@troveairbot 2
Today, a Trove API upgrade, or to be more precise, the decomissioning of the old API, briefly broke Trove Air Bot (and all the other Trove bots). Fortunately Tim Sherratt worked out a solution, and...
View ArticleThe accidents of aviation history
Last Friday I was privileged to be at the Airways Museum for the world premiere of Out of the Blue? How Aviation Accidents Shaped Safer Skies: Centred on accidents in the vicinity of Sydney’s Mascot...
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Partial FlightGlobal Archive archives
Since 2007, the FlightGlobal Archive (AKA the 'Flight archive') has been an incredibly useful resource for me, many other aviation historians, and Wikimedia Commons, as it provides online access to...
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Introducing @troveairraidbot
I've remixed Trove Air Bot 2 into a new bot: Trove Air Raid Bot. As the name suggests, this is picking up a different subset of Trove Newspapers articles to @troveairbot, namely those relating to air...
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Return to call of the clouds
Last year I looked at a couple of fantastic photographs from the State Library of South Australia's collection, taken at Harry Butler's 'Aviation Day' display at Unley on 23 August 1919. They're...
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Partial Aeroplane archive
A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that...
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Introducing @TroveUFOBot
therapist: and what do we do when we feel like this?me: make a new Trove bottherapist: sure, go off — Brett Holman (@Airminded) July 30, 2020 I've made a new Trove bot to accompany @TroveAirBot and...
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The Red Knight rises
I recently came across a few more examples from 1920s and 1930s newspapers of the 'Red Baron' being used in reference to Manfred von Richthofen, which I suggested undermined my argument that, in...
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The air raid vanishes — II
In my previous post I looked at the first appearances of the phrase 'air raid' and related words in the British Newspaper Archive (BNA). Of course, just because these phrases had been coined by...
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Putting the AI into Airminded
Recently I've been playing around with AI-generated images. This is far less impressive than it may sound: there's a small community on Twitter and elsewhere doing this stuff already, many using...
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