Love big round engines like we do? 😍 If so, and you're in the vicinity of El Reno, Oklahoma, then you're going to want to attend this weekend's « Radial Engines 101 » workshop at The Caldwell Collection. Details with link. (📸 See ALT.) | 🛩️ 📅 🇺🇸 📍🥇 | 🔗 www.thecaldwellcollection.org/event-detail...

We are unapologetically enthusiastic about @dawnaerospace.bsky.social: they're quietly getting things in the suborbital domain with their Aurora aircraft. Their latest short video is a great way to get up to speed on their story so far. | 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ 💺 📹 🥇 | 🔗 www.dawnaerospace.com/latest-news/...

For us, there's nothing quite like 'discovering' an aviator and a story with which we are completely unfamiliar. 🙌🏻 To wit, Gidsken Jakobsen in this detailed, copiously illustrated article, including this amazing photo. (📸 Unknown | Maihaugen) | 🛩️ 👩🏻‍✈️ 🦆 📍 🇳🇴 🥇 | 🔗 www.luftfartsmuseum.no/gidsken-jako...

Back in the day, we would have entered this in a heartbeat: « The Eighth Annual Richard Collins Writing Prize for Young Pilots » sponsored by @sportys.bsky.social. The deadline for all future Markhams, Ganns, and Bachs ✍🏻 is February 28, 2026. (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.sportys.com/blog/call-fo...

We've heard that paper 📄 is making a comeback. Dr. @mikepryce.bsky.social, writing for the @aerosociety.bsky.social, makes the best case we've heard so far supporting this assertion. This, and the thought of that evocative 'old paper' smell, which we raiders find oddly intoxicating. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇

An interesting new article by Robb Mandelbaum writing for @spectrum.ieee.org. The story, along with an accompanying short video, primarily follows the @univofmaryland.bsky.social’s 'Team Crossfire' as they participate in the @xprize.org's 'Wildfire' competition. | 🛩️ 📡 🚁 ⚡️ 📹 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

We continue to celebrate the northern winter ❄️ with some evergreen advice on 'open cockpit' flying in this cold, snowy season. We're also of the opinion that the photos and writing from ADVANCE are amongst the best we've seen. (📸 ADVANCE Paragliders) | 🛩️ 🪽 🥇 | 🔗 www.advance.swiss/en/brand/fly...

It being the height of 'summer' in Antarctica and with all the promise of the New Year stretching out in front of you, perhaps it's time for a new career? If so, perhaps this one, eloquently described in this article by Vicky Auld, @bas.ac.uk Deputy Chief Pilot, on their @linkedin.com page. | 🛩️ 🧰 🥇

It's a New Year 🥂 and we're out with the first issue of 2026. 💥 Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com first celebrates the best of 2025. Then, he unceremoniously ushers the old year out with a salty « don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. » (📸 ©2016 Richard Davies | SupaSmokey) | 🛩️

« Next Stop, Oshkosh, USA ▫️ It’s a historic moment for The Flying Bulls: in 2026, the team will cross the Atlantic for the very first time – making its US debut at the legendary EAA AirVenture … » (📸 Sebastian Marko / @redbull.com Content Pool) | 🛩️ 📅 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 www.flyingbulls.at/en/stories/n...

So, Boxing Day. 📦 See what we did there? | 🛩️ 📹 📍 🇨🇦

We simply can't believe another year has come and gone already — where does the time go? 🎅🏼 In any event, all of us here at the home office wish you and yours all the best for a happy and healthy Christmas. (📸 @usnhistory.bsky.social) | 🛩️ 🚁 ⚔️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.history.navy.mil/our-collecti...

Official Account Alert 🫆 We're grateful and thankful for top-drawer @bsky.app users like @robpegoraro.com getting the word out (see below) about new, aviation-industry participants like @united.com coming on board. Please consider giving *both* a like/follow. (📸 United Airlines) | 🛩️ | 🔗 united.com

Christmas 🎄 has indeed arrived a couple of days early this year, what with this great new article 🎁 by veteran aviation journalist @markep.bsky.social writing for the National Air and Space Museum. Not to mention it's about airships, a perennial favourite around here. | 🛩️ 📡 ⚡️ 🎈 🥇

« Leveraging learnings from Wisk’s previous five generations of aircraft and more than 1,750 test flights, Gen 6 is the first-ever candidate for an FAA-certified commercial autonomous passenger aircraft in the U.S., with launch markets including Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami … » | 🛩️ ⚡️ 🚁 📰 🥇

Okay, this looks like fun, at least if you live in the vicinity of beautiful Colorado Springs or happen to be passing through. Makes us wonder how many restaurants there are where you can similarly dine inside an aircraft; do you know of one? | 🛩️ 🍽️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 theairplanerestaurant.com?utm_source=b...

From the Tekniska Museet, via the DigitaltMuseum website, an artefact with the intriguing caption reading, in part « from a box marked: "Bernt Balchen" » and furthermore marked « The glider and the C-47 after landing at the North Pole ». Just wow. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🪽 📍 🇸🇪 🥇 | 🔗 digitaltmuseum.org/021011319916...

As far as tributes to the anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight a couple of days ago, this is going to be hard to beat, as documented in this story by Caroline Parker writing for the @educationnc.bsky.social website. | 🛩️ 🏫 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

It's been a while since we've had a Fine Art Friday, and we're inclined to re-launch this series having stumbled on these two, possibly related works by John Northcote Nash. There is this finished product, found at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social, and then there appears to be ... | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🦆 🎨 🥇 | 🧵 1/2

We think everybody wins in this story: @lanetitans.bsky.social and the students participating in their Aviation Unmanned Aircraft Systems program; the Oregon Department of Aviation; the people of Oregon state, not to mention the great forests the initiative is helping to protect. | 🛩️ 📡 🏫 🥇

If you needed yet another reason to visit the @shuttleworthtru.bsky.social — there are currently fifty-three — here's another one: this exquisite, privately owned Hurricane will now reside amongst the collection. (📸 ©2025 The Shuttleworth Trust) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🥇 | 🔗 www.shuttleworth.org/about/about-...

On this December 17th, there's no better way of marking the 122nd anniversary of the Wright's first flight at Kitty Hawk than reading their original diary, presumably written on the day and available with this link to the marvellous @librarycongress.bsky.social. | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 www.loc.gov/resource/mss...

We have previously mentioned the retirement of the Harrier AV-8B to the Tillamook Air Museum. Turns out there was another reporter in the crowd on hand: Lillian Battey, on assignment for the TEACH-NW student publication … (📸 Lillian Battey) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🚁 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 sites.google.com/teach-nw.com...

Official Account Alert 🫆 It's been a while since we had an opportunity to do one of these, so we're thrilled to see startup EVIO Aircraft (@evioaircraft.bsky.social) arrive on @bsky.app. Please join us in welcoming them and consider giving them a follow. (📸 EVIO Aircraft) | 🛩️ ⚡️ | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 evio.aero

As winter settles in, we're reaching back to this past summer for this great story by Kevin Garrison, writing for @avbrief.bsky.social, entitled « Flying Is an Art » and accompanied by this summery image of one of Van's RV-12s near Sunriver, Oregon. (📸 Ed Hicks) | 🛩️ 🥇 | 🔗 avbrief.org/flying-is-an...

There are few newsletters we more eagerly anticipate than the ones from AirCorps Aviation out of beautiful Bemidji, Minnesota. Work on 'Shillelagh', their P-51B project for the Dakota Territory Air Museum of Minot, North Dakota, continues apace. (📸 Chuck Cravens | AirCorps Aviation) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇

New from @dlr-en.bsky.social: « Climate Strategy Put to the Test: Reducing Contrails ▫️ DLR is working together with 17 partners from research and industry to investigate how contrails can be avoided, reduced and made more climate-compatible. » (📸 See ALT) | 🛩️ 🏫 📰 🥇 | 🔗 www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne...

Another story we have been tracking for a while is the immaculate — but, sadly, non-flying — restoration of Lufthansa Group's Lockheed Constellation Super Star at their new conference centre at Frankfurt Airport. More photos with link. | 🛩️ 📍 🇩🇪 🥇 | 🔗 newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/en/tail-sect...

A new episode of the Behind The Wings® podcast just dropped: this time, retired test pilot Rogers E. Smith speaks with host Rick Crandall. Fans will delight in Smith's *detailed* description of flying the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. (📸 Jim Ross | NASA) | 🛩️ 🎙️ ⚔️ 📍 🇺🇸 🥇 | 🔗 wingsmuseum.org/resources/po...

This is a story we've been following for a while, so it's nice to see it finally come to commercial fruition: today Bombardier presented the keys for its first Global 8000 delivered to its new owner, Canadian entrepreneur Patrick Dovigi. The entire press release with link. (📸 Bombardier) | 🛩️ 📰 🥇

« MIT Engineers Design an Aerial Microrobot That Can Fly as Fast as a Bumblebee ▫️ With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions. » by Adam Zewe | MIT News (📸 MIT Soft and Micro Robotics Laboratory) | 🛩️ 📡 🦅 🤖 📹 🥇 | 🔗 news.mit.edu/2025/mit-eng...

One might think flight operations at a gliding club are already pretty green. However, Dave Unwin, writing in an interesting new article for the @aerosociety.bsky.social, believes there are still many opportunities for improvement, including the use of Gravitation Potential Energy (GPE). | 🛩️ 🪽 ⚡️ 🥇

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_...