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We are so back! The trip to visit the wife's family in Ohio allowed for a spot of avgeekry, so we popped in to see the Vintage Wings Inc team and check in on how the rewinging of their C-53 Skytrooper is going. 📺 youtu.be/W4yogCnTd5w 🎧 pod.fo/e/674607 #aviation #avgeek

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ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE | Live-Action HOUR ZERO Episode 1

That's Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve pre-ordered before the deadline. I love these games and am replaying AC7 on my Legion Go S at the moment. Fly around a geographically rendered world and blow stuff up? Perfect basis for a plane game. Here is the movie thing they made. youtu.be/CuKxQkgAG28?...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1946: David Low in the Evening Standard on the Nuremberg Trials verdicts...

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations, Chris! I'll be grabbing my copy later today.

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Today is the day! ‘Star Wars: Star Pilots’ has officially published by @dkbooks.bsky.social in the UK! Only a few more days to wait across the Atlantic! I am so excited for you all to now get the chance to go on this reflective adventure with Wedge Antilles & a whole bunch of new & familiar faces!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026

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Serenity was released 21 years ago today. When a canceled series got the chance to have not only an epilogue, but one on the big screen... 🤯 Cool space chase. That was four months after the release of Revenge of the Sith and the Battle of Coruscant. We were really spoiled.

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 30/09/2026

One of my highlights of visiting the National Museum of the US Air Force the other week was seeing the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. I've been fascinated/appalled by it since seeing it in Reaching For The Skies as a kid. This is what happens when you let engineers problem solve in production. 😉

The Ryan X-13 Vertijet. A vertical take-off and landing research aircraft that flew between 1955 and 1957. The X-13 is a silver delta wing aircraft that is attached to a bright yellow vertical platform that the aircraft hooked onto. This image shows the X-13 from the right side, showing the large triangular wing and large tail. Image: Matt Bone

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 30/09/2026

Look what arrived at last, @navalairhistory.com! Email inbound soon. I mean, it's too big to fit with the other Willises to start with... 🤔

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really moved by this piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. Honestly the whole Cornell situation leaves me with few words fit for social media and I'm grateful for her eloquence and courage.

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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, so this is actually insane! Check out some of the first data from the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, capturing the full northern lights oval around the north pole in ultraviolet light. All in daytime, whilst invisible to the naked eye!

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London. There are events across the weekend to mark this important milestone in opposing Fascism in Britain. #CableStreet90 togetheroncablestreet.com www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... 1/2

Image of sticker produced by Unite the Union to advertise events around the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, 4th October 1936.

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 27/09/2026

Latest delivery of persilschein to the Horsham office. 3rd 1953 English printing of Heinz Knoke's I Flew For Hitler. You have to give him credit for getting the title spot on. #avgeek #histbookchat #ww2

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Our fab Patreon supporters now have access to our visit to the Vintage Wings Inc. team in Franklin, PA, to get all the latest on Beach City Baby and her new wings. Not often to get shown around a C-53 Skytrooper. Join the fun today from just £3 a month +vat. www.patreon.com/theaviations...

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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The North American T-6 Texan (SNJ, Harvard) is, IMHO, the most important aircraft NAA ever created. Arguably, it is one of, if not the, most important Allied aircraft of WW2.

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100%. Galland's 'The First and the Last' is the gold standard for this bollocks, and authors today still quote liberally, without reservation and without critique/analysis of it. My copy of which is missing... 🤔

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A German word meaning "Persil Ticket" denoting being washed clean of your Nazi past. All of these memoirs are a degree of that.

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To be clear, this thing was reprinted in English 3 times between June and September 1953... There has always been a market for this stuff. I would hope that John Ewing, the RCAF officer who became enamoured with Konke and translated this, made some coin out of kickstarting all these books.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

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No...for reenactments to be...realistic, there need to be people being horribly maimed and killed. Everything else is sanitized cosplay. And you don't need Nazis for cosplay. The Clean Wehrmacht is the cockroach of historical myths.

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@curatorian.bsky.social do you still look after the captions for the IWM archive? Scoon was Grenadadian and not Trinidadian, despite what all the press at the time said. His boat to the UK left from Trinidad...

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Forgotten Heroes? The Black Pilots Who Fought for the RAF

Scoon is one of the chaps @badsocialism.bsky.social spend most of our DMs discussing! We also recorded a podcast about the Black RAF Experience and how it led into the West Indian independence movements post-war. You can find it here: youtu.be/-umqjt4hmDQ

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are Second World War pilots that fascinate me and those that fascinate me and frustrate me, as I want to know more about them! Hello Jellico Scoon, subject of one of the more famous propaganda photos, Spitfire and Typhoon driver, and was even featured on the BBC.

IWM Caption: West Indians in the Royal Air Force: A Trinidad accountant, Jellicoe Scoon, recently arrived in England as a Royal Air Force recruit. Aircraftman Scoon was accepted as a pilot, completed elementary flying school training with at least fifty hours to his credit, and was then sent to Service Flying Training School. IWM (CH 5213)

Note from Matt: Scoon was from Grenada and not Trinidad.

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It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First review I've seen and ICL I enjoyed reading this. "The price is justified for a that like no other merits to be nominated as the definitive work on this topic." Translation in ALT @mike-bechthold.bsky.social @theaviation.show @alanallport.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social

Breaking Rommel by Michele Palermo, Marco de Poli and Andreas Biermann. IBN Editore, Rome 2026. Euro 39
The Chronicles of the air war in North Africa and the Mediterranean were recounted in a complete manner in a series of books in English, Mediterranean Air War, by Christopher Shores together with various other authors including the Italians Malizia and Massimello.

The current book, in English language, concentrates on a period of the conflict, July 1942, when the Axis troops under Rommel's leadership sought to break through at El Alamein to reach Alexandria, but were stopped by the English. The seesaw of the ground combat was reflected also in the air, in which both sides sought, without success, superiority over the battlefield, with hundreds of aeral sorties each day and the loss of over 200 planes between both sides.

This is a colossal work of 490 pages that presents the events day by day with an absolute precision thanks to work in the historical archives of the United Kingdom, completely, and those of other nations involved, including the Italian war diaries at the Historical Office of the Italian Air Force.

Each day we therefore have the ground operations, providing the general frame and a detailed presentation of all encounters in the air, hour by hour, was ample quotes from comet reports and tables that compile the data and provide an overview of the missions. The events of this are not described day by day but practically hour by hour. At the end of the book there are various tables, recounting comets the orders of battle, the numbers of missions and the losses.

This isn't light reading, but it is admirable. It is not heavily illustrated, but there are sufficient numbers of photos and various German maps of the period together with other documents. The price is justified for a book that like no other merits to be considered the definitive work on the subject.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 25/09/2026

I stumbled across this photo from 1983-ish, no idea who took it, from Kazakhstan near Baikonur. It is basically the plot to one of my favorite books, “The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years” by Chinghiz Aitmatov.

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The Aviationist @theaviationist.com · 25/09/2026

New Video Offers Clearest Look Yet At Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile On F/A-18F Super Hornet The newly released imagery shows Castelion’s Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic weapon carried by a U.S. Navy Super Hornet during a test flight. Story here: theaviationist.com/2026/09/25/b...

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New Video Offers Clearest Look Yet At Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile On F/A-18F Super Hornet

The newly released imagery shows Castelion’s Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic weapon carried by a U.S. Navy Super Hornet during a test flight. Newly

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Matt Bone @boneyabroad.com · 25/09/2026

The new Tom Morello album is rather disappointing. It's widely uneven, with the better solo tracks being the Nightwatchman-esque ones, but the collabs aren't bad. That said, Unconquered with KNEECAP is an utter banger. youtu.be/lDFzlqhgpMU?...

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Tom Morello - "UNCONQUERED (Feat. KNEECAP)" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And a 2015 report highlighted there were AT LEAST 400 cases of rape or sexual assault in the military over 5 years - not including cases dealt with by the police One case every 3 weeks In 2015 there were 138,1700 men in the UK military I suspect the 'per capita' crowd may fall silent about now...

A report highlights over 400 sexual assault cases in the UK military in five years, raising concerns about underreported incidents.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In fact, it was so bad that there was a campaign called: "Don't kid yourself. Without consent, it's RAPE" (I know, it seems British men ALSO need to be taught about consent! - who knew 🤷‍♀️) 14/

A woman in a military-style outfit stands close to a man in red military attire, who raises a drink, while another man sits alone, looking distressed.

A distressed woman, partially clothed, is seated with her head in her hands, surrounded by empty bottles, emphasizing the serious issue of consent.

A woman in a red dress holds a drink, while men in the background are partially visible, highlighting a serious message about consent.

A man seated in a dim space and another man with an intense expression highlight consent issues in a bold campaign against sexual assault.

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If I'd been a drinker earlier, my geography results would have been much better. Maybe.

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I think that Britney Spears is on there is 🤌

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Maureen Dunlop was from Quilmes, the same place as the beer.

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Napalm Death when writing Jack (Jackie) Price?

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*The Argentine connection to the Typhoon to the FAA 🤦

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