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« The Goodyear Blimp Celebrates 100 Years in the Sky with a 100+ City Tour and Passenger Flight Giveaway ▫️ Goodyear will bring the American icon closer to its fans in 2025 to commemorate its past, present and future. » With all the college football bowl games currently ongoing, it's a good time to note 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Goodyear Blimp. It's come a long way in all those years — starting with a rugby-ball-shaped grey envelope in 1925 and culminating with this super snazzy 'Zeppelin NT' from Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei GmbH. Read their entire press release with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gEbMEiqN 🏷️ #airship #goodyearblimp #zeppelinnt 🏞️ 🛩️ 🥇 🎈 📰 📸 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Using Discovery, The National Archives' Online Catalogue ▫️ January 4, 2025 | Webinar | Planet Earth 🌍 We've resolved to learn lots of new things in 2025 and first up is this free webinar from The National Archives, UK. Our poking around has resulted in these tantalising tidbits but we would really like to know how to best use this valuable resource. We realise it's short notice but there's more information and registration with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gv4DhX-F 🏷️ #libraryscience #nationalarchives #webinar 🏞️ 🛩️ 🥇 📅 📸 Background: Mike Peel via Wikimedia under CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Cards: National Archives | Montage: BluFly

BluFly 🛩️ | January, 2025 If we sent a dedicated crew out focused solely on capturing the best New Year-themed aviation photo we could not have done better than this one: it's of the famed P-38 'Tangerine' from the esteemed Erickson Aircraft Collection of Madras, Oregon. The photo was taken by our friend Daggerville at the Abbotsford International Airshow in 2022. Thanks for letting it grace our first cover for 2025, Dag. In his latest 'In The Air' editorial our Managing Editor Terence C. Gannon tries to eschew the usual trappings of the New Year and instead uses the column to detail BluFly's approach to its Story-of-the-Day. But eventually he relents and reflects a little on the past year and muses about the year ahread. Read with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g9xZCMdu 🏷️ #aviation #newyear2025 #p38 🏞️ 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🇨🇦 📸 Daggerville

Friday Fédèle | « Men grouped in front of a Caproni Ca.3 airplane » The second in our monthly series from the Getty's Fédèle Azari aviation photography collection. Access their original record with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gAsRCSjX 🏷️ #1910s #aviationhistory #italianaviation 🏞️ 🛩️ ⚔️ 📸 Fédèle Azari (1895 - 1930) via J. Paul Getty Trust in the public domain

« Making a HUGE Cardboard Glider » Given it was Boxing Day 📦 yesterday we wanted to provide a little inspiration for what to do with all the empty ones which may still be cluttering up the living room. At those in which there are no sleeping cats. 🐈 Looks like a good project although we do recommend against scaling it up to crew-carrying size. Complete how-to video with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gUm6wPy9 🏷️ #cardboard #diy #modelairplane 🏞️ 🛩️ 📡 📹 🪽 📸 MNda TV

« A Handley Page Hastings (TG 582) flying over London, Christmas Island (now Kiritimati), Line Islands, at the time of the British H Bomb test. » We're wondering how many optimistic RAF crew members wrote "London, Christmas" on some long-forgotten duty request and wound up here: London on what in 1956 was called Christmas Island (now Kiribati). In August. 🏷️ #aviationhistory #royalairforce #kiribati 🏞️ 🛩️ ⚔️ 💺 📸 Navigator Dennis R.H. Hobbs | Royal Air Force (RAF) via Wikimedia Foundation in public domain.

The Shepherd | Destined to be a classic in its own right, this is an outstanding retelling of the famed Frederick Forsyth aviation fable set on Christmas Eve of 1957. It's a little hard to imagine there are red-blooded avgeeks amongst us who did not see 'The Shepherd' last Christmas. However, if you somehow missed it (and even if you didn't) do you have a treat in store for *this* Christmas. The trailer, with the link, will get you started. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gRtTb3rB 🏷️ #aviation #frederickforsyth #theshepherd 🏞️ 🛩️ ⚔️ 🎬 📸 Disney+ (The Walt Disney Company)

« EAA Homebuilders Week Kicks off January 27 | Returning yet again in 2025, EAA’s annual Homebuilders Week kicks off January 27 with 30 action-packed online classes highlighting the in’s and out’s of building your own airplane. » If your New Year's resolutions include finally getting a start on your lifelong dream of building your own aircraft, you're in luck. Cayla McLeod, writing for Kitplanes magazine, describes the upcoming series of seminars. Her article also includes the EAA registration link. Continue reading with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gag_X-aG 🏷️ #generalaviation #homebuiltaircraft #newyearsresolutions 🏞️ 🛩️ 📅 📸 Zenith Aircraft Company

« Solar-Powered Aircraft Achieves New Stratospheric Success | Latest flight trials take the British-built PHASA-35 High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) a step closer to operations in the stratosphere. » Excerpt: « During the first flight at Spaceport America® in New Mexico, US, in recent weeks, the solar powered aircraft flew for 24 hours climbing to more than 66,000 feet and cruising in the stratosphere, before successfully landing in a serviceable condition, meaning it was ready to fly again just two days later. » Read entire press with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g58nnHVD 🏷️ #highaltitudeplatformstation #solaraircraft #stratosphere 🏞️ 🛩️ 📡 🛰️ ⚡️ 📹 📰 📸 BAE Systems

« Purdue SAFE-RWSL Surveillance System Built to Prevent Airport Runway Incursions | Patent-pending, solar-powered system activates lights using widely available ADS-B data and computer vision modeling. » An interesting project out of Purdue (excerpt): « John H. Mott, Ph.D. is a professor and Luigi Dy is a doctoral student in Purdue University School of Aviation and Transportation Technology. They developed SAFE-RWSL and disclosed it to the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization, which has applied for a patent to protect the intellectual property. » Continue reading their press release with link. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ga-cm5en 🏷️ #aviationsafety #runwayincursion #technologycommercialisation 🏞️ 🛩️ 🏫 📰 📸 Luigi Raphael Dy | Purdue University