Sam
@wiredforflight.bsky.social
Sr. Director of Business Process Automation, former CTO and current Flight Instructor (CFI) 🛩️. Lover of aviation, space, photography, good beers, hockey, travel, cruises 🚢 and Disney 🏰. Posts are my own. https://linktr.ee/wiredforflight
New science from the world’s largest solar telescope 🔭
Lee Billings@leebillings.bsky.social · 10h agoNow on @sciam.bsky.social: Behold! These are the sharpest images of the sun's surface ever obtained, and they reveal something *wild*: never-before-seen whirlpools of plasma called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are fundamental to solar energy flow. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spec...
No cheating, post your lock screen
Cole Wagoner 🚀@colewagoner.bsky.social · 2h agoNo cheating, post your lock screen
Blue Origin's Dave Limp says they traced the New Glenn explosion to a bad valve. (A perennial culprit.) x.com/davill/statu... This one was at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines. They're making mods that can be quickly retrofitted to existing engines. Continuing to work thru fault tree.
Totally odd thing. Since my job loss I am using my MacBook Pro 100% of the time vs the work Windows computer 90%. The clicky keyboard I have used for both I kept going for Windows command keys. Switched to my Apple keyboard and naturally it is OSX command keys... No idea why I was struggling lol
I actually just wrote about this techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX's first earnings call | TechCrunch
Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.
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Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · yesterdayYou can feel every executive trying to answer the question and move on, only to be stopped by Elon going “let me elaborate on that”
FAA clears smallest Boeing 737 Max to fly after years of delays
FAA clears smallest Boeing 737 Max to fly after years of delays
Airlines can finally start flying passengers soon after planes are certified, but it can take them months to work them into schedules.
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There, CFII written scheduled. Now I have 1 week to study ;) #CFILife
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Two firefighting helicopters collide west of Athens
Two firefighting helicopters collided while fighting wildfires west of Athens on Sunday, and a search and rescue operation for the crews is under way in the Psatha area, Greece's fire department said.
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In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
#AOPA featured this absolutely killer shot on its IG feed: @peacewind.aero firing up in an RCAF Chipmunk warbird to leave Oshkosh. On the left, you can also see the nose and spinning propeller of the Chipmunk @astrokatie.com flew in formation with her. Aviation photography at its finest. :)
Source: @osint613 on X Additional footage shows the crash site after a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II went down near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The pilot ejected safely, and no civilian injuries were reported.
OSINT Mirror Feed@osint-mirrors.bsky.social · 5d agoSource: @osint613 on X JUST IN: An F-35 caught fire after a mishap at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego on Friday morning. Emergency crews responded to heavy smoke around 10 a.m. Cause under investigation. - FOX 5
50 years ago this month, NASA's Viking 1 became the first US spacecraft to land safely on Mars and send back images from its surface. It opened the door to everything we know about the Red Planet today.
American Airlines imposed a nationwide ground stop due to an IT issue but says its system is now coming back online.
We are gonna have a whole lot more to say about this in the coming days. theaircurrent.com/photos/
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Really bad damage in #Menasha, WI from the #tornado today :( My sister's place is about 5 min drive from here. Thankfully her house is safe with minor damage. Their water plant also got destroyed so that is a big worry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIvS...
Menasha, WI Tornado Damage | July 27th 2026
YouTube video by CJ Ziegler
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The ones in Menasha hit really close to my mom's and my sister's places. Sister has some damage, mom's does not. All are physically ok. (also I know where that photo is... scary)
PBS News@pbsnews.org · last wk.The National Weather Service, using radar, confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Damage was reported in cities including Appleton and Menasha. https://to.pbs.org/4x0Is9S
Heart dropped hearing Kenmore Air has an Otter down on Sucia Island (N709KA), with local pilot/boating networks reporting multiple survivors. Let's hope it's all 11.
I haven’t posted any Thunderbirds images in a while, so here are a few Thunderbirds images from the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow. Some of these I have not previously shared before.
"A #pilot struggling with visibility in the #smoke blanketing northeast Wisconsin got all the help he needed to make a safe arrival at #AirVenture 2026 in #Oshkosh." avbrief.com/im-here-to-h... #AvBrief #aviation #news #aircraft
'I'm Here to Help': ATC Talks Pilot Down to Safe OSH Arrival - AvBrief.com
Smoke made the arrival challenging.
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