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Nik Butler -- next stop Dragonmeet - London Nov

@awittyremark.bsky.social

Happy #PhantomFriday yourself

Super Flight Deck with power launcher a Airfix toy of my 70s childhood

October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM Everybody can reply

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TableTopBill

@tabletopbill.bsky.social

Happy #PhantomFriday to those that celebrate!!!

October 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Joe

@joeypajamas.bsky.social

Awesome #ThePhantom cover art by Don Newton. #PhantomFriday

October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Tamsin Wilson

@tamsinwilson.bsky.social

Portal 5. Trying to summon the fog back again with this image. Took this photo last winter in the dreamy perpetual fog. If this place isn't haunted I'll eat my hat. #phantomfriday Croxden Abbey

Portrait black and white photo of an arched church window in a ruined stone wall. Through the window, which is taken at an angle, are more of the ruined stone walls and arches and a bare winter tree. They are slightly obscured by the fog.

October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Yo! GRP!

@garyrp.bsky.social

It's another #PhantomFriday!

This week an F-4 Phantom drops its payload on a target in Vietnam. The markings indicate it belongs to VF-111 Sundowners stationed on board the USS Coral Sea. Note the shark mouth on the nose of the plane.

A photo of an F-4 Phantom jet dropping its payload on a target in Vietnam. The markings indicate it belongs to VF-111 Sundowners stationed on board the USS Coral Sea. The vertical stab is painted in red and white in a stylized image of a setting sun. Note the shark mouth on the nose of the plane, the US white star roundel and red and white tabs marking and NAVY in large letters. Barely visible are the VF-111 marking and above that USS Coral Sea.

October 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM Everybody can reply

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TableTopBill

@tabletopbill.bsky.social

Getting ready to launch into the weekend! #PhantomFriday

October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Joe

@joeypajamas.bsky.social

#PhantomFriday should totally be a thing!

October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply

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藤野燐

@thono-lin.bsky.social

こんばんは
お天気下り坂の様ですね
#晴天祈願をかねて #ファントムフライデー投稿
ではではまた

#jasdf #航空自衛隊
#f4 #f4ファントム
#f4phantom
#rf4ej #rf4ej戦術偵察機
#mcdonnelldouglas
#rf4ephantomii
#ファントムフライデー
#phantomfriday
#phantomphorever
#phantomforever
#永く日本の空を守って下さり有難う御座いました

October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM Everybody can reply

Mark Seifert

@markseifert.bleedingcool.com

A Banquet with the Dead, author unknown. Full short story for #phantomfriday Street & Smith's Literary Album v2 #41, Sept 29, 1866.

It reminds me of Nosferatu's "Dinner with Count Orlock" scene. "A time of peculiar trial occurs in the life of every man, and Mr. E--- felt that his had come."

Front page of Street & Smith’s Literary Album, Vol. II, No. 41, dated September 29, 1866. The masthead is ornate, with decorative lettering and flourishes. Below the title, the featured article is titled A Banquet with the Dead. The page includes a large engraved illustration: a group of men in dark robes sit around a banquet table covered with food, cups, and pitchers. One man, standing at the right, looks shocked as he glances at the other guests, who are all depicted with hollow-eyed, corpse-like faces. The caption beneath the illustration reads: “A Banquet with the Dead—He glanced at the company—they were all robed in deep black.” The scene conveys a macabre, gothic atmosphere typical of mid-19th-century serialized fiction.

Page two of Street & Smith’s Literary Album, Vol. II, No. 41 featuring the conclusion of A Banquet with the Dead, densely set in three columns of small serif text with a decorative border. The top header reads “The Literary Album.” A visible column at the right contains a short poem titled Give Your Brother a Lift and the continuation of a serialized story, The False Heir; or, The Belle of the Season. The page is entirely text-heavy, reflecting the publication’s focus on serialized literature.

September 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Mark Clothier

@mclothier.bsky.social

#PhantomFriday #PhantomPhriday

If you were at #RIAT24, you may remember when the Greeks did an arrival flyby at such speed it ripped off the vinyl tail art! 😂

#PhotographersofBluesky #UKPhotographers #PhotographersUnited #avgeek #AviationPhotography #Aviation #MilitaryAviation #Canon #Sigma150600

September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Hien (& Reika)

@reika19xx.bsky.social

👱🏻‍♀️ 「F-4ファントム、お疲れ様でした！」
👩🏻「いつかまた会える日まで…」
#moecanch 🤝 #PhantomFriday

September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Mark Clothier

@mclothier.bsky.social

Nice, nice, nice!
#PhantomFriday #PhantomPhriday

September 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM Everybody can reply

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M.H.Urban

@mhurban.bsky.social

The Laguna Negra de Urbión (Black Lagoon of Urbión) is a beautiful landscape in Soria (Spain), but it's also haunted. The most famous Laguna Negra legend, written by Antonio Machado in his work “La Tierra de Alvargonzález,” tells about two brothers... (1/4)
#PhantomFriday #FolkyFriday #HorrorWriter

September 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Drew

@drewavery.bsky.social

#phantomfriday

U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · Sep 20

Based on interviews with the aviators who were there, here is a gripping account of aerial combat from Vietnam ’68. usni.org/magazines/n...

View from the Cockpit: The Final Air-to-Air Kill of Rolling Thunder | Naval History - October 2025, Volume 39, Number 5

Based on interviews with the aviators who were there, here is a gripping account of aerial combat from Vietnam ’68.

www.usni.org

September 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Kerria

@kerria.bsky.social

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods.

~William Wordsworth, Nutting
art by Frank Dicksee (1923)
#PhantomFriday #GrimLitFriday

September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM Everybody can reply

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藤野燐

@thono-lin.bsky.social

金曜日ですので
#ファントムフライデーと
#三沢基地航空祭晴天祈願　

晴れると良いですね

ではまた

#jasdf #航空自衛隊
#f4 #f4ファントム
#f4phantom
#mitsubishif4ej
#f4ej
#phantom2
#phantomfriday
#phantomphorever
#phantomforever
#永く日本の空を守って下さり有難う御座いました
#蒼天に航空機
#三沢基地航空祭

September 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM Everybody can reply

trailwalker13.bsky.social

@trailwalker13.bsky.social

Okay, I have something for #PhantomFriday — a floating leaf, attached to nothing, moving side to side across the trail. It seemed like a paranormal experience. You have to love hiking!

September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

#FolkyFriday 🦊 #PhantomFriday 👻
In Japanese folklore, the Kitsune no Yūrei—the ghost fox—haunts lonely roads & forest paths. These spectral foxes are said to appear on misty nights, their glowing tails flickering like lanterns, leading travelers astray or send eerie messages from the spirit world.

September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM Everybody can reply

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Crimson

@crimsonruari.bsky.social

It’s my birthday and a Friday so I’ll make a #PhantomFriday/#PhantomPhriday post. Last year at Wings Over The Rockies, which is pretty cool and I should go back to see more of next time I’m in Denver.

The author in jeans & a black DCS Phantom t-shirt in front of the Phantom display

The Phantom display by itself: a green camo-pattern jet with two seats. Both canopies are open, there’s a low wall around the display, and a lot of mannequins in uniforms around to suggest activity at an airfield.

A closer, side view of the Phantom display. The aircraft is in the background with mannequins of a crew chief and pilot by the cockpit ladder. In the foreground is a display of a bomb in might carry, and to the right is a mannequin in a utility cart loaded with supplies.

A bronze bust on a pedestal. The bust is of Robin Olds, and depicts a pilot in flight uniform. The body of the pedestal contains a lengthy plaque.

September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

👻 #PhantomFriday 🛶
Canadian artist ,Tom Thomson vanished on Canoe Lake 108 yrears ago. His overturned canoe found, his body recovered days later, officially an accident. But whispers linger…
Did he drown, or did the wild he loved so deeply claim him for good?
🎨The Jack Pine 1916 by Tom Thompson