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Sometimes things just need saying.

[Lomitos Suavecitos @SuavesLomitos]

Cuando se te cae algo al suelo y tienes un perro 🤣

[Virginie Sigonney 🇫🇷 @GinieSigonney]

This historic photograph brings together three legendary symbols of British engineering and heritage in a single shot: the supersonic airliner Concorde from British Airways, the nine aircraft of the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, and the famous transatlantic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) from the Cunard line, sailing below in the English Channel. 💙❤️💙

The story behind the photo: taken in July 1985 by the famous aviation photographer Arthur Gibson, this image has often been hailed as 'the photograph of the century'.

To capture this unique angle without the help of today's digital technologies, the photographer was aboard the patrol's tenth aircraft (the 'photo ship').
The pilot had to fly upside down (inverted) so that Gibson could point his lens directly through the cockpit canopy .

The Concorde had to fly at its minimum required speed to maintain lift so as not to overshoot the Red Arrows' Hawks, while the ocean liner QE2 sailed at a constant speed below.

📷©️Arthur Gibson

[Robbie Mouton @mcgmouton57]

These pair of 100-foot tall 300-ton stainless steel horse-head sculptures located in Falkirk, Scotland, are absolutely breathtaking!

[Car Grails @GrailArchive]

You’re definitely not ready 🤣

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Seventy-two. That is how many separate wounds John Cruickshank had in him, two of them through his lungs, while he lined up a burning flying boat for a second run at a U-boat that had just shot his aircraft to pieces. Most men have one of those wounds and they are finished. He had seventy-two and he pressed the attack.

He was 24, a former bank clerk from Aberdeen, flying a Catalina flying boat out of the Shetland Islands with Coastal Command. The job was the long, freezing, mind-numbing patrol, fourteen hours over the grey Atlantic hunting the U-boats that were strangling Britain. On the 17th of July 1944, far out over empty water, they caught one on the surface, U-361, and Cruickshank took the big slow flying boat down to attack.

The first run failed. The depth charges would not release. Any sane man makes a note and turns for home. Cruickshank swung the aircraft around and came back for a second pass, low and straight, and this time the submarine's gunners were waiting. Flak ripped through the Catalina. It killed the navigator, wounded half the crew, and tore into Cruickshank again and again, those seventy-two wounds, two punching into his lungs, ten into his legs.

And he flew the attack home anyway. Bleeding everywhere, in agony, with the fuselage holed and on fire, he held the aircraft dead level, aimed, and released the depth charges himself. They straddled the U-boat perfectly. It broke apart and sank beneath him.

Then came the part that should have killed him. He collapsed from blood loss, and the wounded co-pilot, who had never landed a Catalina, took the controls for the long flight back. Cruickshank refused the morphine that would have knocked him out, because he knew the man flying needed him. Drifting in and out, he had himself carried back up to the cockpit again and again through the night to help nurse the shot-up aircraft down, and at dawn they got it onto the water safely. He had lost so much blood the doctors said he had no business being alive.

He lived. He took the Victoria Cross from the King, went quietly back to banking after the war, and rarely spoke of it. And he kept on living, and living, and living. John Cruickshank died in 2025 at the age of 105, the last man on earth wearing a Victoria Cross earned in the Second World War. Seventy-two wounds over the Atlantic, and he outlasted every other hero of that war by decades.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When two old guys mean the world to each other

[Robert Karcher 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺 @Robert08938405]

To musiała być strasznie ważna rozmowa😎

[80s Kidz @80s_Kidz]

Somebody put Goodfellas audio over Skeletor and Trap Jaw and it's so perfect
(credit Mylothecat)

[Cinema Now @CinemaaNow]

@UniversalPicsAU RIP, Legend.

[Universal Pictures @UniversalPicsAU]

Rest in peace to our Jurassic legend, Sam Neill.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Be less like Elon Musk.
Be more like Sam Neil.

[Kathy Lette @KathyLette]

Heartbreaking news. Our beloved Sam Neil died suddenly in Sydney today. Sam was not just a wonderful actor but also the most charming, kind, intelligent & deliciously self-deprecating friend. His wry, dry humour & mischievous twinkle lit up our lives. He'll be so dearly missed.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Wishing actor Sam Neil a blessed journey to the land of beautiful souls.

[Shamu (COMMISSIONS OPEN) 🫍 @Shamu_blackfish]

To say I'm devastated is an absolute understatement. Sam Niel was one of the very few celebrities I looked up to.
Not only was he iconic, he was genuinely an amazing human being.

Rest easy Sam, we'll miss you greatly.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

When the world seems close to pear shaped,
When leaders fill you with despair
When things look dark and dreary
And love seems far too rare -
CUDDLE A DUCK
[ It works ...]

[RAF Museum @RAFMUSEUM]

🇬🇧🇺🇸 This American Independence Day, we remember Billy Fiske – an extraordinary American whose courage helped defend Britain's skies.

An Olympic champion turned RAF fighter pilot, Billy volunteered to serve with the Royal Air Force before the United States entered the Second World War. Mortally wounded during the Battle of Britain, he became one of the first American volunteers to give his life in Britain's defence.

Today, we honour his remarkable bravery and the enduring friendship between the United Kingdom and the United States. Lest we forget.

To learn more, please watch : https://t.co/dnSjnvlbHd

[Interesting World @_fluxfeeds]

A mid-flight scratch, then an effortless roll to face the pursuing raven. Apex predator aura.

[90s Football @90sfootball]

USA '94 🤩

[Wojtek Szkutnik @wojtekszkutnik]

@matwatsoncars oink oink

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Cape Verde qualifying for the Round of 32