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A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community. If made by people and flying between the surface and the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly. Read the current issue at https://blufly.media/2026/07/. (📸 Kris Tynski)

A brightly lit, blue Boeing Aerodynamic Efficiency Improvement Joint Wing Wind Tunnel Model is pictured directly nose-on while mounted inside a wind tunnel. ℹ️ 📸 Sean Smith | NASA Langley Research Center
A P-47 Thunderbolt, painted in military camouflage, is photographed from above while flying over a dry, desert-like landscape.
A B-25 Mitchell and P-38 Lightning, painted in military camouflage, are photographed from above as they fly over what appears to be an agricultural landscape.
The view out of the right side of a helicopter; the pilot shown on the left, and a photographer seated behind him in an open door.
A helicopter is pictured on a starry night adjacent to a small cottage beside a forest. The helicopter is lit from within with red and green light. ℹ️ 📸 ©2025 Jon Davison | Eye in the Sky Productions
Four of the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds shown in profile flying in formation, trailing display smoke, while flying in a gin-clear sky. ℹ️ 📸 Russ via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0. 🔗 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_snowbirds_flight_team_CT-114_tutor_(27306233326).jpg
A screenshot from the 1953 movie 'The War of the Worlds' depicting Jack Northrop's YB-49 in flight.
A montage of screenshots from the trailer. The main image is of a B-24 Liberator flying directly at the camera. The remaining photos are smaller.
A number of scale model aircraft are parked, nose to tail, across a well-manicured green field while a small number of spectators look on.
A group of mostly older men stand with their scale model airplanes on a runway at Meiringen, Switzerland in the summer of 2018.
A one-of-a-kind 'Silver Centenary’ biplane captured in flight while it flies directly towards the camera position, situated in another aircraft. A beachside town is in the background. ℹ️ 📸 ©2013 Jon Davison | Eye in the Sky Productions
A Cessna Citation CJ3+, N1RD, parked on a ramp. It is painted with an elaborate design featuring forty-six different colours in a 'staring eyes' motif.
A man, in a green field and looking at the camera, holds up the tail of a one-third scale Sopwith 1 1⁄2 Strutter model aircraft. ℹ️ (📸 British Model Flying Association)
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne. ℹ️ Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Oxford: Clarendon Press, in the public domain via Wikimedia.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne.
Fragment of a vintage map, part of a series of seventeen in a strip from Denmark to Sicily in the era of Jules Verne.
An aerial view of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, with the Toronto skyline in the background.
A Neste aircraft fueling tanker vehicle fuels an airliner with Finnair livery while parked at the gate at Helsinki Airport under a bright blue sky.
A woman in a trench coat and carrying a small bag approaches a Pilatus PC-12, C-GOHI, which is parked on an airport ramp.
A Gloster Meteor vintage military jet is shown in an air-to-photo taken in a sunrise/sunset sky. The tail of the photographer's aircraft is also visible.
A short video of the BlackSwift S0 fixed-wing drone illustrating how the wing rotates into place once dropped from the P-3 Hurricane Hunter. ℹ️ (📹 Black Swift Technologies)
A short video featuring a number of short cuts illustrating how the fixed-wiing BlackSwift S0 drone is deployed from the P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft. ℹ️ (📹 Black Swift Technologies)
A paraglider pilot sprints down a slope of about thirty degrees. The windsock, pictured on the left, is stretched straight out, indicating high wind. ℹ️ Original caption from source: « Aaron Durogati performs during the Red Bull 24-Hour Hike-and-Fly World Record in Oye, Norway on June 8, 2026. » (📸 Daniele Molineris | Red Bull Content Pool)
A Britten-Norman Islander high-wing, twin-engine aircraft painted mostly in yellow-green primer, is shown under construction in a clean, well-lit hangar in Bembridge, UK. ℹ️ 📸 Britten-Norman Aerospace
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
A Turbine Legend photographed outside a hangar. The cowl is off and reveals a disproportionately large turboprop powerplant. It is of retractable, taildragger configuration.
A Turbine Legend photographed outside a hangar. The cowl is off and reveals a disproportionately large turboprop powerplant. It is of retractable, taildragger configuration.
A Turbine Legend photographed outside a hangar. The cowl is off and reveals a disproportionately large turboprop powerplant. It is of retractable, taildragger configuration.
A Turbine Legend photographed outside a hangar. The cowl is off and reveals a disproportionately large turboprop powerplant. It is of retractable, taildragger configuration.
A Turbine Legend photographed outside a hangar. The cowl is off and reveals a disproportionately large turboprop powerplant. It is of retractable, taildragger configuration.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
A satellite image of the town of Tandel, Luxembourg, show the landing place for the Atlantic Explorer.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.
Fragment of an aeronautical chart, which is part of a series of thirty-two in a strip from the Canadian border to south of Portland, Oregon.