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Visual Content Manager @WoodlandParkZoo. Mechanical ornithologist, C-list aviation personality and freelance content producer.
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Random aviation photos of the day: FAA Convair 580| Boeing Field, WA | 2010 Despite a 62yr career entirely with the FAA, surprisingly few photos of this bird exist. It was originally built as a C-131 for the USAF in '57, wound up as an NTU, converted to a -580 and picked up by the FAA in 1958.

Random aviation photo of the day: US Government Lockheed P-3 (WP-3D) | Boeing Field, Seattle | 2014

Random aviation photo of the day: SAS Airbus A340-300 | Seattle-Tacoma, WA | 2009 file:///D:/Temp%20Download/49763183206_3e971d3631_b.jpg

I mean look, we have a pretty bloated defense budget in the US, so I'm all for some big cuts here. But also these are the same guys that fired the folks that maintain our nuclear bombs because they didn't care enough to learn anything about the department they decimated (NNSA). Sooooo.

Does Duffy know what mass transit is? Does he think it's a bunch of Blade helicopters cruising through the old NYC train tunnels?

Random aviation photo of the day: Shuttle by United Boeing 737-500| Boston Logan | 2007

Or @governorferguson.bsky.social could show some brass, demand any sort of wealth tax from the legislature, fight through the lawsuits that might follow, and actually be able to pay for state services like schools.

Random film negative of the day: Delta Air Lines B757-200 | Hartford, CT | late 90s

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Random aviation photo of the day: Boeing Company Flight Line (misc B737s) | Boeing Field, Seattle | 2009

It is not, in fact, required to put this obviously bullshit pretense up at the top of every DOGE story

Even more airTran

Random aviation photo of the day: airTran Boeing 717 | Boston Logan | 2009

Yes yes yes yes yes

This would be hilariously ignorant if it weren’t also stupidly dangerous.

Random aviation photo of the day: Cathay Pacific Airbus A340-300| Vancouver YVR | 2010

Rick Steves with the sly burn on FRA wasn’t on my Valentine’s Day bingo card.

Not very random piece of aviation history of the day: Delta Air Lines | Ad: "Delta's Heart is in the South" | 1951

Fitz the jaguar, Valentine's Day edition. #catsofseattle @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social

Random aviation photo of the day: Boeing Company B777-9X | Paine Field, WA | 2019