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The Spirit SE-1 Left Grand Junction CO Early Sunday Morning One of the more pleasant aspects of working here at ANN, as well as being SUN n FUN’s media partner, are the questions we get about what to expect for the coming year’s event. It covers a lot of ground… warbirds, airshow performers, how to fly in… you name it. BUT, the most frequent question we’ve heard this year is this… is the Spirit SE-1 coming to Lakeland? For those of you who have been hiding in caves in lower Botswana for the past year, the Spirit SE-1 was the…

Aero Linx: Mission Safety International (MSI) As an independent third party, Mission Safety International is able to provide critical educational and consulting services to missions and related agencies so that they can do their job safely and more effectively. MSI’s deepest desire is to see improvement in missionary aviation operational safety so that every dollar and every effort committed to a ministry goes into effective outreach.

Downburst A strong downdraft which induces an outburst of damaging winds on or near the ground. Damaging winds, either straight or curved, are highly divergent. The sizes of downbursts vary from 1/2 mile or less to more than 10 miles. An intense downburst often causes widespread damage. Damaging winds, lasting 5 to 30 minutes, could reach speeds as high as 120 knots.

The Customs and Border Protection describes the P-3 AEW as the world’s only law enforcement airborne radar aircraft, supporting the anti-smuggling and border protection mission. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection P-3 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft, used for tracking small boats smuggling narcotics in Pacific and Caribbean waters around Central America, was spotted at California’s Long Beach Airport. The P-3 AEW, as the CBP designates it, is the world’s only airborne radar used for law-enforcement. Aviation photo journalist Matthew Dawson, a contributor at SkyBlazer Magazine who shared a video of the aircraft taxiing and taking off on…

The 357th Fighter Squadron graduated its last A-10C Thunderbolt II student pilots at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, marking the end of an era for the sole formal training unit for A-10 pilots. The U.S. Air Force has now ended the training of new A-10C Thunderbolt II pilots, in another step towards the retirement of the aircraft. In fact, on Apr. 3, 2026, the 357th Fighter Squadron graduated the last class of A-10 student pilots at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The students completed their mission qualification training in mid-March, according to images released by the service on the DVIDS network…

It amazes me how bad Lufthansa management is at labor relations, despite the top brass at the company somehow priding themselves in being good at this. I just don’t get it. Strikes shut down Lufthansa for five of seven days Let’s not beat around the bush — Lufthansa has some labor relations issues, and things are getting rough: So for those keeping track at home, the two strikes will mostly ground Lufthansa for four consecutive days, and for five days over a period of seven days. A vast majority of flights departing Germany are expected to be canceled. The issue…

There’s no denying that hotels take quite some liberties with how they market themselves. There’s no global regulatory body that decides whether a hotel is a five-star property, or if it’s boutique. So I’d like to talk about that in a bit more detail in this post — what exactly is a boutique hotel, and how have we gotten to the point where the term basically means nothing anymore? What I consider to be a boutique hotel In the hospitality industry, “boutique” is a phrase that has been increasingly used to describe hotels. The way I view it, there are…

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here.The U.S. military is paving the way for the regular deployment of high-energy laser weapons on American soil for air defense amid the expanding threat of low-cost weaponized drones.The Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Defense Department have reached a “landmark safety agreement” regarding the use of laser weapons to counter unauthorized drones at the US-Mexico border following a safety assessment that concluded such countermeasures “do not pose undue risk to passenger aircraft,” the FAA announced Friday.The assessment and…

We’re seeing quite some nice improvements to the long haul business class products of major airlines in the United States. We recently saw American introduce its new Flagship Suite business class, and United is also rolling out its new Polaris business class, and next up it’s Delta’s turn. While we’ve had a good sense of what to expect thanks to leaks from JonNYC, Delta has today officially unveiled its new business class product, which will debut on the upcoming Airbus A350-1000. With United stealing the limelight as of late with passenger experience innovations, it’s nice to see something from Delta.…

Delta has made some exciting passenger experience announcements today. In addition to revealing its new business class suites that will be available on upcoming Airbus A350-1000s, the airline has also announced plans to retrofit its Airbus A330-200/300s with a new (but different) business class product. Delta A330-200/300s getting new business class suites Delta has plans to retrofit the interiors of its entire fleet of Airbus A330ceos. Specifically, the airline has 11 A330-200s and 31 A330-300s, and they’re an average of a little over 18 years old. These planes don’t have the newest interiors, and in particular, have pretty outdated reverse…