We regularly feature the diverse range of great missions flown by @lighthawk-org.bsky.social. However, of the unusual projects in which they have been engaged, this sets a new bar: flying endangered masked bobwhite quail destined for release in … | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.lighthawk.org/what-we-do/c...

An interesting-sounding webinar coming up Monday, December 8, 2025: « Beyond Batteries: Why Hybrid-Electric Solves What eVTOLs Can't » presented by Hangar X Studios, and featuring panelists from VerdeGo Aero, SMG Consulting, and Horizon Aircraft. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📅 📍 🌎 | 🔗 hangarxstudios.com/beyond-batte...

Based on the paper magazine emulation platforms we've come across so far, we think Joomag does the best job: nice and quick, intuitive navigation, and individual pages can be shared, as we're doing here. The folks at Northwest Aerospace News employ it: give it a try and see what you think. | 🛩️ 🥇

A great new article by Jen Boyer writing for Vertical Magazine wherein pilot Franck explains that success in the job is a combination of superior piloting skills coupled with a cinematographer’s sensibilities. It's a rare combination, explaining why there is only a handful of such pilots. | 🛩️ 🚁 🧰 🥇

Candidly, we're still more excited about the civilian applications for the EL9. However, the notion of a fleet of EL9s flying off a flat top bolted to what appears to be a repurposed oil tanker is compelling. Perhaps also for disaster relief? | 🛩️ ⚡️ ⚔️ 📹 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.electra.aero/news/electra...

With this issue, it's almost all she wrote for 2025. 💥 We kick off with Editor @terencecgannon.com enthusing about Japanese animé. He then takes a crack at the practice of directly linking press releases and then wraps up with the first annual Roy Bishop Stokes Aviation Book Christmas List. | 🛩️ 🥇

A fascinating and moving short story by author and L-19 pilot Landon Thorne, AKA « The Lowcountry Writer », about this interesting little piece of history at Savannah International Airport. Can't wait to hear more aviation-oriented stories from this talented writer. | 🛩️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇

In an era where photography was often highly staged, Fédèle Azari's images have a captivating, 'slice of life' candour. It's like travelling back in time. (📸 Fédèle Azari [1895-1930] | Digital image courtesy @gettymuseum.bsky.social's Open Content Program) | 🛩️ 🎨 🥇 | 🔗 www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

« SkyAlyne Celebrates First RCAF Acceptance of FAcT Aircraft ▫️ The CT-102B is fully aerobatic and boasts a Rolls-Royce M250-B17F turbine engine, which produces up to 456 shaft horsepower. » So, can we get our hands on one of these aerial hot rods in civvies? | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 skyalyne.ca/latest-updat...

To help mark the 🦃 holiday, we are delighted to announce renowned author Gary B. Fogel has joined our cadre of Avergreen authors. Here's his first article under our imprint « dedicated to the restoration, preservation, promotion, and distribution of the best legacy aviation literature. » | 🛩️ 🪽 🌲 🥇

One of the small cohort of companies which is capturing the home office's ongoing attention — and imagination 💭 — is REGENT out of Rhode Island. They continue to make steady progress in their development program of their unique hydrofoil/ground effect aircraft. | 🛩️ 🦆 ⚔️ ⚡️ 📹 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

We weren't aware on this day in 1940 – eighty-five years ago 😲 — the legendary DH.98 Mosquito first flew. For this reminder, we thank the People's Mosquito project, which, by the way, is building a *brand-new* Mossie. Well worth checking out. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk/2025/11/25/8...

We've been wondering what the @bas.ac.uk has been up to, of late. Turns out, we've been looking in the wrong place. 'Ice Cold Katy', one of their De Havilland Twin Otters, has been somewhere a lot warmer and a lot more humid, as described in this new 'long read' from Tabitha Taylor Buck. | 🛩️ 💺 🥇

The 2025 edition of the Recreational Aviation Foundation's photo contest has wrapped up, and this is just one example, amongst many, of the beautiful work submitted this year. Check out all the other winners with the link. (📸 Jim Stevenson | RAF) | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.theraf.org/2025-raf-pho...

An example of the outstanding collection of images of the London Gliding Club's Dunstable 'clubhouse', with thanks to the excellent staff at the Royal Institute of British Architects. (📸 Christopher 'Kit' Nicholson (1904-1948) | RIBA Collections) | 🛩️ 🪽 🎨 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.ribapix.com/search?q=Lon...

The latest news from Skyfly: in what amounts to a real feather 🪶 in their cap, Skyfly has recruited uniquely experienced test pilot Elliot Seguin to lead their US-based flight test program. If you're not already familiar with Seguin's work, they introduce him in this new press release. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 🚁 📰

Okay, this ticks ✅ a lot of boxes. (📸 LEGO) | 🛩️ 🔍 🥇

« Design and Flight Test of an Air-Launched Medical Aid Delivery Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle » by Samuel A. Cherkauer, Carson J. Karle, Evan M. Hiland, Cameron N. Brown, Isaac R. Wetherbee, Jordan P. Richert, Danielle C. McCormick, Jacob M. Sander, … | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🏫 📡 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.mdpi.com/3567564?utm_...

When BluFly was just getting started, we had Scale Model Saturday, focused on the very best, museum-quality scale aircraft models. One of the perennial stars of that was @flypastrush.bsky.social. Here's his latest blog post, and there's also a mailing list to which you can subscribe. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🔍 🥇

With weather turning distinctly wintry ❄️ here at the home office, it was delightfully cruel timing for the ADVANCE Paragliders newsletter to arrive and have it feature this 'Postcard from Hawaii'. 🌺 Some folks have all the luck. Exquisite photos and an interesting story to go with them. | 🛩️ 🪽 📍 🇺🇸 🥇

We prefer stories written in the past tense of accomplishments actually having been — well — accomplished. ✅ This announcement seems to meet that bar with uncrewed, BVLOS, cargo drone operations approaching what we might have imagined as the technology evolved over the past few years. | 🛩️ 📡 🚁 ⚡️ 📰 🥇

We've had this well-written and illustrated opinion piece from @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social on hand for some time, but it’s still relevant. What do you say? Do you think there are other aircraft that could be added to this list? Or perhaps there are some listed here that ought not to be? | 🛩️ 📍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥇

Fred is a legend for many avgeeks like us: « Creating a Community of Mentors to Support the Next Generation of Pilots ▫️ Fred North's worldwide mentoring programme connects young aviators with veteran peers to enhance safety. » (📸 Airbus Helicopters) | 🛩️ 🚁 🧰 🥇 | 🔗 www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

Highly respected, UK-based freelance journalist @markep.bsky.social has been busy again and has just published an interesting new article just out on the BBC website. His previous work includes the noteworthy 'N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia'. (📸 Outbound Aerospace) | 🛩️ 🥇

New Season of Behind The Wings® on @pbs.org: this excellent series returns for a seventh season, with complementary 'behind the scenes' podcasts, and episodes on the Hurricane Hunters and the enduring F-16. (📸 @noaa.gov | SrA A. Schwier-Morales, USAF) | 🛩️ 🎙️ 📹 ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...

From Jennifer Chu for MIT News: « [R]searchers don’t yet know how these unconventional designs might respond to lightning strikes. ¶ MIT aerospace engineers are hoping to change that with a new physics-based approach that predicts how lightning would sweep across a plane with any design … » | 🛩️ 🏫 🥇

We're total fans of meticulous restorations — keepin’ ’em flyin’ — and this looks like another one being undertaken by the Airbase Georgia of the Commemorative Air Force. A great update on a really interesting P-47 Thunderbolt project. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 commemorativeairforce.org/news/airbase...

New from Conrad Hatcher writing for Skies Magazine, a detailed, thorough, and yet very readable article on this elegant new training aircraft. (📸 Tecnam) | 🛩️ 🥇

An interesting new @darpa.mil program has just opened up: the « DARPA Lift Challenge » with $6.5M in prize money. All that's required 😉 is to have your team's drone fly one hundred and ten pounds over a five-mile circuit. (📸 Alan Clarke | DARPA) | 🛩️ 📡 ⚔️ 🏫 🥇 | 🔗 www.darpa.mil/research/pro...

The « Conservation FLYer Featured Mission » for @lighthawk-org.bsky.social this month was in pursuit of the « protection for 62,500 acres of lands in Northwestern Maine ». An interesting read about this excellent work of this group. (📸 Jake Metzler) | 🛩️ 💺 🥇 | 🔗 www.lighthawk.org/what-we-do/c...

We featured DarkAero's excellent newsletter 🗞️ last month, wherein they are sharing engineering details of their 'DarkAero 1'. Here's this month's, including a video with details of the wing centre section by President and Co-Founder Ryley Karl. | 🛩️ 📹 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

The November issue just dropped. 💥 It kicks off with an essay on remembrance appropriate for this time of year, triggered by the photo of this magnificent Lanc. Thence onwards to Avergreen, a new feature for viewing article photos and an adorable 🐸 little green frog. (📸 @goodnrg.bsky.social) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇

October seems to have unofficially become lighter-than-air month. Therefore, it's right that we should wrap it up with its most modern of incarnations, focused on improving the accuracy of weather forecasting. Windborne's co-founder, John Dean, writes at length for @spectrum.ieee.org. | 🛩️ 🎈 📡 🤖 📹 🥇

The sixth annual iteration of this cost-free, virtual event, capably presented by H₂ maven @zeroavia.bsky.social. This year's line-up of sessions and speakers looks great. 'Must attend' for all those interested in hydrogen aviation. Many more details and event registration with link. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📅 🥇

A brand new press release from LTA Research: « Pathfinder 1 Expands Flight Testing Area » wherein they are now « authorized to operate within an expanded flight envelope around the San Francisco Bay Area. » The accompanying image, below, is a stunner. | 🛩️ 🎈 ⚡️ 📰 | 🔗 ltaresearch.com/news/pathfin...

This guest editorial from Mathieu Labs, writing for the Recreational Aviation Foundation, caught our attention. Mathieu was lucky to have Grandpa Bob in his life, and we think Grandpa Bob was likely thrilled to have Mathieu as his grandson. Do you have a 'Grandpa Bob' story? | 🛩️ 🥇

We can't think of a better way to launch our recently announced, brand-new Avergreen imprint than with this great story by Jon Davison from 2016. Here's Part I of four parts featuring Jon's spectacular photography and eminently entertaining writing. Follow us for Part II, coming soon. | 🛩️ 🌲 🥇

Having kicked October off with the post below from LTA Research, it seems fitting to feature its distant ancestor as our Friday Fédèle this time. (📸 Fédèle Azari [1895-1930] | Digital image courtesy @gettymuseum.bsky.social's Open Content Program) | 🛩️ 🎈 🎨 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

Want to make a big splash for Christmas? ❄️ Attend European Rotors on November 17–20, 2025 for a copy of Jon Davison and Jude Brazendale's new book « Climb Higher ». It's being released then, and available for order shortly thereafter. | 🛩️ 🚁 📚 📰 📅 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.robinsonheli.com/press/robins...

We're pleased to formally announce our brand-new imprint dedicated to bringing back the classics. The best part? Avergreen articles feature a pristine format optimised for the human reading experience. Watch for the 🌲 emojitag in the near future, for the very best of legacy aviation writing. | 🛩️ 🥇

The results of our latest meander through the Norsk Luftfartsmuseum digital archives: we fell hard for the elegant, Mid-Century Modern lines of this Scheibe Bergfalke photographed at the Øysand glider school in the summer of 1959. (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🪽 📍 🇳🇴 🥇 | 🔗 digitaltmuseum.no/021011364740...

First it was their immaculate 'Super Star' project, and now: « The Historic Junkers Ju 52 Arrives in Frankfurt ». Puts the Lufthansa Group’s Conference and Visitor Center on our must-visit list for 2026. Yours too? (📸 ©2025 Lufthansa Group) | 🛩️ 📰 📍 🇩🇪 🥇 | 🔗 newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/en/the-histo...

"What's old is new again" is an overused cliché, but it really applies to the subject of this new article by @markep.bsky.social writing for @aerosociety.bsky.social, wherein he draws a through line between drones used in World War II and those being contemplated for present-day conflicts. | 🛩️ 📡 ⚔️ 🥇

The Cirrus newsletter always has a nugget or two. This time it's « Transatlantic Trip in a Cirrus: 25 Countries Explored », which describes what most would call the trip of a lifetime, except Ken and Jen Kelly have even more ambitious adventures planned. | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 cirrusaircraft.com/story/transa...

We thought we'd found the ultimate in airborne opulence with the Global 8000 a few days back. Not to be outdone, Boeing Business Jets will retrofit a 747-8 to whatever spec your heart desires. 🥰 Order yours today, using the online configuration tool. | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 businessjets.boeing.com/wp-content/u...

Okay, this is an interesting landing zone. 😱 FlyingBasket just released the story and video of their program of deliveries to the Borletti, Payer, Vedretta Pendente, and Vallaga alpine huts in the South Tyrol 🏔️ of Italy. Nice gig if you can get it. | 🛩️ 📡 📹 📰 🥇 | 🔗 flyingbasket.com/blog/news-1/...

« Bombardier Global 8000, the World’s Fastest Business Jet, Gets Even Faster With a New Top Speed of Mach 0.95 » Almost as startling is the 8,000 NM range. Not bad for a company that starting out making snowmobiles. 😉 (📸 Bombardier) | 🛩️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 bombardier.com/en/media/new...

It's interesting, and a little surprising, to hear news of Electra's selection of UK-based Evolito for their electric power system, with all hardware to be built/assembled in the UK at Evolito's Bicester, Oxfordshire facility. More with link. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.electra.aero/news/electra...

A new article from @zeroavia.bsky.social, wherein they position their 'SuperStack Flex' lightweight hydrogen fuel cell system in the seemingly shifting and challenging hydrogen aviation landscape. There's also a link to their explainer video for the SuperStack system. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📹 🥇

« When Aviation Volunteers Mobilize: CWoR Supports Emergency Air Exercise » We continue to be impressed by the efforts of Canadian Wings of Rescue, in this case, joining in Alliance North's 'Air Bridge 2025' exercise. Continue reading with link. | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 canadianwingsofrescue.ca/when-aviatio...