Isaac Alexander

Isaac Alexander

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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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Oh where oh where could I be?

Well I’ve survived my 51st rotation around the sun. Thank you everyone who’s been along for the journey. Here’s to the years ahead for always exploring and learning.

Stay up to date with the Hype Events calendar that now has 900+ upcoming aviation defense & space industry events. The industry's most comprehensive calendar. See future dates below for these events. EAA AirVenture Royal International Air Tattoo SmallSat hype.aero/events/

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Now available: DMs! Start a private conversation with a friend directly on Bluesky within the Chat tab. 💬 Update to the latest version of the app (1.83) or refresh on desktop to start chatting!

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“A Dornier Do X flying boat before its takeoff with 169 passengers aboard" (great archived hi-res photo gallery: web.archive.org/web/20160705...)

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In case you missed it last week, we published a roadmap of upcoming features! • DMs • Video • Improved custom feeds • Improved anti-harassment features • OAuth Read more in our 2024 product roadmap here:

Product Roadmap - Blueskybsky.social What’s coming next? Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing some long-requested features.

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I had some *thoughts* on the new "bipartisan" bill to "sunset Section 230" and the accompanying WSJ oped its authors released with the bill. You would not believe how many swear words I had to remove from the original draft. www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/b...

Bipartisan Bill To Repeal Section 230 Defended In Facts-Optional Op-Edwww.techdirt.com Section 230, the legal backbone of the internet, is under attack again. This time, it is from a bipartisan pair of legislators who seem to fundamentally misunderstand how the law works and what the…

#NorthernLights #GigHarbor

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You can share Bluesky posts on other sites, articles, newsletters, and more. ✍️ Here's a user guide on how to embed a Bluesky post on your website or blog!

How to embed a Bluesky post on your website or blog - Blueskybsky.social Share Bluesky posts on other sites, articles, newsletters, and more.

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We're always excited to welcome journalists and news organizations to Bluesky! 🗞️ Journalists have continuously been one of the backbones of social media. It's incredibly important to have a space for healthy real-time discussion. 📧 [email protected] 🙋 Press FAQ: bsky.social/about/blog/p...

Bluesky for Journalists - Blueskybsky.social

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Just shipped: Bluesky posts embeds! Now you can see Bluesky posts in their natural habitat. Simply right-click on the post you want to embed, or paste its URL in embed.bsky.app for the code snippet.

Forgotten Aviation First: 100 Years ago this Month, Four Planes Took Off from Seattle to Circle the Globe by Tom Banse www.postalley.org/2024/04/09/f...

Forgotten Aviation First: 100 Years ago this Month, Four Planes Took Off from Seattle to Circle the Globewww.postalley.org “It really is Seattle’s best kept secret in aviation that we played host to the first ever flight around the world,” said Elisa Law, executive director of Friends of Magnuson Park and centennial ce…

ATTENTION: If you want to want to get excited about aviation, watch this @YouTube video released this week from the @MyBCAM in Victoria BC Canada about the upcoming final flight this fall of the Martin Mars Hawaii Mars over Vancouver Island. youtu.be/vIZ6PJmjWM0?...

Wonderful news from Vancouver Island Canada today! 🇨🇦 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...

Martin Mars bomber coming to Victoria's B.C. Aviation Museumwww.timescolonist.com Getting the huge firefighting plane from Sproat Lake to the airport in North Saanich presents several hurdles.

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Audible partners with Amazon MGM Studios to co-produce TV series based on Audible Originals content; the titles will be shopped to Prime Video, MGM+, and others (Cynthia Littleton/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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China megaport builder hits back as Peru moves to scrap exclusivity deal https://on.ft.com/3xcHGgu

China megaport builder hits back as Peru moves to scrap exclusivity dealon.ft.com Lima reverses course on right to operate controversial Chancay project

WOW, aviation for the WIN!!! A successful heart transplant was performed after a 12 hour preservation aboard a commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Successful heart transplant after 12 h preservation aboard a commercial flightwww.thelancet.com For the first time, a heart transplant has been successfully performed after transport of a donor heart across the Atlantic Ocean, marking a substantial advancement in the realm of organ transplantation.

Amazing that 300+ media outlets/publications across the globe carried a story today about the changes in leadership of The Boeing Company. Boeing is truly a global company people know about worldwide. Here’s a list of articles on Hype. hypeaviation.com/story/boeing...

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Japan relaxes defence export rules to allow sales of new fighter jet https://on.ft.com/3vyYQ7l

Japan relaxes defence export rules to allow sales of new fighter jeton.ft.com Tokyo to allow transfer of supersonic aircraft under development with UK and Italy

UPDATE: Mitsubishi SpaceJet Exhibit To Open At The Aichi Aviation Museum in Japan. SpaceJet JA26MJ Last Flown in May 2020 Will Be Unveiled For Display in 2025. Happy that one airframe was saved! Photo taken below in Moses Lake May 2020. All four were scrapped. www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/chubu/...

Rockets at the Museum of Flight

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Boom Supersonic got XB-1 off the ground today in Mojave. Aircraft reached 7,120 ft. and a max speed of 246 kt (283 mph). But this has very, very little to do with its plans for Overture and commercial supersonic flight, which is still billions of dollars and years away. #AvGeek

XB-1 takes flight, beginning path to supersonicpaxex.aero Boom's XB-1 can fly. The

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This sign looks like it was created in response to a very specific incident

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VMFT-401 F-5N in the Felon Scheme landing at Yuma

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Found some interesting info regarding the USAF’s secretive 737 N365SR. According to this FAA data dump sourced and paid for by u/Gariac, N365SR is attached to Groom lake. @srplanespotter.bsky.social @taskforce23.bsky.social @zjhaviation.bsky.social

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www.savechandra.org is now live

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full post is here

Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?talkingpointsmemo.com Over the years I’ve written about structural problems in the digital news...

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illuminating graph here from @joshtpm.bsky.social on the complete collapse of the ads business for news sites bad management or no, this is a big reason why publication after publication is shutting down and why many of the remainders have shifted to a subscription focus

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So here's what I think about the set of new British Airways #PaxEx announcements, but I come back to my first point: why on earth bury a dozen pieces of news underneath what will run as the main news, "new seat for Eurobiz"? runwaygirlnetwork.com/2024/03/ba-c... #avgeek #travel

BA unveils Collins Meridian and free messaging as part of new PaxExrunwaygirlnetwork.com It’s curious when an airline combines a set of passenger experience updates together as a package, especially when some of the elements of the package...