I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic. My letter in the Oxford Times today

Flight leaves in an hour. Time to hop on the train to DCA.

Would y'all mind showing up and doing your job, please?? Just a little, even.

One of the best backdrops for a drink I've ever had. Thanks to SES for an invite to the party celebrating the Intelsat merger, at the National Air and Space Museum in DC. 🤓🤓

A sunset so nice they flew the approach twice. AA4647 headed into DCA this evening, as seen from the National Mall. The flight had a missed approach and this was its second go for landing.

Most US airlines are members of either A4A or RAA and are eligible for exemptions from some flight planning rules as a group. New Pacific is not a member of either group but still pretends to be an airline so it applied for standalone versions of the exemption. www.regulations.gov/document/FAA...

Spending some time with the freshly rebranded SES inflight connectivity team (legacy Intelsat) to talk about what the future holds for the merged operations. Plus a special venue for dinner tonight. 🤓

I'm officially a US Senate candidate in New Hampshire! If you're looking for alternatives to the status quo, please check me out or reach out. Happy to chat with you anytime!

The newspaper version of this joke: When someone restarted the New York Sun (briefly) in print in the 2000s, the first issue contained the answer to the crossword published in the last issue of the old Sun, published in 1950.

What are the odds that Adams stole that coat off of a literal Torah?

Adams strutting out to the ring like a 1980s wrestler called King Jude of Menorah

JFC: "Per Field of Schemes, 'the absolute minimum cost to D.C. taxpayers for Harris’s RFK Stadium site project, then, is $7.5 billion,' but could potentially be up to three times as much as that by the end of the lease."

Getting my new Acela experience this evening. We left Philadelphia 20 minutes late, blaming comms issues East of Stamford. And then stopped several times en route to Wilmington, DE where maintenance is now "checking some things." And, yes, the new seats are very firm.

"Spirit of Transportation" A giant sculpture at Philadelphia 30th Street Station. Of note, the kid at bottom right has an air ship (not even a plane), as it was made when air travel was just becoming a thing.

I really cannot overstate how surreal it is to live in a place that is all at once growing at breakneck pace, building housing like crazy, AND expanding transit and non-vehicle transportation infrastructure like bike lanes, greenways, and sidewalks. Charlotte rules, sorry if this offends.

What the absolute blue-eyed ever-loving fuck *guillotine building intensifies*

Suspending all false modesty, allow me to introduce a new ICCT report that a prominent environmental researcher (me) is calling "Book I of the New Testament of aviation decarbonization". Very long; must read. What if aviation isn't a hard to abate sector after all? (🧵) theicct.org/publication/...

Headed to an event in Washington, DC tomorrow evening. Of course, being me, I couldn't take the easy way there. So first I'm off for dinner with a friend along the way (and another airport in my 25for25 quest). #avgeek

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Dollars to donuts, it was a scam call farm and not some grandiose police fantasy.

Under the failed governance of Republicans in all three branches of NH state government, what everyone acknowledged as a “problem” 5 years ago has now blown-up into a full-scale crisis. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/09/23/f...

Fingers crossed for Canada's first-ever commercial rocket-launch. If all goes well in about 30 minutes from now. Live stream is here: www.youtube.com/live/iyw2Lv2... 🇨🇦🚀

like i was saying

We wander through the old cemeteries up here from time to time. The family plots with collections on smaller headstones for the children are heartbreaking. We learned how to prevent disease and suffering and these asshats are just throwing it all away.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

A bit of Rosh Hashanah baking this afternoon, with @linneaharts.bsky.social in control. May your year ahead be happy, healthy, and one of peace.

There's a newly FAA-certified enhanced ATC program at the Nashua Community College. And they let me give it a go for guiding a couple planes for landing. I'm too old and almost certainly wouldn't be good at it. But ecstatic the training program is here for the next generation. #avgeek #NHPolitics

LATAM will add the Embraer E195-E2 to its fleet from late 2026. The carrier announced an order for 24 of the type, with options for 50 more. The planes will operate for the Brazilian subsidiary initially. #avgeek

SAS will add service from CPH to LUX (2x daily), RIX (3x), IST (1x), and BOM (5x weekly) in Summer 2026. The Riga service, in particular, is interesting to me as codeshare partners airBaltic already flies it 2x daily. That's a LOT of lift.

Cathay is coming back to Seattle. The carrier will operate a 3-cabin A359 5x weekly from 30 March. DL previously served the route 2014-2018; CX served it 2019-2020/COVID. #AvGeek

Copy that Floppy Cafe 💾 📅Thursday 9 October, 2-5pm Come have your floppy disk data transferred to a modern format at Cambridge University Library! For more info and to book: https://loom.ly/FRjMsM8

This time last Sunday I was very happily sweating my ass off at KJEF during our annual Show Me State Air Show. It was soooo freaking hot out there on the ramp, but man is it fun directing these beasts. Occasionally, I cop a ride. Yeehaw!! #aviation #avgeek #warbirds #flight

Attending all the UF football games. I was in elementary school, but we had season tickets and I'm sure we still went.

OpenAI “admits” what literally anyone with any training in the subject always knew. Generative AI models work like this. They are built like this. “Hallucinations” is all they do all the time.

This is a smart angle to do some reporting on. Liked this summary of the Disney Adult phenomenon recently: bsky.app/profile/mihi...

This is a fantastic graphic.

A key consideration in the $100k H-1B bounty situation: the Feds can waive the requirement for any person, company, or industry. It is structured to encourage graft, and to force companies to ingratiate themselves to the administration.

At least volumes are slightly lower on Saturdays. Lots of messy bits in the US for ATC/ops capacity today.

We are absolutely going to have this vote in the 2026 session. Several times, it seems, based on the LSRs published. And I, too, expect to vote against them. Gonna be a LOT of hateful rhetoric coming, empowered by this situation. The NHGOP leader is already leaning into it. #nhpolitics

The #SAAMuseum at #Johannesburg with some iconic birds #B742 #B747SP #Avgeeks #Avgeek

World Aviation Festival kicks off in Lisbon in a couple weeks. The opening keynote is titled "Non-Bullshit Innovation Insight: What super-intelligent AI means for the passenger experience." @linneaharts.bsky.social accurately notes that 20 minutes is a lot of silence to sit through.

Just like at all the other airlines where this has been the policy for years. Ancillary revenue goes up, but so do costs and delays. Oopsie.

I lost my first election in NH 3-2 on write-ins. I didn't even know what the job was, just that no one was on the ballot for it. The other guy had a kid who also voted for him, in addition to a spouse. Next time around I actually was on the ballot, unopposed.

And now we're being asked to sympathize with robots, while their makers want to take our creations to make zombies of us, in service of a Nazi takeover

This bit of political art I saw yesterday in Arlington (and which has been there since at least Tuesday) must have required some non-trivial effort to create and put in place.

Bill filing season is upon us in NH (technically closed now, though revisions are ongoing). I'm responsible for a couple of the bills we'll be debating in the 2026 session. And also for not filing one I thought would be important. Sometime learning how the sausage is made is useful. #NHPolitics

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Seagliders in the news www.bbc.com/news/article...