It would be a fair cop to say that BluFly sometimes seems to be all Future Aircrew Training (FAcT), all the time; here's another significant announcement: « Team SkyAlyne Joins the RCAF to Mark the Start of Flying Ops for CT-102B Astra II ». (📸 SkyAlyne) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📹 📰 🥇 | 🔗 skyalyne.ca/latest-updat...

We're always intrigued when a pop culture magazine takes up the subject of aviation in a dedicated section. In this case, London-based Monocle 🧐 as exemplified by this article by Gabriel Leigh. If that name seems familiar, you may have spotted his work on no less than @flightradar24.com. | 🛩️ 🥇 📍 🇬🇱

This is cool: REGENT Craft gave us access to their B-roll footage from their recent testing of their Squire Seaglider drone, along with permission to recut it and add a soundtrack. Thanks, @boldspace.bsky.social, for helping to make this happen. | 🛩️ 📹 ⚔️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.regentcraft.com/news/regent-...

Ever wonder who Brown was *before* he was part of Alcock and Brown? We hadn't, but we wish we had when we spotted @rooneyvision.bsky.social's delightful « Ted Brown's African Adventure. » It's a perfect, long-form weekend read. (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 rooneyvision.substack.com/p/ted-browns...

We think it's safe to say when the Bell 47 was brand-new, its designers likely never envisioned their modest little helicopter would eventually be fitted out with full night vision modifications something like eighty years later. The design certainly has had remarkable longevity. | 🛩️ 🚁 📰 🥇

Itching to get your experimental or research payload onto a suborbital flight? The State of Oklahoma is collaborating with @dawnaerospace.bsky.social on their « Runway-to-Space Spaceplane Challenge » Full details with link. (📸 Dawn Aerospace) | 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.dawnaerospace.com/runway-to-sp...

We think we may have blown the case wide open. (📸 Aleksandr Markin via Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 2.0, slightly cropped.) | 🛩️ 🪽

Further to the @spectrum.ieee.org article earlier this month, more news directly from Sceye Inc. We're wondering whether their SE2 airship would be a good candidate to track the bar-tailed godwits across the Pacific? IYKYK (📸 Sceye Inc.) | 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ ⚡️ 🎈 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

The story at @beyond-aero.com continues to evolve in intriguing ways, as supported by today's announcement of luxury and charter firm Luxaviation as the launch operator for Beyond Aero's hydrogen-electric business jet. Full press release with link. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 👩🏻‍✈️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 stories.prowly.com/445918-beyon...

« Elysian Aircraft … has conducted a first test flight with its Scaled Flight Demonstrator (SFD) … ». Said @dannyjacobson.bsky.social, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Elysian Aircraft. “We are … developing the core electrification technologies that support broader aerospace applications … » | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📡 📰 🥇

Now that's progress. ✅ A flock of CT-102Bs (AKA Grob G 120TP) in various gestational forms at the Grob factory in Tussenhausen-Mattsies, Germany. Cannot wait to see a formation of these in Canadian skies. Many photos and the whole story linked. (📸 SkyAlyne) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 skyalyne.ca/latest-updat...

Detailed new reporting from Chris Thatcher writing for Skies Magazine about the Canadian company using delivery drones to routinely ferry medical supplies the ten kilometres—in complex airspace—from Edmonton, Alberta, to the Montana First Nations Clinic. (📸 Volatus Aerospace Corp.) | 🛩️ 📡 🥇

Just when you think every microscopic detail of Amelia Earhart's life has been thoroughly examined, something new shows up. In this case, twenty-one seconds of her voice, brought to you by the great people of the indelibly magnificent @librarycongress.bsky.social. | 🛩️ 🎙️ 🥇

« Fast Commuter Air Transport Between Regional Pacific Northwest Cities » by Jennifer Ferrero, writing for Northwest Aerospace News. An airline flying PC-12s; a 'must-fly' route for us in the future. (📸 ©2026 Dean Cameron | Northwest Aerospace News) | 🛩️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 viewer.joomag.com/northwest-ae...

For anybody who thinks local news is dead, we offer the @theorkneynews.bsky.social as a stellar counterpoint ✨ to that point of view. Their daily newsletter is one of our favourites. For example, take a look at the gem 💎 they featured today about this significant milestone. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥇

Okay, colour us intrigued. 🤔 Rahul Rao, writing for @spectrum.ieee.org, provides an excellent primer on the Sceye/SoftBank partnership to seamlessly augment ground-based cellular coverage with the SceyeCELL antenna technology integrated with Sceye's stratospheric airship. | 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ ⚡️ 🎈 🥇

We kicked off the April issue with a Cosmo Kramer quote, and another one popped to mind when this showed up, what with it being April 1st and all: « Madam, I pray you're not toying with me. » Available April 4th according to the LEGO announcement. | 🛩️ 📡

It may be April Fools' Day, but—no foolin'—the April issue is out. 💥 This month, we kick things off peering out the belly port of a Partenavia P.68, and then hopscotch across the Pacific in search of a master aviator capable of aeronautical feats of which mere mortals dare not dream. | 🛩️ 🥇

We can't make up our minds whether @redbull.com athletes are insane, or whether we are just insanely jealous of their adventures. Regardless, you have to check out these photos combining night skydiving and the northern lights at Northern Flights 2026. (📸 Michael Clark | Red Bull Content Pool) | 🛩️ 🥇

Still present on those 'other' social platforms? If so, you likely have heard of FlyingJul; described in the article as an « avionics influencer ». 🤔 A good interview, and the photo shoot features lots of those quirky, charismatic, modern Junkers « ultralights » in a wintry, Alpine setting. | 🛩️ 👩🏻‍✈️ 🥇

A while back we had a flurry of flying car stories, and then not much since. So here's one for all those who dream of seeing the traffic jam up ahead, deploying the gyrocopter gear, and leaping over it, James Bond-style. All kidding aside, we're delighted to see PAL-V's steady progress. | 🛩️ 🚁 📰 🥇

Just when @redbull.com seems to have come up with every conceivable combination of elements, they produce a photo that leaves us all scratching our heads 🤨 in awe, with this team photo from their Aviation Camp in Warner Springs, California, in February. (📸 Caine Adamson | Red Bull Content Pool) | 🛩️

In keeping with the pattern of countries around the world on-shoring their defence capabilities, the @nzdf.mil.nz recently announced an intriguing project involving @dawnaerospace.bsky.social taking place off New Zealand's Canterbury coast. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📡 🛰️ 💺 🥇

This is a luxury brand partnership made in heaven: @airbus.com Corporate Helicopters along with Mercedes-Benz recently rolled out their latest, ACH145-based collab at a São Paulo, Brazil-based 🇧🇷 event. We're thinking the G-Class should be a 'free gift with purchase', no? 😉 | 🛩️ 🚁 📰 🥇

Official Account Alert 🫆 It's great to see an innovative aviation company jump on board @bsky.app, right through to implementing Bluesky's domain verification. Welcome @beyond-aero.com. Please reward their trailblazer status with follows, likes, and reposts. | 🛩️ ⚡️ | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 beyond-aero.com

More news from @beyond-aero.bsky.social, wherein they have announced: « Hydrogen Aviation OEM Beyond Aero Reaches Key Aircraft Design Milestone » Lots more documentation with the link, enabling readers to clearly visualise the approach they're taking. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 stories.prowly.com/449539-hydro...

This looks amazing: « Skywhales Across Australia will see Patricia Piccinini’s beloved Skywhale 2013 and Skywhalepapa 2019­–2020 take their family on another tour of Australia. » Many more details with link. (📸 Nick-D via Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 4.0) | 🛩️ 🎈 🎨 📅 📍 🇦🇺 🥇 | 🔗 nga.gov.au/exhibitions/...

New from @milesobrien.com: a mini-series within his 'Miles Ahead' podcast where he investigates, along with TIGHAR's Ric Gillespie, the mysterious disappearance of Nungesser and Coli's 'L'Oiseau blanc'. They set the stage in Part I. (📸 See Alt) | 🛩️ 📹 🎙️ 🥇 | 🔗 milesobrien.substack.com/p/the-hunt-f...

It's π Day. So here's a Piasecki. (📸 US Air Force via @wikimediafoundation.org in the public domain) | 🛩️ 🚁 ⚔️

If you feel you've done everything you've wanted to do in aviation, we still think there's a good chance you haven't done this: our friends at @lighthawk-org.bsky.social are looking for a new Chief Executive Officer. (📸 ©2026 Evan Anderman | LightHawk) | 🛩️ 🧰 🥇 | 🔗 www.lighthawk.org/careers/ceo-...

The brand-new, top-of-the-line @dassaultaviation.bsky.social 10X is unveiled. Question: was there a woman in a huge bucket hat and opaque Ray-Bans—that is, an incognito Taylor Swift—amongst the 400 customers in attendance? 🤔 Press release linked. | 🛩️ 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.dassaultfalcon.com/news/dassaul...

Today💥 we welcome another great author to our Avergreen imprint: Geoff Barker, whose day job is Senior Curator at the State Library of New South Wales. However, his side hustle is his excellent 'Dissonance' journal, which regularly features fascinating Oceania-oriented aviation stories. | 🛩️ 🌲 🥇

LTA Research is always quite terse in their online posts, providing little in the way of technical detail. However, this brief, intriguing Composites World article by Grace Stubbins provides a few nuggets as well as some links for those of us who want to go down the 🐇 rabbit hole. | 🛩️ 🎈 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

As we often say, we love concrete milestones achieved ✅, and Pilatus has another one to its credit, at Stans, Switzerland: specifically, the recent first production test flight of the CT-157, the new trainer for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Link includes a short video of the event. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📹 📰 🥇

Not yet discovered @penguinormonkey.bsky.social? Check it out. We could all use a moment (or five) of zen today, and these videos deliver it in spades. Oh, and before any detractors point out the lack of a pilot, for us, it just makes it easier for us to imagine being in the pilot's seat. | 🛩️ 📹 🖥️

The next episode of Behind The Wings® is out, featuring host Rick Crandall in discussion with NASA's Cathy Bahm, Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project Manager, and Lori Ozoroski, Commercial Supersonic Technology Project Manager. (📸 Carla Thomas | NASA) | 🛩️ 🎙️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...

A brand-new issue is out. 💥 Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com hasn't been sleeping again, and he stumbled on yet another late-night, aviation-oriented gem on @tcmtv.bsky.social. Spoiler: it includes footage of the wildly over-the-top Schneider Cup racers. (📸 Mirrorpix | Alamy under license) | 🛩️ 🦆

We've made no secret of the fact that we're huge fans of the ADVANCE Paragliders email newsletter; to which you should definitely subscribe, by the way. That said, we've just been given yet another reason to think that, consisting of just two words: dogs and gliders. Does it get any better? | 🛩️ 🪽 🥇

National Aviation Day: What possessed Alexander Graham Bell to go outside in the frigid Canadian winter, we do not know. 🥶 However, on this day in 1909, Silver Dart made the first powered flight in Canada. Papers in the @librarycongress.bsky.social linked. | 🛩️ 🥇 📍 🇨🇦 | 🔗 www.loc.gov/collections/...

Meanwhile, in Australia: « On January 24, [pilot David] Jansen teamed up with local pilot Grant Anderson for a 1,266-kilometre journey from Alice Springs to Balaklava in South Australia. » Just out from Matthew Qvortrup, Stewart Brash, and Oliver Lee-Young writing for ABC News. | 🛩️ 🪽 📰🏅

The phenoms at Dawn Aerospace in New Zealand have been at it again, this time carrying a LEO-TIMS compact thermal-infrared imaging payload with collaborator Arizona State University. Article and videos with link. (📸 @dawnaerospace.bsky.social) | 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ 💺 📹 🥇 | 🔗 www.dawnaerospace.com/latest-news/...

Joanna Steidle has a well-earned reputation as a drone photography savant, providing an extraordinary view of the natural world. Kudos, Embraer, for featuring her work in your sumptuous in-house journal, 'Advantage'. (📸 @hamptonsdrone.bsky.social) | 🛩️ 📡 💺 👩🏻‍✈️ 🏅 | 🔗 embraer.bynder.com/m/6fc232a05a...

The next in historian Chuck Cravens' regular series of meticulously detailed updates as he precisely documents the rivet-by-rivet restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum's P-51B 'Shillelaugh'. (📸 Chuck Cravens | AirCorps Aviation) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 www.aircorpsaviation.com/p-51b-shille...

We were delighted to see and hear @geoffrbennett.bsky.social with @cherylwt.bsky.social on this evening's @pbsnews.org, where they thoughtfully discuss Ms. Thompson's new book, below. Well worth watching. Now, are the shops closed 🕘 or can we run out and buy this book this evening? | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📚 🏅

Wow, this is exciting. 💥 We’re proud to present brand-new original writing and photography from our friend Jon Davison. In this article, he regales us with a candid, behind-the-scenes account of his recent Greenland adventure in support of his new book with co-author Jude Brazendale. | 🛩️ 🚁 📚 📍 🇬🇱 🏅

Forget the trellis for the climbing roses 💐 or the reflecting pond 🎏 in the home office's Italianate garden, *this* is the DIY 🛠️ project for us. By David Price, published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and spotted at Indigo Books yesterday. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📚 | 🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-bu...

We're gently breaking our 'surface-to-Kármán' rule with this haunting, ghost-like photo of TBD-1 Devastator 'BuNo 1515' flying just *below* the surface at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. (📸 Brett Seymour | Air/Sea Heritage Foundation) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🇲🇭 🏅 | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 airseaheritage.org/projects/dev...

In today's email blast from the @shuttleworthtru.bsky.social: if you're one of the talented aviation history authors within earshot, convince your publisher to rent this great-looking property in Old Warden for you, strolling distance from the museum. | 🛩️ | 🔗 email.shuttleworth.org/cr/AQiMkhYQy...

We have posted previously about Lufthansa's gorgeous restoration of their Constellation Super Star. While it would set our hearts afire ❤️‍🔥 if they had chosen to get that flying, the classic livery lives on, on one of their @airbus.com A321-200s. | 🛩️ 🏅 | 🔗 newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/en/lufthansa...

Hard to believe this has rolled around again, already: Dr. Jones is running their DC-3 Peru-to-Patagonia adventure for the well-healed traveller. Technically, it's a Basler BT-67, but who wouldn't want P&W PT6 reliability over that terrain? (📸 Dr. Jones) | 🛩️ 📅 🏅 | 🔗 www.dr-jones.com?utm_source=b...