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air-minded, adj.

interested in or enthusiastic for the use and development of aircraft (Oxford English Dictionary)

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  • Acquisitions  1
    Jakob
  • Self-help in an air raid  8
    JDK, Brett Holman, Chris Williams, JDK, Ian Evans, Erik Lund [...]
  • Houdini over Australia  3
    JDK, Brett Holman, JDK
  • The red balloon scare of 1940  7
    Brett Holman, Brett Holman, JDK, Neil Datson, Brett Holman, Brett Holman [...]
  • You gotta love the Internet  2
    Brett Holman, Betty Birskys
  • 61-67 Warrington Crescent, 8 March 1918  4
    Military History Carnival 22 - Thompson-Werk, Brett Holman, Erik Lund, Jakob
  • Something like a railway carriage  5
    Brett Holman, Avinash Machado, Brett Holman, Christopher Amano-Langtree, Erik Lund
Airminded is the research blog of Brett Holman, an historian living in Melbourne, Australia.

Recent Articles

  • Acquisitions

    19 March 2010 in Acquisitions, Books

    John Hersey. Hiroshima. London: Penguin, 2001 [1946]. One of the most important pieces of journalism of the 20th century; with a new final chapter written by Hersey four decades later. I’m teaching Hiroshima mon amour again this semester and so this might be useful preparation.
    Robert A. Pape. Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in [...]

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  • Houdini over Australia

    18 March 2010 in 1900s, 1910s, Aircraft, Australia, Periodicals, Videos

    Harry Houdini is still famous as a magician and escapologist, but he was also a pioneer aviator. One hundred years ago today, on 18 March 1910, he carried out the first powered, controlled flight in Australia, at Diggers Rest, near Melbourne. This testimonial from witnesses appeared in the Melbourne Argus, 19 March 1910, 18:
    To [...]

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  • England and Wales

    18 March 2010 in Pictures, Travel 2009

    This post relates to my trip to England and Wales in September 2009.

    I’ve finally run out of photos from last year’s trip to the UK — well, almost! Here are some miscellaneous shots which didn’t make it into the previous posts.

    One of the reasons I went to Cornwall was because that’s where my family [...]

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  • Self-help in an air raid

    15 March 2010 in 1910s, 1930s, Civil defence, Periodicals

    The following letter appeared in the Evening News, 13 March 1935, 6:
    On the brick wall at the side of our street door can still be seen faintly two large letters, “P. P.,” which stood for Poplar Patrol. Every Friday night it was my job to collect 3d. from each house-hold that belonged to the “P.P.” [...]

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  • Something like a railway carriage

    13 March 2010 in 1910s, Books, Phantom airships and other panics

    On the last night of January 1916, a large force of seven Zeppelins crossed over the Wash into Norfolk, heading for the industrial cities of the Midlands. Unsure of their location, most of them instead dropped their bombs on relatively unimportant targets. But at least they got home okay. The defending aircraft of the RFC [...]

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