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Our 32nd quarterly issue arrived from the printers today, and we are busy preparing to mail copies out to our subscribers in the UK and worldwide in advance of official publication on Wednesday July 15. #canadascoldwarjets #airhorse #awkwardshorts #gsuithistory #1940battleofkent
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An interesting and thought-provoking piece here by a former air traffic controller on one of the lesser-considered aspects of the pandemic. @TWAVIATOR1 turningleftforless.com/the-f…

The forgotten aviation casualties of the pandemic – UK Air Traffic Control, will it survive?

As regular readers may know, I used to work as an air traffic controller and many of my friends still do. It has regularly been in the news about how

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Wings TV Channel@WingsTVChannel8 May 2020
LIVE NOW, Streaming the "VE Day 50th Anniversary Airshow 1995" on our Facebook Page. The livestream of this programme will be available for the rest of the day facebook.com/wingstvchannel/…
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Wings TV Channel@WingsTVChannel5 May 2020
To celebrate VE day later this week, the full official film of the "Duxford VE Day Anniversary Airshow 1995" is now FREE to view on our online streaming aviation channel. wingstv.uscreen.io
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Newark Air Museum@NewarkAirMus22 Apr 2020
Hello #MidlandsHour in these challenging time essential site maintenance & security checks give a chance to explore some different perspectives – free from other volunteers & visitors! 2 different views on our #GatewayAviationSite Still #NAMfundRaising via justgiving.com/newarkairmuse…
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Newark Air Museum@NewarkAirMus21 Apr 2020
We made an appeal a while back for in-service photos of #Jaguar T2A #XX829 & so far we've not received anything, so lets float that request again! Anyone? Here's the #aircraft when it arrived at our #GatewayAviationSite back in March 2012! Photo #DTEParchive
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Nimrod XV250@NimrodXV25011 Apr 2020
tomorrow we should have been running our engines to celebrate our 10 years anniversary of our arrival at Elvington. we will run one day and we will definitely celebrate 🍺🍻
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Wings TV Channel@WingsTVChannel5 Apr 2020
Nice low pass from a Bristol Blenheim :) watch more like this at WingsTV.co.uk #aviation #airshows #aircraft #bristolblenheim #warbirds #duxford
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Capt. Ivan@CockpitChatter4 Apr 2020
The beauty of flying, B29 Doc. C/ Brett Shauf #B29Doc #airtoairphotography #Warbird #Grounded #aviationlovers
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Thank you @ArtDecoSocUK for the salutations and fabulous photos.
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social@rgpoulussen2 Apr 2020
Just wait, it gets even better. 😊 #WW2 #HISTORY
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#RoyalAirForce Police from @RAFBrizeNorton show their support for the incredible work of #NHS workers across the country #ClapForOurCarers #StayHomeSavesLives #Inthistogether #COVID19 #covidsupportforce #coronavirus #NoOrdinaryJob #RAF
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Yorkshire Air Museum@air_museum3 Apr 2020
Who cares that the gym is closed? If you have a big radial engine in your garden, exercise from home. Just before lockdown, the final engine maintenance run of our Dakota. #FridayThoughts #FridayFeeling #ExerciseAtHome
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Given the current uncertainties about postal services, we have sent out our new issue, TAH31, to print subscribers in the UK and worldwide about ten days earlier than normal. For our digital-edition readers, TAH31 will be published as normal on April 15. Chins up! #whatanissue
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How air travel went global. Learn a little bit about how about 1919 was to today's global air routes.
Historic Croydon Airport@CroydonAirport30 Mar 2020
Today’s brief instalment about the story of air travel. 1919- Year Zero. #MuseumFromHome #museumathome #HistoricAirport100 #ATC100 #museumsathome #MuseumsTogether
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Wings TV Channel@WingsTVChannel31 Mar 2020
Here’s the Vulcan taking off at RIAT 2012 watch the full display Free at WingsTV.co.uk wingstv.uscreen.io/programs/… #avrovulcan #riat #airtattoo #airshows
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#OnThisDay 29th March 1920 Croydon became London Terminal Aerodrome and Britain’s primary airport. Over the next two decades London Croydon Airport would become the epicentre for the development of Britain’s international air transport and more. #OTD #ATC100 #HistoricAirport100
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Pan Am@FlyPanAm27 Mar 2020
Remembering all the lives lost at Tenerife. March 27, 1977.
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Hurricane Heritage@HurricaneR411828 Mar 2020
Looks like the only airshows we’ll get for a while are virtual ones... so here’s a happy memory of @Shuttleworth_OW in July 2017
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Wings TV Channel@WingsTVChannel25 Mar 2020
Cdr. Paul Stone from the RNHF talks about flying the Sea Fury. See more like this at WingsTV.co.uk an aviation streaming channel featuring aviation documentaries and airshow films. Subscriptions start at less than £1.60 a month and the channel is available worldwide
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