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Saw this from The French History Podcast
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Please share and get this back to its loving owner
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When you've had too much coffee and get over confident
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Bloody Swedish making everyone else in NATO's camo look shit by comparison
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LO (Lingerie Observed). Victoria’s Secret shopping spotted in B-2. (Credit Nick Taylor)
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Bugatti 100 remains the most beautiful aircraft - credit: UretskyAviation
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Anatoly Nikolayevich Kvochur
16 April 1952-15 April 2024
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Ancient Rafale found in Aztec pyramid
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Bio-engineered SR-71s to be grown in the sea
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First image of the re-engined B-52I turboprop. Definitely an impressive machine.
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Remember when a new aircraft was an absolute thrill? Those times are here again
Real Gs move in silence like lasagna
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There is no reason to retweet this picture of the Edgley Optica. I just want to live in a world where the image of an obscure aeroplane can get 315 retweets. Maybe I'm just dreaming.
#livingontheedgly
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Which aircraft would you put in the Tate Modern? I vote Victor
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1978 concept for Rockwell International’s Star Raker, a reusable space plane proposal. Mach 7.2 capable, and able to perform four missions a day, including satellite repair in the outer atmosphere. Just look at the thing! Amazing.
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You never actually own a B-52. You merely look after it for the next generation (Air Force’s youngest B-52 turns 62 this year)
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What do all these aircraft have in common?
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It’s the annual retweet-the-Edgley-Optica-for-no-reason-challenge. It is impossible that this will be retweeted more than 200 times, unless the love of obscure aircraft is strong in you.
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"Hello, I'm taller than you and have better camo"
"Hello, I'm taller than you and have better camo"
Lt Col Peter Sturesson, Swedish Air Force, making US folks feel inadequate.
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A prop researcher asked me before a Bond film whether two engines in a pod would look cool and modern. I said no, and they ignored me and made the Skyfleet S570. Kind of glad they ignored me.
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It's that time again: the can-I-get-an-obscure-British aeroplane-the-Edgley-Optica- retweeted-1000-times- for-no-reason-challenge-please?
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Have problems assembling my IKEA A-10
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Those creepy people who never post anything on social media but know what everyone else is up to
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From circa 2006 to maybe 2007/8 I worked at the brilliantly eccentric Motor Books in London (Aviation, Maritime & Military section). It was a living sitcom of bizarre characters, forbidden books available only to MoD/police, & one of the last survivors of London's book district.
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40s Instagram would have been wild
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It’s the annual retweet-the-Edgley-Optica-for-no-reason-challenge. It is impossible that this will be retweeted more than 600 times, unless the love of obscure aircraft is strong in you.
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It would be impossible for the unloved Beaufighter to get over 454 RTs. Help me prove this wrong for Beau Monday
#beaumonday
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Just speaking to a Danish Draken pilot who noted "About the safety record: it was a single-seat, single-engined aircraft, yet went for 13 years without any hull loss - compare that with Jaguars, Harriers, F-104s etc."
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About once a year I remember that this flew in the 1940s and it blows my mind every time
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Last RAF aircraft with cool camo scheme*
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My friend bet me £20 I cannot get 300 retweets for the wonderful (he says ugly) Vickers Wellesley. I have no idea who will win this bet.
#shareWellesleylove
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The ideal fighter would be project-managed by Sweden, designed by France, have Russian WVR capabilities and tolerance to ill-treatment, European weapons, Chinese-funding levels, British engines and seats, fitted with US avionics (EW modified by Israel) and a Japanese paint scheme
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I'm going to share a few aircraft types. The one with the most RTs will win. Let's see how the Draken does
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Flying & fighting in HAL Tejas: Interview with test pilot Rajeev Joshi
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The Mirage IV remains the best-looking French jet of all time. I will not be taking questions at this time. (in response to
@tempest_books
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10 Reasons the Bristol Beaufighter was the hardest bastard in the sky
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If this gets to 1000 RTs I'll release a Tejas pilot interview this week (fingers crossed the pilot gets all the answers to me this week..which is why I've set the RT figure so high!)
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I better try even harder then. Nobody loves the Draken enough to retweet this picture:
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World's greatest unboxing video in production
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When this gets to 600 retweets I'll share an interview with an Iranian F-14 Tomcat combat veteran! This is an absolutely fascinating read, looking forward to sharing it.
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Your annual reminder that the Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave was the coolest helicopter that ever flew that wasn't a AH-56 Cheyenne
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Lightning graveyard (image: Lars Newton)
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Mosquito prize for one Mosquito fan who retweets this.
(P&P only free for UK)
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Falcon 20 with afterburner! From a 1988 test
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78 of 320 Vought Cutlasses were lost in accidents in only 55,000 flying hours making it the most dangerous US Navy jet of all time.
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Retweet this if you think the Mosquito was magnificent:
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Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 jet fighter flying boat in London
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if you see something that doesn’t look right, call or text the British Transport Police
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Name the jet engine manufacturer
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What a photo! Where were you when you realised the fabulous X-15 looks like the child of an F-16 and a SR-71? ('In a certain angle and in a certain light')
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If this gets 400 retweets I’ll share an interview with an Indian Air Force MiG-29 pilot
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"Come and get me with your S-400 if I’m at 200 feet above the ground — that’s not going to happen anytime soon, so I’m not afraid." Interview with Rafale pilot here:
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Su-22 for sale. One careful owner
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This is cautionary lesson for publishers to always let subject experts sign-off on frontcovers
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Holy smokes! Vigilante and Crusader launch from USS Enterprise in 1962
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The Makhonine Mak-10 had extendable wings. it deserves 100 retweets. No more. No less.
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The US 1950s policy was 'create an imperfect aircraft, then radically improve it until it's brilliant'. The British just liked the first part...
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It’s the annual retweet-the-Edgley-Optica-for-no-reason-challenge. It is impossible that this will be retweeted more than 300 times, unless the love of obscure aircraft is strong in you.
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Worst named aircraft? Let’s start the bidding with the Accountant
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No one loves the Westland Wyvern enough to retweet this:
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Reasons to be happy number 456: The ShinMaywa US-2
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Amazing pic of Soviet Myasishchev M-4 'Bison' taken by VFP-63 in the Tonkin Gulf, 1970
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Which of these is the 'real' Viper?
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Taylor Swift, which other pop stars sound like they could also be interwar British biplanes?
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Fake canopies painted on the underside of an aircraft can confuse an opponent. If this was a real cockpit this would be a rather natty tailless dorsal-intaked fighter. Arrestor hook for using tram lines presumably.
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Retweet this if you've flown in a Chipmunk
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It’s that time of year already? Yes, it’s the time to prove that the brilliantly weird Edgley Optica can be retweeted 5000 times for no reason. Impossible you say? Probably… but let’s try
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My new favourite aircraft, the Miles M.30! A flipping British 'Moonbat'! LOVE IT
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The coolest thing you've seen today: the Boeing Model 985-213 light fighter project
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The Potez-CAMS 141 has highest ratio of submarines sunk per airframes built of all time.
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One more Vigilante, then bed. Night all
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The vast Latécoère 631 wearing invasion stripes! Wonderful.
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This has been a long time in the making! Here we go: Top 12 Swedish aircraft
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That the still futuristic X-32 now looks like an ancient relic leaves me with a funny feeling
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Interview with the greatest living fighter ace: F-14 Tomcat pilot Col. (rtd) Fereydoun A. Mazandarani
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First JF-17 intercept by Rafale results in lovechild
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The greatest aircraft of the Indian Air Force, Part 1: The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 by KS Nair
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If this gets 300 retweets I'll share our Su-30 pilot interview this week, if it reaches 400 I'll follow it with our JF-17 pilot interview...sound fair?
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I'm going to share a few aircraft types. The one with the most RTs will win. Let's see how the Victor does
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"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by RTing or not as you wish.
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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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If this gets 1000 RTs I'll share an article on weird F-16 variants
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Defecting Felon pilots: please do a cool flyover before you land at a NATO base
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If this gets 350 retweets I'll publish an interview with an IAF Marut fighter pilot (the last design by Kurt Tank, creator of the Fw 190). There's little available online for this type so I was enthralled to learn more.
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Best airport merch I’ve ever seen
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"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by RTing or not as you wish.
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Rafale receives holy grail upgrade.
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In 1960s Britain nobody was younger than 40, even 25-year-olds
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France has held the European air speed record for over 50 years, time to pointlessly spunk some cash on a Speed Typhoon I say - RT if you agree with this terrible idea.
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(L to R) The Flying Naan, Captain Sensible & Professor Fantastic
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