Ben Dunnell Aviation

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

[LIVE] VICKERS VIMY _ Bridging Korea and Britain [ENG] YouTube video by 국립항공박물관

The RAF Museum’s Vickers Vimy replica has gone to the National Aviation Museum of Korea. An announcement was made this morning: www.youtube.com/live/4ztXJx6...

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.

#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Photos taken after a reflective moment in #NAMHangar2 whilst trying to process yesterday’s shameful & uninformed comments by a supposed ally!
#LestWeForget

I’ve got a bridge to sell you if you believe this is going to happen.

If you are a non US citizen and operating an N reg aircraft this is an issue
www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa...

I can think of a few a/c this will effect

A shameful, deeply concerning development. And one that could happen under a far-right government in the UK, without a doubt.

Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds AI tool also used to undress image of the woman killed by a federal immigration agent in the US, says research

Still using X? Or even worse, paying for it? If the hate speech wasn’t a good enough reason for you to leave, I wonder if Musk’s AI stripping clothes off your daughters and wives at the request of other users is? Those with big followers in mil hist should check themselves @almurray.bsky.social etc

It’s increasingly depressing that (a) so many online outlets in the aviation world think they can get away with running the most blatantly AI-generated or ‘enhanced’ written material, and that (b) a lot of people don’t seem to mind.

Now the only example of the type under cover in a UK museum, of course, which tells a very sad story.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Aged like roadkill in RFK’s trunk.

What fun that was.

When genuine one-of-a-kind airframes are being increasingly either put outside or rendered incomplete, I think ‘one of several Vulcans but with a slightly different facility around it’ ranks low on the priority list.

There does come a point where one is forced to conclude there are more important aviation heritage causes than this, really. One of them is even in the same ownership.

I should imagine the BAe 146 isn’t deemed to count because it has American engines, which strikes me as, to put it mildly, semantics.

A cartoon of the Vickers Wellesley, ink line drawing, eggagerating the aircraft's distinctive features. Caption 'THE UNKIND UNTRUTH (With appologies in all directions) No 11: The Vickers Wesley or Sky-pilot.'

Cover of the Database feature and the Aeroplane magazine cover inset.

Aeroplane Monthly magazine is out in the UK, with my latest Database (No 21!) on the Vickers Wellesley, a remarkable, under represented aircraft. Here's a lovely cartoon of it which wasn't going to be used, and a (hint) link to the website if you'd like a copy! shop.keypublishing.com/products/aer...

We could have won the Vietnam War had we not been so woke.

Good to know that Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower are now to be considered "woke".

I can only second this. I have used it for an article for work and for private purposes, and to restrict this important facility would be a terrible limitation on all sorts of research.

Incredibly kind. Thank you. It would be nothing without our brilliant contributors.

As part of our 'Eyes in the Skies' theme we're pleased the U-2 will perform in the flying display on Saturday and Sunday!

Plus, multiple USAF aircraft on static display, including B-1 and C-5.

For the full update, visit www.airtattoo.com/the-airshow/...

De Havilland DH.71 Tiger Moth (replica), Steve Jones. G-ECDX

Just back from a cracking day at Shuttleworth. Right at the end of the show, as the wind dropped and the sun was setting, those gathered were fortunate to see the airshow debut of the replica De Havilland DH.71 Tiger Moth. What a sight!

Honestly, it’s a pleasure. I was most impressed.

AIRSHOW NEWS: Bournemouth moves to cut Air Festival A report produced by BCP Council has recommended the Council "stops any further work on an Air Festival for 2026 onwards."

AIRSHOW NEWS: Bournemouth moves to cut Air Festival

A report produced by BCP Council has recommended the Council “stops any further work on an Air Festival for 2026 onwards.”

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#airshows #avgeek #airdisplays #bmthairfest @bmthairfest

Very good indeed. I couldn’t agree more. I feel the end result has been rendered more offensive, were that possible, by the rise of sanitised PR-speak as a means of describing military operations. Companies use it, defence PR people use it - and then journalists start using it without thinking why.

This is a superb piece.

Another flying display confirmed for RIAT25 with the French Atlantique!
Also, several additions to the static line including Royal Canadian Air Force Aurora and Hercules, Italian ATR 42 and Royal Air Force Envoy.

See the full update at: www.airtattoo.com/the-airshow/...

The #Harvard has been moved out of the #NAMworkshop and reassembled ready for the bank holiday weekend! Photo credit S Blyth

Desmond Penrose - British Air Display Association BADA is very sad to learn of the death of Desmond Penrose, the former de Havilland test pilot, who has passed away aged 95.

BADA is very sad to learn of the death of Desmond Penrose, the former de Havilland test pilot, who has passed away aged 95.

www.bada-uk.com/2025/05/desm...