i love a 737 that comes with its own defense #AvGeek pics up later 09-28-26

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Mysterious 'UFO' spotted on SpaceX livestream sparks wild alien theories: 'Looks like a mothership' trib.al/8pdHxyw

EQD boards are here! pogo pin for scale

Zoom in, there's a mini B-21 on the belly of the Raider.

RIP Mr Belding...... :(

It is with profound sadness the CHP announces the line-of-duty death of Officer Brian Liles of the Visalia Area. The 16-year CHP veteran, died following an on-duty traffic crash on SR-99 near Tipton on Sep. 28, 2026. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI are working to determine if a “new possible ransom note” in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is credible.

For my audience that only casually follows aviation, here’s the story that’s mind-blowing for us geeks & will eventually become a much bigger story for the public. The SR-71 is an icon. Elon Musk named one of his kids after the precursor to it. Every fanboy knows it & visiting one at a museum is awe-inspiring. Bringing one back to flying condition is something I never thought possible. On retirement, most jets are given to a museum in a way the military could conceivably return them to service, but some are deliberately disabled. The SR-71 was one of the latter. Except, apparently, for one. One that was pulled from display a few years ago. And now we hear they quietly recruited people that used to work on it, presumably to return it to flight. It’s like hearing that we’ve gone to Alabama & decided to rebuild the Saturn V rocket on display, we’ll pull an Apollo capsule from a museum & we’re going back to the moon. This will be a huge undertaking, but if true & they restore one to flight…I will fight like hell to be at the maiden flight. In that regard, since I don’t know where to actually submit an application, I am hereby formally tossing my hat in the ring to fly it. For my country.

going to need more peg board lolol

Ear muff it for me kids, but HO-LEE SH*T! Probably the first video ever to exist of a F-16 intercepting a Robinson R-44 helicopter. The R-44 maybe does 120 knots on a good day and the NORAD F-16 is on the brink of stalling enforcing the TFR. This is real world stuff, thank you very much to Thomas Fuller aka @IndySportsGuy28 for capturing such a event.

WELL, WELL, WELL. The missing Blackbird apparently has a job waiting for her. Remember NASA 844? The SR-71 that mysteriously disappeared from its display at Armstrong after 26 years? Aviation Week is now reporting that NASA has been contacting former SR-71 personnel and asking them to help put her back in the air. Not preserve her. Not move her to another museum. Return her to flight. NASA 844 is the last SR-71 ever built and the last Blackbird ever flown. Her final flight was October 9, 1999: Mach 3.21 at 80,100 feet. Bringing her back after nearly 27 years would be an extraordinary engineering undertaking. The aircraft is only one piece of the problem. NASA would effectively have to reconstruct portions of an entire support ecosystem that disappeared with the Blackbird program. Yes, I am doing the happy dance. Somewhere Kelly Johnson just looked over at Ben Rich and said, “See? I told you they’d need her again.” aviationweek.com/defense/air…

All the SR-71s were demilitarized before being sent to museums and that included cutting their main wing spars, rendering them unflyable. NASA kept #844 at Dryden (now Armstrong) and it was basically towed across the street, never undergoing the demil process.

I’ll be honest I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of us seeing a flying SR-71 again. @NASAAdmin I know I’m asking for a lot…. But in addition to photgraphing the Tomcat you’ve been hinting at I’d love to photograph the Blackbird taking back to the skies as well. Figure it doesn’t hurt to ask.

Working in the aviation business…i can’t even begin to tell you how nutty this is. The supply chain doesn’t exist. The guys who support and flew it are mostly either retired or dead. Every piece on the airplane is going to have to be inspected and reconditioned or replaced.

Imagine being B.F. Goodrich rep and getting a call from NASA or the Skunk Works: "Ever hear about the crazy aluminum-infused tires you guys built for us for the SR-71 Blackbird? No? Ok... Well, here's the wikpedia entry on the plane. Yeah... We need more of them."