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Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/26/sustainable-aviation-fuel-mandate-uk-government-data-2025

Aviation collapses, Asian mercenaries arrive – Kremlin patches front after AFU strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/aviation-collapses-asian-mercenaries-arrive.html

I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

I'm not saying the CAA broadening the licensing requirements for drones in the UK is a way of building a list of potential participants in a future military conflict, but.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrjpzdzeddo

Many new UK drone users must take theory test for outdoor use
The Civil Aviation Authority reckons up to half a million people in the UK may be impacted by its new requirements.

🔥Over $1 billion in damages: Ukraine strikes Russian aviation #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/over-billion-in-damages-ukraine.html

Omen: Anduril, Archer und EDGE machen Tailsitter-Drohne serienreif
Anduril und das Flugtaxiunternehmen Archer Aviation feiern die Serienreife von Omen. Parallel läuft ein Rechtsstreit zwischen Archer und Joby Aviation.

"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

Why nothing changes at DCA, and why I never want to fly there...
#aviation

How Aviation Emissions Could Be Halved Without Cutting Journeys - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1728220/how-aviation-emissions-could-be-halved-without-cutting-journeys

Sen. Cruz threatens another shutdown unless restrictions on military flights are approved (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/aviation-safety-helicopter-washington-dc-crash-shutdown-ec6bfdb0964498fa61bcd6b0478be023
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p106#a251215p106

Losing the Republican Base, Israel Pours Millions to Target Evangelicals and Churchgoers - National Security & Cyber https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/s…

"Private jets and first-class passengers could be charged extra to fly"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #Emissions #Climate

Private jets and first-class passengers could be charged extra to fly
Several countries are eyeing new taxes on premium air travel. The revenue could fund climate solutions.

I did not expect to get a quite decent explainer into the Philippine 🇵🇭 #aviation industry from an Australian #AvGeek YouTuber that I’m subscribed to. ✈️
https://…

🧨 BOMBS FALLING ON BELGOROD: How Russian aviation DESTROYS ITS OWN cities: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/bombs-falling-on-belgorod-how.html

https://resist.bot/petitions/PHSTPY

Protect aviation safety in the NDAA!
Text SIGN PHSTPY to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Exploring the valley of the Kern River from the air and on the ground this past weekend
#aviation

I've never flown in a helicopter and I'd be keen to fly in one of these if it was even vaguely affordable:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/caa-canary-wharf-london-cambridge-european-union-aviati…

Flying taxis to take passengers to airports in minutes from 2028, company says
Vertical Aerospace hopes its Valo aircraft, which has a capacity for up to six passengers, can get regulatory approval in three years.

The Department of Homeland Security has signed a nearly
$140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes
-- for deportation operations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/us-signs-boeing-trump-deportation-d…

No Jim McMahon, it's perfectly OK to disincentive car use, especially where aviation is concerned.
'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick' - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick'
The airport has come under fire in parliament

This is an amazing soaring flight!
#aviation <…

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

"Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #Airplanes

Sanctions and parts shortages push Russia’s civil aviation to the brink as engine failures surge: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/sanctions-and-parts-shortages-push.html

This utter arsehole is happy to posture but as leader of the world's 6th richest country he won't contribute to the vital fund to protect and restore tropical rainforests.
This utter arsehole postures on climate while greenlighting huge energy guzzling data centres.
This utter arsehole is happy to expand aviation while witterring about 'climate consensus'
Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - BBC News…

Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - follow live
Prince William says the climate threat is "fast approaching", as the UN warns it is now "virtually impossible" to keep the 1.5C global limit.

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 14. Januar 1969 verursachte eine Explosion einer Luft-Boden-Rakete auf dem atombetriebenen Flugzeugträger USS Enterprise (CVN-65) einen Brand bei dem 28 Menschen starben. Es entstand außerdem ein Schaden in Höhe von 126 Millionen Dollar.

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Remove Aviation Safety Rollbacks from the NDAA
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Went searching for a technical report of the 2023 incident when a validly-formatted flight-plan contained a logic error that crashed the UK air traffic control.
"The system project designed and tested an expansive and robust set of scenarios, which provided assurance that the system was highly resilient. [...] One specific part of that logic would have dealt with the issue [...] but inadvertently was not incorporated into the FPRSA-R software code by the manufacturer."

Here's a wild stat: We could power every car and truck as electric vehicles just by putting solar panels on land we currently use for biofuels.
Solar is vastly more efficient than biofuels for energy generation. The real question is how we use our land—solar for transport, biofuels for aviation, or letting some return to nature.

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

At 5:49 p.m., air traffic controllers told pilots over the Caribbean that a SpaceX Starship rocket had exploded.
All planes were ordered to avoid an area where the Federal Aviation Administration estimated debris would fall
launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights. …

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

Rich rejoice as 17 acres of #LongBeach Airport to be converted to private jet storage in $60 million renovation to build 5 hangar #PrivateJet campus at underutilized #SouthernCalifornia municipal airport .

Home-Base Hangar Option Opens in Houston - Sky Harbour LLC
(New York, NY) – Sky Harbour Group will host a cocktail reception at its new, private aviation campus at Sugar Land Regional Airport from 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday, May 19.

Have a small plane and want to get approval for a reasonable change that requires approval? It looks like #aviation

For a day where the soaring forecast was ‘fair’, it turned out pretty well. Two and a half hours soaring above Mount Palomar, and a sunset flight back to El Monte
#aviation #gliding

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Vance warns of aviation 'disaster' if shutdown does not end | Reuters
https://archive.ph/aocwt

National Airspace System Status
Current: Oct 31, 2025 3:48:11 PM PDT
Thank you for your attention to this matter
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/list

"Revealed: how aviation emissions could be halved without cutting journeys"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #Emissions #Climate

I've never flown in a helicopter and I'd be keen to fly in one of these if it was even vaguely affordable:
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/caa-canary-wharf-london-cambridge-european-union-aviati…

Up to 1,800 flights a day could be disrupted by Trump's airport cuts;
California to be hard hit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-06/why-california-could-be-so-hard-hit-by-airport-capacity…

California airport will be hard hit by
California airports are expected to be hard hit by dramatic reduction in flights as the Federal Aviation Administration plans to cut air traffic by 10% at 40 airports to maintain travel safety during the government shutdown.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted