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 💅

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

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

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 🏅

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

YESSSSS

Brett Holman@airminded.org · 4w ago

It’s 2026, where’s my flying cottage? Daily Sketch, 8 Mar 1912; Daily Dispatch (Manchester), 20 Dec 1911

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

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

Great to see this church back in the news!

Echoes in the Sky@exoticaviation.bsky.social · 2y ago

St James' Church in the village of Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire (locally famous for leaning approx 0.8º more than that tower in Pisa (after Superman fixed it)) and the Martin Marietta X-24B experimental lifting body of the early 1970s co-incidence? oh ho-ho I think not “LOOKING INTO IT”

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

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 🤷‍♂️

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 🤷‍♂️)

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(?)

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

“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...)

"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"

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

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...

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)

For Hayao Miyazaki’s birthday, two creations that I put together over the Xmas break. The Laputa robot model was in a box for over a decade, and it felt like time to build it

“L-R: George Palmer Putnam, Mrs. Putnam, the former Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Amy Mollison nee Johnson and Capt Jim Mollison basking in the sand at Rye, New York on 29/07/33. The flying Britons celebrated their first wedding anniversary with the Putnams." apimagesblog.com/historical/2... 1/2

imagining an alternate reality where ungainly, gold-embossed Louis Vuitton helicopters splutter across idyllic countryside vistas - these were his grandchildren! "Prototype Jean et Pierre VUITTON, 1909"

The Fairey Tail of Newark..

Lt Stuart Culley launches from a "lighter" - a barge used to tow flying boats - fitted with a take-off platform, to attack Zeppelin L53 off the coast of the Netherlands, 11/08/1918.. incredible art by Keith Ferris (keithferrisart.com/product/just...) 1/2

the fantastic rear of the Parseval PL25 German patrol airship, which becomes some kind of alternate-universe dreamliner in its own right

to me, every worthy/serious Bond argument or opinion just ends at a dead end right here:

Came across this in my bookmarks today, from 1989 I might start implementing the old-fashioned five seconds of silence, before the continuity announcer inhales, into everyday life youtu.be/ApYXnCaNG0Y

I recently got a birding scope for a significant birthday. With a phone attached, I took this photo - I think it’s the Moon - yesterday evening, low in the smoky French countryside

The “president shitting on his people” video is awful on many levels - including that AI has a reasonable chance of crashing the US stock market - but it also highlights that there is only one jet-powered fertiliser-spraying aircraft that matters 👹

“It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up Everything is f*cked, everybody sucks You don't really know why But you wanna justify THE NEED FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF TURBULENT MOTION” (From the Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, March 1971)