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Folks in the San Francisco Bay area: did you manage to spot this overhead today? Must have been quite the sight. 😲
blufly.media BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 14d
A brand new press release from LTA Research: « Pathfinder 1 Expands Flight Testing Area » wherein they are now « authorized to operate within an expanded flight envelope around the San Francisco Bay Area. » The accompanying image, below, is a stunner. | 🛩️ 🎈 ⚡️ 📰 | 🔗 ltaresearch.com/news/pathfin...
LTA Reseach's 'Pathfinder 1' rigid airship flies from left to right over the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The sky is clear blue. A helicopter is visible up and to the right of the airship. (📸 LTA Research)
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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It's a new month 💥 and September, for Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com, will forever mean one thing: the Reno Air Races. 🏁 He also announces some exciting new Custom Feeds, toys with the idea of a BluFly mailing list, and explains the new, slimmed-down profile name. (📸 Don Ramey Logan) | 🛩️ 🥇
September, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.
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September 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Sick of coding? Have an artistic flair? Like aviation? Live near Bemidji, Minnesota? If so, your ship has just come in. 🛳️
blufly.media BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · Aug 29
Not only is AirCorps Aviation the source of many absolutely outstanding restoration projects, they are also the source of some of the most interesting-sounding career postings, as well. Sounds like it could be the dream, entry-level job for the right person, and you are in their locale. | 🛩️ 🎨 🧰 🥇
Art Technician | AirCorps Aviation
Responsibilities include fulfilling art orders, producing printed graphics, and entry-level design work for in-house projects.
www.aircorpsaviation.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I usually post this video on Christmas Eve, but with the sad news of naval aviator, test pilot, and astronaut Jim Lovell having gone west, it's entirely appropriate to post it today. This world very much needs more Jim Lovell, not less. | 🌎 🚀 🌖
August 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Question for @bsky.app, @jay.bsky.team, @pfrazee.com, or anybody else that might know: does the presence and/or quality of the ALT text in Bluesky posts have any impact on rankings in the Discover feed? | 🦋

(actual footage of us working our fingers to the bone trying to write helpful ALT texts ⬇️)
a dog is sitting at a desk in front of an apple laptop .
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July 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The tragic news of Felix Baumgartner having gone west far too soon left us feeling very sad 😢 here in the home office. We choose to memorialise him this way: with the best TV commercial ever made, which he both narrates and in which he's featured. His words therein are all that need be said. | 🛩️ 📹
2013 World of Red Bull Commercial
YouTube video by zedood
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July 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Anybody know why Dan Abramov's @bsky.app account is coming up as 'deactivated'?
a black dog and a yellow dog are standing next to each other on a rug .
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July 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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We've said previously we like projects where quiet, steady progress is reported in the past tense. The 'Seaglider' from REGENT fits nicely into this category as they describe their latest developments getting the 'Viceroy' up on its foils. Next stop, flight in ground effect, presumably? | 🛩️ 🦆 ⚡️ 📹 🥇
REGENT Completes Successful First Foil Testing in Seaglider Sea Trials | REGENT
The latest sea trial campaign tests the vessel’s hydrofoiling capability on water ahead of the first flight later this year.
www.regentcraft.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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You know, if you’re still on 🐦 there’s no nice way of putting it: regardless of your justification, you’re part of the problem. | 😒
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June 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Not a month goes by where there isn't at least one really interesting episode of the 'Behind The Wings®' podcast worthy of your time and attention: this time it's with Lt. Col. Josh Cadice (ret.) talking about the perennially popular U-2 'Dragon Lady'. | 🛩️ 🎙️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...
The all-black U-2 spy plane is pictured flying from right to left in the frame and at high altitude over a desert landscape. This is the version of the aircraft with an extended nose as well as a large pod mounted above the fuselage, presumably containing some sort of sensing equipment. There are no identifying marks anywhere on the aircraft. Two arrow-straight roads can be seen below on the right side and bottom of the frame. A snow-capped mountain is visible at the bottom left. The sky is a clear blue sky with stratus clouds on the horizon. Original caption from source: « A U-2 Dragon Lady flies above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California, Mar. 23, 2016. The U-2 is a single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude/near space reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft which delivers critical imagery and signals intelligence to decision makers throughout all phases of conflict, including peacetime indications and warnings, low-intensity conflict, and large-scale hostilities. » (📸 Staff Sgt. Robert M. Trujillo | US Air Force)
June 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Good thing it's still the 1st of June somewhere 🌎 otherwise this would be late. 😉 In any event, it's a new month 💥 and there are lots of great things in store kicked off with Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com's recollection of two articles which kind of changed his life. (📸 Cheryl Goodwin) | 🛩️ 🦆 🥇
June, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️
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June 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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It's National Paper Airplane Day and rather than raiding the office stationery cupboard for a modest, folded flying machine, why not consider this much more ambitious undertaking meticulously documented on Instructables? | 🛩️ 🪽 📡 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-...
A small paper model of a flying wing vaguely resembling Jack Northrop's YB-49, at least in terms of its generalised layout. The model is viewed directly in front of and slightly above, 'flying' directly towards the camera position. Along the trailing edge of the wing, there are four small pink pieces of paper formed into vertical stabilisers, also similar to those found on the YB-49. The rest of the aircraft is primarily white. The aircraft is sitting on a green, self-healing cutting mat. Original caption from source: « How to Make the Omniwing Swift Paper Airplane » (📸 OrigamiAirEnforce via Instructables under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
May 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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This is intriguing: launch thousands of autonomous, long-duration weather balloons. Then, aggregate the data they collect and process it with the aid of AI in order to provide improved atmospheric intelligence. Basically, that's WindBorne Systems. | 🛩️ 🎈 📡 🥇 | 🔗 windbornesystems.com?utm_source=b...
A montage of three photos superimposed on a fourth image. The first of the three superimposed images, top left, shows a roughly horizontal aluminum boom at the end of which is a vertical weather balloon 'gondola' filled primarily with ballast sand. The WindBorne Systems wordmark and logo appear on the clear bag in which the sand is contained. The pole and gondola both have additional, indistinct equipment attached which is likely related to the launch of the aircraft. In the background there is a blurred beachscape. The second image, middle left, shows what appears to be a tracking application for a weather balloon in flight. From the display it seems as though the balloon was launched from the east coast of the United States, made its way across the Atlantic, and was located at that time at « Cadaques, Catalunya, Spain ». The third of the three images, bottom left, shows all of the tracks of many weather balloons superimposed over a Mercator projection of the surface of the Earth. It's a 'spaghetti' mass of lines which tend to cluster along and just north of the equator. There is less dense clustering toward the north pole. The image on which these three images are montaged is a rocky ocean shore where a single weather balloon is hovering at a low altitude just over the water. It may have been shortly after the balloon was launched, or shortly before it was going to land. Alternatively, it may simply be a point in the flight where the balloon dipped down close to the surface and then returned to altitude. (📸 WindBorne Systems)
May 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Here's an interesting and worthwhile project employing drones, robotics, and AI: « 'Smart Skies, Healthy Waters' Named a Winner of the Fifth 'Water Breakthrough Challenge' » Read the rest of the Skyports press release with a link. | 🛩️ 📡 🚁 ⚡️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 skyportsdroneservices.com/2025/05/smar...
A six-rotor multicopter drone is parked on a gravel pad immediately adjacent to a body of water, which could either be a lake or river. There appears to be specialised sensing equipment below the main 'fuselage' of the drone. Beyond the drone, there is a patch of wetland grass on the near shore of the body of water. On the far shore of the body of water, there is a tree-lined shore. There are small waves on the water, as well as a dark patch likely indicating a gusty wind. (📸 Skyports Drone Services)
May 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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So … 👍🏻 or 👎🏻 or 🤷🏻 ? | 🛩️ 🚁 📹 🗳️
Volonaut Airbike - Official Launch
YouTube video by Volonaut
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May 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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An open letter, of sorts, to @jay.bsky.team and other @bsky.app stakeholders on the recent implementation of 'blue check' verification. (📸 Katja Schulz via Wikimedia under CC BY 2.0, cropped) | 🦋
Bluesky Blue Check Blues
So far, so much has been accomplished with so little, but this time I believe Jay and the Bluesky team have it wrong.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Y'know, if you're still actively reading or posting on that other platform (hint: 🐦), you're actually part of the problem rather than part of the solution. While we're on the subject, if you screenshot the latest outrage from there and post here, that ain't helping, either. 🤦🏻‍♂️
April 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The unspeakably awful weather most wise aviators do their utmost to avoid, the brave folks at @noaa.gov fly towards, and into, with intention. The cozy-sounding 'bumpiness' belies what we mortals would undoubtedly find terrifying. 😱 We're in awe of their work and truly thankful for it. | 🛩️ 🥇
After rugged flight, hurricane scientists create system to measure aircraft bumpiness - NOAA Research
Research could improve aircraft safety Soon after returning from a particularly turbulent flight into the eye of Hurricane Ian, a group of scientists asked the […]
research.noaa.gov
April 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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« Chilean wingsuit pilot Sebastián ‘Ardilla’ Álvarez has completed a breathtaking flight, submitting preliminary claims for multiple FAI World and South American records. » Distance: 53,448 m; time: 661 s; altitude: 12,639 m. Their press release with link. | 🛩️ 🪽 📰 📹 🥇 | 🔗 www.fai.org/news/sebasti...
A wing suit pilot is shown just after exiting a Piper 'Cheyenne' with registration « N321LH » flying at high altitude. The pilot is looking directly at the camera, and the tail of the aircraft can be seen above his right shoulder. The curvature of the Earth is visible in the background, but that is likely an artefact of the camera lens. The @redbull.com logo is painted on the pilot's helmet above the pilot's eyes. The sky is completely clear and deep blue. (📸 FAI)
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Of all the flying car projects we follow, this one looks most like the way we imagined they would look when we were kids. CycloTech has just reported the first flight of their 'BlackBird' demonstrator aircraft. Their press release with link. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📡 🚁 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.cyclotech.at/blackbird-de...
Two new images of the subject vehicle montaged onto a washed-out, computer-generated image of the same vehicle in flight over an ultra-modern, 'cubist' house set in a verdant subdivision. The first new image, lower right, shows the vehicle parked on a blue tarp on a green field. The second image, top left, shows the vehicle in flight at low altitude. The vehicle itself roughly resembles a car with exposed wheels, except the 'wheels' are in fact rotors with lateral vanes and spinning on a lateral axis. When these rotors turn, they produce both elevating lift as well as controlling vectored thrust. The vehicle is mostly black with a small, white CycloTech logo painted on the side. CycloTech logos are also painted on the outboard surface of the rotors. (📸 CycloTech GmbH)
April 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A new issue of BluFly 🛩️ kicks off today. And what's not to love about that Jon Davison cover photo taken at Garah, New South Wales, Australia in 2013. | 📍 🇦🇺
blufly.media BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · Apr 1
It may be April Fools' Day, but we would never fool you about a new issue which is out today. Read @terencecgannon.com's 'In The Air' editorial, and then stay tuned for lots of exciting stuff coming up this month. (📸 Jon Davison | Eye in the Sky Productions) | 🛩️ 🥇
April, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️
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April 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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We love the Smithsonian and in particular its National Air and Space Museum. We also think today is a great day to post this (for example): « Black Wings: The Life of African American Aviation Pioneer William Powell » Continue reading with link. | 🛩️ 🥇 ⚔️ 📍 🇺🇸 | 🔗 airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit...
An African American man in a United States Army uniform sits on the ground and what's presumed to be an airfield. Original caption from source: « William J. Powell wearing his United States Army uniform and long coat during World War I. Image: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM 2000-10698). »
March 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's been a while since we featured an update from Electra. However, they've been busy filling their order book with $9 billion (with a 'B') worth of pre-orders for their EL9 'Ultra Short' aircraft. Definitely one to watch in the advanced air mobility space. Their press release with a link. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📰
Electra Secures 2,200 Pre-orders for Its Groundbreaking Ultra Short Aircraft
Electra’s EL9 harnesses the power of blown lift and hybrid-electric propulsion to take off and land in 150 feet; unlocking era of aviation without airports.
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March 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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While it just slips — by a whisker — into our surface-to-Kármán Line coverage mandate, we're really intrigued with this project wherein their 'Viceroy' skims over the waves in ground effect, with that flight regime seemingly like a kind of cheat code for aerodynamic efficiency. | 🛩️ 🦆 ⚡️ 📹 🥇
REGENT Begins Sea Trials of First Passenger-Carrying Seaglider | REGENT
REGENT Craft reveals the first full-scale seaglider prototype, a novel high-speed maritime vessel that connects coastal destinations.
www.regentcraft.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I both like and respect somebody with gin-clear self-perception.
A blue car in parked in a lot. A sticker has been placed in the back window with the word « SHITBOX » in white block letters. A row of stores is visible in the background.
March 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM