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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

How the other 1% lives...
"No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/travel/first-class-luxury-flight-air-france-la-premiere.html

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

Very cool: a message that Jim Lowell recorded to the Artemis II crew before he died. "Welcome to my old neighborhood"!
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-crew-ready-for-lunar-flyby/

Artemis II Flight Day 6: Crew Ready for Lunar Flyby - NASA
The Artemis II crew is awake and beginning preparations for today’s lunar flyby — a first for humans since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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

“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.

This is how the landing gear is stored during flight.

Artemis II Flight Day 6: Crew Ready for Lunar Flyby (Joseph Zakrzewski/NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-crew-ready-for-lunar-flyby/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p54#a260406p54

Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/hermeus-raises-350m-to-bui…

Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters | TechCrunch
The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it's aiming to go supersonic.

The nonstop parade of luxury that is
La Première, Air France’s first-class trans-Atlantic service,
begins when a Mercedes limousine collects you from your hotel and whisks you to an exclusive entrance at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
It ends at J.F.K., when an Air France employee personally escorts you from your seat through a special customs line.
Each new indulgence seems more lavish than the one before.
The bespoke departure lounge, where you can or…

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

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/

I'm so surprised Trump's criminal mafia would try this, said absolutely no one ever.
☑️ The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.o…

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists,...

The #Moon in a perfectly fitting #easteregg shape in the live stream #ArtemisII right now. Two new updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/04/artemis-ii-flight-day-4-crew-completes-manual-piloting-demonstration/ and just in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/05/artemis-ii-flight-day-5-crew-starts-day-with-suit-demo/

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. 🌍
…

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.

Was checking whether my flight would be delayed, saw it’s the same plane continuing on to London. Maybe they’ll just let me sit quietly in my seat the entire time?

“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.

„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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Joni Mitchell:
🎵 This Flight Tonight
#JoniMitchell
https://undercoverpresents.bandcamp.com/track/this-flight-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bpXQ5CZ9rzAaGUSPKzI1r

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.

"Reducing aircraft soot might not actually reduce the climate effects of contrails"
#Aviation #Emissions #Climate

Reducing aircraft soot might not actually reduce the climate effects of contrails
Reducing aircraft soot emissions may not reduce contrail clouds, according to in-flight observations of emissions from a passenger jet with modern "lean-burn" engines, reported in Nature. Contrails from aircraft contribute to the climate-warming impacts of aviation. The findings demonstrate that more work is needed to understand and reduce the climate impact of jet engine emissions.

The Vegas Sphere celebrating the Artemis II lunar flyby today. NASA actually gave them the 3D spacecraft models to match the real-life flight path.
Don't care if you aren't a space fan.
Don't care if you don't like Vegas.
You gotta admit... this is f'ing cool.
#vegas #sphere

Every time I check-in to an Icelandair flight, some piece of information is missing (usually passport, often the known traveler number), but today, my contact info was scrambled. The phone number they have for me is my emergency contact’s number! Are they just vibe coding their app over there?

🇺🇦 #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

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

The FAA's "Temporary" Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE (Sophia Cope/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260404/p2#a260404p2

Why is it called the Super Bowl? How Lamar Hunt's toy-inspired idea named the NFL's biggest game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-is-it-called-super-bowl-…

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

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

Can't remember if I posted this or not so...
Here's The Sphere in Las Vegas with actual NASA graphics of the Artemis II along with the real flight path of the vehicle around the Moon.
To think I just saw The Eagles perform there a few days ago... 😁
#artemis2 #thesphere

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…

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

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

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 Let's Get It On (Flight Facilities Remix)
#MarvinGaye
https://junglepressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/marvin-gaye-lets-get-it-on-misha-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/627teoJpK7qZOxRRY8TNnv

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…

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

„Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“: VR-Modus für Playstation VR2 erscheint bald
Simfans mit Playstation VR2 haben Grund zur Freude: Der VR-Modus für „Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024“ erscheint voraussichtlich schon nächste Woche.

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

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-…

Having a quiet day at home today. Brother has departed for the airport and a flight home. Just my wife and I sitting here with the radio on, for a change, while I catch up on some journaling. I’m cooking a roast Lamb dinner later this afternoon.

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

Went to the new Capital Brewing Lager House in the new East Trading Hall (which I think used to be Anzac Park East). I had the steak frites, which was pretty good with a nice smokey flavour and tarragon butter. The only slight let-down was the packet gravy (which just tastes of salt, MSG, corn starch and Parisian brown) - but the steak's good with the butter and you can drown your chips in the gravy. Their house lager's pretty acceptable too. The building is still a little incomplete…

Über den Nachfolger von Kristi Noem

We called up the former congressman, who told us about an AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel in August 2015 that he remembered about 40 members attending, plus many spouses. Among those spouses was his wife, KATHLEEN “KAPPY” TROTT.

At this point, he handed the phone over to Kappy. She told us about the flight to Israel, which was hampered by layovers and delays. Though they were promised a quick shower in the hotel upon arriving, that schedule w…

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/116339246045226400
'The region’s dense network of short-haul routes, typically under 100 miles, aligns closely with the operational range and efficiency profile of today’s electric aircraft, making Scotland a natural first market for commercial electric flight at scale.'

⛔️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…

Ready to see some flightless birds take flight (metaphorically, of course)? Episode 12 of Penguins on Tour is officially live! 🐧✨
#bulgaria #movingtobulgaria #lufthansa

I’ve lived in Northern and Central NJ since 1977. I grew up driving by Newark Airport on the Turnpike, watching the planes pass over so low. And now it’s happened.
United Airlines flight strikes light pole on the NJ Turnpike
#ewr #united

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

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)

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

#photography #birds #bird #heron

Amazing that the guy running the Art Institute of Chicago got drunk, took a bunch of pills, and took off his clothes on a flight to Munich last year but was still allowed to return to the museum where he is plotting to demolish the Sullivan Stock Exchange Trading Room for a monument to himself.

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!

Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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Labour government's malign inflexibility.
British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules | Passport Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/19/uk-schoolgirl-strande…

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.

The Guardian wants to hear from British dual nationals who've not been permitted to board flight, ferry or train.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/25/british-dual-nationals-have-you-been-prevented-from-t…

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
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Flight and hotel booked for @… (grabbed tickets a bit ago). See some of y'all in May!

So Secretary of Transportation Duffy has gotten another 2 people killed playing bumper plane.
Duffy and potus really like getting people killed.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-laguardia-airport-air-canada-collision-6a3c…

New York's LaGuardia Airport closes after crash on runway
Two people were killed and several others injured when an Air Canada regional jet struck a fire truck on the runway while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The collision late Sunday killed the pilot and copilot, who were both based out of Canada. Authorities say around 40 passengers and crew members aboard the flight were hospitalized, some with serious injuries. Two Port Authority employees who were traveling in the fire truck also were injured. The flight originated at Montréal-Pier…

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

New England Patriots’ Plane Ferried Americans Back From Middle East https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/world/middleeast/new-england-patriots-plane-middle-east.html

Are you planning flying in the coming months? Consider train...
"The executive director of the International Energy Agency, said there would be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies from the Middle East were not restored within the coming weeks.
KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, said on Thursday it would cut 160 flights in the coming month because of high kerosene jet fuel prices."

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

Mass drone attack hits Russia's Krasnodar region, causing Sochi flight delays and a fire at the Novorossiysk oil terminal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/mass-drone-attack-hits-russias.html

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

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

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

And so the fun begins… Air Canada delays my return flight home today from #IETF125 in Tokyo by an hour…
——
Your flight AC4 to Vancouver is delayed because a mechanical issue on an earlier flight caused the scheduled aircraft to arrive late. It will now depart at 18:35. We apologize and are working to get you on your way.

Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-leo-shows-off-in-flight-wi-fi-antenna-that-will-take-on…

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

Artemis II Flight Update:
Crew and Ground Teams Successfully Troubleshoot Orion’s Toilet
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/

#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/

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

Next Flight! Ravens unveil new uniforms ahead of start of new era in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/next-flight-ravens-unveil-new-uniforms-ahead-of-start-of-new-era-in-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lefty's Deceiver:
🎵 January's Flight
#LeftysDeceiver
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JmlXKti94Ezkzu6N87DOi

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza,
a Babson College freshman,
declined to board a Trump administration flight on February 27 from Honduras
after being told she could be detained and deported again despite a judge ordering her return to the US
https://reut.rs/4aHKF1P

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Sean Wolcott:
🎵 Flight of the Capricorn
#SeanWolcott
https://seanwolcott.bandcamp.com/track/flight-of-the-capricorn
https://open.spotify.com/track/4K9jACyLZKW8eoWv2H1lpJ

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…

2:31 p.m. Eastern
NASA’s Artemis II crew members are boarding the agency’s Orion spacecraft to begin communication checks to confirm voice links with mission control and onboard systems. 
Before entering the spacecraft that will be their home on the approximately 
10-day journey around the Moon and back,
all four crewmates signed the inside of the White Room, an area at the end of the crew access arm that provides access to the spacecraft.
The term “White Room” d…

LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA
Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. All times are Eastern.

Army suspends Kid Rock helicopter flyby crews from flight duties; Trump weighs in (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/kid-rock-army-helicopter-suspended.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260331/p146#a260331p146

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

Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies,
the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview,
warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called
“the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,”
stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital suppl…

AP Exclusive: Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns
The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left. In an interview Thursday, Fatih Birol told The Associated Press of his concerns about possible flight cancellations if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. He described the situation as the largest energy crisis ever, with potential significant global repercussions. The Strait of Hormuz closure affects oil, gas, and other vital supplies. Birol predicts higher gasoline, natural gas, a…

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.

Federal officials order flight cuts at Chicago O'Hare to reduce airport delays (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/federal-officials-order-flight-cuts-at-chicago-ohare-to-reduce-airport-delays-00878291
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p54#a260417p54

United flight 2092 took off from Chicago O’Hare airport and had been en route to LaGuardia airport in New York.
The plane diverted to Pittsburgh international airport as a result of the reported threat.
Passengers exited the aircraft via slides, a United spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Video posted online by the ABC News affiliate in Pittsburgh, WTAE, showed a United jet at the airport with its emergency slides deployed.
FBI agents and bomb technicians respo…

U.S. Flight Attendants Demand Pay for TSA to Keep Airports Secure, Not Create Havoc with ICE (John Perry/Association of Flight Attendants-CWA)
https://afacwa.org/pay_tsa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p51#a260322p51

Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon,
as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman.
Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce
⚠️at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back o…

Japan, the Philippines and the United States held joint military drills near the Bashi Channel -- the waterway between the Philippines and Taiwan, for the first time earlier this week.
The naval and aerial exercises were conducted under the framework of the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA), and ran from Feb. 20 through Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Maritime Self-Defense Force took part in the drills, deploying a P-3C patrol aircraft for flight training alongside the…