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Terence C. Gannon
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Managing Editor, BluFly Media (@blufly.media) the humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community.
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… into this confined space look easy. It wasn't, I'm sure. Whether it was scheduled or not I don't known, but one of the Griffons was getting a little TLC from its crew. I'm always filled with pride and respect when I see these outstanding folks do our nation's heavy lifting. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 2/3
A red and yellow helicopter is parked on the ramp at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on the afternoon of October 19, 2025. It is tentatively identified as CH-146 Griffon from 417 Combat Support Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force flying out of Cold Lake, Alberta. It is marked with RCAF insignia and has the words « Canada » and « RESCUE SAUVETAGE » painted on the side of the main part of the fuselage. The helicopter is pointed away from the camera and slightly to the right, facing the taxiway adjacent to the main east/west runway. A number of crew can be seen. A crew member is also up on top of the helicopter, working near the main rotor. A number of the rotor tower cowlings have been removed to provide access. A subdivision and rolling hills are visible in the distance. The sky is mostly blue with streaky white clouds. It is sunny but based on the dress of the crew, quite chilly.
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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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...
Two red and yellow helicopters are parked on the ramp at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on the afternoon of October 19, 2025. They are tentatively identified as CH-146 Griffons from 417 Combat Support Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force flying out of Cold Lake, Alberta. They are marked with RCAF insignia and have the words « Canada » and « RESCUE SAUVETAGE » painted on the side of the main part of the fuselage. The two helicopters are pointed to the right, facing the taxiway adjacent to the main east/west runway. This orients them pointing toward the right side of the frame. Beyond the helicopter nearest the camera, the legs of a number of crew can be seen. A crew member is also up on top of the helicopter, working near the main rotor. A number of the rotor tower cowlings have been removed to provide access. A subdivision and rolling hills are visible in the distance. The sky is mostly blue with streaky white clouds. It is sunny but based on the dress of the crew, quite chilly.
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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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. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
A Pilatus PC-12 with registration « N83WA » is parked on the visitor ramp adjacent to the terminal waiting area at Springbank Airport (CYBW) near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the afternoon of October 19, 2025. The aircraft is pointing away from the camera, but the left side of the fuselage is still visible. The fuselage is painted in a graphic scheme of silver, black, and medium blue. The colour of the flying surfaces of the aircraft is indistinct from this angle. A small Swiss flag is painted on the vertical stabiliser. The sky is broken cloud. A subdivision and rolling hills are visible in the distance.
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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. | 🛩️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦
A Sikorsky EH-60A Black Hawk is pictured while parked on the ramp at Springbank Airport (CYBW) near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the afternoon of October 15, 2025. It is pointed to the right of the frame and slightly toward the camera. It is in civilian livery consisting of a curvilinear graphic pattern of dark grey, orange, and white. The civilian registration « N372AA » is painted in black, block letters on the tail boom. The word « HELIQWEST » is painted on the area just below the main rotor. A small US flag is painted on the fuselage near the open door. A small, monochrome, Canadian flag is painted just above it. The large passenger/cargo door on the right side of the fuselage is slid to the fully open position. Three people in dark clothing are milling around the front of the aircraft. It's a sunny day with blue skies interrupted only by high, streaky cloud in the distance. In the background, beyond the airport, are rolling hills of green and brown.
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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...
An oval image of two election workers standing beside a ballot box superimposed over a zoomed-in map of the area at 85th and Bow Trail in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A pin marks St. Michael's Church where the polling place was located. Two dotted lines join the pin with the image. (📸 Images montaged from sources on the Elections Calgary website)
October 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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...
Two baguette-style loaves of bread on a wooden cutting board, which, in turn, is on a black countertop. A tile backsplash is visible in the background.
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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From @lochansmill.bsky.social writing for @theorkneynews.bsky.social: « When did we stop being nice? » Mr. Ross perfectly captures and parses my own confusion and profound dysphoria regarding the fraught times in which we find ourselves. Well worth reading. | 🍁 | 🔗 theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/04/w...
A waterfront scene of Stromness in the Orkney Islands, UK. It's a sunny day with a blue sky and streaks of high, thin clouds. Original caption from source: « The town of Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. The two church buildings are clearly visible. The one with the spire on the right is the former North Church converted into a Town Hall. » (📸 Geoff Wong via Wikimedia under Attribution 2.0 Generic)
October 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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
A cooked pizza is pictured on a stove top with ingredients as per post.
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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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
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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
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The exquisite, namesake car in all its eighties, big hair, technopop glory. Viva l'Italia. | 🇮🇹 | 🧵 2/2 | 🔗 www.lamborghini.com?utm_source=t...
A red Lamborghini Countach at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on May 2, 2025. The driver's side door is open, as is the engine cover in the rear.
September 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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...
A sleeve of Nespresso-compatible coffee branded as Tonino Lamborghini. It's basically a black box with the words « Tonino Lamborghini » written in the signature Lamborghini script. The Lambo logo is to the left. Below the script are the words « ESPRESS BLACK ». ON the right side of the box's face, it says « 'If I can't give you Italy, I will give you a taste of it!' followed by the signature of Tonino Lamborghini. The box is on a dark grey countertop, which reflects the face of the box, with a tile backsplash in the background. Some shiny kitchen implements are visible in the top left corner of the frame.
September 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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
A cooked pizza is pictured on a stove top with ingredients as per post.
September 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The 'mystery' pepper plant was a gift from a kind neighbour with a shorthand label, so I'm not sure exactly what it is. However, it trends towards green rather than hot pepper in flavour. Perhaps a passerby here on Bluesky can help identify it? | 🧵 2/2
A long, green pepper on a wooden chopping board.
August 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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
A cooked pizza is pictured on a stove top with ingredients as per post.
August 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
A Van's Aircraft RV-7A is parked on the ramp at Springbank Airport (CYBW) near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the afternoon of August 24, 2025. It's canopy cover is on, so it is here for at least an overnight stay, it seems. It is pointing away and to the right of the camera position. The aircraft is polished aluminum with the registration number « C-FRVR » painted in black, block letters on the side of the fuselage. There are a few red accents on the tips of the flying surfaces and nose of the aircraft. The grass adjacent to the ramp, in the foreground, is long, green and lush-looking. The sky above is gin-clear blue. A large hangar is visible to the right of the aircraft.
August 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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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
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… seven and a half minutes at 500°F with convection. Pictured here shortly before it quickly vanished without a trace. | 🧵 2/2
A cooked pizza is pictured on a stove top with ingredients as per post, except sliced into eight roughly equal pieces.
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
A cooked pizza is pictured on a stove top with ingredients as per post.
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
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Okay, so this is the first time seeing one of these at Springbank: a Game Aerospace GB1 'GameBird'. You'll definitely want to turn the sound up for this one. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
August 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Those with direct knowledge of the subject may be able to confirm this is some sort of test program, as tracked by @flightradar24.com. | 🛩️ | 🧵 2/2 | 🔗 www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf...
A map of Southern Alberta with a flight track superimposed on it with a green line. The flight begins and ends at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the afternoon of August 17, 2025. The flight was conducted south of the airport down as far as Fort Macleod, Alberta.
August 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The 'Turbine Legend' flies! Back at the beginning of July, the first flight was imminent, and now it's already part of this magnificent aircraft's history. | 🛩️ 📹 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/2
August 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This Diamond Aircraft DA62 had at least one cowl off and was doing some engine testing yesterday at Springbank. The Austro diesel aircraft engines run on jet fuel and make a wonderful purring sound when at idle, as was the case in this shot. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
A royal blue and silver Diamond Aircraft DA62 is shown in profile in front of a blue hangar with red doors. The registration number « N259SS » is painted in colour-keyed silver on the upper, blue region of the fuselage. The aircraft is pointed to the right. The right engine cowl has been removed and the engine is running. A man is positioned to the right of the aircraft and is looking at it. A tow bar is attached to the nose landing gear and then, in turn, the tow bar is attached to a small white vehicle. A pilot is seated in the cockpit. The sky, visible to the right of the hangar, is almost overcast along with embedded cumulus clouds. It looks like there is a possibility of some rain. This image was captured at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the afternoon of August 14, 2025.
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Is Taylor Swift 🎶 in town? Actually, no, but it's nice to know that when she does come to Calgary, she can slip unobtrusively into Springbank and avoid all the paparazzi. 📸 Except Michelle and I. We'll be there. In fact, if she lets us know ahead of time, we'll put the kettle 🫖 on. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦
A Dassault Falcon 900 is parked on the ramp at Springbank Airport (CYBW) in the afternoon of August 10, 2025. The aircraft is mostly white on the upper surfaces of the aircraft and grey on the lower surfaces. The two colour regions are separated by curvy, graphic stripes. The registration number, « N900MY », is painted on the nacelle of the third engine mounted above the fuselage at the tail of the aircraft.
August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM