Jeff Hecox

@clark_aviation It's even more incredible that it appears in flying condition. I wonder what the back story is. Was this aircraft in North Africa, Indo China or an export model to have survived.

Of all the lost types from history that I never thought I'd see flying, the Potez 63-11 was number 297th on my list! 😂😂😂 Amazing project all the same, from the video below.

@nickfshort Staffing is always an issue and raising the taxes to keep the Grand Duke, grand.

So, I’m thinking of becoming a Grand Duke. Pay and conditions seem pretty good. #Schwerin.

@Tammuz_Intel The sound of the GAU-8 is like a hunting horn signaling the attack.

A-10 Warthog bombs PMF positions in northern Mousl, Iraq. 🇮🇶 The BRRRRRT gives me chills. 🔊

@clark_aviation One of the first plastic models kits that I built as a kid was of a Boeing SST. It was so futuristic for the era. I was crushed later when I learned the project was cancelled.

The Boeing SST mock-up from 1969. If this project had not been cancelled, it would certainly have been a very dramatic addition to the airline fleets of the period!

@coookwithchris Black forest ham and Swiss cheese on dark rye with mayo, mustard and lattice. I would get these at a little German deli in Saratoga CA many years ago. The correct Rye bread set the tone of the whole sandwich plus their choice of ham. Or was it the German ladies making it 🩷

What is the very best sandwich?

On this day in 1862, naval warfare enters the modern era as the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) do battle off Hampton Roads. It's history's first clash between steel warships.

@nickfshort I have not, his unit was fighting near the town of Villamanga not far from the Arno River in the Province of Pisa on the day he was killed. He was with the US Army 88th Infantry Division.

@mtbjeffrey Total respect. Thanks for sharing. Have you ever visited?

Enough of Mussolini. #italy is dotted with @CWGC cemeteries, thanks in part to that delusional buffoon. Too many young men lost their lives because of him and his ilk. I pay tribute to them all. Thank you boys, your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

@ChrisO_wiki It looks more like a Nagato class battleship to me

Dmitry Rogozin will be delighted with this. Back in 2023 he reportedly proposed turning Soyuz rockets into bombers to drop bombs over Ukraine from orbit. (This was not remotely feasible.)

@nickfshort A somber location, almost as infamous has 84 Avenue Foch in Paris.

It became the HQ of the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitdienst (SIPO-SD, Police and Security Service of the SS) and of the Gestapo, the political police under the command of the SIPO.

Between 10-12 September 1943, in Milan, the Hotel Regina was occupied by the Waffen SS – Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. On September 13 it was surrounded by barbed wire, with casemates made of reinforced concrete and illuminated at night by powerful spotlights.

Thank you, Sweden for neutralizing this threat.

@mhmiranusa @vcdgf555 Was this a 50 year old airframe still in operation?

An Iranian Army AH-1J Cobra helicopter crashed today on a fruit & vegetable bazaar in the city of Dorcheh near Isfahan. The helicopter was in a training mission carrying instructor Colonel Hamed SarveAzad & trainee Mojtaba Kiani who were killed along with 2 others on the ground.

@kejamieson_ Excellent, If you could only find a small Bicorne for him!

When you give a naval historian a Space Marine... 👀😂⚓️

Yuliia Keleberda will remain 23 forever. She was killed by a Russian drone that attacked the evacuation unit “White Angels.” Her colleague, Yevhen Kalhan, was killed alongside her. Another police officer sustained injuries. I have often written about the work of the police unit “White Angels,” which rescues civilians from combat zones. Yuliia also filmed and took photographs. Through her eyes, we saw the work of the “White Angels.” Yuliia was from Vovchansk and was defending the home she loved. Together with the evacuation team, she carried out thousands of missions to the most dangerous settlements. They saved dozens of families and evacuated children, elderly people, and persons with disabilities. The crew repeatedly risked their own lives to save others. Tragically, this evacuation became their last. An unimaginable tragedy. Eternal memory.

@nickfshort My father collected most of the series that I have saved for many years. The wife keeps asking me why I keep them, she just doesn't understand!

Prepping for my north #Italy #History roadtrip, kicking off next week. What an invaluable magazine 'After The Battle' has proven to be over the years. This edition is from 1975 and is still as useful as the day on which it was published.

@Jringo1508 @TrentTelenko In the early 1970’s when I was probably 10 years old we visited the sites of Fort Phil Kearny, The Wagon Box fight and the Fetterman fight one Summer vacation. This same vacation took us to the Little Big Horn. Today I still drive 100’s of miles to visit historic sites.

I read a book based on that when I was a kid. Absolutely epic battle. Very similar in more or less every detail to Roarke's Drift. Just Union infantry vs Sioux.

@pitsenberger An hour and a half north of here in Daniel WY is the location of the Green River Rendezvous between 1824-1840

Here are the map coordinates for the Parting of the Ways. Try it on Google Earth to get a feel for the vast open spaces around this landmark. Try travelling the trail!

A kitty cat visiting my brothers place along the Columbia River in Washington state last week

@kejamieson_ He has the look, that sometimes miracles happen

The face of a puppy hoping a scotch egg may magically levitate to him...

A bandeira do o Japão emperrou e não subiu quando começou o hino, então o rapaz do camada fez um ato nobre! Como diz a legenda: O Japão ganhou a medalha mas Canadá ganhou corações! Amo esse vídeo! 💕😍