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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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Pinned

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Apr 20, 2023

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…

Visit to the Somme

Pinned

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Propliners

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Suren Ratwatte

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Oct 30, 2020

Tante Ju

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

Tante Ju

Suren Ratwatte

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Apr 18

Martinair 138

The Sad End of PH‑MBH — Sri Lanka’s Worst Air Disaster

Martinair 138

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Mar 22

Ceylon Sanitary Corps – Part 3

Despite the non-combat conditions the CSC served in, the unit did suffer casualties, probably from disease. The first casualty was…

Ceylon Sanitary Corps – Part 3

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Mar 20

Ceylon Sanitary Corps — Part 2

The Mesopotamian Campaign

Ceylon Sanitary Corps — Part 2

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Mar 19

The Ceylon Sanitary Corps

The Great War, as it was known then, lasted from 1914 to 1918 when Ceylon was a British colony. As already recounted in these columns…

The Ceylon Sanitary Corps

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Feb 2

CEYLON IN 1914

In the summer of 1914, the island of Ceylon was a tranquil paradise, far removed from the tensions that gripped Europe. Almost a century of…

CEYLON IN 1914

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Jan 29

The Outbreak of War in Ceylon

As most readers are aware, the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 was due to a series of miscalculations and poor decisions. The Crown…

The Outbreak of War in Ceylon

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Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Oct 20, 2025

Rev. Alec Garden Fraser

Rev. Alec Garden Fraser

In

Ceylon and the Great War

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Suren Ratwatte

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Oct 11, 2025

Sailing off to War

When war broke out in August 1914 between the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) and the Central European Powers (Germany and…

Sailing off to War

Suren Ratwatte

Suren Ratwatte

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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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