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🚨 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-mo…
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The aeroplane is 44,196 days old today (120 years). The B-52 has been around for 60% of this time.
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This just blew my mind: the Airbus A350 has 18,000Ib greater thrust than an XB-70 Valkyrie in full afterburner
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Want to hear something bonkers? The F-117 can pull more G than the F-35B (7.3 versus 7)
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The more I learn about the A-7, the more impressed I grow. A good candidate for the most effective Cold Aircraft aircraft.
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Share an aeroplane that looks amazing but was a piece of crap, let's start with the Fisher P-75 Eagle
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The F-14 is like Steven Seagal, much loved in the 1980s and 90s, but has sadly now gone a bit mad and serves authoritarian leaders
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45% of all variable geometry ('swing') wing aircraft were Floggers. Tomcats were 5.2%. F-111s 4.1%.
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Fact of the day: The Lancaster has over 3 times more air-to-air kills than the F-15 Eagle
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Fact of the day: Though many today think of the F-14 as an Iranian aircraft, it was once operated by the U.S. Navy
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West Germany late 80s: "I ain't got long, I'm going to make the coolest thing ever made" Man, the Sänger II
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The KC-10 has retired because the universe only allows a certain amount of tri-jets to be flying at once
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LO (Lingerie Observed). Victoria’s Secret shopping spotted in B-2. (Credit Nick Taylor)
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Your 2nd annual reminder that the Vigilante was the most badass jet the US Navy ever operated
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Boeing: "I've never made a supersonic aircraft before"
World: "So you'll start with a little Mach 1 testbed?"
Boeing: "I guess I could do that..or...
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Xi'an JH-7: "If I weren't Chinese, you would have admitted I'm pretty much the coolest thing flying"
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Making a best looking US aircraft, according to HK readers, and there is ONE space left. So far it includes SR-71, F-14, YF-23, XB-70, Ryan ST, XP-67, F-16XL, F-86, XF-12. What would you add?
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If every aviation museum made all of their aircraft airworthy, which museum would have the most potent air force?
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"Absolutely the best-looking aircraft the Navy has ever operated!" Massive Vigilante special here: hushkit.substack.com/p/massi…
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The Scorpion is one of those aircraft that, at first glance, you think you've gauged the scale, then you notice the pilot and are gobsmacked.
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80 years ago today, the Luftwaffe conducted its final mission over England of the war, an Arado 234 reconnaissance flight
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To those who say Blackburn never made a decent plane. 71% of all the magnificant Swordfish were made by Blackburn.
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Captured by British forces, the Pucará came to the UK for evaluation work at Boscombe Down. A-515 was allocated the RAF Serial ZD485 and flown for 25 hours in the UK, making it the only captured Pucará to be flown there. It's now at the South Yorkshire Air Museum!
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Republic AP-100, a 1960s concept for a six-engine VTOL nuclear-capable strike fighter.
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82 years ago today Flt Lt Peter Isaacson flew a Lancaster under Sydney Harbour Bridge
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There is no reason to retweet this picture of the Edgley Optica. I just want to live in a world where the image of an obscure aeroplane can get 315 retweets. Maybe I'm just dreaming. unbound.com/books/hushkit/ #livingontheedgly
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1978 concept for Rockwell International’s Star Raker, a reusable space plane proposal. Mach 7.2 capable, and able to perform four missions a day, including satellite repair in the outer atmosphere. Just look at the thing! Amazing.
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I've improved the badge - is the Hindi correct? If it is wrong then that only adds to the vibe
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We need to talk more about the Piaggio Avanti "The FAI lists it as the fastest propeller-driven aircraft with a top speed of 576.3 mph."
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You never actually own a B-52. You merely look after it for the next generation (Air Force’s youngest B-52 turns 62 this year)
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I like an aircraft where your mind is blown when you realise the scale, check out the pilot in this Martin AM Mauler
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It's that time again: the can-I-get-an-obscure-British aeroplane-the-Edgley-Optica- retweeted-1000-times- for-no-reason-challenge-please? unbound.com/books/hushkit/
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I was an Argentine Hercules Navigator; did I mention we dropped bombs from the Herk in the Falklands? Full story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/i-was…
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