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Victory Through Air Power
Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Civil aviation, Conferences and talks, Film, Pictures, Videos

Victory through Disneyfication #HATMAus

A few weeks back I previewed my cohosting of the 1943 Disney film Victory Through Air Power for History at the Movies Australia and Aviation Cultures Mk.V. Both the conference and the livetweeting went splendidly (I think!), but I didn’t get around to lazyblogging the latter… until now. The evening began with the half-hour short

Victory Through Air Power (1943)
1940s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Conferences and talks, Film, Pictures

Victory Through Air Power via Aviation Cultures Mk.V and #HATMAus

Back in the depths of last winter (and the great Melbourne pandemic lockdown of 2020) I had great fun as the co-host for the Historians at the Movies Australia (#HATMAus) livetweet of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m going to be doing it again, this time along with James Kightly and Daniel

Duprée and Ashley, Britannia Must Rule the Air
1910s, Archives, Art, Film, Music, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Videos

Britannia must rule the air!

This stirring scene is the cover for the sheet music for a song published in 1913, Britannia Must Rule the Air, written by Frank Duprée and composed by Charles Ashley. It shows a reasonable (if stubby) approximation of a Zeppelin in the process of being destroyed by gunfire from two aeroplanes, a Farman-type biplane and

Hitler's Ju 52/3m over Nuremberg, 1934
1930s, 1940s, Books, Film, Pictures

The man in the high aeroplane

Swastika Night was written by Katharine Burdekin under the pseudonym Murray Constantine. It’s a dystopian novel in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan have conquered the world and divided it between them. Nothing so original in that, you might think — except that Swastika Night was published in June 1937, before the invasion of Poland

Longmont Daily Times, 4 December 1926, p. 4
1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Before 1900, Film, Periodicals, Pictures

Gospel airships, heroic hearts and holy scriptures

Proselytisers are famously early adopters of communications technology (see: the Gutenberg Bible). It shouldn’t be surprising that missionaries were intrigued by the development of aviation: a Baptist minister, Reverend F. W. Boreham, even claimed that It was with a view to winging the Gospel to the uttermost ends of the eaxth that the first airman

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