The Royal Family at the Trooping The Colour 2026 👑

The Royal Air Force Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour, accompanied by four F-35B Lighning 🔴⚪️🔵 @rafredarrows @RoyalAirForce @RoyalFamily

Strike Eagle 92-0364 from 494th Fighter Squadron Panthers in the Mach Loop @48FighterWing #USAF #F15 #StrikeEagle #Lakenheath #avgeek

Royal Air Force A400M Atlas - ZM413 on a low-level sortie through Mach Loop, Wales

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Strike Eagle 00-3001 #AE1789 from 494th Fighter Squadron Panthers in the Mach Loop 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @48FighterWing #USAF #F15 #StrikeEagle #Lakenheath #avgeek

Splashdown for Artemis II and its crew 👏🏻

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. 🌓🚀 Yesterday, the Artemis II crew broke records for the farthest distance traveled from Earth—reaching a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth during their journey. At their closest point, the Artemis II crew was within about 4,070 miles from the lunar surface.

Waiting patiently for NASA to release the high-res pics… 🌒 @NASAArtemis @NASA #Artemis

LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. x.com/i/broadcasts/1dGYljDRv…

USAF B-1B 86-0120 "Whiskey Pete" callsign "MORAN32" blasting off Runway 27 at RAF Fairford 🇺🇸 #USAF #B1 #EpicFury #Rockwell #AE6BFA

USAF B-1B 85-0060 "Doolittle Raiders" callsign "MORAN33" rotating from Runway 27 at RAF Fairford 04/04 🇺🇸 #USAF #B1 #EpicFury #Rockwell #AE6BD1

Bomber Mission 54 - Quad Bomber Run #FreeIran‌ --- Operation EPIC FURY --- Yesterday, RAF Fairford (EGVA) launched a single flight of 4 B-1B "Lancer" bombers to Iran for #OperationEpicFury, which returned to RAF Fairford within the last hour. Amidst the chaos of the CSAR mission that was ongoing in Iran, I haven't identified the return-flight tankers so if any of my followers did pick them up, let me know!! Mission LIV B-1B "MORAN32" 86-0120 #AE6BFA "Whiskey Pete" B-1B "MORAN33" 85-0060 #AE6BD1 "Doolittle Raiders" B-1B "MORAN34" 86-0108 #AE6BF0 "Aliens with Attitude" B-1B "MORAN35" 86-0139 #AE6C0A "Drifter" @MATA_osint @ArmchairAdml @jamjake01 @Andyyyyrrrr @rocketron101 @AlexRoebuck @vcdgf555 @steffanwatkins @Osinttechnical @NotWoofers

Tonight’s operation in Southern Iran which resulted in the successful rescue of a Weapons System Officer (WSO) onboard an American F-15E Strike Eagle downed Friday over Iran, involved hundreds of special forces troops and other military personnel, including members of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, dozens of fighter and strike aircraft, helicopters, and cyber, space and other intelligence capabilities, officials tell The New York Times. Senior military officials described the mission to rescue the airman as “one of the most challenging and complex in the history of U.S. Special Operations” given the mountainous terrain, the airman’s injuries and Iranian forces rushing to the location in the mountains of Southern Iran. The WSO evaded Iranian forces for more than 24 hours, at one point hiking up a 7,000ft ridgeline, a senior U.S. military official said. U.S. attack aircraft dropped bombs and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the area where the airman was hiding. As U.S. Special Forces converged on the downed airman, they fired their weapons to keep Iranian forces away from the rescue site, but did not engage in a firefight with the Iranians. In a final twist after the officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran. Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airman, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into the hands of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Sleeping Bone...🦴USAF Rockwell B-1B Lancer 86-0102 - "Bad Moon Rising" #AE68EB

For those wondering if @astro_reid shot this on iPhone… it was a Nikon 5 🌏📷 We’ll keep hanging on for some iPhone content! #Artemis @NASA

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.