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Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Back in 2018, I put together a special edition of the 'British Journal of Military History' with Dr Michael Molkentin, focusing on the development of British air power during the First World War. It is open access. Check it out. journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bj... #airpowerhistory #plsRT

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018) | British Journal for Military History

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here is a B-17 conversion to an airliner for TWA. #avgeek

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lloyd 40.08. Honestly I don’t know which way it’s going.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Okay razorback or bubble which one you got?

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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Sometimes when you’re moving or traveling you just have to tie something on top of the vehicle.

SEPECAT Jaguar with top wing mounted Sidewinders.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

It sometimes took several cowboys to lasso a Wildcat. Many of them proved difficult to break well enough to be ridden.

Deck crew of USS Makin Island pulling an overturned FM -2 Wildcat away from the edge of the flight deck.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Aviation wisdom: “If it looks right, it flies right” Meanwhile, at Fairey… @navalairhistory.com #navalhistory

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

USS Boxer loading 146 F-51 Mustangs as part of an emergency shipment of aircraft and personnel to Korea in July 1950. Boxer made the crossing from Alameda across the Pacific in 8 1/2 days.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A Soviet officer stands by to receive the 5000th aircraft handed over to the Soviet Union via Alaska. A Bell P-63.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I’m a huge fan of the golden age of aviation and aircraft with wheel spats. (I know I need therapy, that’s what you lot are for). But on a Mustang they just look wrong.

RAF Mustang II with auxiliary fuel tanks.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The Il-20. When your Il-2 gets too close to a beehive.

An attempt to provide greater downward visibility for the pilot. It worked I guess.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This Mirage IIIe was fitted with a rocket engine, supposedly to catch up to U-2s overflying French nuclear sites. Anyone know if that’s true? @aviationmarlene.bsky.social

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it fly again.

P-51 crashed into a stream in Switzerland, February 1945.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

An FM-2 Wildcat in grey color scheme photographed in 2009. The aircraft is currently in the Mid America Flight Museum in Texas. 📷credit embedded.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just a few days before V-E day this B-24 was shot down by an Me-262 using rockets. The sole survivor was a POW for a few days.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Early R2 unit? No it’s Italian Col. Mario Pezzi in an altitude chamber in a Caproni Ca.161, in which he set an altitude record of 17083 m / 56047 ft that stood for piston powered aircraft until 1995. Oh, and the Caproni was a biplane.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Beautiful shot of a Seafire going just a bit low.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It’s not every day that you see a P-40 take off from an aircraft carrier, but here we are.

P-40B launching from USS Wasp in October 1940.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Nice photo of a replica F13. The F13 was the first metal monoplane airliner, and accounted for a large percentage of civil air travel in the early interwar period. Several different variants were made with inline and radial engines. The cockpit had a roof but no glazing.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

One of these two individuals was the pilot of this Typhoon. I’ll let you decide which.

Group Captain Scott and Kim the dog next to his Hawker Typhoon.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

An excellent photo for demonstrating the evolution of fighter design between two generations of aircraft from the same manufacturer. An F3F and F4F.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Blue is classic for Corsairs but the postwar gull grey is nice too.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#otd in 1953 the YF-100 Super Sabre had its first flight, becoming the first jet fighter capable of supersonic level flight. The test pilot, George Welch, was one of two American pilots who managed to get airborne during the Pearl Harbor attack. He downed three Vals and one Zero in a P-40B.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

On 20 May 1927 Lindbergh set off on the first solo flight across the Atlantic. Five years to the day later Amelia Earhart became the second person to fly the Atlantic solo. Also on the same date was the first flight of the Mustang in 1941 and of the first production P-86 Sabre in 1948.

Lindbergh working on the 200hp Wright Whirlwind engine that powered the Spirit of St Louis.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m not saying that making a B-1 into a gunship is necessarily a good idea, I’m just saying maybe let’s try it once and see.

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Fairey Spearfish

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Beautiful image of a Hawker Hind at sunset. Sadly I don’t have the 📷 credit.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I can’t imagine that anyone from the Air Force or any intelligence agency was consulted about this.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It appears that a Pakistani J-10C has downed a Rafaele. Pakistan is the only export customer of the J-10 currently but I won’t be surprised if this incident generates additional interest in the type.

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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A He 177 captured by the French Resistance at the end of August 1944, when the residents seized the Toulouse-Blagnac maintenance factories housing a number of He 177s. French national markings were applied, before it was sent to the United Kingdom for evaluation.

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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Dewoitine D.550 from 1939 was a speed record aircraft derived from the D.520 fighter and powered by a Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs developing 900hp, later replaced by a 12Y-51 developing 1300 hp. It was capable of reaching speeds of 703km/h at 6500m. It was used as a basis for the D.551 fighter.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Mk II Hurricanes. One of my favorite Dinky toys as a kid.

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Classic Warbirds @classicwarbirds.co.uk · 27/04/2025

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s (BBMF) Pre-Season Work-Up Flying is Now Well Underway at RAF Coningsby. ▶️ vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-new...

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Here we have a Bréguet Br.270, a unique French 2 seat observation plane that was made with advanced stressed metal construction and an interesting boom tail. This is what distinct and individual actually looks like, @tmogriffons.bsky.social

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

#otd in 1958 Lt Cdr George Watkins set an FAI altitude record of 23,449m in this F11F-1F Tiger. #aviation #history #avgeek

F11F Tiger in test flight markings. This aircraft is currently on display at the China Lake USN station.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In a misguided attempt to sneak a MiG-21 into Woodstock the Warsaw Pact had this rather colorful livery.

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Ken Mist 🇨🇦 @kenmist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#TDIH - April 17, 1934 - First flight of the Fairey Swordfish.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On 15 April 1969 a Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star was shot down over the Sea of Japan by North Korean MiG-21s. F-102s that had been sent to escort it arrived too late. The recovery effort included two Soviet submarines and 3 USSR destroyers in addition to USN ships. No survivors.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The problem with American aircraft operating on British carriers is that they keep wanting to drive on the wrong side of the deck.

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avhistoryogre.bsky.social @avhistoryogre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Apropos of nothing political, here’s a dive bomber attacking a ship that her builders thought unsinkable.

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