Tootfinder

Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi in New York, alleging Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Jack Morphet/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

David Hook on why many of these crypto projects started in Australia: "export control laws only affected tangible items", "if I had a copy of BouncyCastle on CD when getting on a flight, I would have missed that flight"
#BouncyCastle #OpenSSL

A 19-year-old walked through Helsinki airport in April 2026 carrying two 2TB hard drives and a ticket to Japan.
He couldn’t make that flight.
Finnish police stopped him on an Interpol Red Notice, and by July, US prosecutors had unsealed a federal complaint identifying him as Peter Stokes,
an alleged member of the Scattered Spider hacking group, wanted over a May 2025 breach of a US luxury jewelry retailer that ended in an $8 million ransom demand.
No, we haven’t sudde…

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

Academic idea of an open access conference:
You have to pay £££ to attend online or in-person, even if you are one of the speakers (actually you'll often have to pay more then), and often can only talk if you travel to it in-person (even if that means a transatlantic flight, etc), and have to pay for your own travel and accommodation. You can however read a PDF about a talk for free. The PDF will have been written before the event started.
What it should mean:
Speakers …

Today's mentor pilot has a 'fun' UI problem in a flight calculation tool as a major part of the believed problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5QpS0sZVf0

This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…

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

FlightAware withdraws its lawsuit against Kalshi, a day after it alleged Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Sumedha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/f

Selma Blair Arrested, Attacks Flight Crew In Mid-Air (TMZ.com)
https://www.tmz.com/2026/10/12/selma-blair-arrested-after-attacking-flight-crew/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261012/p83#a261012p83

Who the heck wants to spend 24 hours in Economy, or even trapped in a small metal box?
Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/0022247/qantas-p…

Cowboys LB Earns Surprise Flight Home With Owner Jerry Jones https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-private-flight-shemar-james/

ICE, CBP, Bryan Bedford (head of FAA), SecDef kegsbreath & potus can't stop killing Americans:
"…horrifying incident…in May…small…medevac aircraft carrying 2 pilots & 2 medical workers…became…victim of an electronic warfare exercise…which rendered their navigational system inoperable.
…crew ran straight into…side of…mountain they likely never saw…It's…1st known instance where military GPS jamming played…role in downing a civilian plane in US airspace."

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-exquisite-feathered-dinosaur-in-china-could-rewrite-the-evolution-of-flight

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…

Falls ihr wie ich verpasst habt, wie erfolgreich wir in #Deutschland sind:
Am Samstag hat die erste in Deutschland gebaute Rakete von Isar Aerospace den Weltraum erreicht.
Gibt es mehr gute Nachrichten gegen den Sachsen-Anhalt Montagsblues?

History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.

Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/poseidon-aerospace…

Exclusive: Poseidon Aerospace lands $60 million ahead of first pilotless test flight | TechCrunch
The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

Avoid booking a #flight via #myTrip:
We got an online roundtrip offer for GRZ-BER for reasonable 180€ (same price compared to other offers) and at the very last process step (after entering all personal details incl. credit card) the price was changed to almost 4000€ for some reasons. 😯
This looks …

Sources: Trump left a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8 on a smaller plane amid an Iranian assassination threat, leaving journalists on Air Force One as a "decoy" (Washington Post)

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

Delta flight 215 #DL215 #DAL215 Rome to Atlanta turned around mid-Atlantic and is diverting to Dublin.
Probably nothing, but it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

"Our demands must be clear: i) US troops, weapons and nukes out of Britain, ii) Britain out of Nato, iii) end British bases abroad."
US flight from RAF Fairford: let’s finish the job and make it permanent | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/art…

For Trump, Secret Flight Was a Stunning Ruse. For Putin, 'a Regular Tuesday.' (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/europe/trump-flight-putin-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260812/p134#a260812p134

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…

Two strangers next to me on a plane have been talking at full restaurant volume since they sat down, and they’re still going 2 hours into the flight. It’s an early morning flight. Nobody else on this plane is talking. All I can think is that the people lack empathy and situational awareness. And I can’t listen to anything too soft, or I can hear their voices through my very good noise-cancellation headphones that have finally met their match.

@… got me good, today.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W / RP2350 64*64 LED panel. Embedded #Swift.
Here’s AC432 setting up for landing at YUL.
Project:

#Uno about to take flight

🚄 In two weeks i am going from #Nuremberg to #Birmingham by train. It is 12 hours compared to a direct flight with 9 hours, including first leg to airport and waiting-time and last leg to destination.
It is my first time on a

Niners arrive in Melbourne after 15-hour flight, to spend week acclimating before Rams game https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-arrive-melbourne-historic-nfl-game-rams

Happy #StarTrekDay everyone! I'm not really doing anything special to observe it, although I did visit the Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center this past weekend and bought a cap, so in the event one considers NASA to be a predecessor of Starfleet, then there's that.

#ScribesAndMakers O7: Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.
Oft the frost turns soft earth to crystal under mist
All things edge white; grey wings of geese against the light
Sigh without cease in their long flight
At the sun's waning.
Mind you:
1: It doesn't include the word goose;
2: It's such a mess of internal rhy…

Which Trump Officials Joined Him on His Secret Flight Out of Turkey? (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-secret-flight-passengers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260812/p135#a260812p135

"Europe’s electric flight era could begin within four years"
#Europe #Aviation #Aeroplanes

Europe’s electric flight era could begin within four years | The Optimist Daily
Electric aircraft could serve a quarter of Europe’s routes by 2030, starting with island hops that trains can never replace.

We take for granted the marvels of being able to fly. What has become a commercialized commodity used to be something extraordinary. I can take a flight across a body of water and be in the United Kingdom in about 8 hours.

Can you imagine the luck?
My friend David in Aberdeenshire managed to take a photo capturing one of the swallows flying past his window!
#FensterFreitag

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

a good day for this oldie:
Flight Brigade - Smoke & Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8znHNUAOu0
More at:
https://www.flightb…

The Hairbrush
Barbara Keating was 72 when American Airlines Flight 11 carried her into the North Tower. She had spent the summer on Cape Cod visiting her grandchildren, and she was flying home to Palm Springs....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/07/the-hairbrush/

Four more #dragonfly pictures. #photography #nature

SpaceX launches their rockets over the Gulf of Mexico. They print "Gulf of America" on their maps.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

"Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather," SpaceX xeeted minutes ago: "A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship’s heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won't be possible with today's weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal for a Friday attempt." #Starship

""Dig into our two biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and the potential methods to alleviate this common travel headache.
--
After hours of delay, your flight is finally boarding. But as the line grinds to a halt, you can’t help but think — there must be a faster way to board this plane. Mathematicians have been studying this problem for years, devising and testing a range of different boarding methods. Rachel Yang digs into our biggest plane-loading bottlenecks and potent…

Pigeons lock their eyes in place during flight https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(26)00669-X multisensory alignment

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.…

Done at the Technolution SI/PI seminar and nowhere to be until my flight Sunday morning.
Currently planning to catch a train to Den Haag mid morning tomorrow, check into my hotel, get a rental bike, then ??
A visit to revspace seems pretty definite on Saturday, time uncertain. Might pop by Friday too depending on people's availability.

The Federal Aviation Administration has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence platform
to support air traffic management in the Washington DC area.
The system, known as SMART,
short for Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories,
is designed to analyze vast streams of operational and weather data and recommend strategies to reduce bottlenecks before they ripple across the network.
Federal transportation materials released in June 2026 d…

New AI Tool Targets Flight Delays at Washington DC Airports
A new FAA artificial intelligence platform is debuting at major Washington DC airports, aiming to predict congestion earlier and cut cascading flight delays nationwide.

Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/117036492666452904

Sony Pictures TV suspends Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton, sources say after a passenger complained to a flight attendant about him on a flight in May (TMZ.com)
https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/01/jim-thornton-suspended/

I'm watching Elementary 1x06 "Flight Risk" #Elementary

Flight Risk
Joan is invited to dinner with Sherlock's father. Meanwhile, Sherlock investigates the crash of a small jet, unraveling a mystery beyond a simple accident.

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…

Anyone tried to upgrade zvault with it ?
Install — FreeCORE
#truenas #zvault

Install — FreeCORE
How to get FreeCORE 15.0: the in-place upgrade path from TrueNAS CORE 13.3, and a pre-flight check that replays the configuration migration in your browser.

Me, walking into South Station right off a Lisbon-Boston flight: Why yes, Joey Bats, why yes I have. (And for those in the area, Silver Star Bakery in Providence makes terrific ones. With a grandma barking out instructions in Portuguese and everything.)

Flying home from Vienna on a direct flight to Montreal, I decided to check my normal carryon because I was already checking a bag and… who really cares about laundry, right??
And then a guy at a gate restaurant knocks over a full pint of beer right onto my pant leg!😱🤦‍♂️
Could use that laundry now! 🤣
Ah, well… just bringing a little bit more of Austria home with me!

Hawaiian Airlines should rename themselves to "Audio Announcement in Progress" because this is the dialog passengers see no fewer than 20 times a flight - interrupting TV/movies, meals, sleep, etc.
And it's rarely safety-related. The mid-flight Hawaiian Air Miles Credit Card pitch is the icing on the cake.
#hawaiianairlines

But you who live on dreams, you are better pleased with the sophistical
reasoning and frauds of talkers about great and uncertain matters than
those who speak of certain and natural matters, not of such lofty nature.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Codex on the Flight of Birds"

seen on a telephone pole down the street

"Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’"
#Birds #SocialMedia #Animals #Nature

Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’
Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world

Snap installing updates automatically is cool and all until you try to use your computer on in-flight wifi. ✈️
#Linux #Snap

More #DH2026 travel tips - you need an arrival card even if on UK etc passport. Do it online or ask on the flight.
The bus from the airport to Daejeon / Daejeoncheongsa was easy to find. Looks like it runs regularly.
Google Translate with pre-downloaded Korean and translating photos also helps!

What a fascinating job:
"His company’s historians had already spent a fortnight doing a detailed risk assessment of the site, drawing on historical documents showing the Luftwaffe’s flight paths and local records of airstrikes. From this, they’d worked out that it was highly likely there were two bombs buried somewhere on the building site."
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb | Defence policy | The Guardian

‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking

And this was in the "secure" area. If highly trained #ICE agents (/s) make this mistake, (choose you own ending for this sentance_
ICE agent’s gun found in SFO bathroom | The San Francisco Standard
https://

ICE agent’s gun found in SFO bathroom
A flight attendant found the weapon a day before agents arrested a Ukrainian woman at the airport in a viral incident.

And this was in the "secure" area. If highly trained #ICE agents (/s) make this mistake, (choose you own ending for this sentance_
ICE agent’s gun found in SFO bathroom | The San Francisco Standard
https://

ICE agent’s gun found in SFO bathroom
A flight attendant found the weapon a day before agents arrested a Ukrainian woman at the airport in a viral incident.

“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:        
And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught                        
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light”
(Edward FitzGerald and the Rubšiyšt of Omar Khayyšm, 1st edition 1859)
#Poetry #Translation

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).

Kyle Shanahan, 49ers 'fired up' to play in Australia despite losing L.A. 'home game' vs. Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/kyle-shanahan-49ers-fired-up-australia-home-game-rams

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Flamingosis:
🎵 Flight of the Flamingo
#Flamingosis
https://flamingosis1.bandcamp.com/track/flight-of-the-flamingo
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kxdhm3wBYsPvoiCpzHgLX

ICYMI: "The thirteenth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 23. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. CT." So says https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13

From Flight Logs to Atmospheric Science: Paragliders as Convection Sensors for Identifying Thermal Predictors
C\'esar Hern\'andez-Aguayo, Matthieu Cristelli, Michael Benzaquen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00241

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…

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…

They just closed the boarding door on my flight and the background music playing over the PA is a piano arrangement of "the rains of castamere".
Should I be worried? I'm not flying to a wedding so it's proobably fine

Sony Pictures TV fires Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton after an investigation into photos allegedly showing him in a "disturbing chat room" on a flight (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/wheel-of-fort…

'Wheel of Fortune' Announcer Jim Thornton Fired by Sony
Wheel of Fortune' announcer Jim Thornton has been fired by Sony Pictures TV after allegations of wrongdoing.

@…
https://www.byteseu.com/2283727/

Swedish electric plane maker eyes demonstration flight in Iceland - Bytes Europe
The X1 demonstrator aircraft in flight (Heart Aerospace)

Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn't like other secret presidential trips (Will Weissert/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-secret-flight-turkey-iran-threats-d23a6454d1410cc8461368007db6ca25
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p125#a260811p125

A protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot could drastically cut the radiation exposure of lunar astronauts during severe solar storms.
Scientists reported Wednesday on the radiation-shielding vest worn around the moon by a female test dummy in 2022.
No one was aboard that Artemis I debut flight, which paved the way for humanity’s long-awaited return to the moon in April by a flyby crew of four.
Radiation remains one of the biggest threats to a…

Radiation vest tested during Artemis I can cut astronauts' exposure in solar storms, study suggests
A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA's first Artemis moonshot could slash the radiation exposure of lunar astronauts during severe solar storms. Scientists reported Wednesday on the radiation-shielding vest worn around the moon by a female test dummy named Zohar in 2022. No one was aboard that Artemis I debut flight, which paved the way for actual astronauts to return to the moon in April. Radiation remains one of the biggest threats as NASA works toward a moon…

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

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (Alexander Gladstone/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/bankruptcy/spirit-

Two days before your flight is the *perfect* time to discover the laptop you planned to present on doesn't actually have libreoffice installed.
Better now than the day of.

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

Following the success of its small-lift vehicle, Electron,
Rocket Lab is developing its partially reusable Neutron vehicle.
The medium-lift rocket features a radical design on its fairing halves, which are usually expended or collected by vessels with other launchers.
The company’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” fairings are permanently attached to the first stage of Neutron,
and open during flight to deploy the second stage.  
This concept completely removes the need…

NFL Network: George Kittle, Nick Bosa traveling with 49ers to Australia ahead of Rams opener https://www.nfl.com/news/george-kittle-nick-bosa-traveling-49ers-australia-injuries-rams

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

Some screencaps of the #Starship 13 test flight, more in the thread https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mrgigiliy22r - the Starship itself has performed flawlessly so far, deploying 20 doomed Starlink satellites and relighting an engine, but the booster lit only 5 instead of 13 engines and crashed harder into the Gulf of Mexico than planned.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.
h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social
#Ukraine #russia

#SilentSunday

US citizen detained by ICE at Atlanta Airport as he boarded flight (Ashlyn Webb/WSB-TV)
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-atlanta-airport-he-boarded-plane/S67XCCONANCJDIGQPXYUCMBW5E/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p80#a260811p80

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…

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…

The departure of the latest #Starship as seen from the booster falling behind - a rotated still from the clip https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080826996490199070 released after the flight.

SpaceX has sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth’s orbit for the first time.
The rocket, the largest and most powerful ever built, blasted off from SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Texas at 7.48am local time marking its 14th test flight and first attempt to circle the planet before falling back to Earth.
Despite an engine failure on ascent that threatened to prevent Starship from reaching orbit, mission controllers decided it was safe to press ahead with a burn that push…

‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time
Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attempt

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

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

The CIA director, John Ratcliffe,
has made an unannounced visit to Moscow,
Flight data showed an American military aircraft flew to the Russian capital, where a US diplomatic motorcade was later spotted.
The Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had asked Kyiv to pause its long-range strikes on major Russian cities during the course of the visit.
There was no immediate comment from the CIA or the White House.
The reason for the visit is unclear …

CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly on Moscow visit
Unannounced trip reported by US media is said to be Ratcliffe’s first known visit to Russia as CIA chief

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/10/trump-flew-secrecy-amid-iran-threat-air-force-one-became-decoy/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg2MzM0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg3NzE2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzMzQ0MDAsImp0aSI6ImY0MjRjZTk4LWE3MDEtNDAyMi05NTJkLWJhYmViYzg4Y2YzMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzA4LzEwL3RydW1wLWZsZXctc2VjcmVjeS1hbWlkLWlyYW4tdGhyZWF0LWFpci1mb3JjZS1vbmUtYmVjYW1lLWRlY295LyJ9.M0w-VQFbZY25xn9yTcgiUtrNjsO41243KW2sPEdNdvc&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p121#a260810p121

Man Gets Duct Taped to Seat on Flight After Allegedly Making Racist and Anti-Gay Remarks (TMZ.com)
https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/04/man-gets-duct-taped-on-american-airlines-flight/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260904/p117#a260904p117

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…

We seek to develop small lighter-than-air vehicles (“aerobots”)
that can be deployed
as-needed by a larger spacecraft
for entering and navigating caves.
To provide omnidirectional maneuverability and minimize downwash, we propose distributed electrohydrodynamic propulsors (“atmospheric ion thrusters”),
which are both completely solid-state and virtually silent.
Electrohydrodynamic thrust is not ideal for power-autonomous flight on Earth.
In favora…

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…

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…

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…