crewed aircraft (Caproni Ca.5) to cross the Alps. Flying a from Turin Italy to Lyon then on to Paris where they crashed" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:39:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1957. First flight of the Breguet 1001 Taon. French prototype single-seat jet strike fighter aircraft. Powered by a Bristol Orpheus BOr.3 engine" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:55:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1977. First flight of Aero Design DG-1. American racing prototype built to break the world airspeed record for piston-engine aircraft. Single-seat with two XXX hp Mazda RX-3 rotary engines installed one driving a tractor propeller the other a pusher" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:57:15 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1904. Birth of Edwin Albert Link (d. X September 1981). American pioneer in aviation underwater archaeology and ocean engineering he invented the flight simulator commercialized in 1929 called the "Blue Box" or "Link Trainer"" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:47:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"11 July 1944. First flight of the third prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 461) NK136. British four-engine heavy bomber. Powered by four 1635 horsepower Merlin XX engines. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-10 17:58:38 UTC 61.2K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1951 in Ehrwald Austria XX victory ace with Flik 51J Feldwebel Eugen Bnsch" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:55:23 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1941. First flight of the Westland P.12 Lysander Delanne. British prototype fighter with twin tailed Delanne tandem wing and 4-gun Nash & Thomson power-operated tail gun turret replacing the empennage" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:18:27 UTC 61.2K followers, 1169 engagements
"25 July 1927. Captain Carleton Cole Champion Jr. (28 September 1896 - XX October 1971) took off from Anacostia D.C. in the Wright XF3W Apache adapted as a landplane and reached 38419 feet establishing a new world record that lasted two years" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:41:17 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1993. Asiana Air Flight XXX Boeing 737-5L9 HL7229 impacted a ridge of Ungeo Mountain after two missed bad-weather approaches to Mokpo Airport in South Korea killing XX of the XXX on board. The first hull loss of a 737-500" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:42:59 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Saab XX Lansen a two-seat transonic military aircraft designed and manufactured by Saab from 1955 to 1960 for the Swedish Air Force" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:24:23 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"15 July 1884. Birth of Antnio Jacinto da Silva de Brito Paes (d. XX February 1934). Portuguese aviation pioneer who in 1924 commanded Brguet Type XX Bn. X Ptria flying from Vila Nova Milfontes Portugal to Macau to demonstrate air access between Portugal and her colonies" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-14 21:49:47 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"3 July 1931. The first prototype Breguet 390T. French three engine sesquiplane of all-metal construction airliner lost a propeller during test flight the pilot was killed when his parachute failed to open after abandoning the aircraft" @ron_eisele on X 2023-07-02 18:52:33 UTC 61.2K followers, 2975 engagements
"27 July 2002. Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed during an air show at Sknyliv Airfield near Lviv Ukraine killing XX and injuring XXX. It was the deadliest air show accident in history" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:38:26 UTC 61.2K followers, 1190 engagements
"22 July 1944. Hawker Hurricane PZ865 Mk.IIc" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-21 22:42:21 UTC 61.2K followers, 12.7K engagements
"26 July 1959. Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin ejected above a violent thundercloud whose winds kept him aloft for XX minutes. The longest recorded parachute descent in history" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:39:55 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"17 July 1924. Five victory French ace Georges Pelletier d'Oisy completed a flight from Paris to Tokyo in Breguet 14A2 No.2097 he had borrowed from the Republic of China government. The trip was XXX hours in the air over XX days" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-16 18:55:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1931. First flight of the de Havilland DH.72. British large three-engine biplane bomber prototype. Powered by three XXX hp Bristol Jupiter XFS supercharged 9-cylinder radial engines" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:14:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Loose line formation Spitfire Mark VCs of X Sqn. SAAF based at Palata Italy over the Adriatic Sea on bombing mission to the Sangro River" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 23:24:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1941. First flight of the Boeing-built Douglas DB-7B attack bomber" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:58:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1989. Korean Air Flight XXX McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 HL7328 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog and reduced visibility in Tripoli Libya killing XX over XXX and X on ground" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:35:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle fighter aircraft designed by Fisher Body Division of General Motors. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-20 23:23:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 2010. Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F D-ALCQ crashed on landing at King Khalid International Airport Riyadh Saudi Arabia Killing both crewmembers. Touching down too hard it to bounced three times on the runway causing the aft fuselage to rupture" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:45:05 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"McDonnell Douglas/Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II (1990)" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-19 23:23:40 UTC 61.2K followers, 31.4K engagements
"25 July 1932. Birth of Paul Joseph Weitz (d. XX October 2017). USN Pilot and NASA astronaut who was a member of the three-man Skylab X crew the first manned Skylab mission. He was also commander of the STS-6 mission the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:42:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hawker Hart at Commonwealth Joint Air Training XX Air School at Waterkloof Pretoria South Africa. January 1943" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:30:21 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1898 in Leighton Banastre Chester Cheshire X victory D.H.4 pilot ace with X Squadron RNAS (205 Squadron RAF) Captain John Gamon DSC" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:15:27 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII code EB-B MB882" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 23:22:20 UTC 61.2K followers, 1675 engagements
"24 July 1933. Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison in their de Havilland Dragon 'Seafarer' nearly succeeded in their flight from Croydon to New-York; They crash-landed in Connecticut" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:56:01 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1936. On her 39th birthday Amelia Earhart took delivery of Lockheed Electra 10E Special (NR16020) at the Union Air Terminal Burbank California. A gift from the Purdue Research Foundation" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:57:19 UTC 61.2K followers, 1121 engagements
"27 July 1943. XXX RAF bombers attacked Hamburg with a loss of XX aircraft. Atmospheric conditions created a self-propagating tornadic firestorm with winds of XXX mph and flames reaching 1000 feet altitude resulting in one of the most destructive air raids in history" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:20:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The original Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis while lowered from its suspended position in the National Air and Space Museum for renovation work in 2005" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:29:55 UTC 61.2K followers, 2023 engagements
"20 May 1965. Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK XXX Boeing 720040B AP-AMH crashed while descending to land on Runway XX at Cairo International Airport resulting in XXX fatalities" @ron_eisele on X 2025-05-19 18:36:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"23 July 1928. First flight of the third Breguet Bre XX TR 'Bidon' (Later XX TF Super Bidon) French 2-3 seat sesquiplane aircraft" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-22 20:36:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"4 July 2001. Vladivostok Air Flight XXX Tupolev Tu-154M RA-85845 crashed while attempting to land in Irkutsk Russia. All XXX passengers and X flight crew members aboard perished making it the third deadliest aircraft crash over Russian territory to date" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-03 18:57:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 July 1896. 14-year-old Louisa Maud Evans (aka Mademoiselle Albertina') died parachuting 5000 ft. from a balloon during the Cardiff Maritime and Industrial Exhibition at Cathays Park. Landing in the Bristol Channel she drowned under her parachute" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-20 19:37:08 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1967 in Apple Valley California XX victory Sopwith Dolphin ace with XX Squadron Captain Frederic Ives "Fred" Lord DFC and Bar" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-20 19:28:40 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1950. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began operations with the launch of the Bumper X. (V-2 rocket with WAC Corporal sounding rocket)" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:03:00 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1947 in Augsburg Germany X victory ace Oberleutnant Hans-Eberhardt Gandert" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:53:56 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1985 in Woodstock Ontario XX victory Sopwith Camel ace Captain Thomas Frederic Williams MC" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:17:53 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"P-39Q 42-19597 P-39 flying with the Commemorative Air Force in San Marcos Texas. Registered N6968 it was recovered from a hulk used as a playground in New Mexico" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:29:15 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1944. Death of James Cairn 'Bud' Mars The Curtiss Daredevil (b. X March 1875). American aviation pioneer who on XX December 1910 made the first aeroplane flight in Hawaii (Curtiss B18 biplane Skylark)" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:52:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1998. First flight of the Scaled Composites Model XXX Proteus. American tandem-wing high-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:43:20 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Major Stanley James Goble DSO. DSC. XX August 1891 - XX July 1948" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:55:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Killed in action XX July 1918 near Lestrem France XX victory ace Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock V.C" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:40:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1923. First Canadian built amphibian aeroplane the Vickers type XX Viking IV was flown from the St. Lawrence at Montreal. Powered by a Rolls Royce Eagle IX engine" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:40:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1942. Death of Furio Niclot Doglio (b. XX April 1908). Italian test pilot record breaker and WWII fighter pilot shot down over Malta in his Macchi C202 by Canadian fighter ace George Beurling who four victories on that single day" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:19:08 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1884. Birth of Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (d. XX April 1963). Japanese military aviation pioneer. First Japanese to obtain his pilot's licence from the Aro-Club de France credited with conducting Japans first powered flight (Farman III biplane) on XX December 1910" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:51:43 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1896 in Toronto Ontario Canada XX victory ace Captain Arthur Bradfield Fairclough MC" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:14:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2005. 14.39.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from Kennedy LC-39B on mission STS-114 to deliver supplies to the ISS. The first flight following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:43:52 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1973 in Paris X victory French Brguet observer ace with BR132 Lieutenant Eugene Weismann" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-19 21:16:30 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hawker Typhoon showing the elegant profile of the propeller blade" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:32:42 UTC 61.2K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Hauptmann Godwin Brumowski. XX July 1889 X June 1936 was the most successful Austro-Hungarian Air Force ace of WW1 with XX credited air victories" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:33:12 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1944. Supermarine Seafire L.III of RNAS XXX Squadron on the deck of HMS Khedive entering the Grand Harbour of Valletta in Malta" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:51:37 UTC 61.2K followers, 17.4K engagements
"On 7th May 1918 John Gurdon and Anthony Thornton of XX Squadron in their Bristol Fighter and Alfred Atkey and Charles Gass in another took on twenty plus German single seat fighters. Art by James Field" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 23:22:38 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1964. Death of Joseph 'Joe' B. Duckworth (b. X September 1902). USAF pilot and commercial pilot pioneer of modern instrument flight noted for being the first man to fly through the eye of a hurricane" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:40:58 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 2012. Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet of XXX Tactical Fighter Squadron flies along the Oahu Island coast Hawaii" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:16:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2011. Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules CNA-OQ crashed due to bad weather into Sayyert Mountain approximately six miles from Guelmin Morocco killing all XX on board" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:44:54 UTC 61.2K followers, 1254 engagements
"CAC CA-27 Avon Sabre Mk.32 A94-983 in the colours of XX SQN. The aircraft was provided to the RMAF as military aid during the 1970s and flew with registration FM-1983 until it retirement when it was returned to Australia" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:30:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1915. Captain Lanoe Hawker became the third British military aviator (and first fighter pilot) to earn the Victoria Cross. He defeated three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day over the Western Front" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:35:06 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Oeffag Albatros D.III Ba.153 of Flik 42J s/n XXXXXX flown by Stabsfeldwebel Ferdinand Udvardy" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-09 17:38:16 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"23 July 1958. The first prototype Brguet Br.1001 Taon French jet strike fighter aircraft powered by a Bristol Orpheus B-Or-3 turbojet broke its own international speed record for a 620-mile closed circuit achieving XXXXXX mph. Flown by Bernard Witt" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-22 21:07:00 UTC 61.2K followers, 1029 engagements
"Born XX July 1895 in Edinburgh Midlothian X victory Brisfit observer ace with XX Squadron Lieutenant Herbert Henry Hartley" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:51:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1896. Birth of Major Alford Joseph Williams (d. XX June 1958). USN USMC and USAAC pioneering aviator. 1930s Naval speed record breaker developed dive bombing techniques for the Marines. 1940s advocate for an independent Air Force. Volunteer in the Army Air Corps" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:44:19 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 April 1929. French aviator (right) Joanny Burtin (3 October 1893-19 August 1977) set an FAI altitude record of 26531 ft. with a one-ton load in Farman 12We powered Breguet XX GR demonstrating fuel consumption drops considerably at high altitudes along with wind resistance" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:50:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Catalina PBY flying boat N5593V abandoned in Saudi Arabia in 1960" @ron_eisele on X 2023-01-09 18:33:53 UTC 61.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Fokker D.VII replica owned by the Military Aviation Museum in the markings of Carl-August von Schonebeck of Jasta XX while serving at Beuvry near the end of the Great War" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:26:24 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Pilot Officer Walter Sinclair Kennedy of XX Sqn RAF inspects the damage to his Vickers Wellesley Mk.I (K7715) 'KU-H' at Agordat Eritrea" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:31:49 UTC 61.2K followers, 1108 engagements
"Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber built during World War II for the United States Army Air Force" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:18:34 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1896. Birth of Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC KStJ. (d. XX September 1967). Australian WWI bomber pilot senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-26 23:49:14 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX July 1952 XX victory Jasta X and XX ace Leutnant Fritz Loerzer" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-20 19:27:07 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1955. El Al Flight XXX (LondonParisViennaTel Aviv) Lockheed L-049 Constellation 4X-AKC was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 over Bulgarian airspace killing all aboard X crew and XX passengers. The deadliest loss of a Constellation up to that time" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:31:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 April 1935. Death of Kthe Paulus (b. XX December 1868) German aeronaut aviatrix and parachute pioneer. Inventor of the first collapsible parachute" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:50:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Killed in action XX July 1917 X victory French Air Service ace Capitaine Alfred Victor Robert Auger" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:04:49 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"20 July 1951. First flight of the Breguet Br XXX 'Provence'. French double-deck four engine transport aircraft powered by four 2400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA18 engines. It entered service with Air France during autumn 1952" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-19 22:38:09 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"North American F-82 Twin Mustang was the last American piston-engine fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the P-51 Mustang the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in World War II" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:18:48 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died age XX on XX June 1977 in San Antonio Texas X victory German ace Leutnant Hans Karl Mller" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-22 18:42:02 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire Mk IXB MH809 LO-P of XXX Squadron RAF at Ford aerodrome Sussex" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:30:58 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Kittyhawk Spitfire Mustang & Corsair of the 2003 Breitling Fighter Team" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-12 21:10:52 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1944. North American Aviation P-51 Mustangs The Bottisham Four. Three P-51Ds and one P-51Bof the 375th Fighter Squadron 361st Fighter Group 8th Air Force based at Air Force Station F-374 (RAF Bottisham) Cambridgeshire England" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:53:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1947. First flight of the Bristol Type XXX Sycamore (VL-958). First British-designed helicopter to fly and serve with the Royal Air Force. Powered by a single Pratt & Whitney 450hp Wasp Junior radial engine" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:23:13 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Dassault Rafale French twin-engine canard delta wing multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-22 22:07:46 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 2010. The sole Sikorsky X2 American experimental high-speed compound helicopter with coaxial rotors unofficially broke the speed record for rotorcraft achieving a maximum XXX knots (259 mph) in a one-hour test flight" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 20:44:28 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1938. Colombian Air Force Lieutenant Csar Abadia performing aerobatics at Campo de Marte Santa Ana Colombia crashed his Curtiss Hawk II XXX after misjudging a gap between two grandstands impacting the Presidential stand. XX killed 100+ injured" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:57:48 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2000. Air France Flight 4590 Concorde F-BTSC caught fire after take-off and crashed at Gonesse France killing all XXX passengers nine crew and four people on the ground. The cause was debris left on the runway by a Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 19:00:27 UTC 61.2K followers, 1330 engagements
"26 July 1954. Chinese PLAAF Lavochkin La-11 fighters off the coast of Hainan Island attacked two US Navy AD-4 Skyraiders and a Vought F4U Corsair seeking survivors from Air Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 Skymaster shot down three days earlier. The Skyraiders shot down the La-11s" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:55:18 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1880. Birth of Louis Bchereau (d. XX March 1970). French aeronautical engineer and aviation pioneer who designed monocoque fuselage aircraft. Co-founder of Socit des Avions Bernard and the Kellner-Bchereau company where he designed the 1940 Kellner-Bchereau E.60" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:21:28 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1939. A Deutsche Lufthansa Focke Wulf Fw-200 'Condor' took off from Berlin to Bangkok in Siam inaugurating a regular service" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:47:14 UTC 61.2K followers, 1230 engagements
"24 July 1934. First flight of the Supermarine Stranraer. British flying boat designed and built by Supermarine Aviation Works which marked the end of biplane flying-boat development for the Royal Air Force" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:56:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"26 July 1944. North American Aviation P-51D-5-NA Mustang 44-13410 E2 C. flown by group commander Colonel Thomas J.J. Christian Jr. and named Lou IV after his wife Marjorie Lou Ashcroft Christian" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 19:53:59 UTC 61.2K followers, 1580 engagements
"25 July 1973. 18.55.48 GMT/UTC. Launch of the Soviet Mars X on a Proton-K/D from Baikonur 81/24. Successfully entered an elliptic Martian orbit at XXXXX on XX February 1974 however it failed on XX September" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:56:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 July 1961. Alaska Airlines Flight XXX Douglas DC-6A N6118C operating under contract with MATS (Military Air Transport Service) crashed and caught fire on landing at Shemya AFB Alaska killing all X on board" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-20 20:41:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"This Picture of Boston USA from 2000 feet circa 1860 Is the worlds oldest surviving aerial photo. Taken by James Wallace Black from Samuel Kings hot-air balloon the Queen of the Air" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 01:12:37 UTC 61.2K followers, 2024 engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1948 in Melbourne Victoria XX victory Australian ace Major Stanley James Goble DSO. DSC" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:54:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 2009. First flight of the ATR-72-600. French Italian twin-turboprop short-haul regional airliner developed from the ATR-72-500" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:15:44 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Born XX July 1912. Lieutenant General Carlos Bayo Alessandri (d. X February 1979). XX victory Spanish Nationalist flying ace of the civil war. Volunteered for combat in Russia with 1a Escuadrilla Azul part of the German LuftFlotte X and later in the Spanish Air Force" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-26 23:52:19 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Consolidated XP4Y (company Model 31) was an American twin-engine long-range maritime patrol flying boat built by Consolidated Aircraft for the United States Navy. Only one was built and a production order for XXX was cancelled" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:21:32 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1897. Birth of Amelia Mary Earhart (disappeared X July 1937). American aviation pioneer record breaker and author. First woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:52:18 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Spitfire Mk.XXI of XXX Squadron Biggin Hill 1947" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:33:16 UTC 61.2K followers, 12.4K engagements
"28 July 1915. First flight of the prototype Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 British single-seat aeroplane developed from the B.E.2c" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:36:12 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"JAS XX Gripen entered service with the Swedish Air Force in June 1996. The J XX Tunnan entered service XX years earlier" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-25 21:24:12 UTC 61.2K followers, 1275 engagements
"28 July 1910. Birth of Clive Robertson 'Killer' Caldwell. Leading Australian WWII fighter ace highest-scoring P-40 pilot from any air force and the highest-scoring Allied pilot in North Africa who also served in the Southwest Pacific Theatre" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:35:05 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2000. The F-22 CTFs Raptor XX successfully fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile over the China Lake test range. The test confirmed the F-22s ability to launch an air-to-air missile from an internal weapons bay" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 19:00:50 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The Hanriot HD. X flown Flavio by Baracchini on display at the Italian Air Force Museum near Bracciano Rome" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:01:31 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Hurricane Mk X P3395 JX-B the personal aircraft of Sergeant Pilot Arthur Clowes DFM of X Sqn. during the Battle of Britain" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:30:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"24 July 1926. Decorated WW1 French aviator Robert Jean Paul Bajac broke the 2000Kg weight payload class world record while piloting Blriot XXX F-AIEB Wilbur Wright" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 21:54:36 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado was a military trainer aircraft designed and built in Belgium in the 1930s. It saw service with the Belgian Air Force and Latvian Air Force" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:19:57 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"20 July 1951. First flight of the SNCASE SE-532 'Mistral'. French production version of the 'Vampire' Mk XX fighter bomber jet aircraft. Powered by a Hispano-Suiza built Rolls-Royce Nene 104B engine" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-19 22:38:55 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"27 July 1960. Death of Captain John Richard Crane advance pilot and narrator for the US Aerobatic demonstration team 'Thunderbirds'. Killed during a solo proficiency flight in a North American F-100C-1-NA Super Sabre 53-1740 at Nellis AFB Nevada" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 00:32:43 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"The F4F-3S "Wildcatfish" a floatplane version of the Wildcat F4F-3" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:25:08 UTC 61.2K followers, 2732 engagements
"The Avro Manchester was designed with an optional catapult launch system" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:48:47 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2011. Death of Arthur Warren "Kit" Murray (b. XX December 1918). American test pilot who flew the Bell X-1 and the Bell X-5. He was the first pilot to see the curvature of the Earth and set an unofficial altitude record of more than 90000 feet at over Mach 2" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 19:03:34 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"XCG-16 was a military transport/assault glider ordered by the Army Air Force from General Airborne Transport Co. for competition against the Waco CG-13A" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:22:54 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"21 May 1938. First flight of the Dornier Do.26-V1 D-AGNT Seeadler. German all-metal gull winged flying boat produced before and during WWII. Intended to carry a payload of 1100 lb or four passengers on the Lisbon to New York route. Powered by four Jumo-205C engines" @ron_eisele on X 2025-05-20 20:22:31 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1948. On the 39th anniversary of Bleriot crossing the Channel the Vickers XXX Nene-Viking with passengers flew from London Heathrow to Villacoublay Paris in XX min X sec. Half the regular scheduled time and faster than a previous record set by a Spitfire" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:53:06 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"1918 Italy Airco De Havilland DH9 - art by Tony Theobald" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 23:23:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 2003. Death of Ludwig Blkow (b. XX June 1912). German aeronautical pioneer. In January 1943 he was appointed head of the Messerschmitt Bf XXX development office in Vienna. Post-war he formed Blkow GmbH in Ottobrunn which became Messerschmitt-Blkow-Blohm (MBB)" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 19:02:03 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Died aged XX on XX July 1944 in Neunkirchen Saarland Germany XX victory ace Oberleutnant Otto Christian Schmidt" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 18:53:37 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Lieutnant Alfred Niederhoff (left) at Jasta XX with Commanding Officer Oblt. Fritz Heising (centre) and Ltn.d.R. Eberhard Voss (right). The Albatros far right is Leutnant Niederhoff's personal machine. The furthest belongs to Eberhard Voss" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-27 20:04:33 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1997. Death of Commander Peter 'Hoagy' Carmichael OBE DSC (b. XX August 1923). British fighter pilot with the Royal Navy during and after WWII. Korean War pilot credited with downing a MiG-15 while flying piston-engine Hawker Sea Fury VR943" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:59:41 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"25 July 1945. B-24J-170-CO Liberator s/n 44-40559 864th Bomb Squadron 494th Bomb Group 7th Air Force. Kuuipo ('Sweetheart' in Hawaiian) completed XX combat missions before being shot down by Japanese fighters on XX July 1945 while bombing Tsuiki Kyushu. X of XX crew survived" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-24 18:52:39 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Lockheed C-121 Constellation military transport version of the Lockheed Constellation" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-23 22:24:53 UTC 61.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Flight Lieutenant D R Turley George and Flying Officer Fenwick in front of their Sea Hurricane Mk IA on board the SS Empire Tide" @ron_eisele on X 2025-07-18 22:56:04 UTC 61.2K followers, 2939 engagements