@avhistoryogre.bsky.social
Aviation history refugee from X, interested in anything av history related even if it’s a Hawker biplane.
It’s amazing to me that they actually built the thing.
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s amazing to me that they actually built the thing.
Lloyd 40.08. Honestly I don’t know which way it’s going.
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lloyd 40.08. Honestly I don’t know which way it’s going.
Okay razorback or bubble which one you got?
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Okay razorback or bubble which one you got?
Sometimes when you’re moving or traveling you just have to tie something on top of the vehicle.
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sometimes when you’re moving or traveling you just have to tie something on top of the vehicle.
First B-21 I’ve seen in the daylight.
September 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
First B-21 I’ve seen in the daylight.
It sometimes took several cowboys to lasso a Wildcat. Many of them proved difficult to break well enough to be ridden.
August 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It sometimes took several cowboys to lasso a Wildcat. Many of them proved difficult to break well enough to be ridden.
USS Boxer loading 146 F-51 Mustangs as part of an emergency shipment of aircraft and personnel to Korea in July 1950. Boxer made the crossing from Alameda across the Pacific in 8 1/2 days.
August 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
USS Boxer loading 146 F-51 Mustangs as part of an emergency shipment of aircraft and personnel to Korea in July 1950. Boxer made the crossing from Alameda across the Pacific in 8 1/2 days.
A Soviet officer stands by to receive the 5000th aircraft handed over to the Soviet Union via Alaska. A Bell P-63.
August 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A Soviet officer stands by to receive the 5000th aircraft handed over to the Soviet Union via Alaska. A Bell P-63.
Can’t park there mate.
July 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Can’t park there mate.
I’m a huge fan of the golden age of aviation and aircraft with wheel spats. (I know I need therapy, that’s what you lot are for). But on a Mustang they just look wrong.
July 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m a huge fan of the golden age of aviation and aircraft with wheel spats. (I know I need therapy, that’s what you lot are for). But on a Mustang they just look wrong.
The Il-20. When your Il-2 gets too close to a beehive.
July 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Il-20. When your Il-2 gets too close to a beehive.
This Mirage IIIe was fitted with a rocket engine, supposedly to catch up to U-2s overflying French nuclear sites. Anyone know if that’s true? @aviationmarlene.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This Mirage IIIe was fitted with a rocket engine, supposedly to catch up to U-2s overflying French nuclear sites. Anyone know if that’s true? @aviationmarlene.bsky.social
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it fly again.
July 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it fly again.
An FM-2 Wildcat in grey color scheme photographed in 2009. The aircraft is currently in the Mid America Flight Museum in Texas. 📷credit embedded.
July 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
An FM-2 Wildcat in grey color scheme photographed in 2009. The aircraft is currently in the Mid America Flight Museum in Texas. 📷credit embedded.
Just a few days before V-E day this B-24 was shot down by an Me-262 using rockets. The sole survivor was a POW for a few days.
June 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just a few days before V-E day this B-24 was shot down by an Me-262 using rockets. The sole survivor was a POW for a few days.
Astoundingly the US decided to reverse engineer this thing to create the JB-2 Loon, built by Republic, Ford and Willys.
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Astoundingly the US decided to reverse engineer this thing to create the JB-2 Loon, built by Republic, Ford and Willys.
Early R2 unit? No it’s Italian Col. Mario Pezzi in an altitude chamber in a Caproni Ca.161, in which he set an altitude record of 17083 m / 56047 ft that stood for piston powered aircraft until 1995. Oh, and the Caproni was a biplane.
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Early R2 unit? No it’s Italian Col. Mario Pezzi in an altitude chamber in a Caproni Ca.161, in which he set an altitude record of 17083 m / 56047 ft that stood for piston powered aircraft until 1995. Oh, and the Caproni was a biplane.
Beautiful shot of a Seafire going just a bit low.
June 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Beautiful shot of a Seafire going just a bit low.
Well somewhat nearer to your heart here’s a Spitfire doing the same thing
June 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Well somewhat nearer to your heart here’s a Spitfire doing the same thing
It’s not every day that you see a P-40 take off from an aircraft carrier, but here we are.
June 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It’s not every day that you see a P-40 take off from an aircraft carrier, but here we are.
A pretty silver Hurricane.
June 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A pretty silver Hurricane.
One of these two individuals was the pilot of this Typhoon. I’ll let you decide which.
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
One of these two individuals was the pilot of this Typhoon. I’ll let you decide which.
An excellent photo for demonstrating the evolution of fighter design between two generations of aircraft from the same manufacturer. An F3F and F4F.
May 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An excellent photo for demonstrating the evolution of fighter design between two generations of aircraft from the same manufacturer. An F3F and F4F.
Blue is classic for Corsairs but the postwar gull grey is nice too.
May 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Blue is classic for Corsairs but the postwar gull grey is nice too.
#otd in 1953 the YF-100 Super Sabre had its first flight, becoming the first jet fighter capable of supersonic level flight. The test pilot, George Welch, was one of two American pilots who managed to get airborne during the Pearl Harbor attack. He downed three Vals and one Zero in a P-40B.
May 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#otd in 1953 the YF-100 Super Sabre had its first flight, becoming the first jet fighter capable of supersonic level flight. The test pilot, George Welch, was one of two American pilots who managed to get airborne during the Pearl Harbor attack. He downed three Vals and one Zero in a P-40B.