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FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRE IN LLŶN
The fire at Penyberth, in the Llŷn peninsula, is an important part of the history of the Welsh nationalist movement.In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three men, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, entered an aerodrome which was being built for the RAF as a bombing school and deliberately set fire to it.They then went to a nearby police station and just as deliberatelyL. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite THE BOMBER WILL ALWAYS GET THROUGH The bomber will always get through. It's the 75th anniversary of Stanley Baldwin's famous 'the bomber will always get through' speech. It's an important text which is widely quoted, both in my primary and my secondary sources, as a testament to the fear of bombing in the 1930s. But I've never actually read it very closely, and I think I'min
TREMAYNE AND CROWAN
95 thoughts on “ Tremayne and Crowan ” peter dillon. 2 December 2012 at 8:11 am. I used to have free access to Ancestry.com for more than 4 years via a back door they accidently left open (I didn't dare tell anyone, in case others blabbed it out on mailing lists and the like as they always do, so that Ancestry would find out and fix it) but a free promotion late last year saw them ALLIED CASUALTIES, DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN, 1915-6 Ian Deans. 25 April 2008 at 9:14 am. It's worth considering that - and these are very rough figures - the Australian population was about 4mn at the outbreak of war and total enlistment came very close to 400,000 - or 10% of the entire population. AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRE IN LLŶN
The fire at Penyberth, in the Llŷn peninsula, is an important part of the history of the Welsh nationalist movement.In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three men, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, entered an aerodrome which was being built for the RAF as a bombing school and deliberately set fire to it.They then went to a nearby police station and just as deliberatelyL. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite THE BOMBER WILL ALWAYS GET THROUGH The bomber will always get through. It's the 75th anniversary of Stanley Baldwin's famous 'the bomber will always get through' speech. It's an important text which is widely quoted, both in my primary and my secondary sources, as a testament to the fear of bombing in the 1930s. But I've never actually read it very closely, and I think I'min
TREMAYNE AND CROWAN
95 thoughts on “ Tremayne and Crowan ” peter dillon. 2 December 2012 at 8:11 am. I used to have free access to Ancestry.com for more than 4 years via a back door they accidently left open (I didn't dare tell anyone, in case others blabbed it out on mailing lists and the like as they always do, so that Ancestry would find out and fix it) but a free promotion late last year saw them ALLIED CASUALTIES, DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN, 1915-6 Ian Deans. 25 April 2008 at 9:14 am. It's worth considering that - and these are very rough figures - the Australian population was about 4mn at the outbreak of war and total enlistment came very close to 400,000 - or 10% of the entire population.AIRMINDED
Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which THE AIR RAID VANISHES One thought on “ The air raid vanishes — II ” Ian Castle. 11 June 2021 at 7:33 pm. Interesting piece of work, Brett. A couple of observations. The peak in 'air raid' in Feb 1916 may be due to the Midlands Raid on night of 31 Jan/1 Feb 1916.PUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. AIRMINDED – PAGE 160 This happened a week ago, but it's rather cool - a re-enactment of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic by the British airmen Alcock and Brown in June 1919. They used a modified Vickers Vimy, a two-engined aircraft designed for bombing German cities. The Vimy was never used in this role, but a flight of just over 3000 km surely proved its potential - even if Brown had to keep climbing THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 20 thoughts on “ The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849 ” Erik Lund. 27 August 2009 at 4:09 am. If anyone's ever gone to lok at the Kriegswissenschaftlichen Memoiren (Military Scientific Memoires) at the War Archives of the Austrian State Archives, they'll have got to know the guys who did this --in general, as I don't remember thespecific name.
THE GREAT AIR RACE
The great air race. It's the 75th anniversary of the MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. More specifically, it's the 75th anniversary of the day the race was won, 23 October 1934. The winners were C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black of Britain, who took just two days and twenty-three hours to cover the 18200 km from London to Melbourne.THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive THE BOMBER WILL ALWAYS GET THROUGH The bomber will always get through. It's the 75th anniversary of Stanley Baldwin's famous 'the bomber will always get through' speech. It's an important text which is widely quoted, both in my primary and my secondary sources, as a testament to the fear of bombing in the 1930s. But I've never actually read it very closely, and I think I'min
ALERT THE AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON! In another direction, it links to modern solar-powered airships designed for stratospheric surveillance. And finally, it links to real-life flying aircraft carriers such as the USS Macon and fictional ones such as HMS Whatever-it-was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. There's no information given in the article about whose ideathis was.
ALLIED CASUALTIES, DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN, 1915-6 Ian Deans. 25 April 2008 at 9:14 am. It's worth considering that - and these are very rough figures - the Australian population was about 4mn at the outbreak of war and total enlistment came very close to 400,000 - or 10% of the entire population. AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadly AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadlyAIRMINDED
Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which THE AIR RAID VANISHES One thought on “ The air raid vanishes — II ” Ian Castle. 11 June 2021 at 7:33 pm. Interesting piece of work, Brett. A couple of observations. The peak in 'air raid' in Feb 1916 may be due to the Midlands Raid on night of 31 Jan/1 Feb 1916.PUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE FLEET AIR ARM’S WAR ON SCOTLAND? The first air raid on Britain during the Second World War is usually held to have taken place on 16 October 1939, when a dozen Ju 88s struck at the Royal Navy base at Rosyth, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.But there was in fact an earlier attack, on 27 September, also in Scotland, at Bellochantuy (variously spelled Bellochanty, Ballachantuie or Ballachantuy): AIRMINDED – PAGE 160 This happened a week ago, but it's rather cool - a re-enactment of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic by the British airmen Alcock and Brown in June 1919. They used a modified Vickers Vimy, a two-engined aircraft designed for bombing German cities. The Vimy was never used in this role, but a flight of just over 3000 km surely proved its potential - even if Brown had to keep climbing THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
AIRMINDED – PAGE 159 Robert Wohl. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. The long awaited (by me, at least) sequel to A Passion for Wings, this looks to be equally wide-ranging and is just as gloriously illustrated.There's a chapter on aerial bombing, though it seems to have little on Britain prior to the Blitz.THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadly AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadly AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadlyAIRMINDED
Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. THE AIR RAID VANISHES One thought on “ The air raid vanishes — II ” Ian Castle. 11 June 2021 at 7:33 pm. Interesting piece of work, Brett. A couple of observations. The peak in 'air raid' in Feb 1916 may be due to the Midlands Raid on night of 31 Jan/1 Feb 1916. PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE FLEET AIR ARM’S WAR ON SCOTLAND? The first air raid on Britain during the Second World War is usually held to have taken place on 16 October 1939, when a dozen Ju 88s struck at the Royal Navy base at Rosyth, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.But there was in fact an earlier attack, on 27 September, also in Scotland, at Bellochantuy (variously spelled Bellochanty, Ballachantuie or Ballachantuy): THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
AIRMINDED – PAGE 159 Robert Wohl. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. The long awaited (by me, at least) sequel to A Passion for Wings, this looks to be equally wide-ranging and is just as gloriously illustrated.There's a chapter on aerial bombing, though it seems to have little on Britain prior to the Blitz.THE FIRE IN LLŶN
The fire at Penyberth, in the Llŷn peninsula, is an important part of the history of the Welsh nationalist movement.In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three men, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, entered an aerodrome which was being built for the RAF as a bombing school and deliberately set fire to it.They then went to a nearby police station and just as deliberatelyTHE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive MAKING AN AIRMINDED YOUTH (AND A GLIDING MODEL AEROPLANE Making an airminded youth (and a gliding model aeroplane) Brett Holman • 24 October 2007 • 19 Comments. Here's something a bit different. It's a paper model aeroplane which I made from a design published on 30 June 1934 in "Boys and Girls", the weekly children's supplement to the Daily Mail. The claim is made there that it glides, but sadly AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849. On 22 August 1849, the Republic of San Marco surrendered to Austria. The Republic was formed after a revolt in Venice against Austrian rule in March 1848. The Austrians eventually besieged Venice, leading to starvation andoutbreaks of
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one WINGS OVER WAZIRISTAN Brett Holman. Post author 21 April 2010 at 9:45 pm. It's true, I've even met some Englishmen and they don't talk like Australians at all. There's a good article about (inter alia) the Waziristan campaign here.. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Waziristan operations was the close co-operation between the RAF and the Army in India at the tactical level, although independent CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849. On 22 August 1849, the Republic of San Marco surrendered to Austria. The Republic was formed after a revolt in Venice against Austrian rule in March 1848. The Austrians eventually besieged Venice, leading to starvation andoutbreaks of
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one WINGS OVER WAZIRISTAN Brett Holman. Post author 21 April 2010 at 9:45 pm. It's true, I've even met some Englishmen and they don't talk like Australians at all. There's a good article about (inter alia) the Waziristan campaign here.. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Waziristan operations was the close co-operation between the RAF and the Army in India at the tactical level, although independent CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite THE AIR RAID VANISHES One thought on “ The air raid vanishes — II ” Ian Castle. 11 June 2021 at 7:33 pm. Interesting piece of work, Brett. A couple of observations. The peak in 'air raid' in Feb 1916 may be due to the Midlands Raid on night of 31 Jan/1 Feb 1916.PUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. AIRMINDED – PAGE 159 Robert Wohl. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. The long awaited (by me, at least) sequel to A Passion for Wings, this looks to be equally wide-ranging and is just as gloriously illustrated.There's a chapter on aerial bombing, though it seems to have little on Britain prior to the Blitz.THE FIRE IN LLŶN
The fire at Penyberth, in the Llŷn peninsula, is an important part of the history of the Welsh nationalist movement.In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three men, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, entered an aerodrome which was being built for the RAF as a bombing school and deliberately set fire to it.They then went to a nearby police station and just as deliberatelyACQUISITIONS
Friedrich von Bernhardi. Germany and the Next War. London: Edward Arnold, 1914. This book by a German general laid bare Germany's ruthless plans for world conquest for all to see -- all who ignored the fact that Bernhardi had little influence and did not represent official or military opinion, anyway. Still, very useful for AlliedJ. M. SPAIGHT
J. M. Spaight (1877-1968) was easily the most prolific British writer on airpower during the first half of the 20th century, with over a dozen books to his name. He was unusual in that he was not a pilot, nor did he have any military experience. Instead he was a civil servant trained in law; from 1918 until his retirement in 1937 he wasat the
THE GREAT AIR RACE
The great air race. It's the 75th anniversary of the MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. More specifically, it's the 75th anniversary of the day the race was won, 23 October 1934. The winners were C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black of Britain, who took just two days and twenty-three hours to cover the 18200 km from London to Melbourne.DIVERS ALARUMS
I often toss the nouns scare and panic around.One of my articles is titled 'The air panic of 1935', another is subtitled 'airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918'. Sometimes I use them to mean the same thing: in the former article, about the press agitation for RAF expansion in response to the aerial rearmament of Germany, I even refer to 'a panic or scare'. THE WAR WITH EURASIA/EASTASIA The purpose of the war between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia -- which is mainly confined to equatorial and northern Africa, the Middle East, India and south-east Asia -- is not to win, so new weapons are actually pointless (besides which, they involve empirical thinking, which is doubleplusungood). ALERT THE AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON! In another direction, it links to modern solar-powered airships designed for stratospheric surveillance. And finally, it links to real-life flying aircraft carriers such as the USS Macon and fictional ones such as HMS Whatever-it-was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. There's no information given in the article about whose ideathis was.
AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849. On 22 August 1849, the Republic of San Marco surrendered to Austria. The Republic was formed after a revolt in Venice against Austrian rule in March 1848. The Austrians eventually besieged Venice, leading to starvation andoutbreaks of
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one WINGS OVER WAZIRISTAN Brett Holman. Post author 21 April 2010 at 9:45 pm. It's true, I've even met some Englishmen and they don't talk like Australians at all. There's a good article about (inter alia) the Waziristan campaign here.. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Waziristan operations was the close co-operation between the RAF and the Army in India at the tactical level, although independent CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which PARTIAL FLIGHTGLOBAL ARCHIVE ARCHIVES Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives. Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the ' Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to high-resolution PDFs (with OCR) of nearly every page of the key British aviation trade magazineFlight (from
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849. On 22 August 1849, the Republic of San Marco surrendered to Austria. The Republic was formed after a revolt in Venice against Austrian rule in March 1848. The Austrians eventually besieged Venice, leading to starvation andoutbreaks of
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one WINGS OVER WAZIRISTAN Brett Holman. Post author 21 April 2010 at 9:45 pm. It's true, I've even met some Englishmen and they don't talk like Australians at all. There's a good article about (inter alia) the Waziristan campaign here.. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Waziristan operations was the close co-operation between the RAF and the Army in India at the tactical level, although independent CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite THE AIR RAID VANISHES One thought on “ The air raid vanishes — II ” Ian Castle. 11 June 2021 at 7:33 pm. Interesting piece of work, Brett. A couple of observations. The peak in 'air raid' in Feb 1916 may be due to the Midlands Raid on night of 31 Jan/1 Feb 1916.PUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. AIRMINDED – PAGE 159 Robert Wohl. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. The long awaited (by me, at least) sequel to A Passion for Wings, this looks to be equally wide-ranging and is just as gloriously illustrated.There's a chapter on aerial bombing, though it seems to have little on Britain prior to the Blitz.THE FIRE IN LLŶN
The fire at Penyberth, in the Llŷn peninsula, is an important part of the history of the Welsh nationalist movement.In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three men, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, entered an aerodrome which was being built for the RAF as a bombing school and deliberately set fire to it.They then went to a nearby police station and just as deliberatelyACQUISITIONS
Friedrich von Bernhardi. Germany and the Next War. London: Edward Arnold, 1914. This book by a German general laid bare Germany's ruthless plans for world conquest for all to see -- all who ignored the fact that Bernhardi had little influence and did not represent official or military opinion, anyway. Still, very useful for AlliedJ. M. SPAIGHT
J. M. Spaight (1877-1968) was easily the most prolific British writer on airpower during the first half of the 20th century, with over a dozen books to his name. He was unusual in that he was not a pilot, nor did he have any military experience. Instead he was a civil servant trained in law; from 1918 until his retirement in 1937 he wasat the
THE GREAT AIR RACE
The great air race. It's the 75th anniversary of the MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. More specifically, it's the 75th anniversary of the day the race was won, 23 October 1934. The winners were C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black of Britain, who took just two days and twenty-three hours to cover the 18200 km from London to Melbourne.DIVERS ALARUMS
I often toss the nouns scare and panic around.One of my articles is titled 'The air panic of 1935', another is subtitled 'airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918'. Sometimes I use them to mean the same thing: in the former article, about the press agitation for RAF expansion in response to the aerial rearmament of Germany, I even refer to 'a panic or scare'. THE WAR WITH EURASIA/EASTASIA The purpose of the war between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia -- which is mainly confined to equatorial and northern Africa, the Middle East, India and south-east Asia -- is not to win, so new weapons are actually pointless (besides which, they involve empirical thinking, which is doubleplusungood). ALERT THE AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON! In another direction, it links to modern solar-powered airships designed for stratospheric surveillance. And finally, it links to real-life flying aircraft carriers such as the USS Macon and fictional ones such as HMS Whatever-it-was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. There's no information given in the article about whose ideathis was.
AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid. SATURDAY, 22 MAY 1909 Saturday, 22 May 1909. This post is part of a series post-blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. Today is Saturday, when a number of the weeklies in my sample are published. Two of them are clearly sceptical, and don't devote much space to the mystery airships; one TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW To-day and to-morrow. 'To-day and To-morrow' was a series of over a hundred essays on 'the future' of a diverse range of subjects, which were published in pamphlet form by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. between 1924 and 1931. The authors are equally varied: some were acknowledged experts in their fields,others
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 1942 Saturday, 25 April 1942. Brett Holman • 25 April 2012 • 13 Comments. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Lots of interesting things in today's papers about the campaign inBurma, the future
THE DOUHET DILEMMA
The Douhet dilemma. I haven't written much about General Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of airpower whose name is -- almost -- synonymous with strategic bombing. His 1921 (revised edition, 1927) book Il dominio dell'aria (usually translated as The Command of the Air) is one of the most definitive CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quiteAIRMINDED
Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. THE AIR RAID VANISHES The term 'air raid' has been around a long time. Not since the first air raid, or even the first air raid of the twentieth century, but from not long after that.The first definite use in the British Newspaper Archive is in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, during the 1913 phantom airship panic, as it happens (bold emphases are mine throughout):. The War Office were about to offer a substantial AIRMINDED – PAGE 159 Robert Wohl. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. The long awaited (by me, at least) sequel to A Passion for Wings, this looks to be equally wide-ranging and is just as gloriously illustrated.There's a chapter on aerial bombing, though it seems to have little on Britain prior to the Blitz. THE SUDETEN CRISIS, 1938 Monday, 12 September 1938. Tuesday, 13 September 1938 -- Hitler speaks at Nuremberg. Wednesday, 14 September 1938 -- Sudeten ultimatum. Thursday, 15 September 1938 -- Chamberlain announces meeting with Hitler. Friday, 16 September 1938 -- Chamberlain's first flight to Germany. Saturday, 17 September 1938 -- Sudetens to resumenegotiations.
THE FLEET AIR ARM’S WAR ON SCOTLAND? The first air raid on Britain during the Second World War is usually held to have taken place on 16 October 1939, when a dozen Ju 88s struck at the Royal Navy base at Rosyth, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.But there was in fact an earlier attack, on 27 September, also in Scotland, at Bellochantuy (variously spelled Bellochanty, Ballachantuie or Ballachantuy): THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
J. M. SPAIGHT
J. M. Spaight (1877-1968) was easily the most prolific British writer on airpower during the first half of the 20th century, with over a dozen books to his name. He was unusual in that he was not a pilot, nor did he have any military experience. Instead he was a civil servant trained in law; from 1918 until his retirement in 1937 he wasat the
AIRMINDED – PAGE 158 David Butler and Gareth Butler. Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Eighth edition.The bible.
THE FIRST AIR BOMB: VENICE, 15 JULY 1849 The first air bomb: Venice, 15 July 1849. On 22 August 1849, the Republic of San Marco surrendered to Austria. The Republic was formed after a revolt in Venice against Austrian rule in March 1848. The Austrians eventually besieged Venice, leading to starvation andoutbreaks of
AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
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Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid.DIVERS ALARUMS
I often toss the nouns scare and panic around.One of my articles is titled 'The air panic of 1935', another is subtitled 'airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918'. Sometimes I use them to mean the same thing: in the former article, about the press agitation for RAF expansion in response to the aerial rearmament of Germany, I even refer to 'a panic or scare'. TUESDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 1940 Tuesday, 3 September 1940. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Yesterday was another big day for aerial warfare (these headlines are from The Times, 4). Six hundred and fifty Germanaircraft
EMBANKMENT AND STRAND Probably my favourite place to research in London was the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London, where I spent the better part of two weeks digging through several personal archives. It's a very pleasant environment to work in, and the staff were very helpful in accommodating this rude colonial's requests, evenENDING HENDON
Ending Hendon — V: 1932-1934. Brett Holman • 30 November 2011 • 2 Comments. The week before the 1932 RAF Display, Flight 's editor commented on the rationale behind the theme chosen for the finale: Sometimes the story composed for the set piece has been framed with some object, such as to obviate the criticisms of pacifists. CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quite AIRMINDEDABOUTPUBLICATIONSTHE NEXT WAR IN THE AIRDOWNLOADSCONTACTWORDS Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and whichPUBLICATIONS
6 thoughts on “ Publications ” Chuck Davis. 26 September 2013 at 4:58 am. Is there any possibility of getting a PDF copy of "The Scareship Age"? I'm preparing a website that explores the man-made origins of UFOs (excluding all the nonsense like conspiracy theories - I'm a semi-professional aviation technology historian) and I'd like to explore the Scareships in greater detail. FLIGHT BACK ISSUES ONLINE Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have toclick
THE THIRD ATOMIC BOMB: TOKYO, 19 AUGUST 1945 On this day in 1945, the third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. Or, rather, might have been had not Japan surrendered on 15 August. For a long time, I've believed that the two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones which would be available for a month ortwo. But a
L. E. O. CHARLTON
Chevaune Taylor. 29 May 2010 at 4:15 am. I was trying to find out about my late 'uncle' Oscar who ws known as Oscar but his actual name was Oswald Charlton, lived in Northumberland and told me that he was a Pathfinder and flew in the Peenemunde raid.DIVERS ALARUMS
I often toss the nouns scare and panic around.One of my articles is titled 'The air panic of 1935', another is subtitled 'airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918'. Sometimes I use them to mean the same thing: in the former article, about the press agitation for RAF expansion in response to the aerial rearmament of Germany, I even refer to 'a panic or scare'. TUESDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 1940 Tuesday, 3 September 1940. This post is part of a series post-blogging the Blitz of 1940-41 and the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. See here and here for introductions to the series, and here, here and here for conclusions. Yesterday was another big day for aerial warfare (these headlines are from The Times, 4). Six hundred and fifty Germanaircraft
EMBANKMENT AND STRAND Probably my favourite place to research in London was the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London, where I spent the better part of two weeks digging through several personal archives. It's a very pleasant environment to work in, and the staff were very helpful in accommodating this rude colonial's requests, evenENDING HENDON
Ending Hendon — V: 1932-1934. Brett Holman • 30 November 2011 • 2 Comments. The week before the 1932 RAF Display, Flight 's editor commented on the rationale behind the theme chosen for the finale: Sometimes the story composed for the set piece has been framed with some object, such as to obviate the criticisms of pacifists. CABBAGE CRATES COMING OVER THE BRINY? A rumpty is a specific type of training aeroplane, namely a Maurice Farman Shorthorn. According to the RAAF Museum, it (or rather Rumpety) is an onomatopoeic word, from the sound it makes while travelling over the ground. To stall in the aeronautical sense is of course quite familiar, but stalling in the sense of coming to a standstill is quiteAIRMINDED
Of course the Australian Flying Corps was formed in 1912, began flying from Point Cook in 1914, fought in WW1 and became an independent service in 1921 5/n #AirForce100. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) March 30, 2021. But there was a key moment along the path from the AFC, part of the Army, to the independent RAAF, and which THE AIR RAID VANISHES The term 'air raid' has been around a long time. Not since the first air raid, or even the first air raid of the twentieth century, but from not long after that.The first definite use in the British Newspaper Archive is in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, during the 1913 phantom airship panic, as it happens (bold emphases are mine throughout):. The War Office were about to offer a substantialABOUT – AIRMINDED
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PARTIAL AEROPLANE ARCHIVE A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight's great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through theInternet Archive.
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THE FLEET AIR ARM’S WAR ON SCOTLAND? The first air raid on Britain during the Second World War is usually held to have taken place on 16 October 1939, when a dozen Ju 88s struck at the Royal Navy base at Rosyth, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.But there was in fact an earlier attack, on 27 September, also in Scotland, at Bellochantuy (variously spelled Bellochanty, Ballachantuie or Ballachantuy): AIRMINDED – PAGE 158 David Butler and Gareth Butler. Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Eighth edition.The bible.
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ALERT THE AMPHIBIOUS SQUADRON! In another direction, it links to modern solar-powered airships designed for stratospheric surveillance. And finally, it links to real-life flying aircraft carriers such as the USS Macon and fictional ones such as HMS Whatever-it-was in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. There's no information given in the article about whose ideathis was.
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MUST BE A ZEPPELIN RAID• 2
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Brett Holman • 14November 2020
Here's one for the mock air raid file . On the evening of 15 April 1916, a lone aeroplane circled over Washington, D.C., and -- without warning -- proceeded to (pretend to) attack it. It first flew over the White House, then the State, Army and Navy departments, and then, over the Washington Monument and the nearby polo grounds, it carried out the main part of its display: dropping about 300 small bombs (actually small 'exselsior' fireworks), which detonated about 1000 feet above the ground and could be heard all over the city. > Crowds in the streets, on their way to the theatrers, heard the > reports of the explosions and looked skyward. Traffic in > Pennsylvania avenue and other streets came to a standstill. People > stood dumfounded .>
> Trails of fire streaked the heavens. The explosions continued. The > buzz of a powerful motor could be heard distinctly. 1 The streaks, which can be seen above, were 'the traces of magnesium flares attached in tubes to the wings' of the aeroplane. 2 ...continue reading → * _Washington Post_, 16 April 1916, 11. * _Washington Times_, 16 April 1916, 19.
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BUSINESS AS USUAL?
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November 2020
In the Second World War, Japanese aircraft carried out over one hundred air raids on Australia,
the most deadly of which, by far, were the first Darwin raid on 19 February 1942, which killed 236 people, and the raid on Broomeon 6 March, which
killed 88. The major population centres further south were never bombed, mainly because they were _much_ further south. (The only other town of any sized attacked from the air, in three very small raids in July, was Townsville, 1350km north of Brisbane.) But after the fall of Singapore on 15 February, there was certainly an expectation of attacks, if not invasion. One indication
of this is the civil defence schemes from the early years of the war that were beefed up and put into action now. All those
things that Australians had learned about in the news from the 1940-41 Blitz -- blackouts, shelters, air raid wardens -- now became familiar here, if on a smaller scale. (Though the blackout was usually more of a brownout.) We don't know what would have happened had the southern cities been hit by air raids, but we can guess at how things would have started, based on behaviour during false air raid alarms which occurred early in the war with Japan. ...continue reading → Posted in 1910s , 1940s, Australia
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THE RED KNIGHT RISES Brett Holman • 25October 2020
I recently came across a few more examples from 1920s and 1930s newspapers of the 'Red Baron' being used in reference to Manfred von Richthofen, which I suggestedundermined
my argument that, in essence, we call him that because of Snoopy. But
instead of shrugging my shoulders I decided to get my data on and dig into some numbers. And they confirm my original conclusion: that Richthofen was not called the Red Baron during his lifetime, and it's only from the 1960s on that it became almost impossible to call himanything else.
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THE JARROW ‘BOMBARDMENT’, 19 FEBRUARY 1938• 2 COMMENTS
Brett Holman • 11October 2020
Jarrow, a shipbuilding town on the Tyne opposite Newcastle, was attacked from the air on the morning of 19 February 1938. Or rather, its inhabitants thought so, briefly. ...continue reading → Posted in 1930s , Periodicals, Phantom airships,
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WHEN BRITAIN IS BOMBING BERLINBrett Holman • 7
October 2020
This poem took up about an eighth of page 3of the 9 August
1918 edition of the Perth _WA Sportsman_, preaching revenge on Germany for its air raids on Britain (the last of which, until the next war at least, had just taken place). It's
prefaced by a claim that 'the Allies expect to soon send air fleets to bomb Berlin', likely a reference to a statementmade a week
earlier by Major-General Sefton Branckerthat 'It is certain
that the British will be able to bomb Berlin next spring'. (A weekafter the Armistice
it was being
reported that RAF bombers were 'actually in readiness to visit Berlin' when the ceasefire came through.) ...continue reading → Posted in 1910s , Australia, Periodicals
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THANK U, NHS!
Brett Holman • 16September 2020
Exactly six months ago today, I posted about some aerial theatre in the time of coronavirus.
That was the first time I mentioned the pandemic on Airminded, and it is, of course, still here (Victoria is -- hopefully -- nearing the endof its second wave
,
with 42 new cases reported today, down from a peak of 686 on 4 August, and a total of 737 deaths), but so is the aerial theatre. The Aircraft Restoration Company's NHS Spitfire Projectevolved out
of the Clap For Our Carers social media movement to support NHS health workers. That ended back in May, but the NHS Spitfire is still flying around the UK (and is still looking for sponsors).
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DIESELPUNK DREAMING #HATMAUS Brett Holman • 31August 2020
Here's my contribution to last night's livetweet of _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ for #HATMAus.
It was fast, furious and not always particularly accurate -- much likethe film itself...
Spoilers follow (though equally there are also a lot of tweets that don't make sense without seeing what was on the screen at the time). > And we have our first aircraft... a Zeppeling. The Hindenburg III??? > There never was a Hindenburg II, let alone a III. We're already in > alternate history territory here #HATMAus>
> — Brett Holman (@Airminded) August 30, 2020>
Case in point: "Zeppeling"??? ...continue reading → Posted in Australia , Blogging and tweeting , Film, Pictures
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THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE? #HATMAUS Brett Holman • 25August 2020
At 8pm AEST/GMT+10 this Sunday, 30 August 2020, I'm co-hosting the Australian version of Historians At The Movies (#HATMAus) along with fellow
historians Joel Barnes and Chelsea Barnett as we livetweet the 2004 science fiction film _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ and dissect it for fun and (alternate) history. With an all-star star cast, a decent budget, ambitious special effects, a lusciously retrofuturistic aesthetic, and more aeroplanes, airships, ornithopters and, oh yes, flying aircraft carriersthan
is strictly feasible, _Sky Captain_ should have launched dieselpunk cinema as a new artform. Tune in on Sunday night and find out why it didn't! > This Sunday 30 August, we're doing something a bit different with > the dieselpunk noir SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004), > available on @SBSOnDemand> . And we're
> very pleased to have aviation historian @Airminded > joining us to > cohost. Starts at 8pm AEST. (2/5) #HATMAus>
> pic.twitter.com/eEvj0ITRuh > — Joel Barnes (@joelgbarnes) August 24, 2020>
> This Sunday, we're heading off to the world of science fiction with > the cult favourite Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), > available to stream for free on @SBSOnDemand> . Co-hosting
> our chat is the historian of aviation, @Airminded> !
> pic.twitter.com/B2dWHPQ0wP > — Dr Chelsea Barnett (@chelseambarnett) August 24, 2020>
Image source: kino.de.
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THE YAMBA ‘AEROPLANE’ Brett Holman • 15August 2020
In May 1911, two policemen were sent out from Yamba, a logging town
at the mouth of the Clarence River in northern New South Wales, to investigate something odd which had been found on 'top of a sandhill near Ryan's waterhole, about six miles and about 400 yards infrom the beach':
> a rudely-constructed aeroplane, 30 feet in length and 4 feet wide, > with a wing on one side about 2 feet wide. Extending the full length > in the middle was a sort of platform with a seat roughly fixed with > fencing wire and padded with old bagging. Scores of fine wires were > fixed to the platform and extending to all parts of the structure. > There were two keels braced together with split bamboo rods, every > six inches, like the timbers in a boat. Every joint was securely and > neatly capped with fine wire. Only two nails were used in the whole > construction The most peculiar thing about the craft was > that it could be plainly seen that the only tool used in preparing > the timber had been a knife The whole floor of the structure > was covered with newspapers pasted together, forming a very thick> pad. 1
None of the newspapers was dated later than 3 May 1911, and the aeroplane 'appeared to have been only a short period of time at the spot where it was discovered, as the papers were quite fresh and not discoloured'. 2 Another odd detail was > that from low water mark on the beach near the sea is a deep and > narrow track from the water's edge up the steep sandhill to where > the airship was lying, appearing as if something from the sea had > been dragged up to the spot where the structure was lying. 3 One report suggested that 'the plane had evidently been damaged, since one of the flaps had been damaged', though here 'plane' should betaken to mean
'wing' rather than 'aeroplane'. 4 Since 'There is no trace of any engine about', it was surmised that the machine was a glider: > The builder had evidently taken an aeroplane for a model, and > attempted to construct a single plane, which would allow him to > float with tbe wind from the top of one of the sand hills of the> Terrace. 5
But who was this mysterious builder? Suspicion quickly fell on 'an elderly man a stranger to Yamba, who bought stores and papers a few times from local people' and who 'has since disappeared'. 6 Within a few days of the initial story, it was being regarded locally as 'a hoax'. 7 That can't be ruled out, though the possible motivation (other than sheer perversity) of leaving a fake aeroplane for somebody to stumble across is unclear. ...continue reading → * _Sydney Mail_, 17 May 1911, 55. This is a
fairly close (and much easier to read) paraphrase of the original story in _Evening News_ (Sydney), 13 May 1911, 5, 8
.
* _Sydney Mail_, 17 May 1911, 55.* Ibid.
* _The Age_ (Melbourne), 15 May 1911, 6.
* Ibid.
* Ibid.
* _Sydney Morning Herald_, 18 May 1911, 9.
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INTRODUCING @TROVEUFOBOT Brett Holman • 10August 2020
> therapist: and what do we do when we feel like this? > me: make a new Trove bot > therapist: sure, go off>
> — Brett Holman (@Airminded) July 30, 2020>
I've made a new Trove bot to accompany @TroveAirBot and @TroveAirRaidBot:
@TroveUFOBot . The name is somewhat misleading, since it doesn't search Trove Newspapers for the keyword 'UFO' at all, which turns out to be a bad keyword. Firstly, it's so short that it frequently turns up whenever the OCR is bad and a random string of u, f, and o appear, and so there were just too many false positives. Secondly, it was only coined in 1953, which is only a couple of years before the Trove copyright wall, so there aren't many good hits to find anyway. Instead, I've gone with the following:flying saucer
flying saucer
flying saucer
flying saucer
mystery airship
mystery aeroplane
mystery light
The obvious substitute for 'UFO" is 'flying saucer',
which was a very popular term right from the start of the modern UFO era in 1947. This should pick up most of the available articles from the 'classic' UFO era. However, that restricted the results to a narrow range between 1947 and the mid-1950s. That was a bit boring, and also outside my own period of interest, so I decided to introduce some keywords related to what I see as a related, if distinct, historical phenomenon: mystery aircraft , includingmystery aeroplanes
and mystery airships.
(Helpfully, Trove looks for plural forms, as well as 'mysterious'.) This does come at the cost of another set of false postives, in which aircraft can be mysterious but not _that_ mysterious.
Because those keywords are all very technological, though, I decided to add a more neutral phrase, 'mystery light'.
I'm hoping this will find lights-in-the-sky, including natural phenomena like ball lightning and will-o'-the-wisps. But again, there are all sorts of mystery lights that aren't in the sky. So I may end up removing this one. Finally, in the above list of keywords 'flying saucer' appears three times. That's a crude attempt at weighting, so the bot will select that three times as often as each of the other keywords, which only appear once. That means that those interesting but low-yield keywords don't dominate the results, and about half the tweets will end up relating to what most people would recognise as UFOs. And, as there are going to be relatively few articles in total compared with my other bots (about 19,000) I've turned down the frequency a bit, to one tweet an hour, so it should last a couple of years before recycling. ...continue reading → Posted in Blogging and tweeting, Periodicals
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