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Callsign Revlon

24th November 2019 Æthelberht 2739 Comments

On 25th October 1994 29 year old US Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was killed whilst attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean. The case remains highly controversial to [more…]

20th Century

Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Part 2

7th November 2019 Æthelberht 3013 Comments

I’m back again with the second part of this series about the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – the Luftwaffe’s forgotten fighter. In the first part we covered the genesis of the Fw 190 and how the [more…]

America

Iran Seizes British Flagged Tanker

24th July 2019 Æthelberht 2989 Comments

I write this at 2015 on Friday 19th July, so by the time you read this things may have developed further. Right now the breaking news is a few hours ago the British flagged tanker [more…]

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Jeffrey Epstein

11th July 2019 Æthelberht 4016 Comments

Something rather significant happened over the weekend. American billionaire “hedge fund manager” Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New York on charges of child sex trafficking. This has garnered a measure of attention from the media, [more…]

Authoritarianism

Big Government

15th May 2019 Æthelberht 2176 Comments

  I can’t be the only one who has noticed how the solution for any given problem is more government. Spiraling knife crime? The government must ban knives. Plastic waste in the sea? The government [more…]

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Æthelberht’s RFA Christmas

27th December 2018 Æthelberht 4067 Comments

I know there’s plenty of former Pusser types on GP, and even a few who have sailed under the red duster. They’ll all be familiar with the Christmas routines for their respective outfits. I thought [more…]

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Father Christmas

6th December 2018 Æthelberht 2283 Comments

I wanted to write a seasonal piece for GP, but I’m a totally rubbish cook so a recipe is out of the question. What could I do instead? How about a brief history of Father [more…]

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The Right Way To Put Out A Fire (Finally)

4th December 2018 Æthelberht 3760 Comments

In March 2013 I was appointed to RFA Fort Austin. Within NATO she is classified as an AFSH, that’s to say a combat stores ship with the necessary facilities on board to embark a helicopter. [more…]

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Still Not The Right Way To Put Out A Fire

20th November 2018 Æthelberht 3008 Comments

You may remember some months back I related a story of my first fire exercise sailing under the Red Duster. I was somewhat unimpressed having come from a different seafaring outfit where these things were [more…]

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