Terence C. Gannon
@terencecgannon.com
Managing Editor, BluFly Media (@blufly.media) the humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community.
Tell you what: when you’re done with all of this, give us a call. | 🍁
a young boy is jumping in the air while playing with a ball .
Alt: A young boy is having a tantrum while on a golf green.
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Tell you what: when you’re done with all of this, give us a call. | 🍁
My reaction to that publicity stunt yesterday. | 🏀
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Alt: A black-and-white GIF of the scene in Casablanca where Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) says to Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), “I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here”.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My reaction to that publicity stunt yesterday. | 🏀
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We're pleased to formally announce our brand-new imprint dedicated to bringing back the classics. The best part? Avergreen articles feature a pristine format optimised for the human reading experience. Watch for the 🌲 emojitag in the near future, for the very best of legacy aviation writing. | 🛩️ 🥇
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October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're pleased to formally announce our brand-new imprint dedicated to bringing back the classics. The best part? Avergreen articles feature a pristine format optimised for the human reading experience. Watch for the 🌲 emojitag in the near future, for the very best of legacy aviation writing. | 🛩️ 🥇
Two CH-146 Griffons, which I believe were from 417 Combat Support Squadron out of Cold Lake, made an appearance at Springbank yesterday afternoon. Despite the gusty, swirling winds, the outstanding pilots made slipping these brawny helicopters … | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 www.canada.ca/en/air-force...
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Two CH-146 Griffons, which I believe were from 417 Combat Support Squadron out of Cold Lake, made an appearance at Springbank yesterday afternoon. Despite the gusty, swirling winds, the outstanding pilots made slipping these brawny helicopters … | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 www.canada.ca/en/air-force...
These Pilatus' PC-12s are really elegant-looking aircraft. Also, I can somehow imagine a through line from my own modest piloting accomplishments to at least the right seat in one of these. Probably not, but I'd like to think it might be so, regardless. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
These Pilatus' PC-12s are really elegant-looking aircraft. Also, I can somehow imagine a through line from my own modest piloting accomplishments to at least the right seat in one of these. Probably not, but I'd like to think it might be so, regardless. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
You don't see one of these every day, at least not around here: a @sikorskyair.bsky.social EH-60A Black Hawk in civilian livery. Spotted today at Springbank. | 🛩️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You don't see one of these every day, at least not around here: a @sikorskyair.bsky.social EH-60A Black Hawk in civilian livery. Spotted today at Springbank. | 🛩️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦
Just another election in 'no drama Canada': well-organized, well-trained, and pleasant staff with a substantial number of chatty voters patiently waiting in line. In and out in five minutes. There is absolutely no reason not to vote, folks! | 🍁 🗳️ | 🔗 www.electionscalgary.ca/for-voters/w...
October 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just another election in 'no drama Canada': well-organized, well-trained, and pleasant staff with a substantial number of chatty voters patiently waiting in line. In and out in five minutes. There is absolutely no reason not to vote, folks! | 🍁 🗳️ | 🔗 www.electionscalgary.ca/for-voters/w...
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This month, Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com leads off with this month's barnstorming-themed cover photo triggering him to soliloquise about his not-yet-written screen adaptation of Richard Bach's 'Nothing by Chance'. But he could use your help. (📸 Richard 'Zulu' Souza | Full Disc Aviation) | 🛩️
BluFly 🛩️ | October, 2025 | In The Air
« I fell in love with the picture before I knew either where or when it was taken. That it turned out to be tied in with barnstorming is karma … »
blufly.media
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This month, Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com leads off with this month's barnstorming-themed cover photo triggering him to soliloquise about his not-yet-written screen adaptation of Richard Bach's 'Nothing by Chance'. But he could use your help. (📸 Richard 'Zulu' Souza | Full Disc Aviation) | 🛩️
My third go 'round with sourdough baguettes from a Sylvia Fountaine recipe found on her 'Feasting at Home' site. Made with Organic Unbleached Bread Flour from The Scottish Mill. The only tweak was to add some diastatic malt powder as per Maurizio Leo. | 🥖 | 🔗 www.feastingathome.com/sourdough-ba...
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My third go 'round with sourdough baguettes from a Sylvia Fountaine recipe found on her 'Feasting at Home' site. Made with Organic Unbleached Bread Flour from The Scottish Mill. The only tweak was to add some diastatic malt powder as per Maurizio Leo. | 🥖 | 🔗 www.feastingathome.com/sourdough-ba...
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Olivieri® 🍁 Classic alfredo sauce; sliced barbecue chicken with Weber® Kick ‘n Chicken® seasoning; pre-cooked and crumbled Greenfield bacon; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; cup 'n char pepperoni from Lina's Italian Market 🍁; sliced red onion; … | 🧵 1/2
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Olivieri® 🍁 Classic alfredo sauce; sliced barbecue chicken with Weber® Kick ‘n Chicken® seasoning; pre-cooked and crumbled Greenfield bacon; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; cup 'n char pepperoni from Lina's Italian Market 🍁; sliced red onion; … | 🧵 1/2
Look who's back in town: the 2Solitude 'Airshow Camper' conversion of an Antonov AN-2 captured yesterday at Springbank. | 🛩️ 🦆 📹 📍 🇨🇦 | 🔗 www.2solitude.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Look who's back in town: the 2Solitude 'Airshow Camper' conversion of an Antonov AN-2 captured yesterday at Springbank. | 🛩️ 🦆 📹 📍 🇨🇦 | 🔗 www.2solitude.com
Hey, NBC Sports: just so you know, the fans at the Ryder Cup are rendering your coverage unwatchable. | 🤡
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Hey, NBC Sports: just so you know, the fans at the Ryder Cup are rendering your coverage unwatchable. | 🤡
Picked this up at Lina's Market Hall yesterday evening. I may not be able to afford the car, but at least I can afford the coffee. | ☕️ | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 toninolamborghinicanada.ca?utm_source=t...
September 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Picked this up at Lina's Market Hall yesterday evening. I may not be able to afford the car, but at least I can afford the coffee. | ☕️ | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 toninolamborghinicanada.ca?utm_source=t...
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If you'd like a feed with nothing but military aviation or, conversely, a feed with everything but, we have two new @bsky.app Custom Feeds for your perusal. Or perhaps you like your aircraft motorless? If so, we have a Custom Feed for that, too. Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com explains. | 🛩️ ⚔️
BluFly 🛩️ | September, 2025 | Feeding Frenzy
« Having built up a track record of nearly 4,000 Bluesky posts … BluFly is finally at the point where some bespoke, aviation-specific Custom Feeds are in order. »
blufly.media
September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you'd like a feed with nothing but military aviation or, conversely, a feed with everything but, we have two new @bsky.app Custom Feeds for your perusal. Or perhaps you like your aircraft motorless? If so, we have a Custom Feed for that, too. Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com explains. | 🛩️ ⚔️
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Cirio pizza sauce; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; fontina; cheddar; pre-rendered Piller's 🍁 cooked and chopped chorizo; Venetian 🍁 dry-cured pepperoni; … | 🧵 1/2
September 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Cirio pizza sauce; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; fontina; cheddar; pre-rendered Piller's 🍁 cooked and chopped chorizo; Venetian 🍁 dry-cured pepperoni; … | 🧵 1/2
This is quite stunning: Boeing announces Westjet's order for sixty 737-10s with options for an additional twenty-five, along with seven 787-9 jets with options for an additional four. According to Boeing's press release (below), it's Westjet's largest single order ever. | 🛩️
Boeing and WestJet Announce the Airline's Largest-Ever Order for 67 Airplanes
Boeing [NYSE:BA] and WestJet today announced the Canadian airline is buying 67 more Boeing jets, bringing its firm order book to 123 airplanes as the carrier plans to expand its fleet and domestic...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is quite stunning: Boeing announces Westjet's order for sixty 737-10s with options for an additional twenty-five, along with seven 787-9 jets with options for an additional four. According to Boeing's press release (below), it's Westjet's largest single order ever. | 🛩️
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It's a new month 💥 and September, for Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com, will forever mean one thing: the Reno Air Races. 🏁 He also announces some exciting new Custom Feeds, toys with the idea of a BluFly mailing list, and explains the new, slimmed-down profile name. (📸 Don Ramey Logan) | 🛩️ 🥇
September, 2025
A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.
blufly.media
September 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It's a new month 💥 and September, for Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com, will forever mean one thing: the Reno Air Races. 🏁 He also announces some exciting new Custom Feeds, toys with the idea of a BluFly mailing list, and explains the new, slimmed-down profile name. (📸 Don Ramey Logan) | 🛩️ 🥇
An outstanding review of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel ‘Rebecca’ on @velshi.com’s ‘Banned Book Club’ today, including a thoroughly engaging conversation with @egangoonsquad.bsky.social. TV thoroughly worth watching. | 📺 📚 | 🧵 1/2
Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier with Jennifer Egan
Daphne Du Maurier's “Rebecca” is now 87 years old, it is an immediate best-seller, never once taken out of print, and one of the best examples of Gothic literature of all time. It has also inspired ma...
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August 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
An outstanding review of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel ‘Rebecca’ on @velshi.com’s ‘Banned Book Club’ today, including a thoroughly engaging conversation with @egangoonsquad.bsky.social. TV thoroughly worth watching. | 📺 📚 | 🧵 1/2
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Mutti Classic pizza sauce; Piller's 🍁 cooked and chopped chorizo; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; red onion; mystery homegreen pepper; fennel seed, all baked on a heat-soaked stone for seven and a half minutes at 500°F with convection. | 🧵 1/2
August 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Mutti Classic pizza sauce; Piller's 🍁 cooked and chopped chorizo; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; red onion; mystery homegreen pepper; fennel seed, all baked on a heat-soaked stone for seven and a half minutes at 500°F with convection. | 🧵 1/2
I'll sleep well at night knowing the next generation of Albertans' knowledge of the world is based on the Hardy Boys, World Book Encyclopedia, and Roget's Thesaurus. | 🤦🏻♂️
List of books slated for removal from Edmonton school libraries contains ‘significant works of literature’: former trustee
Several award-winning books may be removed from Edmonton public school libraries amid new rules from the provincial Ministry of Education and Childcare.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'll sleep well at night knowing the next generation of Albertans' knowledge of the world is based on the Hardy Boys, World Book Encyclopedia, and Roget's Thesaurus. | 🤦🏻♂️
Even though they were completed fifty-six years apart, the builders of both this RV-7A and the previously posted 'Bird Dog' chose the same paint(less) scheme. Not only does leaving your rivet work exposed take guts and lots of elbow grease, it absolutely never gets old. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
August 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Even though they were completed fifty-six years apart, the builders of both this RV-7A and the previously posted 'Bird Dog' chose the same paint(less) scheme. Not only does leaving your rivet work exposed take guts and lots of elbow grease, it absolutely never gets old. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
If the exquisite 'Praetor 500' in my previous Springbank post represents one end of the General Aviation spectrum, then this 'Bird Dog' likely represents the other; the one warbird I would have a fighting chance of flying with my measly ~100 hours of flight experience. | 🛩️ 📹 ⚔️ 📍 🇨🇦
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If the exquisite 'Praetor 500' in my previous Springbank post represents one end of the General Aviation spectrum, then this 'Bird Dog' likely represents the other; the one warbird I would have a fighting chance of flying with my measly ~100 hours of flight experience. | 🛩️ 📹 ⚔️ 📍 🇨🇦
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Mutti Classic pizza sauce; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; fennel seed; homemade hot peppers; Piller's 🍁 Cup 'n Char pepperoni; crushed red pepper flakes all baked on a heat-soaked stone for … | 🧵 1/2
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; Mutti Classic pizza sauce; Armstrong 🍁 mozzarella; fennel seed; homemade hot peppers; Piller's 🍁 Cup 'n Char pepperoni; crushed red pepper flakes all baked on a heat-soaked stone for … | 🧵 1/2
Delighted to hear the tariffs have been removed from the orange juice 🍊 I will not, in a million years, ever drink again. | 🍁
a woman in a black dress is sitting at a table with a glass of orange juice .
Alt: a woman in a black dress is sitting at a table with a glass of orange juice that she throws over her shoulder.
media.tenor.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Delighted to hear the tariffs have been removed from the orange juice 🍊 I will not, in a million years, ever drink again. | 🍁
An unexpected visit from an Embraer 'Praetor 500' at Springbank yesterday afternoon. Turns out it was simply waiting for an empty slot at CYYC, so they could reposition when one was available later in the evening. So question for Air Sprint, the aircraft's operator: when … | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/3
August 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An unexpected visit from an Embraer 'Praetor 500' at Springbank yesterday afternoon. Turns out it was simply waiting for an empty slot at CYYC, so they could reposition when one was available later in the evening. So question for Air Sprint, the aircraft's operator: when … | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/3