Gooooood evening ladies and gents, the 2026 calendars are here! we have started our annual sales! Calendars are 25$, shipping in Canada is included! This year we are doing Wood Grain Elevators, and Airplanes! @twittleair.bsky.social @jasonchampton.bsky.social @tmcbphoto.com @yyzbound.bsky.social

Sad to hear about #UPS2976 N259UP tonight. My thoughts with the families. . N259UP seen during better times when it was with Thai as HS-TME. . #Postcards #Aviation #Avgeek #UPS @ondisasters.bsky.social

Can you imagine? The Edmund Fitzgerald just disappeared in front of you. Somehow you made it to safety behind the lee of White Fish point and they ask you to go back out…

#OTD 2011 As the crew did not declare an autoland, ATC allowed another aircraft to depart which interfered with the localiser signal say BFU in a report issued after 85 months. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #flightsafety #aviationsafety

B777 in Autoland Mode Left Runway When Another Aircraft Interfered With the Localiser Signal - Aerossurance

As the crew did not declare an autoland, ATC allowed another aircraft to depart which interfered with the localiser signal.

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...caused by the acceleration of the engine to an abnormally high fan speed which initiated a multiwave, vibratory resonance... reasons for the acceleration and the onset of the destructive vibration could not be determined conclusively."

#OTD 1973 a no 3 fan disc failure, 1 pax sucked out of window. "...as a result of an interaction between the fan blade tips and the fan case... aviation-safety.net/database/rec... #flightsafety #aviationsafety

#OTD 2015 an AS365's rotor blades were damaged during start up by a tool left behind from earlier maintenance. We look at the issue of tool control. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... ‎ #toolcontrol #aviationmaintenance #humanfactors #helicopter #flightsafety #aviationsafety

Rotor Blade Tool Control FOD Incident - Aerossurance

The ATSB report on how a AS365's rotor blades were damaged during start up by a tool left behind from earlier maintenance. We look at the issue of tool control.

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Boeing remains confident 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 will be certified in 2026

Boeing remains confident 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 will be certified in 2026

There are over 1,500 unfilled orders for the 737 MAX 7 and 737 MAX 10 combined.

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#OTD 2015: During investigation of a HUMS vibration alert, the main rotor head of an offshore helicopter was examined and wear was identified beyond MM limits. aerossurance.com/helicopters/...

HUMS Vibration Health Monitoring Success - Aerossurance

CASA release data on a VHM success on an offshore helicopter in Australia. Non-schedule maintenance, directed by HUMS, identified a degraded MR damper.

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Album cover for 3 Dog Night?

@theresaapodaca.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dogs are marvelous creatures who bring us great joy. I am constantly trying to be worthy of them.

J79 Low Base-Drag Nozzle🧵 I see the J79 & B-58 as being made for each other, even though it might not look as so, when considering that the XJ79 first ran on 8 June 1954, and the XB-58 first flew on 11 November 1956. But the J79 was indeed meant to be, since inception, the B-58's engine.

I first started mapping GPS jamming in case it was an early warning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope it's not a sign of some mad Trumpian attack on Venezuela.

Logan Williams@obtusatum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social

I see Prince Andrew has been stripped of everything. No change there then.

PIT's "petal tunnel" by Luis Vidal emulates something of the experience of emerging from Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Tunnel. “You come out of the tunnel and, suddenly, you read the entire space. Everything’s there, visible and legible at one glance and that’s part of the beauty of this transformation.”

Airport Architecture@airportarchitecture.byerussell.com · 11mo ago

Pittsburgh, new landside terminal connector “petal tunnel” (opening 2025), by Gensler, HDR and Luis Vidal + Architects. 📷 @pitairport.bsky.social. #airportarchitecture byerussell.substack.com/p/pittsburgh...

They really drew inspiration from the TWA tunnel and the ORD ones.

As you can imagine, clear communication at an airport is critically important. For example, even a colon can drastically change the meaning of a sentence. 'A pilot ate a Flight Attendant's sandwich.' 'A pilot ate a Flight Attendant's colon.'

My low-effort Halloween display: a couple of movie lights set up behind my house.

This description suits the title of a 60s promotional video on this jet - "The Champion of Champions"

BaA43A3aHY@baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Convair B-58 Нustlеr 🧵 The B-58 was the most technologically advanced aircraft of its time. A Mach 2 capable, wasp-waisted war chariot, drawn by four J79s, that included silver brazed stainless steel honeycomb sandwich panels in its design.

Use of the Hawaiian callsign and HA code concludes tonight as Alaska moves to a single air operator certificate at 00:01 Hawaiian Time on Oct 29. All the airline’s flights will be Alaska from here on out.

Jon Ostrower@jonostrower.com · 12mo ago

Aloha, Hawaiian Airlines. Aloha, indeed.

Man the 70s were wild

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Because President Nixon had passed out from excessive drinking, this worldwide alert was reportedly called by Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger during a hastily-convened late-night White House meeting. bsky.app/profile/atom...

Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin (in uniform), the first human to travel into space to orbit the earth, makes the only time he entered North America at Gander 1963. His flight landed for servicing while on his way to Cuba.

Today in 1962 at 4:00 AM PDT, as the Cuban Missile Crisis was entering its most dangerous phase, the Air Force test launched an Atlas D ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, as US military forces worldwide were at DEFCON 3 and forces under the Strategic Air Command were at DEFCON 2.

Boeing sees no new single aisle plane until 2040 Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 27, 2025, © Leeham News: Recent reports that Boeing is working on a new single-aisle aircraft to replace the 737 MAX and a New Midmarket Airplane (NMA), or a version of it, are fundamentally true but…

#OTD 2019 Wheelchair battery fire in cargo hold www.skybrary.aero/index.php/B7... #flightsafety #aviationsafety

Fact: The Airbus A220 was the company's first ever passenger glider. Commercially successful, it dominated the market for very, very short flights. Its short haul distance depended entirely on how strong the elastic bands were at launch.

Tupolev Tu-128 Fiddler. Some random pics.

From all the crazy looking Soviet jets of the era, the Firebar is on the top 3

BaA43A3aHY@baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Yak-28P Firebar 🧵

#OTD 2016 A US registered SA227 Merlin IVC surveillance aircraft, chartered by a French ‘government agency’ had a fatal accident in Malta. We unravel the story behind the accident. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #accident #surveillance #aircraft #flightsafety #aviationsafety

Investigation into Secretive Surveillance Aircraft Accident in Malta 24 Oct 2016 - Aerossurance

A US registered SA227 AT Merlin IVC surveillance aircraft, chartered from a Luxembourg company by an unspecified French government agency had a fatal accident in Malta.

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The front landing gear of the 15:35 from Alicante has just hit the runway. Hopefully the rest of the plane will follow soon.

And Break!! USN Blue Angel 1-4 break up the diamond at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #BlueAngels #cvvhrn #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9