This was taken from the canoe, just as the morning mist was lifting. #blueheron

A single wild bluebell with the dark blue vertical stripes in each bell revealed in the sunlight. A toffee-coloured weevil is on one of the bells. Maybe an acorn weevil as the pic was taken in mixed woodland.

Bore da 😊☕️
It's sunny Saturday! Have a lovely one, folks 🤗
Here's a sunlit wild bluebell with bonus weevil. Maybe an acorn weevil.... maybe not 🤷‍♀️

Mystical archway at dawn. The view from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

Either a terrifyingly small world - or a reassuringly small one, depending how you look at life 😂!!

63 Squadron, RAF Chivenor 1991

Fog-tastic! Thursday early evening in Chicago.

The Old Man of Storr, Skye

Pic: Steven Murphy

Saw this - had to share

#OnThisDay in 1937, the Bristol Blenheim entered RAF service when No. 114 Squadron, based at RAF Wyton received the first examples.

Read our Blenheim profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #Aviation #History

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#OnThisDay in 1941, the Handley Page Halifax performed its first operational sortie when six from No. 35 Squadron took part in an attack on Le Havre, France.

Read our Halifax profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #Aviation #History

My latest offering ...

I'm just going to leave this here for a bit.

@philipwblood.bsky.social

youtu.be/OQHWQwMiJOU

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Messerschmitt Me 163 at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social, Midlands.

Permission Granted for Major New Hangar at Avro Heritage Museum.

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The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Gold "Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans." This was the pep talk Russian athletes heard in 2000 from their new president, Vladimir Putin. And so, for more than...

Saturday's episode. amzn.to/3OhuShg

September 30th 2024
Cosmos

Our fab Patreon supporters have access to our second interview filmed in the Flight Gallery at the Science Museum, where @rooneyvision.bsky.social tells the tale of Alcock and Brown, The Big Hop and their Vickers Vimy.

Join us here: www.patreon.com/posts/big-ho...

#aviation #avgeek #histbookchat

1919: Four Teams, One Dream, the First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic YouTube video by The Aviation Show

In 1919, four teams arrived in Newfoundland with the aim of winning the Daily Mail's £10,000 for flying the Atlantic non-stop. Author @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to tell the story of the Vickers Vimy that made the very first Big Hop.

Watch here: youtu.be/5OPUSy8ndHY

#avgeek #aviation

Vickers Vanguard / Merchantman photo by Richard Parkhouse G-APEG | British Airways | Vickers | Vanguard / Merchantman | LHR / EGLL London - Heathrow, UK - England | Photo by Richard Parkhouse

#Vickers #Vanguard / Merchantman, #British Airways (G-APEG) by Richard Parkhouse (#London - Heathrow) #Cargo #aviation #photography #avgeeks

If you see this post a mini figure. 👇👇👇

St Lawrence, Broughton, Bucks. C15 paintings of Mary carrying Christ whilst youths play. Several are holding parts of Christ's body. A caution not to swear by Christ's body. Referenced in The Pardoner's Tale. Canterbury Tales. "That it's a grisly thing..Our Dear Lord's body they...will tear.

To put it another way: the most important aircraft in WWII was unarmed

Lots of fun chatting about all things A-36 and what it is not, with @navalairhistory.com!

Available now for our fab Patreon supporters, including a giveaway of a signed copy of Matt's Mustang: The Untold Story! The giveaway will open to all next week.

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#aviation

Looks like you need some central heating 🤣

I’m proud to be part of the #podcast production team at The Avro Heritage Museum podcast

We now have our #studio up and running thanks to the support of Arts Council England and Museum Development North.

Do check out The Avro Heritage Museum Podcast here. www.avroheritagemuseum.co.uk/podcast

Sanctuary....

The most pleasing presbytery from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. Still, silent, sacred

Could not resist grabbing and posting this picture grabbing a county class Cruiser and a Bristol Beaufighter - of 254 Squadron passes the heavy cruiser HMS Shropshire - July 1943

Great Rollright War Memorials
one for you @britwarmemorial.bsky.social