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Nadiya Savchenko has fought for a career as a pilot with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After being refused entry into the Kharkiv Air Force University in 1998, she entered the Armed Forces and served as a radio operator and a landing forces soldier. She reapplied to the Air Force University after six years and learned that a special authorization from the Defense Minister was necessary. In the end, Nadiya graduated from the Air Force University and became a pilot.
Until recently, a career for women in the army was limited. Now the Ukrainian Minister of Defense has an adviser on gender issues who is responsible for ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men in the Ukrainian military, and in 2010 the Minister introduced two orders removing restrictions for women to hold managerial positions in the Ukrainian military.
UNDP plays an instrumental role in supporting gender equality principles in Ukraine.
Photo: UNDP Ukraine
I spotted this little brass Spitfire model (wingspan just under 6 inches) lying in the bottom of a cabinet in a second hand shop. It had no stand and no propeller but its proportions looked so good that I bought it.
I have made a stand from some left over timber and a long bolt that fitted the socket on the underside. I ordered a Perspex disc to replace the missing propeller and have temporarily used an upholstery tack to hold that in place until I find something that suits it better.
Work in progress.
A second RCAF CF-18 Hornet performing the CF-18 Demo in the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. It cool seeing the demo at night, the Hornet's afterburners could be fully seen. It was a loud demo too, the pilot didn't hold back.
A restored USAF P51 Mustang from WWII flying during the Warbirds demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It flew alongside an F4U Corsair and a P38 Lightning .
Local call number: DM0447
Title: Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet: Key West Naval Air Station, Florida
Date: November 1988
Physical descrip: 1 slide - col.
Series Title: Dale M. McDonald Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
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An Royal Canadian Air Force CF18 Hornet flying during the RCAF's CF18 demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
Fantastic day out yesterday with my youngest son at RAF Fairford Airshow.
This is the awesome F35B in a hover.
A RCAF CF-18 Hornet flying in the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. This Hornet flew along with a USAF F-15 as part of a NORAD Flyover.
The RCAF CF-18 Hornet demo during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. The Cf-18s are now due to be replaced by the new CF-35 Lightnings by 2027 making this years airshow one of the last few times that they'll be at Abbotsford. It'll be sad to see them go when they're finally retired.
Adolf Galland's Messerschmitt (VW Volksrod) from the JG26 (Jagdgeschwader 26) Squadron. The Abbeville Boys flew out of Abbeville, France in The Battle of Britain.
The RCAF CF-18 Hornet demo during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. The Cf-18s are now due to be replaced by the new CF-35 Lightnings by 2027 making this years airshow one of the last few times that they'll be at Abbotsford. It'll be sad to see them go when they're finally retired.
Supermarine Spitfire MkIa G-AIST (bottom)
Supermarine Spitfire MkIa G-CFGJ (Middle)
Supermarine Spitfire MkI G-CGUK (Top)
I spent an amazing afternoon on 13 Nov with the team at Stallion 51, flying, performing and learning to fly & perform aerobatics in a drop dead gorgeous dual cockpit P-51 / TF-51 D Mustang named Crazy Horse 2.
I am still wearing an ear-to-ear grin. Great fun.
Full video (Flickr restricts to 3 min) is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5CAK-PVIi0
The F/A-18F Super Hornet pops some serious vapor during the 2009 Atlantic City Air Show "Thunder Over the Boardwalk" on Wednesday August 19, 2009.
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Actor John Phillip Law passed away May 13, 2008. It is inconceivable to me that any other actor will ever equal his performance as Rittmeister Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in the 1971 film Von Richthofen and Brown. He portrayed the Baron so as to define the role itself.
Codi von Richthofen,
The Red Baron Gallery ©
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A USAF F-15 Eagle and an RCAF CF-18 Hornet flying together for a NORAD Flyover during the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow.
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force on the static display at the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow.
Wikipedia:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War.