Kay Passmill

Librarian by day. Student: PhD research is Top Gun, RPAs, & the moustache of Robin Olds. Dimir. Loves geopolitics, aviation, & RTing amusing shitposts. She/her.

[Matty 🇺🇦 @Callsign_Kodak]

Saying goodbye one last time as one of my crew bids farewell to ZH871 after completing the Herc 3-Ship Finale Flypast

I'm not crying... you are 😢

[From Balloons to Drones @Balloons2Drones]

Come and join the @Balloons2Drones editorial team and run our social media presence! https://t.co/aI7uqiVN50 #airpowerhistory #AvGeek #aviation #plsRT

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Major Vadym "Karaya" Voroshylov known as Ghost of Vinnytsia: «One plane can destroy entire units of the enemy. This is incredible power and strength.»

Ukraine’s ace pilots need F-16s!

📷 Mariana Shafro

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

https://t.co/8YTUsA4QhD

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Half of British television always starts like this.

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

Occasionally a library patron mentions something from history you had no idea about...like chlorine gas for treating colds. Mmm...chlorine...

[Matt Hughes @Hughes_Matt]

The last Basler (AWI) leaving the continent for the season.

We've got one more Twin Otter to fly north and a few more Dash-7 rotations before we fully closeout the flying season down here.

@BAS_News

[OtterCapt 🇫🇯🇰🇮 @mytagimoucia]

Isolated Thunderstorms & rain 🌧️ 🤩 View in the North late this afternoon on our way to Butaritari atoll where I picked up my precious cargo, pre-ordered taro leaves 😁 #Kiribati 🇰🇮

[Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501]

Queens of the Air (1931). The first all-women’s flying meeting at Sywell, near Northampton.

Most of the big names were there including Mildred Bruce, Lady Mary Bailey & Winifred Spooner.

Dorothy Spicer swings a prop for Pauline Gower.

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

@ArieOostveen Jones is even more magnificent than I had imagined, and clearly is blessed with great sang-froid ;) Thank you for a spot of delight in the day. I hope you both enjoy the rest of your weekend!

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

@ArieOostveen Read the BBC story & was impressed someone not only had a cat named Jones but managed to get that fact included in the quote. Stalked Twitter in hopes of Jones photo. Sadly none - but they're entitled to their privacy ;)

[NASAWB57Pilot @nasawb57]

The NASA Johnson Space Center’s WB-57 regularly images astronauts returning from the ISS and soon to be from the Moon!

This mission was to perform a calibration on the imagery sensor prior to the Crew-5 capsule on its fiery return to Earth!

Godspeed Crew-5!!!

[@simonjones.bsky.social @SimonJHistorian]

#OTD 26 February 1918 David McLellan took this magnificent photograph of the 34th Division lending library at Frevent, France. Are the sceptical readers 11th Suffolks @Taff_Gillingham? @I_W_M Q 8535 https://t.co/t0sC3V600a

[Boneyard Safari @Boneyardsafari]

Good morning from Tucson, we are getting ready for back to back #boneyardsafari Hands on Tours, check out T-43A 71-0406 #handsontour #aviationpreservation #aviationsafari #t43a #737 #737200

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

@StazJohnson "In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"

[Ian Kikuchi @curatorian]

Eye caught by this dramatic portrait of a fighter pilot. Evan Mackie, New Zealand fighter ace, photographed while in command of No.92 Squadron in Italy. 🇳🇿

Photo by Flying Officer Bridge, RAF

@I_W_M CNA 2314 / https://t.co/1PUGjYn0oI

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

@clark_aviation Still got a Hang the Expense Road on RAF Mildenhall, probably covers the series I-IV (?) of named aircraft ;)

[Aviation Week @AviationWeek]

Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community.
https://t.co/xIVoJif2Ym

[Stephen Losey @StephenLosey]

BREAKING: USAF is hunting for faulty tail pins in its KC-135, WC-135 and RC-135 fleets, & grounded planes until they can be inspected. If a pin fails, a plane could lose its tail in flight. New on @AirForceTimes and @defense_news from me and @rachelkaras: https://t.co/5DX2MwWeFc

[Kay Passmill @passmill]

Time to look at buying #LockheedMartin shares I guess...surely this can be tweaked for the future of #balloon popping at altitude ;)

#Aviation #military #USAF #ChineseSpyBalloon #ResurrectTheYAL1

https://t.co/CKxm0043ul