Joe

Random #aviation photo of the day:

Boeing ecoDemonstrator B777-200 | Boeing Field, WA | 2022

🚨 Nashville Airport Tower to “Go Dark” Tonight 🚨

The air traffic control tower at Nashville International Airport will be unmanned for about five hours tonight due to controller shortages worsened by the government shutdown.

✈️ Track flights here: airnavradar.go.link/c1NWK

Tonight on The Briefing!

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Sky Roberts
Amanda Roberts
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Thanks to Lime, and to our other Washington state funders, including Seattle Foundation, Veo, PRR, Amazon, King County Metro and Sound Transit!

Agreed, Badassuchi!

CANDIDAT PROCENT LOCURI PAS 46.19% 51 BEP 26.93% 29 BEA 8.7% 9 PN 6.31% 6 DA 5.7% 6 •PSDE 1.03% 0 • AN 0.9% 0

The Pro-European PAS party has secured 51 seats, an absolute majority in Moldova’s parliament.

A good result and a slap in the face for Putin.

Military Aerospace Call at 5:30 PM tonight Just-in-case you need the login info for tonight.

Military Aerospace Call at 5:30 PM tonight
avwriterjoes-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/military-a...

Call tomorrow (9-28, 5:30 PM) Lots to talk about...

Call Sunday 9-28, 5:30 PM Pacific
avwriterjoes-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/call-tomor...

Electric Trucks Are Rapidly Approaching A Tipping Point — Just Not In The US - CleanTechnica Sales of heavy duty electric trucks are exploding in some countries but imploding in others, proving that policies matter.

Globally, the future will be #electric for heavy duty trucking. But in the US, federal policies are doing their best to throttle progress. That is not market savvy and it won't position US manufacturers to compete in the global market. #ClimateChange is real 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 cleantechnica.com/2025/09/23/e...

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Not to be a jerk, but you should add that it's a decent quality **mirrorless** camera :-)

Thanks for taking the bus :-)
Much appreciated!

@mclindblom.bsky.social Hope you caught my shout-out of your faregate story in my @sound-transit.bsky.social public coment yesterday! Nicely done! Bought a paper copy from 7/11 to read on Island Transit!
JOE

Paying less for public transit buses | Brookings This paper proposes three sets of recommendations to reduce the cost of procuring transit buses in America.

Great to see scholars digging into the high cost of purchasing public transit buses in the US.

www.brookings.edu/articles/pay...

That anyone at DOT or the FAA could possibly be surprised by this is impossible to believe.

all the while, properly investigative journalism and local reporting dies, creating a democratic vacuum those new models largely can’t fill. while the new system thrives even more on sensationalism that leftover news orgs have to pick up on to try to survive.

Lockheed’s Skunk Works reveals Vectis stealth drone, eyeing first flight in 2027 An executive from the secretive development lab said the drone, expected to fly in two years, wasn’t designed for any particular competition, but didn’t rule out the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.

Lockheed’s Skunk Works reveals Vectis stealth drone, eyeing first flight in 2027
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/lockheeds-skunk-works-reveals-vectis-stealth-drone-eyeing-first-flight-in-2027/

If you read nothing else in this piece, consult its instructions on how to open a Tesla's doors if their powered mechanisms no longer function. Then try to imagine any aircraft manufacturer getting approval for a plane with emergency exits that aren't designed to be opened with only human effort.

Good fellow #avgeek needs a #kidney...

#KidneyTransplant

4% recovery of wasted domestic manganese would exceed all US imports.

An Alaska Airlines 737 NG and United Airlines 737 MAX landing in San Francisco.

Pilot’s perspective: what’s the same and what’s different when flying the 737 NG and the 737 MAX. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

NATO's response to Russian drones reveals glaring issue with Europe's air defenses NATO's downing of Russian drones in Polish airspace this week was touted as a major success by the military alliance, after it mustered an international force using some of the most advanced technology in the world to defend its borders. But the incident has actually highlighted a major flaw in NATO and Europe's defenses — they don't have an effective way to shoot down Russia's cheap, mass produced drones. "Given the increasing mass deployment of loitering munitions and relatively inexpensive

A real WAKE UP moment...

kyivindependent.com/natos-respon...

Charlie Kirk’s murder is wakeup call for both left and right: We need college free speech | Will Bunch The Utah campus assassination of a right-wing radical should spark a new movement for free speech...for everyone.

I was writing a column on assaults on college free speech when I heard the news about Charlie Kirk. Then I watched the hypocrisy as the same Republicans passing laws to crush academic freedom praised the often toxic Kirk as an avatar of free expression

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/char...

Can’t wait to read this sequel to Air Wars!
The Rise and Fall of Boeing, And The Way Back
By Scott Hamilton

My condolences Kelli.
Thanks for coming to Redmond, WA...

Indeed and there's a book about Tsimerman: a.co/d/f0C9uwu

I strongly suspect AI was NOT used in that book.

Tackling Tsimerman: Fighting Hateful Abuses of Public Comment to Restore Our Commons Tackling Tsimerman: Fighting Hateful Abuses of Public Comment to Restore Our Commons [Kunzler, J. A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tackling Tsimerman: Fighting Hateful Abuses of Public Comment to Restore Our Commons

Yes, that's Alex Tsimerman's purpose. I guess.
There is a book about Alex: a.co/d/f0C9uwu

Thank you from an occassional @trimet.org rider when I'm in that part of the world.

"transit is an anti-poverty investment."

someday, oregon will be allowed to have nice things like safer streets and frequent transit service.

Until then, we've got @senkhanhpham.bsky.social fighting the lonely fight demanding them