Aviation Ogre

@chillybinbob @AtomicAnalyst Anything you can share without disclosing anything classified?

@TheDreadShips No problem, we got this.

⁦Draken US A-4L Skyhawks.

This Ju-90 has a cargo ramp deployed to drop cargo without landing.

A Goose in the cabbage patch New York 1945.

@USAS_WW1 ANH, ESB, Rogue One, RotJ, RotS.

#STARWARS debuted #OTD May 25, 1977! After only 18 or so more STAR WARS movies, is the original STAR WARS movie the best of the series? What are your top 5? #MarkHamill #HarrisonFord #CarrieFischer #GeorgeLucas

@jerijerod14 Swiss Navy, sink on sight-USN (I actually had a US sailor tell me years ago that was a standing order on his ship).

The Swiss navy leaves port

@tempest_books The IV, just the idea of a big supersonic delta wing. See also: B-58.

Do you prefer the Mirage III or the Mirage IV?

@SpitfireSteve @Robhereagain @birder1966 @NavyWingsUK @marshn282 @NWSAcaster @johnbilcliffe @waite_aero @L2A2GazK @daylyt100 @johnvslater @haddicand78 I second Rob’s comment, you’re doing amazing work.

@Robhereagain @birder1966 @NavyWingsUK @marshn282 @NWSAcaster @johnbilcliffe @waite_aero @L2A2GazK @daylyt100 @AvHistoryOgre @johnvslater @haddicand78 Thank you Rob. Appreciated 👍

Had a nice little Swordfish do a FlyPast at work today. It's because we rebuilt the engine and prop for @NavyWingsUK . Nice to see it though.@marshn282 @NWSAcaster @johnbilcliffe @waite_aero @L2A2GazK @daylyt100 @AvHistoryOgre @birder1966 @Robhereagain @johnvslater @haddicand78

@clark_aviation The technology was used in Vietnam by the USN using Super Constellations to broadcast US and Vietnamese programming.

Satellite TV before the space age! Stratovision, was a planned pan-American TV network, using 14 B-29 relay aircraft. It didn't progress beyond the trials seen in this image.

@slamdbang Possibly the most successful interwar fighter design, unless we’re counting things like the Bf-109.

He-51. Not the best interwar fighter, but one of the best looking. What do you think was the best fighter of the post WW1 - Spanish Civil War era?

@LatinMilitaryAv Great choice.

@Mike19471985 Hard to argue with that. She is a looker.

@AvHistoryOgre Curtis Hawk wins the title of “best looking”.

@DaveHaas10 Could be. It’s original color I believe so that’s unusual.

Loving this shot of an Eagle on burners. 📷embossed

Italian F-104 "special color" made in 2003 for 40 years of service with the 9th Hunting Group. photo: K. Tokunaga/AMI, and theaviationist.com ]

A Greek Spitfire 📷Rafal Wolinski

@devil_n_details @USAS_WW1 Dad shot at Yamashiro but didn’t hit her.

@USAS_WW1 I'd give NC an edge for heavier guns, but I not enough to force a decision within an hour. Pure battleship-vs-battleship kills in World War II (Kirishima by WA and Yamashiro by WV+CA+TN) were radar-enabled night ambushes; fair fights weren't as decisive.

#USNavy #RoyalNavy #IJN #Questions - Battleship vs battleship. Bismarck vs USS North Carolina enter a 50-mile / 80-km diameter ring they must stay inside an hour. Which sinks? It could be one, both or maybe none. Assume war, gentle breeze, light fog, 9 am, April 1, 1941, no help.

@jerijerod14 He looks happy.

Gunther Lutjens, the Commander of the Kriegsmarine surface fleet was ordered to use his battleship to support the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as it engaged merchant shipping in the Atlantic and to tie down RN heavy units as part of Operation Rheinübung