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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vibes of the Phalanx Dragon concept aircraft from the 1980s

Drawing of the Phalanx Dragon concept aircraft. A blended fuselage with twin-tails, cranked delta wings, canard fore planes, a blunt nose, and a tandem cockpit in front of a large dorsal jet intake. The aircraft is camouflaged

Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I always thought something like this with a couple of helmet slaved guns, a bunch of those new small guided AAMs and a datalink would be ideal

The 1980s British Aerospace Kingston P.1233-1 Small Agile Battlefield Aircraft (SABA)

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last year at #WeHaveWays WarFest I won a ride in a Dingo. This year you can to thanks to #KitOff. Remember to donate!

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To many of your fellow citizens

Meme of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala from the Star Wars first films. Anakin is saying “Millions of us never voted for this lunatic.”
Padme replies “you voted against him. You voted against him right?”
Anakin does not respond.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@waitmanwbeorn.com, is there any historical precedent for organisations with names like the Institute for Intelligence Research?

A page from the website of the institute for intelligence research showing Rosalind Arden, author of the piece linked in the original post.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here’s a drone video I took of them last year.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@yougov.co.uk need to start showing the correct answers after running polls like this when the poll has closed. #Facts

A YouGov poll asking whether more or fewer migrants are crossing the English Channel compared to previous years.
Crossings are considerably lower this year, but the poll shows a majority of people think numbers have either stayed the same or increased.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

The cover of the album Second Light by Dredzone

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lindbergh. I suspect he wouldn’t be terribly keen on me as a neighbour either. In an alternate reality I might have had Winkle Brown as a neighbour, as he interviewed to be manager of Tees-side Airport, and I grew up next door to the actual manager, the great Sq. Lee Jack Onions DFM & bar

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses

A selfie taken whilst paragliding wearing sunglasses.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Or for hard targets, marking accurately for the proper, fuck-off big bombs to follow?

An Avro Lancaster, dropping the “proper, fuck-off big bomb” 10 ton Grand Slam referred to in the Skeet.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Which is the where Peasholm Park is located which holds naval battles in miniature during the summer season. visitnorthyorkshire.com/index/peasho...

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We have no need whatsoever for a miracle here. He definitely lives to deceive.

A New York Times headline accusing Senate Speaker and accomplice in destroying the US constitution Mitch McConnell of being mostly dead

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you are doing plushies of weapons of war, next you have Bayraktar toys, but then, inevitably, you find that you can’t do these without Reaper cushions.

A soft toy in the shape of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m partial to a Seawind 3000 as well

Seawind 3000 amphibious seaplane. A striking looking white aircraft with the engine mounted on the large tail fin

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just felt like posting a Vulcan picture 🖖

Avro Vulcan XM603 at the Avro Heritage Museum at the site of the former Woodford aerodrome and Avro/British Aerospace factory near Manchester, England.
It a a cloudy, wet day as is common in this part of the world. The Vulcan is white with a black radome.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Supermarine Seagull has to be in there, even though it is much slower than it looks

A Supermarine Seagull, a Royal Navy amphibian seaplane with a high mounted wing and a Rolls Royce griffon engine in the centre of the wing driving counter rotating propellers

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I am somewhere in the second half of the video (sadly on the ground)

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fascinating and chilling story, with the kicker at the end

This discovery draws parallels to a previous case where an Italian master painting stolen from the Goudstikker collection by the Nazis appeared on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Oh I think I can do better than that…

A photo of Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys (1908-1987), Politician; UK Minister of Defence, and later, Aviation.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This was one to aspire to at the time as well

The cover of the book “Spitfire The History” by Morgan and Shacklady, showing two Spitfire aircraft flying in formation.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A lot of the best aviation books back then were series rather than individual books. This was a great series for us Brits and this was the first one I got

The cover of Aeroguide book 5 on the Hawker Siddley Buccaneer

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Could it work better with the horizon tilted the other way?

A part finished digital painting of the Bluebird land speed record car

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Of course, for when the Blackburn Blackburn wasn’t Blackburn enough, there’s the Cubaroo

The Blackburn Campaign baron British interwar biplane. An awful lot of aeroplane, with an awful lot of wing, an awful lot of struts, an awful lot of wires, an awful lot of fuselage, and awfully high off the ground open cockpit, and not very much engine and propeller.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My most niche aviation book (probably).

The cover of the book Flying Through Fire - FIDO - The Fogbuster of World War II by Geoffrey Williams

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not like modern aircraft🤔

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

They called this one Ken Adam when he flew Typhoons against the Nazis. HTH

Flight Sergeant Ken Adam, later famous as a set designer on Bond films amongst others, and a German refugee from the Nazis in the cockpit of the Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber he flew for the British Royal Air Force

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Always a fan of the Blackburn B.2

The silver dope and natural metal Blackburn B.2 side by side seater biplane, registration G-AEBJ, banking gently over the green English countryside on a beautiful summer’s day.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A line up like a reform-a-Tory

Actor Ray Winstone in his first film, Scum, set in a borstal

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I remember the special scheme

The 5000yh McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom painted in a special white and two-tone blue scheme with 5000th and the National flags of all the operators.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Not forgetting the British equivalent. Drokk!

An orange painted Landrover 101inch Forward Control military gun tractor, restored after demobilisation. It is a large 4 by 4 off road capable vehicle with the driving cab over the front wheels.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

He was born in Farnborough, Kent, where every second man is asking “where’s the airshow?” Before realising they are in the wrong Farnborough.

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Gaul was divided into Four parts

The map of Gaul (ancient France) from the Asterix books showing Asterix’s rebel village not covered by the area of the United States shown in the original post

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Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

How to deal with accusations of teenage fascism, by Clive Dunn. 1. Admit that you were attracted by fascism as a teenager and give a brief explanation. 2. ⁠Recognise fascism for what it is and leave. 3. (the key bit) Spend the rest of your life not being a fascist. N. Farage take note.

A section of The Times obituary of Clive Dunn describing his teenage involvement with the British Union of Fascists, and reason for leaving them, as he would not stand for antisemitism.

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