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19.10.2025 08:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

10 Wooden Wonders (& Misfits) of the Second World War Wooden Wartime Warplanes Beyond the Mosquito

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18.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The Aviation Historian: HOMEPAGE The world's most respected quarterly magazine covering the lesser-known aspects of flying history worldwide, The Aviation Historian is available in print and digital format. An introduction to the con...

It’s here at last!
Our first TAH Annual is officially published today. Fleet Air Arm jets; Hs 129 in North Africa; MacRobertson DC-2; Canberra Bomb Scandal; Myths of the Battle of Britain; Sea Eagle maritime missile and so much more! For previews and shop visit www.theaviationhistorian.com

15.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let's share an unpublished photo on the internet for the first time! My grandad took this photo of a Gnat

13.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 66    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

08.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 61    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 5

I am afflicted with mild obsessions into subjects that annoy the hell out of people, and the annoyance of others just seems to make me more determined. A few years ago it was a blogpost on the labour intensiveness of Spitfire production that almost got me cancelled. Now it's Gothic literature

06.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Another day feeling like I'm going backwards. Still struggling with a new publisher for the Fulmar book. It will happen but getting the same kind of deal I originally signed up to is proving tougher than I thought. Here's a colour scheme you won't have seen before - N1854 in temperate land scheme

02.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 63    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

Happy 10th Anniversary! "Tornado Over the Tigris" first published in 2015 and still going strong 😁

01.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

An aircraft you have an irrational dislike of?

02.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 43    📌 2

Sketch of trimotor with white wings and nose and red fuselage, flying over California landscape. Text beneath and behind windows says: Los Angeles - San Francisco.

Trimotor Thursday! Fokker F-10 on the cover of the California Journal of Development, September 1928. (Artist: Schwartz) — #avgeeks

02.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Flying Officers Ralph Moen (with saw) and John Ross (with sledgehammer) carry out maintenance on a 500lb MC bomb. Image: LAC PL 29133

Flying Officers Ralph Moen (in cockpit) and John Ross (on wing) ham it up for the camera on a 439 Squadron RCAF Hawker Typhoon. Image: LAC PL 29131

Flying Officers Ralph Moen (in cockpit with shilling in his eye) and John Ross (sat cross-legged on the nose) ham it up for the camera on a 439 Squadron RCAF Hawker Typhoon. Image: LAC PL 29137

Few things make me smile more than finding images of 20-odd-year-old kids who may have moments to live hamming it up for the camera.

Here are Flying Officers Ralph Moen and John Ross of 438 Squadron RCAF being kids, c. May 1944. Ross would be a POW within a month, Moen would be dead by August.

02.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 35    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Loening amphibian aircraft from the 1920s, a bizarre looking contraption with a fuselage that looks like a rounded rectangular box with windows in the side, a float joined to its base but projecting forward, and an engine stuck on the top front corner of the box like an afterthought. The wings are normal for a biplane

Floatplane or flying boat? 🤔

The Loening 'Miss Cleveland'

22.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 9    📌 0

Who is good on BlueSky on the subject of 1945- today naval warfare?

21.09.2025 10:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

In advance of official publication of our first "bumper" TAH Annual on October 15, our website is now open for advance orders of our print edition. Front cover and contents pages herewith to give you a glimpse of what’s inside this jam-packed 260-page volume. 😀 👍 theaviationhistorian.com

22.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The F-110A Phantom II on roll out from McDonnell Aircraft.

The Century Series went out with the biggest of bangs, the F-110A. Renumbered the F-4, the Phantom II became one of the most iconic fighters ever.

Join us as Joe Wilding and I geek out over the perfect fighter.

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23.01.2025 11:05 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2

TAH50 is out! This is the final one of our quarterly issues, before we go annual (the first TAH Annual should appear around October this year) — and we also have a number of exciting book projects in the pipeline.Here are the front cover and contents page. To order visit www.theaviationhistorian.com

08.01.2025 12:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0