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Exploring the development of air power from the earliest days of flight to now and the future.
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Editors: Dr Ross Mahoney, Dr Maria Burczynska, Dr Mike Hankins, Dr Brian Laslie, Abby Whitlock and Luca Chadwick.
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Review by @philthyavnurd.bsky.social of Ian Campbell, Relentless Skies: The Most Efficient Airman, vol 1 of a new biography of Don Bennett
Relentless Skies: The Most Efficient Airman – Ian Campbell
This year has not been kind in allowing me time to write reviews, let alone get some quality reading done. Aircrew Book Review is what led m...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Review by @philthyavnurd.bsky.social of Ian Campbell, Relentless Skies: The Most Efficient Airman, vol 1 of a new biography of Don Bennett
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Many members of the armed forces often suffer from cultural blindness and perpetuate myths instead of undertaking deep archival research. Not all. There are some good exceptions but we shouldn't assume that just because you served, you know what your are writing about.
December 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Many members of the armed forces often suffer from cultural blindness and perpetuate myths instead of undertaking deep archival research. Not all. There are some good exceptions but we shouldn't assume that just because you served, you know what your are writing about.
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God, I hate it when people state that a history book (not a memoir) was written by a (former) member of the armed forces. The implication being that they know what they are writing about. This is not so.
December 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
God, I hate it when people state that a history book (not a memoir) was written by a (former) member of the armed forces. The implication being that they know what they are writing about. This is not so.
On behalf of the team at 'From Balloons to Drones,' Merry Christmas! Have a great day.
December 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
On behalf of the team at 'From Balloons to Drones,' Merry Christmas! Have a great day.
Call for Papers: RAF Museum 2026 Lecture Series www.rafmuseum.org.uk/news/raf-mus...
RAF Museum 2026 Lecture Series: Call for Papers - RAF Museum
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December 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/15/w...
Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State
By Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Jackson, PhD, USAF, and Major (ret) Wael al-Taki, LAF 2 August 2014: Hundreds of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front militants stormed Lebanese Army positions in the Bekaa…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/15/w...
Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/15/w...
Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State
By Lieutenant Colonel Dr Daniel Jackson, USAF, and Major (ret) Wael al-Taki, LAF 2 August 2014: Hundreds of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front militants stormed Lebanese Army positions in the Bekaa V…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Wings over Lebanon: Local Ingenuity and American Assistance in the War against the Islamic State balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/15/w...
'Dusch’s Balloon Ace paints a comprehensive portrait of Louis Bennett Jr., not merely as a combat hero, but as an insightful, if ultimately thwarted, early air power visionary whose innovative ideas predated official policy.'
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#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary
Reviewed by Ray Ortensie Charles D. Dusch Jr., Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2025. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index…
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December 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
'Dusch’s Balloon Ace paints a comprehensive portrait of Louis Bennett Jr., not merely as a combat hero, but as an insightful, if ultimately thwarted, early air power visionary whose innovative ideas predated official policy.'
balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/08/b... #WW1 #airpowerhistory #avgeek
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Just spent an hour and a half re-writing a key paragraph that explains the aim of my article... Much happier with it now. #research #amwriting #airpowerhistory #VietnamWar
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Just spent an hour and a half re-writing a key paragraph that explains the aim of my article... Much happier with it now. #research #amwriting #airpowerhistory #VietnamWar
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/08/b... #WW1 #airpowerhistory
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary
Reviewed by Ray Ortensie Charles D. Dusch Jr., Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2025. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/08/b... #WW1 #airpowerhistory
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#Acquisition - Huey: The Helicopter that Became an Australian Legend drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/a...
#Acquisition – Huey: The Helicopter that Became an Australian Legend
The Vietnam War could easily be described as the helicopter war due to the role that the platform played in that conflict. If there is one helicopter that is readily identified with the Vietnam War…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#Acquisition - Huey: The Helicopter that Became an Australian Legend drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/a...
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/08/b... #WW1 #airpowerhistory
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary
Reviewed by Ray Ortensie Charles D. Dusch Jr., Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2025. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#BookReview – Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/08/b... #WW1 #airpowerhistory
ADF autonomous warfare: go big, go fast | Malcolm Davis | www.aspistrategist.org.au/adf-autonomo...
ADF autonomous warfare: go big, go fast | The Strategist
The Australian Defence Force needs to expand and accelerate acquisition of autonomous equipment to achieve a rapid increase in force-structure numbers and capability. This is necessary to reinforce Au...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
ADF autonomous warfare: go big, go fast | Malcolm Davis | www.aspistrategist.org.au/adf-autonomo...
Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c... #airpower #militaryaviation #avgeeks #plsRT
Call for Submissions – From Balloons to Drones
Established in 2016, From Balloons to Drones is an online scholarly platform that analyses and debates air power history (including aviation history), theory, and contemporary operations in their b…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Call for Submissions - From Balloons to Drones balloonstodrones.com/2023/02/04/c... #airpower #militaryaviation #avgeeks #plsRT
'This is an important book; it presents some of the latest and greatest aviation scholarship, and its sum is greater than its composite parts.'
#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience.
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#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience.
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#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience
Reviewed by Dr Brian Laslie Scott W. Palmer (ed.), Flight Culture and the Human Experience. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2025. Hbk Photos. Bibliography. Index. 248 pp. Scott W. Palmer’…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
'This is an important book; it presents some of the latest and greatest aviation scholarship, and its sum is greater than its composite parts.'
#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience.
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#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience.
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#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/r... #koreanwar #ColdWar #officialhistory
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War
In 1981, the first volume of the Australian official history of Australia in the Korean War was published. The author of the official history was Robert O’Neill, a Vietnam veteran who had gained hi…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Everything I have written is on sale at #Amazon ! Grab a copy (or two) for the history lover and aviation enthusiast on your list! www.amazon.com/s?k=Brian+D....
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December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everything I have written is on sale at #Amazon ! Grab a copy (or two) for the history lover and aviation enthusiast on your list! www.amazon.com/s?k=Brian+D....
#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/01/b...
#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience
Reviewed by Dr Brian Laslie Scott W. Palmer (ed.), Flight Culture and the Human Experience. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2025. Hbk Photos. Bibliography. Index. 248 pp. Scott W. Palmer’…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#BookReview – Flight Culture and the Human Experience balloonstodrones.com/2025/12/01/b...
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/r...
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War
In 1981, the first volume of the Australian official history of Australia in the Korean War was published. The author of the official history was Robert O’Neill, a Vietnam veteran who had gained hi…
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November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/r...
#Commentary – Filling the Fighter Gap: Türkiye Turns to the Eurofighter After the F-35 Fallout balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/25/c...
#Commentary – Filling the Fighter Gap: Türkiye Turns to the Eurofighter After the F-35 Fallout
By Ömer Ergün Özkan “If we cannot get the F-35, we will evaluate other options.” “There is no way we will step back from the S-400s.” “If the promises given to us are not kept, we will not approve …
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November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
#Commentary – Filling the Fighter Gap: Türkiye Turns to the Eurofighter After the F-35 Fallout balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/25/c...
Exercise Pinion Titan: British and French Helicopter Air Power Put to the Test theaviationist.com/2025/11/24/e...
Exercise Pinion Titan: British and French Helicopter Air Power Put to the Test
Throughout November, up to 50 British and French helicopters have been staging operations across the UK in a major exercise involving around 2,000
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November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Exercise Pinion Titan: British and French Helicopter Air Power Put to the Test theaviationist.com/2025/11/24/e...
Soaring Eagles: F-15C Air Superiority during Operation Desert Storm theaviationist.com/2025/11/23/f...
Soaring Eagles: F-15C Air Superiority during Operation Desert Storm
Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, caused an international coalition to respond with Operation Desert Shield, eventually culminating
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November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Soaring Eagles: F-15C Air Superiority during Operation Desert Storm theaviationist.com/2025/11/23/f...
#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/18/b...
#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars
Reviewed by Dr John J. Abbatiello Kathy Wilson, Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2024. Il…
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November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#BookReview – Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars balloonstodrones.com/2025/11/18/b...
Meet the NeoVark | Bill Sweetman | www.aspistrategist.org.au/meet-the-neo...
Meet the NeoVark | The Strategist
The United States and China are not the only ones who are designing great range into their upcoming combat aircraft. Britain, Italy and Japan have made the same decision. The US is developing the Nort...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Meet the NeoVark | Bill Sweetman | www.aspistrategist.org.au/meet-the-neo...
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#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/r...
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War
In 1981, the first volume of the Australian official history of Australia in the Korean War was published. The author of the official history was Robert O’Neill, a Vietnam veteran who had gained hi…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#ResearchNote – George Odgers and the Australian Official History of the Korean War drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/r...