Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
Brett Holman
Really enjoyed the Stereolab gig at the forum tonight and got to say hello to @airminded.org who I’ve not seen in many years.
A female police patrol advising female travellers at Euston Station, London, 1918. Photo: Horace Nicholls. #WW1 Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Iran couldn’t have shut down the Strait of Hormuz at will before the war, but now they have shown that they can easily lash out if they’re unhappy. When Trump floated the idea of a “joint venture” tollbooth with Iran two months ago, he tossed out two centuries of US freedom of navigation doctrine.
A blast from the past and a blast from the future!
And now a different kind of blast: 4+ hours of middle-of-the-night intercontinental Zoom moderation for @avculturesconf.bsky.social…
Michael Brown
In Australia, conservative politician Barnaby Joyce (now in One Nation, then in the Nationals) said of this vaccine:
"There might be an overwhelming backlash from people saying, 'Don't you dare put something out there that gives my 12-year-old daughter a licence to be promiscuous'."
Brett Holman
Oh, no. Won't someone think of the folks who own several properties during a housing crisis. What a shame.
Simon Jones
Sanho Tree
This trio observing the eclipse of the sun outside the Gare Saint Lazare in Paris on Friday, 8 April 1921 (BnF) 🗃️
Damon Young
Not every day you get 3 Aviation Presidents in one place! 2 with the same acronym! Gary, President of Canadian Aviation Historical Society(CAHS) in green; Phil, centre, President of Civil Aviation Historical Society, Essendon, Vic, Australia (CAHS!) and James, @avculturesconf.bsky.social President!
Damon Young
slightly
Who says there’s no good news around these days? 🥳🎉🍾
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… helicopters blown up by boomerangs, golf balls, psychically controlled flamingos, and one as the result of an exploding septic tank.
Anyway, here's a throwback to our first ever review PREDATOR (1987) www.explodinghelicopter.com/2009/06/pred...
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
This is a really cool - and slightly terrifying - interactive map of all 10,538 Starlink satellites currently orbiting Earth.
sheets.works/data-viz/sta...
A live, spinnable map of all 10,538 Starlink satellites in orbit right now, plotted from CelesTrak's public catalogue (GP data, tracked by the US Space Force) with SGP4. Tap any dot for the real satel...
