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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This was spotted recently in Canary Wharf, London (not my photo) I was hoping it was for a long-awaited erotic documentary about the Hunslet AT77 air towing tractor, but it’s season 2 of the somewhat-messy Alien: Earth

Colour photo. A member of the public watching black-armoured soldiers around the entrance of something very much resembling the Aliens APC, with another one in the foreground

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In tribute to the new Godzilla trailer.. “A front view of a Japanese four engine land bomber. Atsugi, Japan, 5 September 1945. (Captured material)” (Nakajima G5N Shinzan (深山"Deep Mountain") ) (via fold3.com/image/29021573)

Black and white photo. Front view of the Shinzan in a field, looking fairly intact

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This week I’ve been enjoying trying to set up an account in Microsoft Authenticator, and it says I need to use Microsoft Authenticator to authenticate. I’ll often now look at a bird and be envious of its life.

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hi Thanos. This is bad, especially considering you include photo/info sources more than anyone I can think of! Maybe they detect the constant presence of links as being something a bot would produce(?) However, I can’t see any tags or labels on your account on mobile or web at the moment 🤷‍♂️

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wow..I’ve replayed Final Fantasy VII a few times over the years, and never noticed this Macchi (M.67?) Schneider Trophy Racer until now! 🤷‍♂️🤯

screenshot from FFVII - the front half of a red Macchi racer docked at the bottom of the Costa del Sol harbour screen!

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In Denmark, the Museum That Has Some Flying Machines was closed, so I had to go to the Boat Museum (Boats are best known as bath toys, but some were also old and big! Boats can also be seen in films such as Speed 2, Under Siege, and Captain Phillips)

Colour photo. A glass cabinet of large high quality ship models

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Concorde - 001's solar rendezvous", by Simon Cattlin (www.simoncattlin.com/gallery/001s...) a tribute to an actual event: this aircraft - still in the process of being tested - chased a solar eclipse over Africa for 70 minutes in 1973 (www.vice.com/en/article/t...)

oil painting. head-on aerial view of a Concorde high above the clouds. in the background, an eclipse in a jet-black sky casts a long shadow over the clouds under the aircraft, alongside a vivid blue horizon

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I thought I’d finally take one of those “sausage leg” holiday photos from the beach, except the beach in this case is underneath a Su7BKM Fitter A 💅

Colour photo. Looking at beach legs lying down in the shade under a Cold War jet

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m too tired to photoshop a smile on this Aerotécnica AC-12

Colour photo. A fairly old two-seat Spainish helicopter. No front windows. A front engine cowling with holes that look like
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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This local news clip is great (and brings back memories of the Brass Eye Noel Edmonds/Clive Anderson newsflash!) www.macearchive.org/films/centra...

macearchive.org

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Edmonds confronted Wainwright in one of his trademark “gotcha” film crew moments, and he was jailed Wainwright returned to the US, where he had previously been involved in dodgy engine parts, and was jailed again He was last on the run in Kenya in 2000, after trying to sell a cure for AIDS 🤷‍♂️ 2/2

black and white still from a news report. Edmonds sitting in a wooden cockpit mockup frame

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

GUEST STAR: Noel Edmonds with a model of the “Hydro-Wing/Excalibur” powerboat, 1981 The man behind the venture, Basil Wainwright, was going to make Edmonds the fastest man on water ..but the Excalibur was a made-up project, and Edmonds lost a load of money 1/2

black and white photo. A smiling Edmonds holding the model aloft. The craft is incredible looking - the lower submerged part resembles a stretched, pointy miniature HOTOL spaceplane, with a fin leading up to the crew section, which looks like a curved, delta wing escape capsule of a spaceship

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I went to a indie comics fair this weekend, and this offering by Matt Simmons (@sherifffreak.bsky.social) so perfectly encapsulated the spirit of the event that I may never remove these zines from their brown paper bag 🏅

A small brown paper bag with basic black felt tip writing: “FATHER OF DUNE: Four DUNE zines I made for my Dad, using my left hand”

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The World Cup semi-final lineups are confirmed, and excitement is building..

the French Dyle et Bacalan DB-10, a weaponless bomber designed to fly over the enemy to send them mad - like the spiky ball thing in Event Horizon

the Spanish Libélula Viblandi early helicopter. Beguilingly erotic

the British Blackburn Blackburd, or “can we build a plane using Etch-a-sketch”

$the Argentine FMA I.Ae. 38 Naranjero cargo plane, one of the many post-war German projects ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄$

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

journalists have started to hear rumours that he has liver cirrhosis..

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think she’d quite like the bath back at some point, though

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Quartermain's books: "The expansive force of gun-powder as a motive power; and a description of the engine and car suitable for its application to air navigation" "The air navigated by man upon the principles adopted by the Creator for sustaining all flying animals" 2/2

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

William Quartermain's "Aërotransitor” ornithopter of 1887 after attempts to create a motor driven by “gases generated from vegetable products” failed, Quartermain turned to a human-powered flapping mechanism - much to the apparent disdain of his good wife 1/2

A smartly dressed, bearded, ageing, slightly portly old man stands in a cross between a fancy-roofed bathtub and balloon gondola holding one, possibly two, levers to flap two large pairs of wooden-framed wings protruding from the roof. in a potentially unique twist, the craft is situated directly in front of the front door of his house, which looks newly-built for the time. In the meantime doorway, a smartly darkly-dressed lady with a serious expression looks into the camera

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The name was taken from an old sci-fi film, but it was written about the aftermath of nuclear war (As is the way with the 80s, the 12” mix is also recommended) youtu.be/cWl69ZOINfE?...

youtu.be

UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming

YouTube video by UB40VEVO

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

From a longer poem called “The First Airman”, circa 1920 This excerpt appeared in the intro to the book “No Echo in the Sky”, by Westland test pilot Harald Penrose. He was also very much into birds, and wrote various tales of his observations while flying #WorldCurlewDay

“Give me the wings, magician! So their tune Mix with the silver trumpets of the moon, And, beyond music mounting, clean outrun The golden diapason of the sun.
There is a secret that the birds are learning
Where the long lanes in heaven have a turning And no man yet has followed: therefore these
Laugh hauntingly across our usual seas.
I'll not be mocked by curlews in the sky;
Give me the wings, magician, or I die.
HUMBERT WOLFE”

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Great to see this church back in the news!

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Inherited a nice camera and gannets - my favourite British bird - were a perfect test subject

Colour photo. A gannet launching itself downward off a rocky ledge, with another looking on, head slightly cocked in the classic bird way

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

What would one put in the back of a Honda Jazz..?

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

NO, YOU’VE got an unfinished 1/72 model of a PZL.23 Karas in the back of your (very dirty) 1.6Xi Subaru Impreza 🤷‍♂️

quite simply an unfinished 1/72 model of a PZL.23 Karas in the back of a dark blue (very dirty) 1.6Xi Subaru Impreza

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The opening sentence of BOMBERS (1942), by Charles Grey Grey - founding editor of THE AEROPLANE magazine (To his colleagues: “a gentle and kindly man”. Elsewhere: big fascist sympathiser with extreme right-wing views 🤷‍♂️)

“How The Bomber Developed

Man being the predatory animal which he is, naturally as soon as the idea of flying grew, there grew with it the unpleasant idea of dropping things on people..”

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I was wondering if a F-15 (RIP) has ever been photographed alongside (or even in the same shot as) a member of the Sukhoi “Fitter” (RIP) family Maybe during one of the early 80s “Bright Star” exercises between the US and Egypt, but I think the Sukhoi was retired by then(?)

“An air-to-air top view [over desert and irrigated green fields] of U.S. and Egyptian aircraft in formation during the joint exercise Bright Star '83. The aircraft (clockwise from bottom right) are an Egyptian F-4 Phantom II, Mirage 2000, MiG-17, American A-6 Intruder, Egyptian MiG-15, American A-7 Corsair II, Egyptian MiG-21, Egyptian F-16B Fighting Falcon, and an American F-14 Tomcat, center”

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You don’t see “doing a Spurs” used as much recently. perhaps it has become so accepted and ingrained that it is indeed the missing fifth fundamental force of nature

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It even had an airship.. bsky.app/profile/exot...

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I’ve got the craziest of all coming up at some point..

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I think he accidentally fell onto the “open airlock” switch, then accidentally fell into the airlock, then accidentally fell onto the “close airlock” switch, then accidentally fell onto the “jettison into space” switch

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Here’s the Titov in the background, behind Soviet scientist Dr Andrei Smyslov (Leonard Rossiter!!) It’s likely the Titov was a rejected design for the more well-known Orion spaceplane (the one that docks with the space station with all the music and the spinning and the air hostessing) 2/2

Screengrab of Leonard Rossiter on a red couch in a minimalistic white space station lounge. The Hilton office cubicle is behind, the Titov model on the desk

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

a 1/144 model of the "Titov V" spaceplane from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY this appears briefly in the novel, and in the movie script - but made it to screen only as a blurry model on a desk in the space station's Hilton Hotel (Aeroflot cabin crew are visible in the scene) 1/2

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first liftoff, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, 30th November 1982" (via www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...)

Colour photo. Long-distance aerial shot of Challenger on the vehicle. The low fog resembles a dust storm, with a long thin shadow of the shuttle cast across it

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"I'm not being controlled, I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life...I wake up every morning grateful for the life I chose, and have found peace and relief"

Brooklyn Beckham, holding a copy of A J Jackson's "Blackburn Aircraft since 1909" (Putnam)

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Unbelievable. Maybe the press conference was delayed because he wanted more laminates 🤷‍♂️

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Nobody can go on one because of cozzie livs

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

in 1843, Frenchman Émile Gire patented a steam-powered (aeolipile) balloon, armed with bombs and a cannon “FR-1843-11213: Means and Methods of Directing Aerostats, Without Using Ballast, and Their Application as a War Machine” this was one of the first “serious” proposals for an armed aerial craft

Old book illustration. A balloon over a countryside of smoking and exploding buildings. Under the balloon is a smaller sphere - presumably related to the aeolipile steam turbine. Underneath this is a very large bowl-shaped gondola, with two aeronauts busy. A large rudder is attached to the gondola, and it looks like a cannonball is being fired. The caption is “Le ballon à éolipyle d'Emile Gire (1843)”

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Supermarine Spitfire “TZ138” at the 1949 Cleveland Air Races. It survives, registered as C-GSPT, in Vancouver This has a heady history, like so many from the era. Owners across North America, accidents and incidents, e.g. "damaged in Florida by Castro supporters" aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDoss...

black and white photo, the polished metal Spitfire in flight, banking past a race pylon. It has the number "80" and a small Canadian Air Force roundel on the side of the fuselage, on a thin lightning trim

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

At the moment, OnlyPhantoms™ content is too niche and disgusting for public advertising

Grainy colour photo of a grey RAF Phantom, with its radome open and seemingly hanging from a thread, about to crash. Both canopies are open (there were no fatalities)

A camouflaged USAF F-4D missing a radome (AAA fire over Laos, 1968). The rear canopy is open (the pilot ordered the operator to eject, but managed to crash-land. No fatalities)

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Her Majesty's V-Bomber Force (taken by ME - of all people, can you Adam and Eve it - at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum back in 2013. these are now all at different locations)

Colour photo. Taken from a path with buddleia. mounted Vulcan, Valiant, and Victor nose sections - next to each other - in front of a large corrugated iron shed. the Valiant is looking particularly sad, cockpit shrouded and nose missing

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

For years, I’ve had this desire to fly into Vegas and drive to the Area 51 gate to see the “camo dude” private security emerge from over a hill in their pick-up truck. I was always nervous about their guns, attitude etc, but this now seems like one of the safer things to do in America

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s been a while since I properly watched it. How’s Mark Blundell doing - any more podium finishes?

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Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Finemolds? Looks like they did both the Savoia and the Curtiss racer in 1/72 AND 1/48 ??

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