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A yearly NATO exercise involving 10,000 personnel and some 250 aircraft. Magnificent images of, a.o., the venerable MRCA Tornado, still in s...

Bruce Springsteen with Brilliant Disguise . From the 1987 album Tunnel of Love . Single is about his doubts about his marriage to act...

A legendary intercontinental bomber caught between two eras. We've shown this clip from the movie Strategic Air Command, starring...

A magnificent video on yet another brilliant Napier product, the Deltic: As you heard, before Napier, Junkers too found out there wer...

A must watch, even if physics is not right away your strong suit: Good night. MFBB.

It's been twelve years since my father died: On Monday, May 2nd, 2011, at about 22.05, my father passed away after almost one month ...

Alanis Morissette with Thank U . Album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998). Canadian-American singer/songwriter from Ottawa, w...

Dire Straits with You and your friend . Album On Every Street (1991). Once called the greatest British rock band of the 80s by the m...

Like every year, DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Happy and Blessed Easter! If I am allowed to make a special recom...

For the umpteenth time a bomb attack near the center of Antwerp. Serious damage in 4 streets. The house against which the explosive was used...

Thilo Sarrazin is a former high ranking German public servant , a.o. Finance Senator to the Senate of Berlin. He is also a (former) socialis...

Rob Lee always has incomparable footage. Video from Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade in Vuhledar. It shows a Russian T-72B-series tank h...

Spending more time on Twitter has, through getting acquainted there with aviation enthusiasts, rekindled the fascination of my youth for any...

One year into the war, the military of supposed superpower Russia has essentially confined itself to areas which even before the conflict we...

To all my followers and all people of good will, a very happy New Year!!! Sorry for the far too light blogging but I really don't...

To all my fellow Christians and to all people of good will a heartfelt Merry Christmas! This is the Adoration of the Kings by Gerard d...

Altered Images with Don't talk me about love . Album Bite (1983). Scottish new wave/postpunk band from Glasgow. Founded in 1979 ...

Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941) was a talented Danish landscape painter in the realistic style, although some works sh...

The Alan Parsons Project with Silence and I . From the album Eye in the Sky (1982). English multi-instrumentalist rock band around A...

Metronomy with Corinne . Album The English Riviera (2011) English electronic music band, founded by Joseph Mount in 1999. Hat tip Ou...