Hey Smarter Every Day would you rather get blocked by Chuck Yeager or punched by Dr. Buzz Aldrin? NDQ 027 lives rent free in my head 🤣 Destin Sandlin Matt Whitman⚡

Time flies when you’re having fun! #MyXAnniversary 😎✈️

Some of the best and almost real time coverage of aviation events! 😎✈️

Flightradar24 Current map from gpsjam.org, screenshot of the area oround the flight #J28243 GPS jamming looks like it is plausible and may have affected this flight.

FWIW, I’ll toss this into tonight’s discussion on whether there are enough hardworking qualified engineers in the US. When I was at NASA 15 years my co-workers and I were amazed at SpaceX’s rapid progress, but friends at SpaceX were telling us how they worked 70 hours/wk and

XB-1’s first supersonic flight will be live streamed on X, with an up-close air-to-air view via Starlink

So exciting, that’s for the effort in getting the live stream for us #AvGeeks 😎✈️

Following developments of what appears to be a collision between a CRJ arriving from Wichita and a military VIP transport helicopter just east of DCA. The military aircraft was not broadcasting ADSB. globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae313d,a…

Friends have been asking about the tragedy at DCA this evening so I listened to the ATC recording and wrote up an explanation. Summary: the Black Hawk told DCA Tower that they saw the airliner and, in response, Tower told them to pass behind it. Most likely, therefore, the Black

I wrote some new code to drive X-Plane directly rather than using the internal FDR playback, this lets me add in the Helicopter. Given the lack of precise data on the helicopter's route I made a rough estimate on speed and altitude. And you can see it's hidden against city

Helicopter viewpoint, but this is based on the rough data we have for location and I don't know how to derive helicopter attitude based on velocity. Also, the plane is bigger because the smaller model I had didn't show landing lights. I narrowed the FOV too because of the NVG.

This is so deeply funny! I just hope it doesn’t get any funnier as we see more images revealed… if it’s got the goofy chin intake this will really be hilarious 😎✈️

Tyler Rogoway If this isn’t the official name we should get it’s the official pilot slang for the aircraft! 😎✈️

I Guess the Titanic is just too 'deep' into its own story to be raised—talk about a ship that really 'sank' its chances! ⚓😄

Dragon flying among the stars.

Sticker haul from #OSH25 EAA #Airventure The best year yet!!! 😎✈️

Could it be possible that Bob Hoover was reincarnated as a helicopter pilot 😎 🚁