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Apparently, a transport aircraft was framed for the Kennedy assassination...it was a patsy Cline

Nominate the sexiest air brakes. Share a photo and the name of the aircraft below this post

Like the Panther more than the Cougar, and proud of it

The Miles M.20 fighter was a thoroughly sensible design, cleverly engineered to be easy to produce with minimal delay at its nation’s time of greatest need whilst still capable of excellent performance. Full story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Miles M.20 fighter was a thoroughly sensible design, cleverly engineered to be easy to produce with minimal delay at its nation’s time of greatest need whilst still capable of excellent performance. Full story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-great-...

"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.

"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.

3 July 1940 - first flight of Northrop N-1M 7 July 1940 - Ringo Starr is born We all live in a yellow…

3 July 1940 - first flight of Northrop N-1M 7 July 1940 - Ringo Starr is born We all live in a yellow…

Quiz question - which aircraft took is first flight closest to Ringo Starr’s birthday?

July is Mosquito Month on Hush-Kit! We are going to go Mossie crazy, so subscribe here for a wealth of articles coming soon: hushkit.substack.com

July is Mosquito Month on Hush-Kit! We are going to go Mossie crazy, so subscribe here for a wealth of articles coming soon: hushkit.substack.com

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

I hope to have an update on the Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 2 in the next 14 days. To make communication easier, updates on this will be from our Substack, so subscribe by link below if you haven't already (a free subscription will get you the info): substack.com/@hushkit

I hope to have an update on the Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 2 in the next 14 days. To make communication easier, updates on this will be from our Substack, so subscribe by link below if you haven't already (a free subscription will get you the info): substack.com/@hushkit

The anti-glare 'racoon mask' on KC-135s is the most elegant marking in aviation

I hereby will use this term

The anti-glare 'racoon mask' on KC-135s is the most elegant marking in aviation

It’s Official: F-35s Are Now Being Delivered Without Radars www.twz.com/air/its-offi...

The best way for fascism to end up, like this German bunker - on its head, 100s of feet down at the bottom of the cliff it once ruled, blasted by the sun and drowned by the tides twice a day

I’ve been saying it for a long time and I’ll keep saying it - we need a lot more of these

I’ve been saying it for a long time and I’ll keep saying it - we need a lot more of these

Scotland versus Brazil

Scotland versus Brazil

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🇯🇵: Judge Rules Excluding Japan Was "Manifestly Unreasonable"; Nation Awarded Spot in Top 11 Most Beautiful Flying Boats & Seaplanes Ranking 🇯🇵 story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-most-be...

A fully loaded F-14 weighed a tonne more than the heaviest B-17. Think about that for a second. One is an entire four-engine heavy bomber carrying a crew of 10. The other a carrier-capable fighter capable of 7.5 G and Mach 2+.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🇯🇵: Judge Rules Excluding Japan Was "Manifestly Unreasonable"; Nation Awarded Spot in Top 11 Most Beautiful Flying Boats & Seaplanes Ranking 🇯🇵 story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-most-be...

Beauty and the Beast

londonreconnections.com/capitalist-h... There be Ekranoplans inside.

COOL DOWN TIME! We asked you to choose the 10 most beautiful seaplanes & flying boats, and you made some excellent choices. Grab a cold one and prepare for pleasure! All 10 here, so bloody gorgeous: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-most-be...

COOL DOWN TIME! We asked you to choose the 10 most beautiful seaplanes & flying boats, and you made some excellent choices. Grab a cold one and prepare for pleasure! All 10 here, so bloody gorgeous: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-most-be...

Aircraft ID quiz

The Kawasaki C-2 is mad powerful. At MTOW, it has a thrust-to-weight ratio of ~0.38, better than most 1st-gen jet fighters. Normal for a modern transport? NO! That’s ~1.3×–1.5× higher than C-17, A400M, C-5M, and C-130J

The YC-14 heard me praising the C-2’s power-to-weight and has come to kick sand in its face with a monstrous 0.40 ratio

The YC-14 heard me praising the C-2’s power-to-weight and has come to kick sand in its face with a monstrous 0.40 ratio

“Bloody kids today, whizzing around on mad fast death-traps, wearing sinister face masks & killing each other” Meanwhile, pilots in the 1910s…

The Kawasaki C-2 is mad powerful. At MTOW, it has a thrust-to-weight ratio of ~0.38, better than most 1st-gen jet fighters. Normal for a modern transport? NO! That’s ~1.3×–1.5× higher than C-17, A400M, C-5M, and C-130J

A fully loaded F-14 weighed a tonne more than the heaviest B-17. Think about that for a second. One is an entire four-engine heavy bomber carrying a crew of 10. The other a carrier-capable fighter capable of 7.5 G and Mach 2+.

“Bloody kids today, whizzing around on mad fast death-traps, wearing sinister face masks & killing each other” Meanwhile, pilots in the 1910s…

Most beautiful seaplane ever flown? Share with answer and photo