Former military and commercial pilot - now author of books on military aviation history
Michael Napier
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Topping up from a KC-10 "somewhere over Saudi Arabia" Op Southern Watch, December '92
Michael Napier
somewhere out there tonight: Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) rising behind the Panchachulli peaks / (credit Harsh1271)
Jack Cousteau ⚓️
I'm going to be talking about flying stress and LMF at the Bentley Priory Museum on 11 July. Dr Victoria Taylor and Gp Capt (Rtd) Tim Willbond are speaking too. #WW2 #History tickets from bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/dow...
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Halifax, Nova Scotia photographed Doug Davis.
Nancy Jane Miller Livingston Stratford, US aviator. Pilot in the civilian Air Transport Auxiliary in UK during #WWII. Later a pioneering helicopter pilot in Alaska. b. #OTD 12 Jun 1919, it is her 107th birthday today. She is the last surviving Attagirl #ATA pilot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_S...
E. Lilian Todd #inventor In 1909 New York Times identified her as 1st woman in world to design airplanes. 1910 design was test-piloted by Didier Masson achieving powered hop of >6metres. Many other inventions incl cannon triggered by solar power. b. #OTD 12 June 1865 bit.ly/3KI7Dai
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Golden sky from Ingonish, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia photographed by Erin Fos..
Rare “White Auroras” spotted over Norway.🤩
Dan Ellin
82 years ago #OTD, 10 June 1944, SOE agent #VioletteSzabó was captured during her 2nd mission. Along with fellow SOE agents Lilian Rolfe, Denise Bloch & Cicely Lefort, she was later executed at Ravensbrück. Szabó was posthumously awarded the George Cross, shown here with her daughter Tania 🧵½
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David W. Pippy
David W. Pippy
Then & Now. 😉 (#OTD in 1944, Douet area, France. D-Day + 5. Private Wheatley from 6 Durham Light Infantry firing his Bren gun. #WW2 #HISTORY)
