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The Aviation Show (formerly The Damcasters) celebrates flight from monks jumping off towers to today and beyond | Brought to you in association with the Pima Air and Space Museum | Hosted by @boneyabroad.com
Jonathan Ruffle recorded the interviews used in Bomber, most of them are on his website.
We discussed them at length during our reunion episode.
youtu.be/JC3MHL2gRUQ
Check Out These Photos of a βNakedβ B-1 Bomber Venting Fuel During a Functional Check Flight
The B-1B is the Lancer 86-0115 βRageβ regenerated from the Boneyard to be returned to active service, during a post-depot functional check flight.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/07/b...
To say Jerrie Cobb led a life is an understatement.
When @maryhaverstick.bsky.social started working on a film project with Jerrie, the rabbit hole got deeper and darker.
Check out our chat with Mary about her incredible book, A Woman I Know.
youtu.be/pYHrbpVq6BE
#avgheek #booksky #histbookchat
#OTD in 1944, the 8th Air Force flew Mission 250 to the heart of Berlin for the first time.
One of the pilots was Dick Bushong of the 390th BG, and a couple of years ago, I asked him about the mission. I'm pleased to say that Dick is still with us and is approaching 103!
youtu.be/FXgytMQ0oSI
#OTD in 1944, the 8th Air Force flew Mission 250 to the heart of Berlin for the first time.
One of the pilots was Dick Bushong of the 390th BG, and a couple of years ago, I asked him about the mission. I'm pleased to say that Dick is still with us and is approaching 103!
youtu.be/FXgytMQ0oSI
A fake horse made of wood, one of a menagerie of fake animals dotted around the freshly liberated B-78 aerodrome at Eindhoven in 1944. Image: Harry Hardy Family.
I think it was a process of elimination. They had a horse too...
Gordon Cooper would have turned 99 today.
One of the 'Original 7' Mercury astronauts, here he is walking up the ramp at LC-19 for the launch of Gemini V, August 21, 1965.
During his Mercury mission, he would pretend to be asleep during his rest period so he could take more photographs! π·
I see your inflatable tank, @sodrock.bsky.social, and raise you the Nazi innovation of the fake cow, as seen at B-78 Eindhoven in 1944.
To say Jerrie Cobb led a life is an understatement.
When @maryhaverstick.bsky.social started working on a film project with Jerrie, the rabbit hole got deeper and darker.
Check out our chat with Mary about her incredible book, A Woman I Know.
youtu.be/pYHrbpVq6BE
#avgheek #booksky #histbookchat
March 6, 1969 - Apollo 9
Without doubt some of the finest photography of the Apollo program and one of my favourite chapters in the book.
The mission was conducted entirely in Earth orbit. Dave Scott is seen poking his head out of the hatch.
2 years later, he walked on the Moon.
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Visit London's @royalalberthall.bsky.social and the #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered photographic exhibition for free this weekend!
No ticket required.
These are the FINAL two free open days:
Sun 8th March 10am-1pm
Sat 14th March 10am-12pm
Info:
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What better way to mark the birthday of something special than a bit of Spitfire media! 5th March - the Spitfireβs birthday and the loss of AA810 six years to the day later. Not many more 5thβs of March until AA810 flies againβ¦
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Are you ready to join @kitchapman.bsky.social on a global quest to achieve immortality, cure all disease and transmute lead into gold?! Still rolling off the press, you heard it here first! @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @boneyabroad.com
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Seriously excited for this! As it is about pilots, that totally fits the rules of the show, right @chriskempshall.bsky.social? Right....?
DMZ? I need to break them out of the box again.
A rare photo of Jodrell Bank searching for intelligent life on Earth, with disappointing yet unsurprising results.
.@kitchapman.bsky.social is one of the finest communicators I've had the pleasure of meeting. While I man crush a tad in the latest @15minutebook.club, we also delved into the discovery of Einsteinium and Fermium that required F-84's to fly into the Ivy Mike mushroom cloud.
youtu.be/sqoAQ9oGGRg
When Raytheon announces a weapon that makes stuff "go away", I'm totally going to start to worry.
Evergreen
TODAY IN 1942
Sandy had hoped for a trip today in 1942 but it was AFP Fane who was picked to go to Norway. Taking AA810 Fane was to experience the anti aircraft defences around the Tirpitz before bringing AA810 back home again:
Mission 12, Spitfire AA810, Trondheim and Naval units.
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A Japanese aviation chart showing the progression of world aircraft speed records from the early 20th century to about 1940, showing two trajectories -- land based aircraft & seaplanes
If you want to see what the Beechcraft Heritage Museum has to offer, be sure to check out our two-part video tour with Charles Parish on our YouTube channel.
#avgeek #aviation #museum
Part 1 - youtu.be/f7JXIQBXFSY
Part 2 - youtu.be/qQZ7nezuUpY
Looking back at some of my pictures from last year's visit to the fantastic Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, TN, this is the Parish Family's 1952 Beech D18S N4477, serial number A-935. This is one of the loveliest Beech 18's I've had the pleasure of checking out.
#avgeek #aviation #museum
If you want to see what the Beechcraft Heritage Museum has to offer, be sure to check out our two-part video tour with Charles Parish on our YouTube channel.
#avgeek #aviation #museum
Part 1 - youtu.be/f7JXIQBXFSY
Part 2 - youtu.be/qQZ7nezuUpY
Looking back at some of my pictures from last year's visit to the fantastic Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, TN, this is the Parish Family's 1952 Beech D18S N4477, serial number A-935. This is one of the loveliest Beech 18's I've had the pleasure of checking out.
#avgeek #aviation #museum
A black holding cover for the book 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' by Chris Kempshall
Wedge Antilles from the Star Wars franchise piloting a snowspeeder in The Empire Strikes Back
βI have never wanted to suggest that my wartime experiences were any more important or heroic than any other pilot. But so many of them are gone now and I am still here. Their words deserve to be heardβ - Wedge Antilles
'Star Wars: Star Pilots' Oct 2026 (DK) geni.us/StarWarsStar...
Iβd missed this example of moral panic
TC-JAV on a previous flight to the crash. Image: Steve Fitzgerald - 6 May 1973, Wikimedia Commons
The locking pins on the door had been filed down to make the latch easier to close due to a design flaw in the locking mechanism. McDonnell Douglas attempted to shift the blame onto the FAA for not issuing an airworthiness directive to force them to fix the flaw. The latch was redesigned anyway. 2/2
Police and investigators comb through the debris field of the crashed TK981 in the Ermenonville Forest. The aircraft was travelling at roughly 480mph when it impacted with the ground.
Today, we remember the 335 passengers and 11 crew of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 who were killed when McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 TC-JAV's rear cargo door blew out #OTD in 1974.
This image shows the debris field in the Ermenonville Forest where the aircraft impacted the ground.
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Ρ ΡΠ΅ Π²ΠΆΠ΅ Π±Π°ΡΠΈΠ²!