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Alan A
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Ancient and Late Antique history | Stone circles | Model kits | Learning the violin | Tomb Raider and Red Dead | Railways and locomotives | Soviet aircraft | Horror stories | Nile valley | Bob Dylan

But, you know, next week might be different
Reposting for #MiGMondays
MiG-15
Shenyang J-6 (the MiG-19 we have at home)
MiG-15
MiG-21 and MiG-19
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Taunton Station, Somerset. 47847 Railway World Magazine. Brush works no. 536, 1964. New as D1774 to 41A (Tinsley), renumbered 47179, 47577. BR large logo livery. Photo: 01.2001. #Taunton #Class47 #railway #locomotive
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Export version of the Felon. Reposting for #SukhoiSundays
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Penn Central #3143 (Model GP40 blt. Sept. 1968) has at least four other engines helping as it’s long train thunders along below Fairfield Hills, destined to pass through Botsford on its way towards Derby CT in the early 1970s.

#photography #filmphotography #35mm
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Love the bicycle spoke wheels. Reposting for #TupolevTuesdays
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A MiG-15bis painted up as 822 Red of the North Korean Air Force, on display in Tucson, Arizona #MiGMondays
I think there must be a federal law that any F-86 display must include a MiG-15.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Reposting for #SukhoiSundays
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Awesome photo. Reposting for #MiGMondays
MiG-21 LanceR
October 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ah a Fencer. A prope late Cold War-era beauty #SukhoiSundays
October 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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GP38 Hard at work

#train #photography #railfan
October 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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🇨🇳🇸🇩 CHINA SOLD MISSILES TO CHAD... SOMEHOW SUDAN GOT THEM

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces just landed a shipment of Chinese-made FB-10A air defense systems that were originally sold to the Republic of Chad.
October 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia | Democratic Republic of the Congo

https://www.europesays.com/2467283/

Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia | Democratic Republic of the Congo …
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia | Democratic Republic of the Congo - EUROPE SAYS
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia | Democratic Republic of the Congo
www.europesays.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Wow this article was depressing. Everything turns to shit in the end. Whoever said “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism“ was bang on
October 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#nowreading just picked up Lonesome Dove again
October 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Take your favourite bits of The Thing. Add your favourite bits of Annihilation. Stir them up in a pot with Nick Cage ramping it up to eleven. Chuck in some alpacas to garnish. What have you made? You’ve made Color Out Of Space, that’s what you’ve made. Rubbish but loved it #justwatched #horrorsky
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wow, a kit of the Tu-91, the USSR’s version of the Fairey Gannet. Khrushchev cancelled this project in 1956 because of how ridiculous the thing looked #TupolevTuedays
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Only 45 years between this and the Su-27 Flanker #SukhoiSundays
Sukhoi Su-2: Soviet light bomber
August 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two beautiful Cold War MiG-23s, flying slowly over the Baltic Sea I imagine. Reposting for #MiGMondays
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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In the Republic of Congo nearly 100% of the stations broke their monthly records.
It's the harshest and most extreme heat event ever seen in Western Africa.
Never happened anything like this before in the rainy season.

100% of all tropical countries in the world are breaking records: never happened
EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Dozens of September Records smashed with huge margins all accross the area

CONGO KINSHASA 35.8 Kinshasa
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 37.0 Bangui
CONGO BRAZZAVILLE: 36 Brazzaville, 35 34.5 Mouyondzi 500m asl
and Dozens more..
September 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#nowlistening Numb/Encore by Linkin Park with Jay-Z
youtu.be/_1oO4wzPCmE?...
Numb / Encore (Official Audio) - Linkin Park / JAY-Z
YouTube video by Linkin Park
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposting for #SukhoiSundays. I love the dazzle camouflage on this Su-35. This beauty is huge, it’s longer than a Lancaster bomber and is heavier too
September 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposting for #SukhoiSundays
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
An awesome piece of reverse engineering. Reposting the Tu-4 for #TupolevTuesdays
The Tupolev Tu-4 is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made emergency landings in the USSR.
Tupolev Tu-4
The Tupolev Tu-4 is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made emergency landings in the USSR.
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM