Latest pre-defence review rumour:

UK F-35 procurement to be capped at 70 aircraft.RAF wants to prioritise Tempest fighter.

says Tempest about supporting UK aerospace industry and likely to be behind what the US is producing by then.

https://t.co/zKvhzwpVa8

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oh what a fun thread!!

lemme introduce my oc Alex, who's a criminal based in the gta5 universe :D

he's probably proudest of his skill in flying various aircraft and his knowledge in aeronautics, but he's secretly insecure about how his eyes look (he masks this behind humor LOL)

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9:05 AM EDT: NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft finds that TD 13 has strengthened to Tropical Storm

https://t.co/meGFS0Han4

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21 August 1955. First flight of the photographic-reconnaissance version Grumman F9F-8P Cougar. US carrier-based fighter aircraft.

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The Netherlands (traditionally neutral) was quickly overwhelmed by the German advance in 1940 🇳🇱
Their air force was largely made up of indigenous aircraft types, like the twin Fokker TV (designed as an "aerial cruiser") and Fokker D.XXI fighters, a poor adversary for the Me 109.

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Giant azhdarchids were seriously huge - giraffe-sized animals with wingspans comparable to small aircraft. Baby sauropods were pretty small - maybe a metre long, at most?

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The composite aircraft Mistel were used by the special unit Kampfgeschwader 200 to bomb specific targets thanks to the unusual combination of two planes united. Here one of these: Me 262 A2a/U2 (elongated and glazed nose for the bomber) - Me 262 A

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Recommend the Barnett Freedman show - fascinating survey of his career, esp when he was a war artist - this wonderful 1942 work Personnel of an Aircraft Factory (Parnall, at Yate, nr Bristol).

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Good Morning Everyone.
Our first four today are courtesy of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) He was a Wood Engraver ,Painter, Designer and Book Illustrator.
A favourite of mine and a very important artist. Sadly died when as a war artist the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland

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For , it's aircraft carrier Intrepid, on the verge of suffering critical damage from uh... "internal explosions"

おむつイントレピッドちゃん、下痢で苦しむの前にその瞬間…

Alt versions live on Pixiv -- https://t.co/AxT0GgwilA

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West German Rockwell OV-10B(Z) Bronco, D-9545: one jet engine addition over the rear fuselage intended as target towing aircraft
(https://t.co/Z9MjDH21j0)

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The M.C 202 Folgore! A sleek and beautiful Italian fighter aircraft which would have reached parity with the Bf109 if it weren't for her notoriously unreliable Breda armament. There will be more Italians in the future.

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I believe that was an idea posited by Gene Roddenberry and locked into cannon with Mike Okuda adding it to the writers tech manual.

The probable reason for Gene suggesting it was that in the early scripts for the Enterprise is named for the aircraft carrier Yorktown.

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歷史性畫面,在昨晚(2020.08.09)於台北松山機場上演!
日本前首相 專機正滑行準備離台時,剛好遇到天空辦公室 降落,臺灣黑熊地勤表示巨壓力
@航空攝影圖誌 Aircraft photography - Taiwan 拍下了這歷史性一刻美照!
https://t.co/Tcx8x457HM

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DBZ Rewatch: tbh... In the Android Saga how does Bulma get up to Kami's look out with her aircraft? And even passes by Korin's Tower when it was mentioned in original DB that no aircraft made it up there cuz u need your own strength to get to the top... Pls someone enlighten me

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The serendipity of learning about geodesics in cartography while researching a feature on geodetic aircraft construction for

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Aircraft vs. Titan - great art by Denis Loebner!

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the woman you're seated next to started talking about why she was in the aircraft

you arent sure if you've ever seen someone look so downtrodden before

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7 August 1951. Douglas Aircraft Company test pilot William Barton Bridgeman flew the U.S. Navy/NACA/Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to a record speed of Mach 1.88 at Muroc Dry Lake (later Edwards Air Force Base) in the high desert of southern California.

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