A Rafale M from back in June. Always great to see these gorgeous jets, especially the naval variant.

1963 Moto Guzzi Guzzino #ClassicMotorcycles #Motorcycle

Air traffic at Copenhagen Kastrup airport was stopped by several "large" drones, possibly flown from a ship. The drones were not shot down due to risks of collateral damage. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

1959 Ducati 200 MotoCross #ClassicMotorcycles #Motorcycle

Thrilled to receive these kind words from Professor Sebastian H. Lukasik of the USAF Air Command & Staff College on #EagleDays! It was important to me that present-day air force personnel and airpower theorists also found the book informative. Thank you to everyone who has supported the book 😊

REVIEW: 45th International Sanicole Airshow - Part 2! The International Sanicole Airshow is one of Europe’s most anticipated air displays of the season. buff.ly/v62UJ1Y #airshows #avgeek #airdisplays

Secret Service dismantled more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York-area that were capable of crippling telecom systems and carrying out anonymous telephonic attacks, disrupting the threat before world leaders arrived for the UN. www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/rel...

#Bristol #Blenheim IV, #Flying Legends (G-BPIV) by Pavel Leuchter (#Duxford) #Warbirds (WW2 and before) #aviation #photography #avgeeks

"80-G-32106: HE-1 aircraft. Lieutenant Commander R.B. Ford, USNR, flight surgeon, assisted by PhM3/C W.H. McKinney and PhM2/C J.W. Chapman load a patient on a Stokes stretcher into a Piper Cub ambulance plane. Photographed December 27, 1942. …" 📷📑 www.flickr.com/photos/12790...

"A U.S. Navy Piper HE-1 (BuNo 30197) flying ambulance, circa 1943. The HE-1 was a hospital variant for the United States Navy with a hinged fuselage top for stretcher access. 100 were built and later re-designated AE-1." 📷📑 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi...

"Pilot with L4 Piper Cub Spotter Plane and Flying Tigers Nose Art - Vintage Color Slide 📷📑 www.flickr.com/photos/46064...

20210826 Somewhere ovehead the Hel laguna near Gdansk (PL) #avgeek #aviation #aviationreporter #militaryaviation #aviationphotography

Today in 1940, War Office Film Unit cameraman Harry Rignold visits the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway in Kent, and films troops of the Somerset Light Infantry manning an improvised armoured train. Full film: IWM AYY 38 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Steve is feeling fabulous today!

Ukrainian naval drones spotted in Portugal defence-blog.com/ukrainian-na...

NATO Secretary General on the incident with three Russian MiG-31 that violated Estonian airspace and remained there for 12 minutes: "No immediate threat was assessed here. Shooting down was not necessary."

What type of dinosaur regularly quotes Plato and Descartes? A philosoraptor

Spectacular demolition of Rusian positions by drone dropped TM-62 antitank mines.

RIP to a true Legend of Cricket.

I rather like this one. No filters, no tweaks, no processing, straight from the camera. Tocumwal airshow practice, take off, 100 Squadron RAAF CAC Mustang current serial A100-170. (Formerly VH-SVU, A68-170, painted as A68-750.)

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

"Sally B" - American Antifascist Air Force. #avgeek

⚡️Chinese vessel docks in Russian-occupied Crimea despite sanctions, FT reports. According to Ukrainian authorities, the vessel has moored in Sevastopol at least three times in recent months, the Financial Times reported.

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U.S. Army extends Bradley A4 production defence-blog.com/u-s-army-ext...

❗️🇱🇻Latvia intends to restore the swamps on its eastern border as a natural protective barrier, according to the country's Ministry of Defense. The plan calls for the restoration of swamps, reservoirs, and forests in peat production areas.

Germany's new military procurement plan, obtained by POLITICO, shows that Berlin will steer its massive rearmament drive primarily to European industry, with only eight percent going for American weapons.

A strong step towards de-escalating russia’s appetite for war. What fuels russia’s aggression? The smell of weakness. The moment Europe meets russia’s criminal escalation with strength and resolve, the game changes. russia will stop, declare victory in 🇺🇦, and sue for peace.

#OTD 2017 P-51 forced landing case study: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpq... #flightsafety #aviationsafety

It was good to be back on Glastonbury Tor this morning for sunrise. I was away for a few days and then missed equinox yesterday due to a recurring health issue. I can't remember missing a solstice or equinox for years but I really couldn't manage it. Happy Autumn everyone. 😊💗

"Washington noticed 'Estonianization' of European foreign policy. Members of the Trump administration consider Baltic states dangerously aggressive in their stance toward Putin. At a recent high-level Pentagon meeting, Baltic officials were accused of 'ideologizing' their opposition to Russia"

Since drones are in the wind again: Do remember that the variety is huge. Some drones are a safety/security/police/counterintelligence problem. Some drones are an air defence problem. Then there are drones that represent a mix of all of the above. There is no single solution.

Gabler develops torpedo-tube launched uncrewed vessels defence-blog.com/gabler-devel...

What happened to Vincent van Gogh after he took Tylenol? He became artistic

(Reuters) - The attacks have reduced Russian oil refining by almost a fifth on certain days and cut exports from key ports. Russia is seeing shortages of certain fuel grades such as Ai 92 and Ai 95. Private petrol stations are suffering the most and are forced to close due to lack of supplies.

Moby Dick is a novel full of amazing depths and beautiful, aching strangeness. You could read it a hundred times without ever truly knowing it. And sometimes Melville just calls me out directly, the bastard:

Names for the three-in-a-row game, around the world… *Tic-tac-toe (US) *Noughts and crosses (UK) *Crosses and buns (Denmark) *Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands) *Sausages (Latvia) *Cat (Mexico) *Game of the old lady (Brazil) *Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway) *Pubic louse (France) *Hobo chess (Sweden)

British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has defied Chinese warnings of “provocation” and upheld international navigation rights in the South China Sea. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-carr...

No domes were harmed! ⚡ This is a trial run of a new laser for our VLT. So far only one of the four Unit Telescopes had lasers, but now all will have one. This allows instruments such as GRAVITY+ to observe the cosmos in greater detail. https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2538a/ 🔭 🧪

For the first time “Prymary” unit targeted two Russian Be-12 military amphibious aircraft in Crimea on September 21, 2025. Russia regularly uses Be-12s to patrol the Black Sea and to detect Ukrainian naval drones. During the same raid, the unit also struck a Russian Mi-8 helicopter.

"BELL MODEL 30 - SHIP NO. 3" November 15, 1946: members of Bell Hellicopter's "Gardenville Group" demonstrate the Model 30's [NX41860] lifting ability at the flight ramp of the Niagara Falls, New York plant. » 📷📑 web.archive.org/web/20131101...

Special. Very likely the *last* surviving veteran of the Battle of Arnhem, Geoff Roberts (100) from 7 Kings Own Scottish Borderers on his way to lay a wreath this morning at Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

Video of the aftermath of the recent Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian Mi-8 in Crimea published by Russian source with such description: "They've hit Crimea again. Minus the helicopters and a few other things, I can't write about them. There's no air defense, and the radar is useless."

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

"That model is for VIAGS (Vietnam Airlines Ground Services) crew practicing pushback and towing an airplane" 📷📑 imgur.com/gallery/that...

Morning all 👍 Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II RAF Lakenheath 16/09/25 @stuartnt.bsky.social #Avgeek #Aviation

#AviationNews #BreakingNews Super #TyphoonRagasa Devastates #Philippines Heads Toward #China Details: tinyurl.com/47mnrwfr#avi... #AeroNewsJournal #aviationlovers #AvGeek #Avgeeks #Airlines #Airline #Boeing737 #Boeing777X #FLIGHT #flights #Airports #cabincrew #Aircraft #Pilot #pilots #AsiaPacific

Ukrainain fighter jet shooting down a Russian Shahed with its onboard cannon.

Requisitioned Bell P-400 Airacobra (lend-lease model of P-39) of the 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th Fighter Group with pilot Second Lieutenant Edwin A. Schneider (front) and his crew chief Sergeant R. D. Lathem. armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2024... 📷 catalog.archives.gov/id/204955639...