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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 05/10/2026

We’re thrilled to announce our newest 24/7 automated live stream is now available at LHR! With a camera hosted by @bigjet.tv and fed by Flightradar24 ADS-B data, incredible views of 27L are just a click away: www.youtube.com/live/SgvpyjQ...

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LHR Airport LIVE 24/7 • Heathrow, London

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seeing Jason ride the lime thing made it all worth it

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting weaker, DOD looks for cheaper Reaper.

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Brett Snyder @crankyflier.com · 16/09/2026

Now on Cranky: Cranky Dorkfest is Saturday and the 2027 Date is Set crankyflier.com/2026/09/16/c...

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Cranky Dorkfest is Saturday and the 2027 Date is Set – Cranky Flier

Cranky Dorkfest is Saturday and the 2027 Date is Set

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love a straightforward accident report. This pilot failed to avoid a cow. Yep. That will totally ruin your day.

An accident report in which no people were injured detailing how the aircraft hit a cow.

Poor cow.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 11/09/2026

On this week’s AvTalk podcast, we break down the sequence of events as the 21 Air 767 attempted to land in Miami and overran the runway. Using ADS-B data and information from the NTSB, the more we learn, the more confusing the situation becomes. www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

Still from NTSB video overview of the scene in Miami showing the damaged aircraft and damaged vehicles the 767 struck.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

😍😍😍 Thanks for sharing!

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's definitely a Jevons effect happening where it’s, “Oh, we can do that, we’ll just take the bike!“

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

After pining for months (okay, years), we recently bought a e-cargo bike and it has de-stressed our kid logistics and increased our "let's go to the park!". Cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 08/09/2026

Now & then

A photograph of two black modernist, Mies van de Rohe designed high-rise buildings frame a view of Lake Michigan, with turquoise water, a lakeside path, beachgoers, and cars visible below. Boats and jet skis traverse the water visible between the buildings on a gorgeous late-summer afternoon. Text is laid over the image that says Chicago United Air Lines

1955 United Air Lines travel poster for Chicago by Stan Galli, showing the dark gridded facades of Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive towers framing a narrow view of Lake Michigan, with a sunny beach, tiny figures, sailboats, and mid-century cars below. Large yellow “CHICAGO” lettering and white “UNITED AIR LINES” text stretch across the upper half.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026

I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form

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Lauren D @hrclauren.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'd never really thought about it before, beyond "hey look, it's the Goodyear Blimp!" but it's really quite interesting!

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There are plans for everything. Just need more tunnels under the airfield. But the chance of these things happening ever are... remote.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I see someone at United has a sense of humor. And based on a search of the fares, someone in revenue management also has a sense of humor.

United’s new flight to Toulouse uses flight number 222, a play on the well-known (to giant nerds like me) Lufthansa flight 2222 to Toulouse.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

monorail connecting all 20 of course

cover of an old ekranoplan schedule, akin to the old Bay Area helicopter schedules, looking like it came from a library archive, dated 1968 made by Thomas Sturm back in the good Twitter era

it was made by Thomas Sturm — @tsturm over on Mastodon — as a result of a decades long running joke from the twitter days on Ekranoplans running in the Bay Area

TRANSBAY
EKRANOPLAN
HOURLY SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE
SAN JOSE IN 22 MINUTES
VALLEJO IN 18 MINUTES LARKSPUR IN 9 MINUTES

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Westphalia, Versailles, Bretton Woods, Yalta, Potsdam, Presidio.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 14/08/2026

There are fewer active airship pilots than astronauts, and Michael (Doc) Dougherty is chief among them. The Goodyear Blimp’s Chief Pilot joins us this week to explore this unique part of the aviation world. www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

Goodyear Blimp Chief Pilot Michael (Doc) Dougherty standing in the Goodyear Blimp office next to a Goodyear Blimp sign.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Of those four airplanes, it’s mildly depressing to know that the only one still carrying passengers is the E145.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you ask real nice, maybe you can strip down a 737-700?

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Aren't the seatbelt and airbag designed to prevent bonkers? [I'll see myself out]

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 07/08/2026

All RISE: we sat down with GE Aerospace engineer David Ostdiek to learn about progress on the RISE engine ahead of its first flight later this decade. Listen in on this week’s AvTalk at www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

CFM RISE engine in half size at the GE Aerospace booth at EAA Airventure 2026.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is just the monthly first Tuesday at 10am test.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sometimes, the broad strokes are good enough, but I did miss the opportunity to bring up the 747SP in the same context, so that one’s on me.

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Jeff @jeffatc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Red Arrows at Oshkosh, 7/25/26.

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Resister Sister Nicki Smith @worldtraveldiva.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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...

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 31/07/2026

On this week’s AvTalk podcast, our conversation with Xavier Pepin, Airbus test pilot and captain of the 24+ hour A350-1000ULR flight from Melbourne to Toulouse. We talk about flight planning such a long flight, crew rest, and more. www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

Pepin, center right, alongside the rest of the crew of the MEL-TLS flight.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

PetchmoAir officially announces its interest in early-build 777-9s and that the airline has submitted its bid for a minority stake in TAP. The 777-9s will be used exclusively on the airline’s new Fargo-Funchal route (pending regulatory approval).

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Brett Snyder @crankyflier.com · 29/07/2026

Now on Cranky: Cranky Dorkfest 2026 RSVPs are Now Open! crankyflier.com/2026/07/29/c...

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Cranky Dorkfest 2026 RSVPs are Now Open! – Cranky Flier

Cranky Dorkfest 2026 RSVPs are Now Open!

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Glad he was able to make it home! Those storms were no joke yesterday. We were holding northwest of the front to let it pass through.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thanks! All good at our house.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Some more from the neighborhood yesterday and today. The last two are just what was directly in front of our house. Kudos to the Chicago forestry folks who made roads mostly passable by morning.

A Jeep Cherokee crushed by an uprooted tree

A large collection of branches blocking a residential street in Chicago. One car has had its windshield smashed by the falling limb.

A pile of Locust and Maple logs approximately 3 feet high and 4 feet long after being bucked up by your humble writer.

A pile of Locust and Maple branches approximately 6 feet tall on the parkway.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well that was quite the weekend.

The view of OSH26 from the World’s Busiest Air Traffic Control Tower

Airborne inside the Goodyear Blimp en route from Oshkosh to DuPage

Downed trees and damaged cars on my block after a severe storm passed through earlier today.

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Ian Petchenik @petchmo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Whoa whoa whoa, look at Mr Big Spender over here!

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