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Flight tests of the Electra EL-2 Goldfinch, an experimental hybrid STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft, are taking place over the Hudson River in New York. The aircraft performs maneuvers at extremely low altitudes, taking off and landing on a special floating pier off the coast of Manhattan, escorted by a helicopter.

The Lehigh Valley connection

Weird to see three of these aircrafts just sitting there.

I posted a picture of the Tu144D cockpit about a week back. Here is the full video.
Much more roomy than the Concorde, but feels 20 years behind it.

- Tupolev 144D CCCP-77112 - Technik Museum Sinsheim

Got to run on an active runway today during the MIA 5K runway run. Snapped a few shots of the aircraft lineup and sunrise over the runway .. Aviation heaven!

Very grateful to the team for their hard work over the past few months.

Could be totally off, but saw this happening from a ways away, so I know it’s not an optical illusion. Saw the smaller plane above, below, and on either side of the larger (presumably commercial) jet, matching speed the whole time. Never seen something like this

Why? What is the main limitation on how heavy an aircraft can be at landing?

They completed their final performance in their current aircraft today 🥲, and are now stood down, awaiting the full complement of their new machines before they return to the skies (anticipated sometime in the 2030’s)

I’m sure they are amongst us (both past and present team members), and I’m sure they’d appreciate it!

Post your favourite memories of their performances and/or meeting the pilots!

(📸: https://skiesmag.com/features/golden-anniversary-canadian-forces-snowbirds-military-aerobatics/?amp)

Can anyone tell me more information about what I’m looking at? Obviously a fuselage but just wondering what kind, where it’s from and where it might be headed? Just curious! Thanks all.

A 16-year-old boy and 80-year-old man have died following a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash at about 16:45 on Friday.
The boy and man were pronounced dead and their next of kin have been made aware, police said.
Temporary airspace restrictions are currently in place over the area while the Air Accidents Investigation Branch conduct their inquiries.

The Piper Tomahawk II aircraft took off from Glasgow Airport on Friday afternoon at 16:17.
It stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of Drymen in Stirling.
Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport.
It stayed there until around 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay before turning round and heading back to Glasgow.
It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.

I saw someone posted this a year ago and everyone started posting pics so I’m reviving the thread!

I just stumbled across this aviation safety report from November last year.

An interesting read, but TL;DR:

An uncommanded shutdown of an Air New Zealand A320 engine was due to the *self-activation* of a switch. 

Kinda nuts to think an engine could roll back because a switch spontaneously popped out of its latched position.

August 14th, 2026

The Image is OC from Google earth sat image (latest at ambala AFS, Haryana, India)

[OC] P-8 doing some touch and goes nearby…passed right over my house, didn’t even have to drive to the airport to get some decent shots.