Aviation Tech Insights

Unbelievably excited to have this.

November, 2025 A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.

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) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇

NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)

Alright, everyone who uses YouTube and complains about the algorithm not showing you what you're subscribed to -

I present this magic link. This will take you to the subscriptions feed which is only things you are subscribed to.

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A white jetliner with black tail, engines and belly. The Air Canada maple leaf logo in red on the tail. Wheels down about to land.

Air Canada
Boeing 737-8
Reg. C-GEOJ
CYYC 🛩️

More film avgeek stuff, all at MSP some time a few months ago.
#avgeek #photgraphy

Feels funny seeing modern aircraft in film photos. I need to get another few rolls soon. Was thinking slide film this next time, these where good 'ol Portra 400.
#avgeek #airplanespotting #film #photgraphy

Boeing’s 757 ‘Catfish’ Flying F-22 Avionics Testbed Emerges With Retro Look Retro colors recall that the famous Catfish began life as the very first of Boeing’s 757 narrow-body airliners. Retro colors recall that the famous Catfish began life as the very first of Boeing’s 757...

#Boeing #aviation #tech

To make sure my content is compatible with all web platforms and broadcast standards, I shoot at 18K resolution with an 80% action-safe margin on all sides.

Captain Flippie Vermeulen's Beech 18. There's no bad picture of this incredible plane. She has quite the story, too. She starred in the movie 'Amelia', playing the role of Earhart's Electra. She was abandoned in Africa after the loss of an engine and rescued by Capt. Vermeulen
#aviation #avgeek

The Matrix premiered 25 years ago today. (The Wachowskis' film was released on March 31)

To celebrate this sci-fi gem, I'm delighted to make available to everyone my oral history of the Matrix art department, without doubt the piece I'm most proud of.

==> patreon.com/posts/60248938

"Experimental"

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#photography #art #USAF #aviation

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Apparently when you get a Masters in Business most of your brain bar the part that likes money falls out.😮‍💨

Yes planes come with autopilot, but those systems universally will take any input in the controls by human hands as an override to its current state and will disconnect it.
Unfortunately I'm afraid most of these situations are an over-reaction recently due to the MAX being in the spotlight.

I feel as if the way airlines are run will always be at odds with the completely safe way to operate and maintain aircraft. It feels like a recent thing that the shareholders' opinion matters more than anything else, but it's been headed that way a long time...

The Fokker commuter plane Brothers all finally together at last.
The F28, F70 and F100 where all made by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer as smaller economical planes for short flights and of course KLM flew them all over the years.
#avgeek #die-cast #aviation

At the very least they should have more than 2 lavs like the A321s do, that would be a dicey operation after about 6 hours with only 2 lavs!

There where so many countries involved the legislation groundwork was also integral to the company's success.
All this to say, the FAA is in charge of the plane due to it being designed here, and other bodies use them as a baseline for their own regulations. The FAA is also very neutered now. 3/3

the plane by their own countries' regulatory body. ICAO is another international body that regulates many things, and many countries have agreements that if a plane is certified in one, it is automatically certified in another. This is Airbus was such a big deal when they formed in the 70's 2/3

The plane was Type Certificated in the US, which is considered the aviation authority most other countries are in reference to. EASA, the EU's regulatory body has a process by which the plane also goes by to allow it to fly in the airspace of EU countries but sometimes do individually certify 1/3

Today's failed airliner and the archive post is one and the same!
NWA was the NA launch customer for the 787, but would ultimately never get them due to Delta canceling the orders post merger.
#avgeek #aviation #airlines

I use Fluke stuff at work and am always happy with the quality. When I found out they made bench equipment too I was very excited!
And yeah I wonder what part of Raytheon this was used at, no telling the parts of missles or stuff this thing measured.

He's just a little guy. The littlest analog oscilloscope ever, the Tektronix 222. Now in an amazing yellow PowerScout edition and a lithium battery upgrade.

Model planes imitating life. (I know they are not the same plane, but I couldn't help but see the similar composition.) Model is a 1/200 LOT TU-154, real plane is A TU-134 at the Polish National Air Museum in Kraków

Most of the stuff that's gone wrong has been maintenance related, not so much pilot related. The real problem is the young inexperienced workforce that has come in after the pandemic, where a huge surge of new Pilots and Mechanics with no (or less) older generation to mentor them and lower mistakes.

Essentially yes, the McDonnell Douglas merger is often touted as the poison pill that created the Boeing we see today.
I see it as Boeing going that way anyways, and only letting that culture blossom instead due to the new management carried over.
Douglas was a fine company McDonnell, was not.

The crashes in the 1950s and early 60s made the FAA and NTSB what they are today, and the lessons learned in the 70s and 80s made flying what it is today.
These lessons have been forgotten before (DC-10 debacle), and apparently Boeing has forgotten them in the last 2 decades.

The door plug is removed during assembly at Boeing's plant in Renton. The fuselage is fabricated in Wichita and the plug is temporary installed for transport to Renton. At Renton they remove it and then fully install it.
Essentially, it seems a routine tast went undocumented, possibly maliciously.