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A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community. If made by people and flying between the surface and the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly. Read the current issue at (📸 Kris Tynski)
… itinerary at approximately 11.00 am MDT along with permission to share: « Our crew just left about 10 minutes ago, heading toward Cranbrook (customs) and fuel [enroute to Cold Lake Air Show on the weekend.] … (📸 Erickson Collection) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📅 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 2/4 | 🔗 coldlakeairshow.com?utm_source=b...
Tipped off to their arrival by our friend @jasonchampton.bsky.social, these three beauties are on a tour of western Canada. We touched base with the Erickson Collection, from whence they came and obtained this … (📸 Erickson Collection) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📅 📍 🇨🇦 🥇 | 🧵 1/4 | 🔗 ericksoncollection.com?utm_source=b...
« Flying a camera ship to photograph your subject is quite difficult for people who've never done it because they've got to realize that that open door behind them is the lens. » — Jon Davison: The Way of the Photographer, July 15, 2026. (📸 Eye in the Sky) | 🛩️ 🚁 📅 | 🔗 blufly.media/event/2026/0...
Last call for this rare opportunity to join, via webinar, aviation photographer Jon Davison on July 15, 2026, at 13:00 UTC as he shares tips, tricks, and hacks and answers *your* questions. Free, but registration required, with link. (📸 ©2025 Jon Davison) | 🛩️ 🚁 📅 | 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
‘Keep Them Flying’ is a good old-fashioned cards and letters campaign being organised to keep the Snowbirds flying through the extended pause between old (CT-114) and new (CT-157) team aircraft. If you have seen … (📸 Russ via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0.) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 keepthemflying.ca
There's a similar 'Easter egg' in 1953's 'War of the Worlds' with Jack Northrop's YB-49 during flight operations. It's less documentary-like than the footage in 'Strategic Air Command', but still provides a pretty good sense of this star-crossed aircraft. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🎬 | 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3gj...
Not sure how big an overlap there is between fans of aviation and fans of the Golden Age of Hollywood, but we count ourselves amongst them. So you know where we'll be on November 6th when the new Jimmy Stewart biopic opens. (📸 Burns & Co.) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🎬 🥇 | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 www.jimmythemovie.com?utm_source=b...
The FAI's always affable Antonis Papadopoulos is maintaining a Flickr album for the event of which this is just one example as things get underway. Bookmark 📑 if you're interested in following along with the competition. (📸 Antonis Papadopoulos | FAI) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📡 | 🔗 www.flickr.com/photos/airsp...
Okay, more folks were interested in this ⬆️ than we expected, candidly. Here's where you can find more about the FAI's F4 Scale Models class. They're quite a leap forward from the Guillow's, rubber-powered, stick-and-tissue P-38 of our collective youth. (📸 FAI) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📡 | 🔗 www.fai.org/page/f4-scal...
Wish your aviation photos looked more like this? We do, and if you do, too, on July 15, 2026, at 13:00 UTC, you can ask the photographer—Jon Davison—how he does it. Scroll to the top of the thread for details. It's free, but you must register with the link. | 🛩️ | 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The aircraft livery magicians at Lincoln, Nebraska-based Duncan Aviation have been at it again: « Forty-Six Colors, One Bold Vision: Duncan Aviation Unveils Its Most Intricate Paint Scheme Yet » 😲 The whole story, with tons of detail, with link. | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 duncanaviation.aero/news/46-colo...
The 2026 FAI F4 World Championships for Scale Model Aircraft are about to get under way and run from July 9 through 18, 2026, at the British Model Flying Association headquarters in Buckminster, Great Britain. Well worth a visit; details with link. (📸 BMFA) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📡 📅 📍 🇬🇧 🥇 | 🔗 worldscale26.bmfa.uk
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