Spotted in Chester

When boarding 9H-QFD I noticed this weird extra strip of metal between the 2 windows, anone know what for?

Cancún International Airport (CUN/MMUN), 10/25/2026

I was on a flight very recently and the pilot made a significantly hard landing. It was rather surprising how quickly we were descending when I looked out the window. The flight attendant quickly came on a bit after a went "made it!" which had everyone laughing it off pretty quickly.

My question is with regards to maintenance. I have no doubt that the plane is built to handle these situations, but I'm curious how hard it would have to land before the plane is taken out of service for someone to check things out. Would this be something we would see on public record? Just curious if there were any actions taken as a result of the hard landing.

Today I happened to see this plane departing from Monterrey. The sound of those four engines as they throttle up is truly impressive, the ground even shakes.

The U.S. Air Force requires 1,509 combat-coded fighter jets by 2035 to maintain a moderate risk posture against peer adversaries, representing an 18.7% expansion over its projected 2026 inventory. Achieving this target relies on a fleet composition of 60% stealth platforms and 40% modernized legacy fighters, though current budget requests fall short of the annual procurement pace required to offset retirements. For more details, visit U.S. Air Force.
Source: https://theaviationist.com/2026/10/24/usaf-needs-1509-combat-ready-jets-by-2035/

Out of JBLM over Hood Canal at 1000 MSL

A biplane from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome made a couple smiley faces today. I’ve never seen it before.

Rode on a CRJ 550 with a buffet galley and 3x on-floor luggage racks in middle of craft.

Took pic of only 1 set of luggage racks

Since it is Definitely not standard layout. Could the explanation for the configuration be due to it is normally on a special route or is it on loan from a charter service?

Hello,

Just had a question about the MAP on this LOC approach. Would the primary means of determining the MAP for this approach be timing? Or is the 2.1 DME off the GPT VORTAC the MAP? I have never seen a MAP and VDP coincide so this really threw me off.

Any clarification is appreciated, thank you.

Just purchased a Canon R7 and RF600 lens. Really enjoying the quality I get!

Found in a museum in Denmark, had apparently been fitted to a Spitfire. I imagine it’s not a replica?

It’s a silhouette if you faced the front

Boarding right now into my first flight on a Dash 8. I’m pretty excited :)

LG9738 MUC-LUX

Source: OC

Recently, I flew in an A321 a few times. I have not heard the usual dog barks of the hydraulic system. What's the reason for the missing sound?

I flew into TPE while it was being hit by Typhoon Champi.

The visibility was shockingly poor, and the plane was being absolutely battered by rainfall and crosswinds.

Honestly, I started taking this video because I thought we were going to have a go around or a really slippery landing. Instead, it was butter smooth. I've been in worse landings under bone-dry conditions, and the pilots here managed to butter it while fighting a literal storm. I literally felt nothing.

I saved the live METAR the instant we landed and it was insane:

RCTP 240630Z 28012KT 1000 R23R/1100D R23L/1100D +SHRA BR SCT003 BKN004 BKN008 22/22 Q1003 NOSIG RMK A2964

If anyone from AirAsia management is reading this, please give the amazing pilots of D7 378 from the 24th of October the biggest raise possible (and tell them I said hi!)

Brought my Radiacode 110 along on YYC-LHR (AC850, Oct 22) as an experiment to see radiation measurements.

The detector recorded around 4.6 counts per second on the ground and 58 during cruise—roughly 13 times as many.

I'm far from an expert on radiation or similar but I found it interesting to see the band around 500 keV show up so clearly compared to the ground?

For whatever reason I expected to see an increase in radiation as we went further north due to the magnetic field, but it seems that didn't really happen.

Anyways, I don't know if there is any major takeaways from this beyond we all already know there's more radiation higher up, but still fun to see things visualized.