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The Airbus A380 Superjumbo

The Airbus A380 Superjumbo

A tribute to my last airplane and a personal memoir

2020

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Tales from the Long War

Visit to the Somme

The D163 is a quiet rural road in eastern France that runs from the village of Auchonvillers east towards the small town of Beaumont-Hamel…

6 min readApr 20, 2023

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Propliners

Tante Ju

The Junkers were the Prussian German-speaking aristocracy who controlled vast estates in what is now Eastern Europe. The story of that…

9 min readOct 30, 2020

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Tante Ju

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The Boys from Ceylon

The story of the boys (and one young woman) from the small island of Ceylon (called Sri Lanka today) who left a tropical paradise to fight…

2 min readAug 4, 2023

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The Boys from Ceylon

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Tales from the Long War

Ceylon and the Somme

5 min readJul 3, 2023

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Ceylon and the Somme

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Tales from the Long War

The Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps

Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps in the First World War

4 min readMay 25, 2023

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The Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps

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The Battle of the Somme — Part 3

The Big Push

6 min readFeb 15, 2023

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The Battle of the Somme — Part 3

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Tales from the Long War

The Batle of the Somme — Part 2

Sometime in late 1914 the four boys from Trinity College embarked on a ship to Britain. We do not know how supportive the families of…

5 min readFeb 14, 2023

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The Batle of the Somme — Part 2

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Tales from the Long War

The Battle of the Somme — a new perspective

The Great War

5 min readFeb 13, 2023

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The Battle of the Somme — a new perspective

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Propliners

Air Bridge to Jaffna

Propliners Guest Column by Capt. G.A. Fernando

6 min readOct 26, 2022

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Air Bridge to Jaffna

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Flying the A4 Skyhawk with the Royal Australian Navy — Part 3

Guest column by Peter (‘Purps’) Greenfield

10 min readAug 9, 2022

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Flying the A4 Skyhawk with the Royal Australian Navy — Part 3

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Suren Ratwatte

Suren Ratwatte

Book Author

I love airplanes and history. Trying to combine both interests in this blog, with stories of the old aircraft and the recollections of those who flew them.

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