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The Greatest Military quotes?

Posted by Phil on July 07, 2008

Recently, with one of my typical flights of fancy, I started to ponder on some of the military sayings and quotes that have achieved fame throughout history. My personal favourites are: "The sun will never set on the British Empire – God does not trust the English in the dark" – Anon

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Free Online WW1 Dogfighting Game

Posted by Phil on June 26, 2008

I was browsing the web recently, and came across a link to this WWI dogfight game. It's free, it's fun, it's pretty quick to play through the 10 levels, and you get to shoot down a zeppelin...

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The Osprey Blog Birthday Competition

Posted by Mike on June 19, 2008

To celebrate the fact that the Osprey Blog is now a year old, we are running The Osprey Blog Birthday Competition where one lucky reader can win a book from every month that the Blog has been running...

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Real Life Starship Troopers

Posted by John on June 06, 2008

A colleague recently encouraged me to read the Sci Fi classic Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. I've not read a whole lot of Sci Fi, but I enjoy it when I allow for the indulgence and this was no exception. The plotline is a bit slow, with several long passages about the necessity of self-sacrifice in a civil, democratic society, but these were not unpleasurable and I very much appreciated the force of Heinlein's argument...

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Killing Rommel Film

Posted by Richard on June 05, 2008

I was over in Los Angeles last week for Book Expo America where publishers, authors and everyone else meet to talk books. Whilst I was there I was lucky enough to meet Steven Pressfield, one of the best Historical Fiction authors out there. We talked about his latest novel - Killing Rommel...

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I'm not the man they think I am at home; Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man

Posted by Phil on May 10, 2008

If the story of Icarus teaches us anything, it is that man was not meant to fly. However, one 48-year-old Swiss former fighter pilot has a different opinion. Yves Rossy unveiled his self-made rocket pack this Wednesday, and proceeded to leap from an aircraft over the Alps and fly at speeds of up to 186 miles per hour, before parachuting back to earth. This stunt was the culmination of five years of training, and was the first public demonstration, in front of the world's press, of his invention...

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First Femal MV-22 Osprey Pilot - US Marines

Posted by John on April 12, 2008

Because we share the same corporate name, I've been following the deployment of the Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey through Google Alerts. Today I received a link to this interesting story about the first female Osprey pilot. Very cool...

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Angus McBride: A Legend

Posted by on June 28, 2007

I am sure many of you will have heard by now the devastating news that Angus McBride has sadly passed away. I know how much everyone loved his work, and I thought you would like to see this fitting tribute to him in The Guardian.

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