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One Simple Food Swap Could Cut Carbon Emissions As Much as a Flight Across Europe
https://scitechdaily.com/one-simple-food-swap-could-cut-carbon-emissions-as-much-as-a-flight-across-europe/

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today
— the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way
— during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT.
It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.
You can watch Starship Flight 13 live at Space.com,; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.
S…

SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest rocket, on critical Flight 13 test today. Here's what to expect.
Liftoff is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. ET today (July 16).

The Date of #Eilmer of Malmesbury’s Flight: https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag066/8671576 (about a guy allegedly doing gliding flight experiments - and observing Halley's comet - a millennium ago) -> Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-a-medieval-flying-monk-spot-halleys-comet-twice-its-complicated/ - yeah, right, because the sources are ... tenuous at best.

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06)
Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

I was scanning the headlines this morning for pictures of the Musk Starship's latest big bang and disassembly, but there wasn't anything. Seemingly launch was cancelled at the last possible moment and no new launch date set.
What's happened to "move fast and break things"?
https://www.…

Yes. It is real. He actually posted it.
(Context: Blue Angels, US Navy precision flight team, flew above beachgoers in Florida and jet wash, the kinetic energy of flight, hit the beachgoers. The flyover is in violation of the law, Navy policy and basic understanding of pilot responsibility for anyone older than 5.)
The flyover: https://yout…

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

To better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS.
Part of the national Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
https://www.

Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology of eastern North Dakota
RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey plans low-level airplane flights over eastern North Dakota and small nearby areas of Minnesota and South Dakota to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will begin in early June and will continue into the fall, weather and other flight restrictions permitting.

🇺🇦 #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

Playing some Gunvalkyrie for a gameclub. It is quite a bizarre game - but the most bizarre thing is the early 3D controls. Thankfully, you can remap them on a modern Xbox, so my dash button is now A instead of L3 and Y is flipped for right stick camera so left stick doesn’t do regular while right stick does flight mode. It was a rough combo. Slight tweaks to controls would have made this game so much better out of the box.

from my link log —
Rain of Fire Falling: The crash of American Airlines flight 191.
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/rain-of-fire-falling-the-crash-of-american-airlines-flight-191-e17ffc5369e5
saved 202…

Rain of Fire Falling: The crash of American Airlines flight 191
Corner-cutting at American Airlines leads to a spectacular crash at Chicago O’Hare, killing 273 in America’s worst air disaster.

Boarding a plane in Montreal for a direct flight to Vienna to participate in #IETF126 for the next week! Starting with the Hackathon this weekend where I will be working with the Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) - https://ofds.info/

Home — Open Fibre Data Standard

NASA has selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well as astronauts in space: #DAPHNE (Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer) mission will enter Phase B of development, which includes planning and design for flight and mission operations

United Airlines Offers Free Flight Changes for Passengers Avoiding Trump-Named Airport https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/united-airlines-offers-free-flight-changes-for-passengers-avoiding-trumpnamed-airport.php

So I know I’ve mentioned Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) “rewatching” the 2003 “Battlestar Galactica” for the first time (she’s never seen the show)
In this latest episode (season 1 finale), after the watch, she tries to put on Starbucks flight suit…which she has really failed to store well* 😂
https://youtu.be/J25PrOUWEPc

Ever wondered what classic rock would sound like if someone just absolutely went for it with no restraint whatsoever? This week #TheNightFlightOrchestra answer that question, and then some.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it. Don't forget to follow us as we shine a spotlight on one awesome track from across the world of

The Night Flight Orchestra - Midnight Flyer
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Aviation / flight sim geeks: There's plenty of flight sims focused on fixed wing airline flying, combat, etc.
But are there any for more technical / specialized operations? I'm picturing "DCS for wildland firefighting and SAR" where you get to pilot a rotary or fixed wing water attack aircraft, land on a lake to refill then dump it on the flank of a fire, hover above a rocking ship to lower a rescue swimmer to it (maybe the latter being a team game with NPC or players…

A trip to remember: Patriots' Caleb Lomu arrives f... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48707492/new-england-patriots-first-round-pick-caleb-lomu-flight-boston-uncle-pilot

United Airlines Flight 169 hits light pole into bakery truck while landing at Newark Airport.
https://abc7ny.com/amp/post/united-flight-strikes-light-pole-landing-newark-airport/19030820/

K2 Airways flight KTA1732,
a Boeing 737-400 cargo plane is reported missing
approximately 155 nautical miles
WSW off Karachi, Pakistan.
ADS-B data indicate that the flight departed Sharjah Airport (SHJ) at 15:02 UTC on a flight to Karachi (KHI). It climbed to FL350.
At 16:17 UTC the flight began a right-hand turn climbing, which transitioned into a descent of about 5600 feet, followed by a 7200 feet climb and another descent.
Sources said the crew repor…

Accident Boeing 737-4M0 (BDSF) AP-BOI, Tuesday 7 July 2026
K2 Airways flight KTA1732, a Boeing 737-400 cargo plane is reported missing approximately 155 nautical miles WSW off Karachi, Pakistan. ADS-B data indicate that the flight departed Shar...

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…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-vb_-INiqSlG7UM4p8z9r0Q:a:43591897-/0
"Elevate’s Raiff previously told Fortune that he suspected the flight cancellations were driven b…

"Destroyer of worlds"
Spaceshuttle and 747 crashed.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/just-for-fun/investigators-release-preliminary-report-on-lego-747-and-space-shuttle-crash/

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M daily lifestyle services engagements (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3355850/

Order coffee, book a flight, buy a burger: Alibaba broadens Qwen’s reach
As Tencent prepares a rival WeChat agent, Alibaba is moving quickly to turn Qwen from a chatbot into a digital concierge for everyday life.

Man accused of slapping Delta flight attendant's buttocks is hit with federal charge
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5921630-man-accused-of-slapping-delta-flight-attendants-buttocks-is-hit-with-federal-charge/

The Alaska airlines mobile app and website have been like this for days; it seems like they use auth0 under the hood. The subreddit is filled with reports so not just me. If it's not fixed by my flight Saturday I guess I'm going old school paper the whole way.

“I'll be marveling at the way a tournament intended to highlight our feudal national borders instead can't help but highlight every player whose mom is from one country and dad is from another but they were born in Brooklyn because of a flight regulation issue and now they play for a different third team because that's how the world has always worked.”
YES! Amen to that post. I could quote the entire thing.

Holy fucking shit, I just looked at airline flight prices for the first time in months.
#IranWar #FuelPrices #FuckTrump

Apparently this is the first time the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team has packed a microbiology lab into iM3075s and set up elsewhere.
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/15/lab-in-a-bag-how-we-took-di…

Lab in a Bag: How we took diagnostics to the other side of the world during the hantavirus outbreak – UK Health Security Agency
Last week, 3 of our colleagues packed a fully functioning laboratory into a set of flight cases and boarded a plane to one of the most remote islands on Earth. Saint Helena, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic

#Ariane 6 flight VA269 – bigger and more powerful boosters (Official broadcast) from 11:20 UTC today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f457U82D6EY (see https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Watch_live_bigger_booster_more_powerful_Ariane_6_launch for more).

„Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“ mit Playstation VR2: Was taugt der VR-Modus?
Die PS5-Version von „Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“ unterstützt jetzt Playstation VR2. Der VR-Modus offenbart im Praxistest Höhen und Tiefen.

Haven't had time to blog about it, but I've released a set of skills I use every day to resolve bugs and feed my RDR process with complex features or debt. I pushed them to this repo, ymmv.
https://github.com/cwensel/kata-flight

GitHub - cwensel/kata-flight: Claude Code and Codex plugin for repeatable kata issue shipping with roborev review and optional RDR planning.
Claude Code and Codex plugin for repeatable kata issue shipping with roborev review and optional RDR planning. - cwensel/kata-flight

Take Flight
Hosts informative, candid, and in-depth chats with pivotal figures who are transforming Australian hip-hop into a truly global proposition...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/take-flight/

Why is Air Force One landing at Andrews on a JFK to Paris flight plan?
#af1 #adw #jfk #cdg

"Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Trains

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/almost-half-of-eus-busiest-…

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/almost-half-of-eus-busiest-…

It always bugs me how Jack Ryan mansplains turbulence to the flight attendant.
https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/if-do-try-get-some-sleep/

⚡ Concurrent duplicate protection via #Laravel atomic locks — first request acquires lock, duplicate in-flight requests receive 409 Conflict Retry-After: 1 header
📋 Distinct HTTP responses for different failure modes: 400 = missing header, 422 = key reused with different data, 409 = duplicate in-flight request still processing
🔍 Artisan commands for ops: idempotency:list to insp…

Trump gets right in reporter’s face on flight from China and calls him ‘treasonous’ over Iran question | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reporter-treasonous-iran-war-b2977334.html

And in #Starship 13 update: "To be confident of a good flight, 2 Raptors will be removed & replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week."

ICYMI, the @… CFP is up through the end of the month. We've had a number of solid submissions but want more! Speaker package, including flight to Austin and hotel for folks who need those, applies as in previous years.
https://

Longhorn PHP Conference CFP
Call for Presenters for Longhorn PHP Conference

Ukraine has used a balloon to launch a strike drone using very little battery, evading russian air defenses and placing the drone 8km (~27067 ft) up and 42km (~25 miles) down range before powering up its own propulsion.
source: https://xcancel.com/visionergeo/status/2057129294980…

2 years after the stratospheric flight of #SunriseIII, first results are released today in a #SunriseIIIFocusIssue in The Astrophysical Journal Letters:

Second time this year that my flight got cancelled and I get rebooked on a later flight that ultimately arrives sooner due to routing.
I consider myself slightly stressed but rather lucky.
#traveling

A lucky find in my local #book store: the anthology "Flight or Fright" with new and classic stories to work on your fear of flying.
#reading

As far as I can tell, United Airlines doesn't have any public #IPv6 space.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networkin

How United Airlines solved IP exhaustion with Private NAT Gateway | Amazon Web Services
United Airlines, a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, moves over 181 million passengers annually across a global route network. When severe weather grounds flights or air traffic control issues cascade across the network, United Airlines needs every system to scale instantly, rebooking passengers, reassigning crews, reprocessing flight data. But with hundreds of AWS […]

"Private industry is much more efficient and faster than NASA"
Time from first concept to first operational flight:
- Saturn V: ~11 years (1957–1968)
- Space Shuttle: ~13 years (1968–1981)
- SLS: ~14 years (2012–2026)
- SpaceX Starship: 21 years (2005–?, no operational flight yet)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city (Gillian Brockell)
https://gillianbrockell.com/habeas-flight-watch-new-tool-helps-track-ice-flights-to-your-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p30#a260529p30

#potd A "black redstart" getting a snack during flight training in our courtyard. https://domm.plix.at/potd/2026-06-02.html

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06)
Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Amazing video of a blind passenger during a flight:
Remove #cat before flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8mdH20qTQ
Read the

Ukrainian cadets complete RAF flight training in UK — now moving to jet aircraft instruction - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/09/ukrainian-cadets-complete-raf-flight-training-in-uk-now-moving-to-jet-aircraft-instruction/

Times flies
#WristCheck #BinaryWatch #Binary

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

@… You missed the pearl-clutching in paragraphs 4-6?
“It’s become so normalised that nobody blinks an eye at the sight of people clinking glasses of prosecco at 7am, but Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has called to ban the practice.
“He claims that almost one flight a day […] is being diverted due to unruly behaviour, which mostly stems from said …

Watching with interest!
https://atlantic-explorer.com

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/116823979028172318
Our flight is literally being delayed because of security line delays. People still streaming on board a minute after our scheduled departure time. (Glad I arrived at 8:30 for a noon flight…) Quite …

interesting to compare these seat-back video displays with wikipedia’s history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-flight_entertainment … in our timeline they weren’t as good as 2001 until some years later iirc

In-flight entertainment - Wikipedia

In the continuing saga of @… geeking about #Artemis2, he shares a really cool sorta timelapse of an active Earth! It’s probably the coolest image to come out of the flight. 🌍
…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
rush2theUnknown:
🎵 Taken Flight
#rush2theUnknown
https://soulinmotion.bandcamp.com/track/taken-flight
https://open.spotify.com/track/779hroUQvwYV6yvsK2yEMo

⛔️Are fuel-related flight cancellations happening at the last minute?
In most cases, no.
At least for now, fuel-related cuts are often being made days or weeks in advance.
Lufthansa Group, for example, said this week it is cutting 20,000 short-haul flights across its network through October.
That gives you more time to adjust plans than you’d typically get with weather-related disruptions, which tend to trigger last-minute cancellations.
🆘 My flight was canceled.…

Flight canceled amid jet fuel shock? What travelers should know
Airlines around the world are canceling flights as the war in the Middle East squeezes global jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices. But experts say the real challenge for travelers goes beyond the disruptions. Passenger rights vary widely depending on where you fly. The European Union and United Kingdom have some of the strongest protections for air travelers. The U.S. and Canada have consumer protection rules in place, but they tend to be more limited. Across the Asia-Pacific region, protect…

California Gull in flight. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #seagull #bird

American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others (Leslie Josephs/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/american-airlines-spacex-starlink.html

American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes
American Airlines said it will install SpaceX's Starlink for inflight Wi-Fi on more than 500 of its airplanes.

Characterisation of a strontium cold atom source using fluorescence spectroscopy and time-of-flight
Kamran Hussain, Hamza Labiad, Anna L. Marchant, Jonathan N. Tinsley, Tristan Valenzuela, Jonathon Coleman, David Newbold, Mark G. Bason
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09604

Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal partner with Delta Air Lines to offer free WSJ access to Delta SkyMiles members using Delta's Wi-Fi (Dow Jones)
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/delta-

Delta and The Wall Street Journal Announce Multi-Year Partnership, Delivering World-Class Journalism to Passengers and Employees 
NEW YORK [July 1, 2026] – Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal today announced a multi-year, multi-faceted partnership with Delta to provide passengers and employees with seamless access to exclusive reporting, breaking news and in-depth analysis from The Wall Street Journal. Expanding its premium in-flight experience, Delta now offers SkyMiles Members direct access to […]

🎯 Where Atlas pulls ahead on core: concurrent tool execution, reasoning/thinking you can configure, stream & persist, pre-flight token counting (incl. tools & images), and batch processing at ~50% cost (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) — the last two are Atlas-only.
🤖 Agent framework: first-class agent classes, sub-agents with delegation, depth & cycle guards and lineage, plus true-parallel concurrent sub-agents via forking. Prism offers none of this layer; Laravel AI covers part…

Guess I’m staying in London for another night. Apparently there wasn’t enough crew available for the flight to Dublin.
They got me a hotel for the night but I have to travel across the city to get to it.
I’m so tired!

Heathrow: Boarding starts at 8:40. It may take up to fifteen minutes to walk to your gate. "Please allow enough time to reach your gate." It's 8:44. We're still not telling you what your gate is. May be the famous British humor.
In seriousness, I don't know any airport that announces gates this late. Is this some deal with the shops to keep people around the central concourse?
#lhr

The Swifts are back from the South! 5 days earlier than before climate change started to accelerate here.
Photo from Wikipedia; they were flying really high ;)

Being an Open Source developer is the closest I ever got to being a scientist. But at least my code has taken flight on Mars (didn't get the github badge for it, though, as the relevant project is not github hosted)

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

Seems like a lot of drones are being sighted that aren’t drones. At least they are getting reported and not ignored out of fear of reporting a UFO. Better to misreport a 1000 balloons than have one crash.
United Flight From San Francisco to San Diego Reports Drone Close Call Near Arrival https://ground.news/article/united-flight-from-san-francisco-to-san-diego-reports-drone-close-call-near-arrival_66b58a

The twelfth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 19: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2054304050338750931 - the launch window will open at 22:30 UTC.

Secret Scramble Behind Trump's Embarrassing Vanity Flight Exposed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-scramble-behind-trumps-embarrassing-vanity-flight-exposed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p30#a260713p30

Sunrise III Data Release: 2 years after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III, terabytes of data are now online and offer a unique view of our star: #Sun

Wally Funk,
aviation pioneer
and oldest woman to go into space,
dies at 87
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/wally-funk-astronaut-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87
Trailblazing pilot was denied opportunity to become Nasa astronaut but made history on Blue Origin flight in 2021

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Kuttin Edge & Fox:
🎵 Catch Flight
#KuttinEdge #Fox
https://kuttinedge.bandcamp.com/track/catch-flight-ft-fox
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VoYKIxqPmFyIHEV5Ht2yK

Alvin Kamara surprises Saints by showing up to OTAs: 'No beef or bad blood' https://www.nfl.com/news/alvin-kamara-surprises-saints-by-showing-up-to-otas-no-beef-or-bad-blood

Flights grounded for hours at D.C.-area airport due to security concerns for Iraqi leader (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dca-flight-delays-iraq-pm-trump-security/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p3#a260715p3

Kristina Knickerbocker, running to flip Ohio’s 10th Congressional District, is an Air Force veteran and nurse who worked multiple jobs to put herself through school.
Sarah Trone Garriott, running to flip Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, is a minister, a mom, and the daughter of a nurse and an auto mechanic who worked at Walmart, waited tables, and cleaned hotel rooms to pay for college.
Kaela Berg, running for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, is a union flight attendant …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
David Bowie:
🎵 African Night Flight
#DavidBowie
https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/track/symphony-no-12-lodger-iii-african-night-flight
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NXI2XNb5hQ7uOWMZ1Sxfm

On the flight to Amsterdam I saw this fire from the plane. A big fire that also hazed Amsterdam.
#fire #amsterdam #netherlands

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 Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays (Allyson Versprille/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Donald Byrd:
🎵 Flight Time
#DonaldByrd
https://meccaaudio.bandcamp.com/track/donald-byrd-flight-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XPfk40ydaHjxLcl4999Ci

A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/05/08/katalyst-wraps-testing-at-nasa-goddard-for-swift-boost-mission/ and https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone - on May 4, Katalyst Space Technologies completed environmental tests of its LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; LINK will meet up with Swift and attempt to raise its orbit.

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…

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

NSF Green Bank Observatory Shares Images, Data From #ArtemisII Mission: https://public.nrao.edu/news/there-are-4-people-in-those-pixels-nsf-green-bank-observatory-shares-images-data-from-artemis-ii-mission/ - radar signals received by world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope tracked spacecraft with NASA’s communications network for historic lunar test flight.

'Everybody is profiting':
Trump dismisses questions about more than $1 billion in crypto earnings
While fielding questions from reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota today,
Donald Trump rejected questions about the
$1.2 billion he earned from crypto businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
“We have funds that run my money well. I’ve made a lot of money before I became president,” Trump said.
“They’re big institutions…

‘Everybody is profiting’: Trump dismisses questions about over $1bn in crypto earnings – live
‘We have funds that run my money well,’ US president says. ‘I think it’s called a ‘blind account’ … I purposely I never speak to any of the people that run the money’

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…

This is only going to change travel around New York for rich people.
Joby says the price of a flight from Manhattan to JFK airport will be about the same as a “premium car service”.
What constitutes a premium car service is up for debate,
but it appears to cost a minimum of $200, compared to $11.75 on public transport.
The Joby might be quieter than a helicopter, but for now, most New Yorkers will be stuck with the subway.

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Lefty's Deceiver:
🎵 January's Flight
#LeftysDeceiver
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JmlXKti94Ezkzu6N87DOi

So far NASA hasn't released any post-flight images of the #ArtemisII heat shield (except for a weird under-water view) - but here is one, kind of, I have extracted from the series https://www.facebook.com/NavalBaseSD/posts/pfbid05mJ788QWZoVSugx81FqT9aqGMSmvdCNP9P7KQfXtc6GevGQMtCkh184xgFV3N26vl of images taken by the Naval Base San Diego during a series of precision crane lifts and movements to prepare the Orion spacecraft for its final cross-country trip to Kennedy Space Center.

This summer is shaping up to be an expensive and uncertain time to fly, especially if you’re planning a European vacation.
Volatile fuel prices because of the war in Iran are straining airlines around the globe,
but perhaps nowhere as much as in Europe,
where jet fuel supplies could run low by mid-May.
European airlines like Lufthansa and KLM have announced they are cutting flights,
and others could follow.
Carriers everywhere are increasingly passing cost…

How Jet Fuel Shortages Could Affect Summer Travel to Europe and Beyond
Facing sky-high fuel costs linked to the war in Iran, airlines are cutting routes and raising prices. European vacations are looking a lot less affordable.

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Flight of the Conchords:
🎵 Business Time
#FlightoftheConchords
https://flightoftheconchords.bandcamp.com/track/business-time-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gpF9X9AliEO6f91LJT8Ej