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Isaac Alexander
@jetcitystar.bsky.social
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Chief Content Officer Hype.aero & EiC JetCityStar. ✈ Aviation , ➤ Defense & 🚀 Space News. Global Aerospace Chat & Global Military Aviation Chat Host
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20h
I am a day late for #spacetoberchallenge 's theme of "Artemis II". This is the 2nd planned installment for my Artemis patch mosaic project. There are some liberties taken with scale and how the astronauts would be actually positioned but I wanted to express the awe of the lunar flyby. #nasa
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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 2d
Seattle Space Week offered panels about the future of the Pacific Northwest space industry, happy hours ... and a sneak peek at Wave Motion Launch's prototype jet blaster in the back of a truck. www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...
Seattle Space Week offers tips for starry-eyed entrepreneurs — and a sneak peek at a hypersonic Jet Gun
What kind of weeklong tech event features a show-and-tell about a hypersonic jet blaster as well as a karaoke night? Seattle Space Week does.
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Will Guisbond @willguisbond.com · 3d
New from me: Duffy's message to controllers is shifting. Its gone from buying pizza for them to "Show up for work. You’ve got a job to do."

Watch this space as the shutdown develops.

Duffy to air traffic controllers: ‘Show up for work’ (via
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Duffy to air traffic controllers: ‘Show up for work’
Frustrated with staffing-induced delays, the secretary mixes his support with a stern warning
theaircurrent.com
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Talking Biz News @talkingbiznews.bsky.social · 4d
The Atlanta Business Chronicle has hired Natalie Bradin to cover aviation and business travel: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/a...
Atlanta Biz Chronicle hires Bradin to cover aviation and biz travel - Talking Biz News
The Atlanta Business Chronicle has hired Natalie Bradin to cover aviation and business travel. She will start later this month. Bradin interned at Bloomberg News this summer in New York. She also prev...
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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone have any theories as to what an FAA Challenger jet is doing flying over the Puget Sound region of Washington State this morning?
Flight tracker map
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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 3d
Argh. Thanks deleted
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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 4d
This stunning cloud of gas and dust forms part of the Carina Nebula. noirlab.edu/public/image... #astronomy

📷: Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Hartigan (Rice University). Proc: Patrick Hartigan (Rice University), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin
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Galaxy Map @galaxymap.bsky.social · 4d
I'm working on a huge VR astronomy world for Horizon Worlds and there are many maps (and a Star Cinema, and starships to travel the galaxy, and meeting space, and a cafe and ... much more).

I am redoing my maps to put the galactic centre towards the top for this VR app. Here is a revised 10 pc map.
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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 4d
Good interview with IAG CEO Luis Gallego in Spanish daily El Pais.

TL/DR: a potential TAP deal would give IAG a big boost in Brazil; Qatar Airways is IAG's main into-Asia strategy for now; and he is unconcered with Turkish's investment in Air Europa.
Luis Gallego (IAG): “La portuguesa TAP encaja mejor con nosotros que en Lufthansa y Air France-KLM”
El consejero delegado del grupo de Iberia y British Airways cree que no tendrá escollos en Bruselas como los que frenaron la toma de Air Europa
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AeroRoutes @aeroroutes.bsky.social · 5d
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines on 14OCT25 (US Time)'s schedule change will see the elimination of HA-coded flight numbers for flights on/after 22APR26.

Hawaiian Airlines will begin systemwide flight number changes on 26OCT25, focusing on flight number range HA800-1299.
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Robert Pearlman @collectspace.bsky.social · 4d
Hayley Arceneaux helped dedicate her own spacesuit on Tuesday (Oct. 7), as it went on display at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
From Inspiration4 to inspiration for patients: St Jude displays cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux's flown spacesuit
Hayley Arceneaux gave her patients a sneak peak at the new addition to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, prior to its unveiling. During a ceremony at the medical center, Arceneaux helped dedicate...
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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 6d
Firefly to acquire defense contractor SciTec in $855 million deal

The acquisition would expand Firefly’s footprint in the defense market, where Firefly is trying to capture opportunities in the Golden Dome program
Firefly to acquire defense contractor SciTec in $855 million deal
The acquisition would expand Firefly’s footprint in the defense market, where Firefly is trying to capture opportunities in the Golden Dome program
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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 6d
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 6d
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.
Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.
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Latin American Military Aviation @latinmilitaryav.bsky.social · 6d
Canada's secretary of state for defence procurement (and retired RCAF CF-18 pilot) says mixed fighter fleet is one option being considered
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Canada not angling to get out of F-35 contract with U.S., says head of defence procurement | CBC News
During an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr said he doesn’t think the federal government plans to get out of its contract to buy American...
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KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 7d
The story behind Dawn Patrol at the Balloon Fiesta
The story behind Dawn Patrol at the Balloon Fiesta
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Dawn Patrol has become one of the most important parts of the Balloon Fiesta. Starting in 1978 when two Californian balloonists developed a position lighting sy…
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Claire BooDro @abqclaire.bsky.social · 7d
2025 Balloon Fiesta
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Zach @thesecretbarn.bsky.social · 7d
Albuquerque balloon fiesta, Day 2
60+ hot air balloons, with a crowd of people in the foreground and the Sandia mountains in the background
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Deadward Sung @edwardsung.bsky.social · 7d
The Mist (2007, dir. Frank Darabont)
Big dragon balloon at the ABQ Balloon Fiesta
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JennaBlue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈⚢🟦🟧 @jennablue01.bsky.social · 7d
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2025
Mass Ascension
10-05-2025
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Tom Godfrey @godfreyguitar.bsky.social · 7d
A few photos and a short video from Balloon Fiesta this morning.
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Robert Macias @robertmacias.bsky.social · 6d
Balloon Fiesta chicken says hi
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owmc.bsky.social @owmc.bsky.social · 6d
Balloon Fiesta here in Albuquerque this week. Up at 3am to get to the balloon park, stand in enormous lines, get a cup of coffee, breakfast burrito, stand around in the cold, wait for the balloons to go up. All totally worth it. Just some quick phone snaps here #photography #hotairbaloons #newmexico
Hot air balloons rising in the predawn light Balloons blasting hot air as they rise above the launch field. Looking over an uninflated balloon as several more are filled waiting to rise in the background and more having lifted off. Hot air balloons aloft in the sky over Albuquerque.
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Rick @rickbookseller.bsky.social · 6d
Dawn Patrol at Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 🎈 😄
#albuquerqueinternationalballoonfiesta #albuquerque #photography #dawnpatrol #visitabq #fyp #sandiamountains #morning #hotairballoon #abq
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KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 6d
Day 2 Balloon Fiesta attendees talk breakfast burritos
Day 2 Balloon Fiesta attendees talk breakfast burritos
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Day two of Balloon Fiesta kicked off not with a bang, but with a torch. The green flag was raised at dawn, and hundreds of balloons took to the sky. This was after no bal…
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Bruce @brucesview.bsky.social · 6d
2025 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
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