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The Portland Focal @portlandfocal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Tillamook Air Museum plans to welcome visitors back nearly 10 months after storm damage shut its historic home. A Utah aviation nonprofit bought the hangar for $1 and says it expects roof repairs to cost far less than earlier estimates.
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Tillamook Air Museum sets Oct. 29 reopening after hangar rescue deal
The Tillamook Air Museum plans to welcome visitors back nearly 10 months after storm damage shut its historic home. A Utah aviation nonprofit bought the hangar for $1 and says it expects roof repairs to cost far less than earlier estimates.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2h
Wait! What?!? This is something you don’t see every (any) day!! Tropical Storm #Rachel hits the Desert Southwest with flooding, then the Tropical Plume dumps heavy snow on Montana!! Dude, that’s wacky El Niño weather! #elnino #snow #California #montana #flooding
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Persistent Aero Myths: 'The Power of the Vortex' In the early 20th Century, HYPNOTISM was feared; the sinister villain of a novel or movie would WHIRL something before a victim's eyes, urging them to focus keenly on the motion until everything else faded - and their doom was sealed...! 1/n
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CityNews Vancouver RSS Feed (Unofficial) @citynews-van-un.yvr.whims.io · 10/10/2026
Jazz Aviation flight attendants ratify new five-year labour agreement
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Jazz Aviation flight attendants ratify new five-year labour agreement
HALIFAX — Jazz Aviation LP says its flight attendants have ratified a new labour agreement.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 6h
Three out of four flying; currency's looking up...!
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Flying Magazine @flyingmagazine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lessons can be learned from rushed preflight and incorrect fuel type, which caused double engine power loss. vist.ly/5mquf
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Lessons can be learned from rushed preflight and incorrect fuel type, which caused double engine power loss. vist.ly/5mquf
Lessons can be learned from rushed preflight and incorrect fuel type, which caused double engine power loss. vist.ly/5mquf
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 7h
Imagine how much better their EV would perform if they could drive it with only ONE-THIRD of its battery weight on board - while the rest of its 30 power packs are charging, so that they NEVER NEED to 'plug in the car'...
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What a gymball surfer does would never be described as 'flying' - even though they're fully SUPPORTED BY AIR. At ball-surfing speeds, a separate 'means of compression' is needed; that's the gymball's visible 'skin'. The lower surface of an aircraft wing 'performs' air-compression as it travels.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 8h
The wings can be relied on to SUPPORT some of an aircraft's weight at EVEN LOWER speeds than the 'minimum unstick' velocity at which the whole vehicle will readily leave the runway - showing that 'unsticking' is really the outcome of a cumulative GROUND ROLL process; it's NOT a form of Flight.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Here's around 3,000 words about a problem with Air Power HIstory - poorly known Aerodynamics will MISLEAD efforts to analyze the effectiveness or otherwise of Aviation resources. The Davis Wing is STILL misrepresented; does that affect the Liberator's reputation...?. bsky.app/profile/pneu...
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 8h
Why not indeed...? Tidal Power recruited to drive both phases of commuting...! (However, some adjustment of the usual working day will be needed in order to 'embrace the ebb' as well as the flood...)
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm asking the 'awkward question' that takes out AN ENTIRE CENTURY of Academic work... (Why 'airflow'...? That's it; it's that simple. The whole of 20th-Century Aerodynamics is built on IMAGINARY airflow...)
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
That 'dramatic disadvantage' is a CHOICE, not an intrinsic attribute of 'Science' or 'fact'. Aiming to narrate their Paper in an 'authoritative' way, Scientific writers opt for third-person passive voices and 'dry' delivery. It's an insecure and, in effect, MANIPULATIVE presentation style.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Persistent Aero Myths: 'The Aerofoil' 12/n: The popular notion of layered 'streamline' airflow past an aerofoil, created by trails of 'smoke' (usually, glycerol vapour...) in Wind Tunnel images, is a wholly ARTIFICIAL scenario; those stripes don't replicate any natural phenomenon.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Another selling-point for HAND-SWAPPABLE modules instead of a monolithic BIG-BATTERY. (Ironically, one that's very much MODULAR in its construction...) With swappables, you can INSTANTLY replace a flawed product - and even UPGRADE your battery-chemistry as new products become available...
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In the 22nd Century, what you're feeling is called 'the Oxygen Effect'. In your time, Oxygen's an accepted fact; despite being just as invisible as the rest of the air you breathe, it's 'always been there'. But 300 years previously, it was TOTALLY OBVIOUS that burning was an EXTRACTIVE process...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A massive pulse of water called a "Kelvin wave" is heading toward California. It's one of many expected this winter and they serve as a preview of what's to come because of climate change.
scientificamerican.com
The ‘Kelvin wave’ hitting California is a potent warning about sea-level rise
Sea level on the California coast is likely to be pushed to extremes this winter by compounding forces, but these extremes could be the norm by the end of the century
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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 07/10/2026
I was today years old when I found out, through Rachel Stirling's lovely book about her mother, that Diana Rigg's older brother, Hugh, was a test pilot who punched out of Kestrel XS693 at only 200'. Hugh is in the centre of the first image and the second needs no explanation.
Hugh Rigg, in centre, with Bob Holliday and Terry Thornton while with 1 Flight Training School. They stand in front of Jet Provost training aircraft. Image: http://www.linton-gin.com/Diana Rigg photographed in the 1960s.
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Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service @milwaukeenns.org · 06/10/2026
Aaron Calvert knew he wanted to fly planes, but when he started to pursue it, he was faced with a tough reality: Pilots-in-training at Wisconsin Aviation flight school pay $200 to $300 per flight hour, Calvert said. Learn about Aaron’s story here: buff.ly/7dbcrkF
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BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 04/10/2026
We're in awe of this work. A new and fascinating story from Jessica Heath writing for @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social news: « Built to Take a Hit: Tiny Flying Robot Is a Step Closer to Flight Beyond the Lab » (📸 Mario Rodriguez | UC Davis) | 🛩️ 📡 🏫 🦅 🥇 | 🔗 engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/built-t...
A small, insect-sized flying robot with translucent wings and a solid, white body flies against a blurred background of what appears to be green foliage.
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Airport Architecture @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com · 06/10/2026
I, too, have wondered where all the color went in architecture. It's a relief to have buildings like the Terminal E at Logan or the new terminal at Pittsburgh that don't mind a little color but they are the exceptions rather than the rule. via @edwinheathcote.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/90e1...
ft.com
Why is architecture so afraid of colour?
For centuries, western architecture has associated monochrome with purity, seriousness and good taste — but the rebels never went away
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BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 07/10/2026
As we often say, we love concrete milestones achieved, ✅ and this definitely qualifies: the first Brazilian-built Gripen E has just flown, notably, at collaboration partner Embraer's Gavião Peixoto aerodrome. Saab's press release with link. (📸 Saab) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
A Saab/Embraer Gripen E takes off from Gavião Peixoto aerodrome, trailing hot exhause 'ripple.' Lush green forest is visible beyond, in the background.
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Mary McIntyre @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New peak #Skyvan unlocked!!! I drove over to Oxford Airport yesterday with my camera and was chuffed to bits when Skyvan C-FARA came in to land! One of my all time favourites that I've photographed more times than any other aircraft. This is the closest I've been to him😊
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Persistent Aero Myths: 'Wings and Sails are Really the Same Thing' 31/n In the 21st Century, attention is increasingly paid to PUMPING EFFECTS that happen 'behind' the Pistons in an Explosive Force Engine - but 'unconfined piston' Aerodynamics still appear to be UNRECOGNIZED.
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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MirCorp Founder Eyes High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs) Telecom Market As Satcom Alternative aviationweek.com/space/commer...
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MirCorp Founder Eyes HAPs Telecom Market As Satcom Alternative | Aviation Week
Space entrepreneur Walt Anderson aims to deploy airships to provide affordable telecommunications to underserved markets in Southeast Asia, Africa or the Caribbean.
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German Aerospace Center (DLR) @dlr-en.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And a first, in collaboration with ESA: a few minutes after lift-off, our Falcon 20E research aircraft followed the rocket's exhaust plume to test how rocket emissions can be measured in the atmosphere.
DLR's Falcon 20E research aircraft set off from Kiruna Airport to track the rocket's exhaust plume
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Michele Reeves @rethinkplaces.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Indoor air quality is the clean water issue of our era.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The problem:
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The Safer Air Project @saferairproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How much do you know about the air in the buildings you walk into? For most, the answer is not much. As our founder Plum Stone discussed during our recent Making the invisible visible webinar, this can be particularly impactful for people living with disability or chronic health conditions.
Just having the information enables you to make an informed risk analysis… whereas without that, people have no idea what the space is they’re walking into.

– PLUM STONE
FOUNDER
THE SAFER AIR PROJECT
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Elan Head @elanhead.com · 06/10/2026
A longstanding compromise between the FAA's air traffic & space offices allowed a limited # of aircraft to be exposed to higher risk from space debris while keeping the overall odds of a fatal accident low. The FAA eliminated that limit 4 days before the SpaceX IPO. theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
theaircurrent.com
FAA will accept more risk to aircraft from space debris under new policy
As space launch tempo increases, U.S. regulator eliminates rolling limit intended to mitigate risk to aircraft
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No, they don't. But the analytical methods deployed in your time QUICKLY LOSE TRACK of the cause-and-effect chains contained in 'turbulent' motion...
Split-screen image montaged onto a picture of a tee-shirt, to look like a transfer print.

The upper image shows a smoke trail meeting and leaving an object smoothly, in a way that's only supposed to happen with an aerofoil-shaped 'kutta object'.

The lower image shows a smoke trail leaving THE SAME object in turbulent confusion

- and labels a visible FLOW DEFECT ahead of the object, which is similar to the preceding event that (amplified by colliding with the object) CAUSED the 'turbulence'.

The comparison shows that the visible 'turbulence' is in reality the SOLUTION TO AN EQUATION: attributes of the flow variation + the object's physical shape.

Above and below the image, a slogan reads: 

'It's NOT 'turbulence'; 
it's ENCODING'
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Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quick reminder that submissions for the workshop close in just over a week (October 15th)!
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Aero pros & Profs may be OFFENDED by my claims (offered with solid EVIDENCE...) that the basic assumptions underpinning their subject are WRONG - but their own work and careers will immediately BENEFIT from accepting the upgrade I'm offering. The waiting Scientific Revolution is NON-ZERO-SUM.
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agree that a frequent flier tax is a good idea. We can use the proceeds to fund flood protection and food security measures. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SAYlNG 'it's ok to burn more Fossil Fuels will never make it economically viable, tho. Meanwhile, your Home Battery (however small...), your Solar Roof, your Heat Pump and your Vegan Shopping List are working round the clock to drive 'Destructive Economics' out of business...
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Many people don’t know what mathematics really is, or why mathematicians do it. Now mathematicians need to answer that question for themselves and explain it to the rest of the world — quickly." No. It's impossible for mathematicians to do that - from 'inside' the Mathematics they know...
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your question has an answer: 'Ordinary people' are the footsoldiers, customer base, audience and critics that 'billionaires and politicians' need on-side in order to reach their destructive goals. I've seen YOUR material; YOU routinely refuse to be bought and beguiled by them. 'We' also can.
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Flying Magazine @flyingmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A federal jury last week found that Joby Aviation breached a mutual nondisclosure agreement (NDA) and willfully misappropriated trade secrets, marking the latest legal development in the world of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturing. vist.ly/5matx
Air taxi in flight with text overlay: 'Jury finds air taxi firm Joby breached NDA, misused trade secrets.'
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI Hallucination comes in TWO varieties: the sort that long pre-date AI, and those we can see AI producing. But now AI can be blamed for the phenomenon, are we 'conveniently' forgetting the first type existed...? (And still does...)
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BluFly 🛩 @blufly.media · 07/10/2026
New, well-researched, well-written reporting about the Golden Age of Aviation for @news.abc.net.au by Isabella Ross and Blair Chapman: « History Behind Sydney’s First International Airport at Rose Bay, Where Flying Boats Were the Norm » (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🦆 📍 🇦🇺 🥇 | 🔗 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... | 🧵
A vintage photo of two large, passenger-carrying Qantas Airways flying boats lying at anchor at Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Dock facilities visible in foreground. ℹ️ Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, copyright expired. 🔗 https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm3qmGY
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"In the end, the promise of attribution science is that it helps us see a storm or a heat wave or a flood not as an act of a god or the whim of Mother Nature, but as a disaster that has been knowingly shaped or intensified by particular human actions." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In my opinion, it's NOT 'hard for Open Science to strengthen both'. But the 'framing' you protest makes it APPEAR hard. And my account is a 'worked example' of the fallacy behind the framing. My (evidenced) offer of an UPGRADE is routinely rejected by the Academic subject of Aerodynamics.
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 05/10/2026
Conversations of #openscience are waning, and I feel we missed boat of making OS about changing culture to one that truly opens science to society. Real shame OS has remained just about opening research outputs. I've argued against this framing for years now, but wish I'd articulated it better.
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The Air Current @theaircurrent.com · 05/10/2026
FAA will accept more risk to aircraft from space debris under new policy theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf... (via @elanhead.com) #staycurrent
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FAA will accept more risk to aircraft from space debris under new policy
As space launch tempo increases, U.S. regulator eliminates rolling limit intended to mitigate risk to aircraft
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Introductory post: A 'wind of change' will turn Aerodynamics completely around in the next 77 years. I'm here to explain how the New Aerodynamics works, and why it's an UPGRADE from the paradoxical kind of Aero that's taught now. (And, by doing so, TO MAKE THE CHANGE HAPPEN...!)
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Glider Airstrip @gliderairstrip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Side view from inside a glider canopy showing a long white wing and winglet above green fields, villages, and scattered clouds. A mechanical wiper is extended along the wing leading edge. #gliding #pilotlife #aviation
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Hype @hype.aero · 05/10/2026
Flydubai co-pilot suspected of planning attack before hiring; investigators see no organizational or foreign-government ties - www.reuters.com/world/asia-... More on hype.aero
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Deborah Nicholas MD @dnicholasmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ABQ 54th Balloon Fiesta kicks off on a brisk fall day!
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Flying Magazine @flyingmagazine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pushback to the FAA's sudden and unexpected move to halt single-pilot operations in certain models of Cessna Citation jets continued this week, with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) becoming the latest to urge the agency to rethink the decision. vist.ly/5ky7m
Federal Aviation Administration seal with news headline about AOPA and FAA.
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The Air Whisperer @pneumofoils.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
'The Power of the Vortex' 2/n: A real-life victim of this curse was Ludwig Prandtl. Beguiled by 'foci' of swirling water in his hydrodynamics tank, he completely IGNORED the Cannon Current that caused them, and started an irrational mania for IMAGINARY 'Vorticity' - which continues to this day.
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