Tootfinder

Now here is something designed to shake confidence:
Flying, unmanned warships controlled by an on-board, but distributed, AI...
"Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System'"
…

Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029

What i like about this article from @… on the Billy Bishop Toronto airport is that it looks a the numbers.
Even if we ignore the whole noise and gas pollution, this airport is not doing so well since they introduced the train to Pearson and it's unclear how adding jets would fix it.
The value prop of the airport is that it's small and…

Hmmm… Ein A400M der Royal Air Force, der in Norwegen unterwegs war, ist grade als Emergency zurück nach UK.
#RAF

Nothing like the feeling of standing up after an 8 hour flight.

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: We will do nothing to counter the force acting upon the Liberator. We then plot the Liberator's course on the main battle computer flight predictor to see exactly how she is behaving. Once we understand how the force is operating we may be some way toward defeating it.
TARRANT: Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. Traction beams produce straight-line motion. Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based …

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."

Cheap air fares have allowed millions of Europeans to travel longer distances, boosting tourism and helping migrant workers keep close links to home.
They’ve also come with a heavy environmental toll.
"Thanks, Brussels, for that €9 flight" by #europeancorrespondent

Thanks, Brussels, for that €9 flight
Forty years ago, Ryanair’s first flight was a 15-seater aircraft that ferried businessmen from a small Irish city to London. Last year, the airline sa

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Joy Orbison:
🎵 flight fm
#JoyOrbison
https://tomshanxx.bandcamp.com/track/destinys-child-bootylicious-x-joy-orbison-flight-fm
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Wrd7TpAgRmlUtcbpJCW3T

Happy Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 day to all who celebrate
#Delta #TorontoPearson
https://infosec.exchange/@cjust/114055

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

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
BLAKE: Keep your head, Vila! That way I might have a chance at keeping mine.
VILA: Yes. Avon?
AVON: What?
VILA: Shut up. Please.
[On the flight deck.]
SARKOFF: Blake is finished, I'm afraid.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/405 …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Boy & Bear:
🎵 State of Flight
#NowPlaying #Boy #Bear
https://open.spotify.com/track/57xVcVWwq9uofYD5hMHaFB

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.

Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/

Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.

Went for another training flight today, ran into an examiner by pure chance after landing, he had time, I had time, we could shuffle things around to free up a plane. An hour later, my single engine piston (land) class rating is restored. Yay!
#aviation #generalaviation

Coast Guard pilot fired then immediately reinstated because he didn’t move DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s personal blankie from one plane to the next plane.
#USCG #CoastGuard #DHS

Coast Guard Pilot Flying Kristi Noem Fired Over a Missing Blanket
A Coast Guard pilot flying a DHS flight was terminated and later reinstated when Kristi Noem's blanket went missing during a flight change.

Boarding a flight in Montreal heading to Tokyo to participate in #IETF125 from a satellite location. Another colleague will be at the actual venue in Shenzen, China. Looking forward to all the discussions this week!

At that time of the trip again where the clock continues to march on. Not long now until my flight home. I have to leave @… again.
Long distance is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. However I wouldn’t want to be with anyone else.
Thank you for a great week! I love you more than all of the world.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Joy Orbison:
🎵 flight fm
#JoyOrbison
https://divisionsounds.bandcamp.com/track/joy-orbison-flight-fm-irrelevant-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Wrd7TpAgRmlUtcbpJCW3T

Attention cleaning crew: due to the lack of disposal bags you will find a piece of gum, attached to the lower steel frame of seat 38D, on the morning flight from Saigon to Buon Ma Thuot. Thank you for your understanding.

Eine Klimaschutzmassnahme wird es kaum sein …
F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flight-restrictions.html

a reliable source has relayed that perhaps the flight attendant in fact said “infant life vests” which, in fairness to my ego, seems equally implausible

While preparing #ArtemisII for flight, NASA engineers are reviewing data after a confidence test Feb. 12, in which operators partially filled the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in an area used to fill the rocket with propellant: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/13/following-confidence-test-nasa-continues-artemis-ii-data-review/ - during the test, "teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of liquid hydrogen into the rocket. [...] Engineers will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window for Artemis II."

Missed Cowboys flight one factor in Diggs' release https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47464859/missed-cowboys-flight-one-factor-trevon-diggs-release

Allen’s Hummingbird sipping nectar from a bicolor cobra lily. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14 #huntingtonlibrary #hummingbird #lily

“Explaining Belgium’s ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 queen bees and how it is reviving Europe’s endangered dark bee”
#Belgium #Bees #Insects

Explaining Belgium’s ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 queen bees and how it is reviving Europe’s endangered dark bee | The Optimist Daily
Each summer in Belgium, 1,000 virgin queen bees take flight to help restore Europe’s native dark bee and protect sustainable beekeeping.

Drone threat forces repeated flight restrictions at Moscow airports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/23/drone-threat-forces-repeated-flight.html

in other news I been decorating today

“100 years ago flight outside the atmosphere was science fiction.
Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean it is impossible.”
My guy, flight is literally “movement through air”.
I’m pretty sure outside the atmosphere there’s still no air.

I love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)

Most of the characters on Lost arrived on flight 815. The Nigerians died in their plane crash. Desmond and the mercenaries arrived by boat. Henry Gail crash landed in his balloon.
Not a single character arrived by bus or light rail. How about some representation of urban public transportation, Damon Lindelof?

Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…

Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe | TechCrunch
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The EMC disk shelf decided it wanted to ramp the fans to "taking off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier", so I decided to updated all the Proxmox nodes, the NAS, and then power cycle the EMC disk shelf.
Fortunately, that worked and everything is back online. Definitely a pain in the ass though...
#homelab

Wat me blijft verbazen bij dit soort opdrachten, dat ze dan ook daadwerkelijk uitgevoerd worden.
Komt er niemand in opstand als er een bibliotheek vernietigd moet worden?
Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday - The New York Times
https://www.

Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006 (Haley Britzky/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/phelan-epstein-flight
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p107#a260206p107

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
[Scene - Liberator flight deck]
VILA: I don't like explosives, very crude. Difficult to reason with a bomb.
CALLY: Blake?
AVON: They won't explode until they are primed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/241 B7B3

Flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then "Global Crossing Airlines" started expanding into federal #deportation #flights.
Flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whos…

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.

Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985 #environment

Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985
The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests, Min Feng and colleagues analyzed the biome from 1985 to 2020, leveraging the longest and highest-resolution satellite record of calibrated tree cover to date. The study, published in Biogeosciences with four co-authors from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, confirms a northward shift in boreal forest cover over the past four decades.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
DJ Manny:
🎵 Overnight Flight
#DJManny
https://djmanny1.bandcamp.com/track/overnight-flight
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EnZaMnoBj2RAOGeI9nAby

Former Air Force officer arrested for conspiring with hacker to provide flight training to Chinese military https://therecord.media/former-air-force-officer-arrested-for-working-with-hacker-flight-training-china

Jamming GPS signals is a favorite tactic of Putin. Just saying.
At least some of the U.S. warships that have deployed to the Caribbean in recent months have been jamming GPS signals in their vicinity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/world/a

U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
Military brinkmanship between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Manu Delago:
🎵 The silent flight of the owl
#ManuDelago
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WF0RUkK32dDYsZ69nHyO8

Ladies and gentlemen: welcome aboard the starship Boney M for our first passenger flight to Venus.
Ready for countdown.
10―9―8―7―6―5―4―3―2―1
Ignition.
Lift off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qif1NY7LYeY

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Yes. We better go down and check that they're all right. Keep a watch, Gan.
[Avon and Vila leave Liberator flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/208 B7B3

look, as my own internal dialogue has surmised: no aircraft can contain an infinite number of life vests. that would be silly. anyone would be silly to think that. the flight attendants did not announce that as part of the safety briefing…

U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/world/americas/us-venezuela-caribbean-gps-flight-hazard.html

'Artemis I: Flight Day 13' From the #NASA_App :
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260131.html

This is an amazing soaring flight!
#aviation <…

Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-Unglück liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0…

El Paso airport closed for 10 days for unspecified “security reasons” at 11:30pm Tuesday. All flights canceled. 10 mile airspace around the airport also closed.
#FAA #ElPaso #ELP

F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”

The first #Ariane 64 flight is well underway (and has just reached the target orbit)- here is the booster separation from an onboard cam, see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-4-februar-2026/#Feb12 (scroll down ... a lot) for more timesteps from the webcast.

Mid-flight aurora

I hope everyone in #Montreal remembers this superb owl.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snowy-owl-flying-transport-quebec-traffic-camera-1.33…

Snowy owl spotted soaring by Montreal traffic camera | CBC News
Spectacular images of a snowy owl in flight have been captured by Transport Quebec's traffic camera along Montreal's Highway 40.

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

the ambiguous figure of the seagull, a coastal apparition both ridiculous and divine, foolish and sacred, graceful in flight yet uneasy on land, something that knows more than it shows, carrying both wonder and threat in its gaze

Cowboys lose draft capital in trade, still land 2 top-flight DBs in new ESPN mock https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/03/cowboys-espn-mock-draft-trade-back-dillon-thie…

RE: https://23.social/@dkl/116003260674525620
It's totally baffling that Joscha Bach went to known and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to get a flight the CCC congress covered. (EDIT: I misread the email and it was not just from Munich to Leipzig but from…

The non-exodus of California billionaires
The media says they’re fleeing a wealth tax. Except, they’re not.
Nary a day has passed of late that hasn’t seen stories about the billionaires’ flight from California, lest they be subjected to a proposed wealth tax that hasn’t yet gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot. The fact that there is no billionaires’ flight from California hasn’t impeded the flow of such tales.
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=28f7241796510e838db4a1384ae1279d.3942&s=a25f328e944fec8e9462e7b6d554a892

Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown
—whose 2018 reporting essentially reopened the Jeffrey Epstein case
—wants to know ⭐️ why her flight information is in the Epstein files. 
“Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?”
she wrote Sunday on X.
“As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this fli…

Why Was Trump’s Justice Department Tracking This Top Epstein Reporter?
Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown’s flight logs showed up in the Epstein files released by the Justice Department.

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Flight 93 (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-pretti-renee-good-and-flight-93
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p59#a260224p59

With a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯
Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆
#AI

The NASA's #ArtemisII Flight Readiness News Conference should commence in 1/2 hour on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMMAdqMGWA

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438

Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854688/nvidias-geforce-now-is-getting…

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps
Nvidia is launching new GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon’s Fire TV devices. It’s also adding flight control support to its streaming service.

openflights: Openflights airport network
A network of regularly occurring flights among airports worldwide, extracted from the openflights.org dataset. Nodes represent airports, and direction of edge (i,j) indicates a regularly occurring commercial flight by a particular airline from airport i to airport j. Multiple edges may exist between a pair of airports if multiple airlines offer that flight, or if one airline offers multiple such flights each day.
This network has 3214 node…

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DEETA: Don't do it! [whips out his gun and shoots her]
FEMALE VOICE: Will Deeta Tarrant report immediately to the Flight Deck, please. [Deeta reholsters gun and exits] Deeta Tarrant to the Flight Deck, please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/31 B…

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/travel/iran-middle-east-stranded-travelers-flight-cancellations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p148#a260304p148

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!

#Starliner Propulsion System Anomalies during the Crewed Flight Test - Investigation Report: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nasa-report-with-redactions-021926.pdf -> Agency leaders are discussing the findings of investigations into the 2024 crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geneWmI9ZMY -> NASA Releases Report on Starliner Crewed Flight Test Investigation: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-releases-report-on-starliner-crewed-flight-test-investigation/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flight of the Conchords:
🎵 Business Time
#FlightoftheConchords
https://flightoftheconchords.bandcamp.com/track/business-time-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gpF9X9AliEO6f91LJT8Ej

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

The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday,
a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals
— many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
Jacob Richmond,
a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days
and some material would be stored in a government warehouse
while the rest would be tossed away.
“This process is an established method th…

Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday
Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ZEN: Automatic flight control is now aborted.
GAN: The manual controls won't respond.
VILA: Do something, Gan.
GAN: Something is draining off the power. [Lights dim]
VILA: Orac, it has to be Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/564…

And now on #Ariane flight VA267 - of the first Ariane 6 with 4 boosters.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ZEN: Automatic flight control is now aborted.
GAN: The manual controls won't respond.
VILA: Do something, Gan.
GAN: Something is draining off the power. [Lights dim]
VILA: Orac, it has to be Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/564…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

In four hours the webcast #PSLV-C62 - a return to flight for this rocket after a launch failure a while ago - carrying EOS-N1 and 15 co-passenger satellites into Sun Synchronous Orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India should begin: see https://www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/pdf/PSLVC62/PSLV_C62_Brochure090125.pdf and https://www.isro.gov.in/Mission_PSLV_C62.html for details.

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler (Gillian Brockell/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p20#a260130p20

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Well, who puts on the head?
AVON: It will be Vila, or it will be me.
VILA: It'll be you!
AVON: [Looks at Vila and smiles] Fine. Help Soolin to get Orac outside.
SOOLIN: Where do we take Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/515

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: That's just it, none of us are sure.
VILA: But they're maintaining a standard Federation patrol pattern.
[Main drive chamber]
AVON: We can't leave what we're doing.
[Scorpio flight deck]

openflights: Openflights airport network
A network of regularly occurring flights among airports worldwide, extracted from the openflights.org dataset. Nodes represent airports, and direction of edge (i,j) indicates a regularly occurring commercial flight by a particular airline from airport i to airport j. Multiple edges may exist between a pair of airports if multiple airlines offer that flight, or if one airline offers multiple such flights each day.
This network has 3214 node…

John Phelan, Trump's Navy secretary, listed in Epstein flight logs (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/06/john-phelan-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p146#a260206p146

As NASA moves closer to launch of the #Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its #SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals: #VehicleAssemblyBuilding to Launch Pad 39B.

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I'm going to the flight deck. Get rid of him.
VILA: Eh?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/418 B7B2

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The aftermath of the first successful flight - 2.5 seconds, 12.5 meters high - of a liquid-fueled #rocket 100 years ago #OTD as photographed by Robert H. #Goddard himself in Auburn, Mass. The flight itself was neither filmed nor photographed but there is plentiful other material about the history-making experiments available, linked from https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/#Mar16 (much of it just gone up).

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CHAIRMAN: You've done well. Dispose of the body. His assets are now yours.
ENFORCER: Thank you, chairman. [Looks down at Largo's body]
[Flight deck of the Liberator]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/457 B7B5

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

One more #ArtemisII piece in https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-artemis-ii-astronauts-getting-ready-for-flight-to-far-side-of-the-moon-60-minutes-transcript/ (13-minutes video and transcript) - it also highlights the renewed 'race' between SpaceX and Blue Origin for building the Artemis III lander. And falsely claims that they are the first to actually show the Blue Moon MK1: see https://www.instagram.com/p/DRVZLMkkVgO/ from last November ...

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

openflights: Openflights airport network
A network of regularly occurring flights among airports worldwide, extracted from the openflights.org dataset. Nodes represent airports, and direction of edge (i,j) indicates a regularly occurring commercial flight by a particular airline from airport i to airport j. Multiple edges may exist between a pair of airports if multiple airlines offer that flight, or if one airline offers multiple such flights each day.
This network has 3214 node…

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: So you've had some practice, then. That's a bit of luck.
TARRANT: Well not exactly. These things chuck the lot at you. Flying the real thing's nothing after one of these.
GAMBIT: Countdown eight minutes, still running.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/456

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
DAYNA: Servalan? But why should she want to help Egrorian?
TARRANT: Why should Egrorian want to see Avon?
DAYNA: You mean there could be a connection?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/96 B7B5

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

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: But not in this case. Helotrix is one of the oldest colonies and the first to gain independence from the empire.
TARRANT: Until the Federation grabbed it back. Come on Dayna.
DAYNA: Right. [They exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/100 B7B4…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: [Later. Flight deck. Vila is on watch, sleeping] Vila, come on, wake up Vila.
VILA: unh
BLAKE: That message, did you log it?
VILA: What message?
BLAKE: Well, I thought I heard a call sign numerative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/112

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Just the main ignition controls now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
AVON: One minute precisely, Doctor.
[Main drive chamber. Plaxton is still working.]
PLAXTON: Two more connections. Not long now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/434