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✈️ THE AIRSHIP THAT DARED THE OCEAN
October 15
On this day in 1910, the airship America lifted off from Hoboken, New Jersey, in humanity's first attempt to cross the Atlantic by powered aircraft. Four explorers crammed into an open wicker gondola, nursing a kerosene stove and a leaking hydrogen envelope as they vanished into the haze east of Newfoundland — never to be seen again. Storms, ice and dwindling fuel haunted their drift toward Virginia; the crew survived only by parachuting from the sinking ship far out at sea, while the great silver cigar slipped beneath the waves. The ocean kept the airship, but the dream of crossing it by air had been born.
This post is 100% AI generated.
#OnThisDay #History #AIart #GenerativeAI #CinematicRealism #AirshipAmerica #AviationHistory

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/38744/ The US Air Force F-35 Has a J-20 Stealth Fighter Math Problem It Might Not Be Able to Solve #Australia #Aviation #AviationHistory #China #F35 #Fighters #J20 #Japan #Military #SouthKorea #Stealth #USAirForce #USMilitary

A cabin from Germany’s former government Airbus A340 ‘Konrad Adenauer’ -- associated with Angela Merkel’s era -- is travelling 2,500 km from Spain to Berlin for public display. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/money/once-a-flying-office-for-angela-merkel-this-aircraft-cabin-is-coming-home-to-germany-tr0ogdhl?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AviationHistory #Berlin #AirbusA340

https://www.europesays.com/iran/325978/ Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga Dropped 4,047,000 Pounds of Ordnance on Iraq and Transited the Suez Canal Six Times. Saddam Hussein Announced on Television That She Had Been Sunk. #AircraftCarrier #AircraftCarriers #AviationHistory #Iraq #Military #MilitaryHistory #Navy #SovietUnion #USMilitary #UsNavy #USSSaratoga #USSSaratogaCV60

#AviationBooks #AviationHistory Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf - Chipmunk at 80: Volume I by Ben Griffiths and Ian Black https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/travel-for-aircraft-bookshelf-chipmunk-at-80-volume-i-by-ben-griffiths-and-ian-black.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

✈️ OCTOBER 11, 1927 | ROMANIA TAKES FLIGHT

🇷🇴 On this day, the I.A.R. aircraft factory was inaugurated in Brașov, marking a major milestone in Romania’s aviation industry. The facility would become an important center for aircraft manufacturing and engineering, contributing to the country’s technological development.

✨ A proud chapter in Romania’s industrial and aviation history!

#RomanianHistory #IAR #Brasov #AviationHistory #October11 #Engineering

Cleveland OH Hopkins Postcard.
United Airlines 737s and a Caravelle - N1006U, along with a Northeast Airlines DC-9.
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#ClevelandHopkins #UnitedAirlines #Sohio #AviationHistory #AirportTerminal #NortheastAirlines #DC9 #b737 #Aviation #Avgeek #Airplanes #AirportArchitecture

USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) en route from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, 24–31 August 1944, with 14 PBJ-1D Mitchells from VMB 611 and three JM-1 Marauders. #USN #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

#AviationBooks #AviationHistory Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf - Admiral Yamamoto: The Gripping Story of the Legendary Naval Commander Who Planned and Executed the Pearl Harbor Attack https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/travel-for-aircraft-bookshelf-admiral-yamamoto-the-gripping-story-of-the-legendary-naval-commander-who-planned-and-executed-the-pearl-harbor-attack.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The first successful powered airplane flight took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. Orville Wright piloted the 12-second flight, covering about 120 feet.
#AviationHistory #WrightBrothers #History

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished, a mysterious object detected near a remote Pacific island has revived one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Could it be a clue to her final flight?
#AmeliaEarhart #AviationHistory #UnsolvedMysteries #HistoryMystery #HiddenHistory #HistoricalMysteries
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general-history-famous-people/amelia-earhart-0021864

A pair of 122nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron F-102As in flight over New Orleans, 1965. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/13191/ An SR-71 Blackbird Left Andrews Air Force Base in 1984 With Its Own Afterburner Blowing 1,500-Degree Flame Into the Wing. The Pilot Dumped 14,000 Pounds of Fuel to Get the Weight Off and Set 13 Acres of Maryland on Fire. #AirForce #Aviation #AviationHistory #ColdWar #Military #SR71 #SR71Blackbird #USAirForce #USAirForce #USMilitary

The Best Way to Hang an Airplane From the Ceiling.
Honoring one of World War II’s great dive bombers—the Douglas Dauntless.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2026/09/28/the-best-way-to-hang-an-airplane-from-the-ceiling/ #globalmuseum #museums #smithsonian #aviationhistory #WWII

I found a black-and-white photocopy of a British Airways cabin baggage placard and decided to see how far an AI-driven analysis could get using only the evidence visible in the images. Can you help date this document? Full write-up:

https://hackernoon.com/ai-helps-date-a-vintage-british-airways-baggage-placard

#AviationHistory #BritishAirways #Concorde #AI #AirlineMemorabilia #TTMO #HackerNoon

Gimli is likely more famous because of the Gimli Glider. In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel over southern Manitoba and successfully glided to a landing at Gimli Motorsport Park which was an abandoned Canadian Air Force base.

#CanadianHeroes #AviationHistory
https://youtu.be/8y8JBAr8dZ4

The 1967 Airbus Memorandum and the start of an aviation giant

In the late 1960s, the commercial aviation industry was dominated by American manufacturers. Companies such as Boeing, Douglas…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Airbus #AirbusA300B4 #Aircraftdevelopment #aviationhistory #Consortium #mou
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/49587/

The 1967 Airbus Memorandum and the start of an aviation giant

In the late 1960s, the commercial aviation industry was dominated by American manufacturers. Companies such as Boeing, Douglas…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Airbus #AirbusA300B4 #Aircraftdevelopment #aviationhistory #consortium #MoU
https://www.europesays.com/france/84813/

Ah, yes, the riveting saga of Denver's airport evolution: from humble mail strip to passenger terminal 🛬. Who knew air mail contracts were the unsung heroes of aviation history? ✈️ Spoiler alert: they should have stuck with letter delivery; at least lost luggage doesn't require a runway. 📦✈️
https://computer.rip/2026-09-20-denver-baggage.html #DenverAirport #Evolution #AviationHistory #AirMail #LostLuggage #TravelHumor #HackerNews #ngated

B-24J Duchess of the 456th Bomb Group after a forced landing at Letisko Piestany Aerodrome, Czechoslovakia, 25 March 1944. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

Why WWII Pilots Feared Their Own Engine More Than the Enemy
NapierSabre
#HawkerTyphoon
#AviationHistory
#EngineeringNightmares
#WW2History
#MechanicalEngineering

Post/video by Kinetium

Lilian Bland

In 1909, most women in Britain and Ireland were still more than eight years away from being allowed to vote. Lilian Bland was building an aeroplane. Not buying one, or sitting in one while someone else flew it. She was building one and when the fuel tank failed to arrive, she improvised with a whiskey bottle and her aunt’s ear trumpet.

I think you’re going to like Lilian.

Lilian Emily Bland was born in Kent on 28 September 1878, the youngest of three children. Her father, John Humphrey Bland, came from an established Irish family in County Antrim, and after the death of her mother she eventually moved with him to Carnmoney, near Belfast.

Lilian was never particularly interested in behaving as a respectable Edwardian woman was expected to behave. She wore practical clothes and worked as a photographer and journalist at a time when neither profession was exactly overflowing with women. Lilian specialised in sporting events and became an accomplished press photographer. She was also fascinated by birds and the mechanics of flight.

Lilian was also a keen horsewoman, although her particular equestrian talents apparently extended beyond simply staying on the horse. She wrote for Badminton Magazine, and in 1906 contributed a wonderfully titled piece called “The Art of Falling Off” – and it wasn’t a metaphor.

Lilian had fallen from horses often enough to develop definite opinions on how the thing ought to be done. Rather than treating an unscheduled departure from the saddle as an embarrassing failure, she approached it almost as another sporting skill: if you were going to fall off a horse, you might as well learn to do it properly. There is something wonderfully Lilian about that. This was a woman who could take the prospect of being unexpectedly launched towards the ground and turn it into an instructional article.

Then there was jujitsu. At a time when the martial art was still decidedly unusual in Britain and Ireland, Lilian learned that too – and reportedly taught it to boys in the local village. So, before we even get to the aeroplane, we have an Edwardian woman who smoked, shot, photographed sporting events, wrote articles about the correct technique for falling off horses and taught village boys jujitsu.

Frankly, it almost seems inevitable that she decided to build an aeroplane

Then, in 1909, Louis Blériot flew across the English Channel.

It must have been one of those moments when the world suddenly feels bigger. Powered flight was still very new. The Wright brothers has made their famous flight at Kitty Hawk only six years earlier. Aeroplanes were fragile, experimental machines and nobody really knew what they were eventually going to become but Lilian was fascinated by them.

She attended an aviation meeting in Blackpool and studied the machines closely, making notes while she watched. Apparently, some of the men thought she was someones secretary. She wasn’t. She was working out how to build one. A postcard showing Blériot’s aircraft and it’s dimensions helped her experiments, and she began constructing models of her own. When those worked, she decided there was really only one sensible thing to do: Build a full sized aeroplane. In a stable. At home. So, using timber, bamboo, fabric, wire and whatever else was available, Lilian constructed a biplane glider with a wingspan of more than twenty feet. She named it the Mayfly… because it may fly or it may not.

Initially there was no engine. Lilian took the Mayfly to Carmoney Hill and experimented with it as a glider. It worked well enough for her ambitions to increase considerably. Now she wanted an engine. before spending money on one, however, she needed to know if the aircraft could carry the additional weight and her solution to this problem was wonderfully straightforward. She got severel blokes she knew to hang onto it. Accounts describe four members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and her father’s garden boy being used as human ballast. If the mayfly could lift five men, Lilian reasoned, it could lift an engine. And, fair enough. you can’t really argue with that.

Scientific research completed, Lilian then proceeded to order a 20-horsepower engine from A.V Roe and Company in England and, impatient with delays, travelled across to collect it herself. She brought it home by train, balanced on two spars.

Then another problem arose. She had an engine but she didn’t have a fuel tank.This apparently struck Lilian as an inconvenience rather than an actual reason to stop. Her solution was magnificently improvised. With no proper fuel tank available, Lilian used an empty Jameson’s whisky bottle, feeding petrol from it to the engine. And because she also needed suitable tubing to complete the makeshift arrangement, she borrowed her aunt’s ear trumpet.

So there she was in an Irish field in 1910, attempting to get her homemade aeroplane into the sky with a 20-horsepower engine being fed from a Jameson’s bottle through part of an elderly relative’s hearing apparatus. And it worked.

Sort of.

Lilian described the engine as sounding like an enormous cat fight, while local people apparently wondered whether a mill had exploded before deciding the racket must be a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, her mechanic became so fascinated by the proceedings that he managed to pour petrol over the aeroplane rather than into the improvised fuel system. Remarkably, nobody seems to have gone up in flames. Eventually a proper fuel tank arrived.

Which was probably for the best.

The Mayfly was moved to a larger area of parkland at Randalstown in County Antrim and on 31 August 1910, Lilian climbed aboard. There was no enclosed cockpit, no sophisticated instrument panel or reassuring array of modern controls. The Mayfly was a lightweight wooden framework covered in fabric, with Lilian sitting exposed inside it. And she had designed and built the whole thing herself. The engine started, The Mayfly moved across the field. Then the wheels left the ground and Lilian Bland was flying.

She made several powered flights, reportedly reaching around thirty feet in height and eventually covering roughly a quarter of a mile. She later recalled running back afterwards to inspect the tracks in the grass. almost unable to believe that the wheels had left the ground. They had, and Lilian Bland had become the first woman to fly a powered aircraft in Ireland and is widely credited as the first woman in the British Isles – and possibly the world – to design, build and fly her own aeroplane.

Women had flown before Lilian. Women were beginning to learn to pilot aircraft, but Lilian hadn’t just learned how to pilot someone else’s machine. She had studied flight, experimented with models, designed an aircraft, sourced the materials. constructed it, tested it as a glider, fitted an engine, solved the inevitable engineering problems and then climbed into it herself. In 1910. She even considered turning the whole thing into a business, She advertised gliders for £80 and powered biplanes for £250.

Sadly, Lilian’s father was considerably less enthusiastic about having an aeronautical engineer for a daughter than Lilian was about being one. he worried that she would eventually kill herself and reportedly offered her a Ford Model T if she would give up flying. Lilian accepted, which sounds like the end of the adventure until you realise what she did next. She taught herself to drive, collected the car in Dublin and drove it back to Belfast. Then she became a motor dealer.

By 1911 she was selling Ford cars in Belfast and has been described as Ford’s first agent in Northern Ireland. Because apparently just inventing and flying an aeroplane wasn’t enough for one lifetime. That same year Lilian married her cousin, Charles Loftus Bland, who had been living in Canada. In 1912 she joined him on Vancouver Island, where the pair attempted another sort of pioneering life, establishing a farm in fairly unforgiving surroundings. Their daughter Patricia was born in 1913 but sadly died from tetanus aged just sixteen. Lilian’s marriage eventually broke down, and in 1935 she returned to Britain.

She settled in Cornwall, where she turned her attention to gardening, painting and the considerably safer pursuit of gambling. She lived until the age of ninety-two, dying on 11 May 1971.

For decades, Lilian Bland received little recognition for what she had achieved. Maybe because the history of aviation became dominated by the enormous technological developments that followed. Within a few years, the fragile machines of Lilian’s generation had evolved into military aircraft. Within decades there were passenger airlines, jet engines and humans heading towards space. The little Mayfly was easily swallowed up in all that noise.

Or maybe there was another reason.

Lilian was a woman operating in a world where engineering, motoring and aviation were overwhelmingly regarded as male territory. She didn’t fit comfortably into the expected story of an Edwardian woman, and history has a rather unfortunate habit of misplacing women who refuse to fit nicely into the boxes provided for them.

But recognition has finally begun to catch up. There is now a park named after Lilian Bland near Carnmoney, complete with a statue commemorating the Mayfly, and the Ulster History Circle records her achievement with a plaque at Tobercorran House. Aviation historians have also worked to restore her place in the story of early flight.

And what a place it is.

Lilian Bland didn’t wait for someone to tell her that women could build aeroplanes. She didn’t even wait for aeroplanes to become particularly good aeroplanes. She looked at one of the newest technologies on Earth, worked out roughly how it functioned and decided to give it a go.

When she needed to know if it could carry an engine, she got the local coppers to hang on to it as ballast. When her fuel tank didn’t turn up, she found a whiskey bottle that would do the job. When she needed tubing, she borrowed an ear trumpet. And when it was finally ready, she climbed aboard the machine she had built with her own hands and she flew it.

The Mayfly may have been promitive.

Lilian Bland was anything but.

#AviationBooks #AviationHistory Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf - German Gliders in World War II: Luftwaffe Gliders and their Powered Variants by Heinz Mankau & Peter Petrick https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/travel-for-aircraft-bookshelf-german-gliders-in-world-war-ii-luftwaffe-gliders-and-their-powered-variants-by-heinz-mankau-peter-petrick.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Found something interesting in an old luggage shop: a photocopy of a British Airways cabin baggage placard.

I gave the black-and-white images to my AI committee with strict instructions to be conservative and explain every conclusion.

If you know anything about M665-1st, BA operational signage or Concorde-era documentation, I'd love to hear from you.

https://www.penportal.com/@chribonn/using-ai-cabin-baggage-british-airways-concorde-allowance-circa-1991-1997

#BritishAirways #Concorde #AIResearch #AviationHistory #TTMO #PenPortal

The 10 Best Aviation Museums in the U.S. for History Buffs and Plane Enthusiasts.
“Aviation museums preserve the stories and breakthroughs that shaped flight. For many of us in the aviation world, they’re a lasting source of inspiration.”
https://www.travelandleisure.com/best-aviation-museums-in-the-us-11974308 #globalmuseum #museums #aviation #planes #aircraft #flying #aviationhistory

A PB2Y-5R carrying Admiral Nimitz arrives in Tokyo Bay, 29 August 1945. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

#AviationBooks #AviationHistory Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf - Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-1945 by Ermanno Martino https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/travel-for-aircraft-bookshelf-japanese-aircraft-carriers-1920-1945-by-ermanno-martino.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I found a B&W photocopy of a British Airways cabin baggage placard and asked my AI committee to analyse it.

The rules:

- Be conservative
- Explain deductions
- Separate evidence from speculation

Know anything about M665-1st or similar BA signage? I'd love to hear from you.

https://medium.com/@chribonn/using-ai-cabin-baggage-british-airways-concorde-allowance-circa-1991-1997-1f69648ef21e

#BritishAirways #Concorde #AviationHistory #AIResearch #TTMO

I just wanted to say a big 'thank you' to those who have supported my present project, with a special big shout out to Stevie Gallacher for his feature on my work in The Sunday Post Newspaper, plus today's live interview on Talk Radio Europe with the very entertaining Giles Brown. Much appreciated chaps!

#aviation #aviationHistory #military #graveyard #cemetery

50 Years Ago Today a Russian Pilot Landed a Mach 2.83 MiG-25 Foxbat in Japan and Defected. The West Took Apart the Aircraft It Had Feared for a Decade and Shipped It Back in Crates.

Summary and Key Points: On the morning of September 6, 1976 (50 years ago today), Senior Lieutenant Viktor…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Aviation #AviationHistory #ColdWar #history #MiG-25 #MiG-25Foxbat #Nihon #Russia #SovietUnion #USSR
https://www.europesays.com/japan/86965/

#AviationBooks #AviationHistory Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf - The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command rose to become the No. 1 factor in the destruction of Germany in WW2 by Marcus Gibson https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/travel-for-aircraft-bookshelf-the-greatest-force-how-raf-bomber-command-rose-to-become-the-no-1-factor-in-the-destruction-of-germany-in-ww2-by-marcus-gibson.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Delagrange biplane
https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-avion-aviation-aeroplane-delagrange-4

#Aviation #Delagrange #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Biplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #AirHistory #VintageAviation #Postcard #PostcardCollector #Deltiology #France #1900s #Pioneers #AntiquePostcard

The Delagrange biplane
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#Aviation #Delagrange #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Biplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #AirHistory #VintageAviation #Postcard #PostcardCollector #Deltiology #France #1900s #Pioneers #AntiquePostcard

The Delagrange biplane
www.cpaphil.com/en/v...

#Aviation #Delagrange #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Biplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #AirHistory #VintageAviation #Postcard #PostcardCollector #Deltiology #France #1900s #Pioneers #AntiquePostcard

Can you provide more information out this British Airways Concorde cabin baggage allowance placard? The document reference is M665-1st.

#TTMO #BritishAirways #Concorde #Airlines #BaggageAllowance #AviationHistory

A spectacular 1911 scene at Vincennes: pilot Lasseur de Ranzay flying his Blériot monoplane

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-avion-aviation-vincennes-le-lasseur-de-ranzay-monoplan-bleriot

#Aviation #Bleriot #LasseurDeRanzay #1911 #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Monoplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #VintageAviation #Postcard

A spectacular 1911 scene at Vincennes: pilot Lasseur de Ranzay flying his Blériot monoplane

www.cpaphil.com/en/v...

#Aviation #Bleriot #LasseurDeRanzay #1911 #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Monoplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #VintageAviation #Postcard

A spectacular 1911 scene at Vincennes: pilot Lasseur de Ranzay flying his Blériot monoplane

www.cpaphil.com/en/v...

#Aviation #Bleriot #LasseurDeRanzay #1911 #VintagePostcard #EarlyAviation #AviationHistory #Monoplane #Flying #Aviator #Aeronautics #VintageAviation #Postcard

A brief history surrounding another remarkable aviation memorial. That of the Hon. Captain Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock - 45 Sqn. Royal Flying Corps...

https://www.lorraineevans.com/blog.asp

#aviation #aviationHistory #graveyards #burial #cemeteries

Consolidated B-24J Liberator VI, call sign GR-R “Neciuk,” serial no. EV978, USAAF no. 42-64378, along with its crew. 1586th Special Mission Squadron. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

Qantas Airbus A380 catastrophic engine failure in 2010

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540565

#HackerNews #Qantas #A380 #Airbus #enginefailure #aviationhistory #aircraftsafety #flightincident

American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-mechanic-passes-away-100-record-80-years/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493468

#HackerNews #AmericanAirlines #Mechanic #Tribute #AviationHistory #Legacy #AirlineIndustry #100Years

Sarla Thakral (also spelt Thakral; August 8, 1914 – March 15, 2008) was the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft.
In 1936, at just 21 years old, she earned her aviation pilot license and famously made her first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth biplane while dressed in a traditional sari.
Later she became a successful artist, watercolor painter, and designer of textiles & costume jewelry. She passed away in 2008 at the age of 93
https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/sarla-thukral.html #globalmuseum #AviationHistory #India

A 73rd Fighter Squadron P-40E takes off from USS Saratoga (CV-3) on the way to reinforce the Midway garrison, 25 June 1942. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

Sneak peek into my first ever Boneyards of Steel talk (details available next week)

WWII poster printed by Ford, Shapland and Co Ltd. London depicting Supermarine Spitfire, promoting the merits of salvage!

#aviation #aviationHistory #archaeology #wwII #Secondworldwar #militaryAviation

VINTAGE POSTCARD Plane Aviation Airship Zeppelin the nacelle of the airship Clement Bayard
https://www.cpaphil.com/en/products/vintage-postcard-plane-aviation-airship-zeppelin-the-nacelle-of-the-airship-clement-bayard
#VintagePostcard #Zeppelin #Aviation #Airship #AviationHistory #ClementBayard

VINTAGE POSTCARD Plane Aviation Airship Zeppelin the nacelle of the airship Clement Bayard
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#VintagePostcard #Zeppelin #Aviation #Airship #AviationHistory #ClementBayard

Arrival of the EUROPÄISCHEN RUNDREISE 1911, at VINCENNES — The "Deperdussin" of Vidart, winner of the Calais-Paris stage — F.F. PARIS
https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-avion-aviation-arrivee-du-circuit-europeen-1911-a-vincennes-le-deperdussion-de-vidat-etape-calais-paris
#VintagePostcard #Aviation #Deperdussin #Airplane #AviationHistory #Vincennes

Some truly remarkable grave markers can be found in Boneyards of Steel - Exploring The World's Aircraft Graveyards....

#aviation #aviationHistory #ww2 #graveyards #cemeteries

The crew of a B-17E prepares for a mission, somewhere in Australia. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

My babies - alive and kicking in Orkney!

#aviation #aviationHistory #militaryAviation #militaryHistory #WW2 #raf #usaf

Good Morning #Canada
Canada gets a lot of criticism for the smoke from #Wildfire but we can be proud of our dominance in the production of #ForestFire fighting aircraft. Any country flying a purpose built water bomber likely owns a small fleet of CL-215 or CL-415 aircraft. The CL-415 can scoop up to 6,140 L of water from a nearby water source and drop it on a fire without having to return to base to refill its tanks.

#CanadaIsAwesome #AviationHistory
https://youtu.be/5OxElFlUyjs

Our main Historical map style is improving bit by bit! Graveyard names, airport codes, and a fix for streets that change names over time:

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/openhistoricalmap-stylesheet-updates/795

#FamilyHistory #AviationHistory

A PBM-3C of VP-74, summer 1943. The aircraft was credited with the sinking of U-128 on May 17 and U-513 on July 19. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

The Potomac River Midair Collision

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-0475416f2b0f

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154441

#HackerNews #PotomacRiver #MidairCollision #AviationHistory #AirSafety #Tragedy #News

Aviation cadets with a line of P-40s at Foster Field, Texas, 24 July 1943. The aircraft closest to the camera are P-40Ks, while those in the background are P-40Ls or Fs. #usaacofficial #aviation #aviationhistory

started a #wikipedia article on #Pittsburgh sportswoman and #pilot, Venus Shakarian Toner (1908-1995), first US woman to be a chair umpire at #Wimbledon, #Olympic #swimming team manager, Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Famer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Shakarian_Toner @wikiwomeninred @steelers #tennis #basketball #football #Olympics #AviationHistory

started 2 more #wikipedia articles on members of the #WellesleyCollege class of 1929: Helen MacCloskey Rough (1909-1977) was an #aviator from #Pittsburgh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_MacCloskey and Ivy Newman Steele (1908-1974) was a #sculptor and art educator based in #Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Newman_Steele @wikiwomeninred #HullHouse #aviationHistory

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight attendant displays her AR-10 rifle and parka. Two parts of over 150 pieces of polar survival gear issued to commercial aircrews that flew over the north pole to reach Asia from America and Europe. The rifle was intended to defend against polar bear attacks. 1959. #aviationhistory #klm #nl

Ghana Airways DC-10-30 Postcard
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#GhanaAirways #GhanaAviation #AviationHistory #VintagePostcard #Postcard #DC10 #McDonnellDouglas #travel #AfricanAviation #Gahana #Avgeek #Aviation