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Andrew McLaughlin - now working Comms for Northrop Grumman. Formerly Dep Editor of @AusAviation, writer of 'Hornets Down Under'. All opinions my own.

[Steve A @OzSteve130]

First RAAF PC21 under construction. A54-001 (not a recent picture..) One year to go! #PilatusAircraft

[John Walton • @thatjohn.bsky.social @thatjohn]

#NewYearNewReading: @AusAviation, where I write, for everything you want to know about Australian, NZ and Australasian aviation #avgeek

[Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋 @[email protected] @ikluft]

“Starry Night of Iceland” (with aurora) is #NASA #astronomy pic of the day by @apod https://t.co/xpg1wmPfKv

[PlaneCrazyDownUnder @pcdu]

Ryan Campbell update, via his brothers (copied & re-posted with permission)

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Chris Campbell

Ryan has asked... https://t.co/RVrTRRhTYR

[Sydney.com @sydney_sider]

.@HirstyPhotos camping out early for this morning's sunrise - captured at Campbell's Cove. #ilovesydney #SydNYE

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@thatjohn Maintenance probably uses it at night

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@kumitaguchi @AirservicesNews I cant understand why you/they do this...the kids don't understand it, and the adults don't care...

[Sky News @SkyNews]

See how spacecraft manufacturer @SpaceX successfully landed its rocket vertically back on Earth for the first time. https://t.co/xhrdPoF0fS

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@NicoleMatejic Only good for relatively calm water, program went broke, only used on Caspian Sea and Volga River, never operational

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@NicoleMatejic @SGBRocks73 @StephenGale201 @warplanefeed About 20 feet above the water...https://t.co/kUo8jlBOa6

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@NicoleMatejic @SGBRocks73 @StephenGale201 @warplanefeed You should google footage of this thing flying...holy crap!!!

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

Jennings: Aus should transit through SCS within 12 nautical miles, make it public and put a senior Australian military office on the vessel.

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@thatjohn @PlaneTalking To Boeing's credit, they built a dozen or so on their own coin & sold all but 1. But workforce is gone forever now.

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@thatjohn Merlin, rare beast. Where are you?

[COMINT @COMINT_AU]

@PlaneTalking @BoeingDefense Agree...should have kept a low rate trickle production going, the line itself is a strategic asset

[Tom Antonov @Tom_Antonov]

Rt @BoeingDefense
The first (1991) and the last C-17 aircraft (today) at Long Beach airport
#Boeing #US #avgeek

[eamon hamilton @eamonhamilton]

Low-cost airdrop system developed by @Aus_AirForce & @AustralianArmy for C130J, C27J, C17A https://t.co/zPYn2BhSmC

[Boeing Defense @BoeingDefense]

Last C-17 to depart Long Beach flies over crowd in tribute to the #Boeing employees who finished w/pride. #C17FlyBye

[GAR @gaviationr]

Remember *that* take-off? Bill Ramsey reflects on Vulcan XH558's RIAT displays at https://t.co/l3cmVGy5lJ #vulcan

[Guy Norris @AvWeekGuy]

Always an awesome sight. Last heritage McDonnell Douglas built aircraft departs ending 7 decades of CA production.