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Matt Hintsa

@MattHintsa

Higher ed communicator | aviation, travel, photography | 🇨🇦🇺🇸

 Toronto, Ontario
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Joined February 2008
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Good morning, Toronto ☁️
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Truly incredible thread by a global security editor at Politico.
Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) profile pictureDave Brown@dave_brown2418 Sep 2025
Those are F/A-18 Hornets flown by the Navy and Marine Corps
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Congrats to fellow @cornellsun alum (and Torontonian) @katieengelhart! @CornellAlumni
The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) profile pictureThe Pulitzer Prizes@PulitzerPrizes6 May 2024
Replying to @PulitzerPrizes @hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost
Congratulations to @katieengelhart, @nytimes and @NYTmag. #Pulitzer
Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times, has received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.

ALT Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times, has received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.

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The A220 is the only plane I can very clearly hear through closed windows when YYZ arrivals pass over at 5–7,000 feet 🐋
Josh (@ThatSillyGinge) profile pictureJosh@ThatSillyGinge17 Jan 2024
The whale noise / Chewbacca mating call that the C Series / A220 makes is ridiculous. In my flat I cannot hear any noise of any aircraft other than that bizarre warble of those engines.
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Anyone have a time machine? What a sight.
Vintage Toronto YYZ (@YYZLounge) profile pictureVintage Toronto YYZ
@YYZLounge1 Sep 2023
Concorde at Toronto Airshow 1987
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Are we going to start calling it “the T” like Boston, too? 🤔
Reece Martin (@RM_Transit) profile pictureReece Martin@RM_Transit26 Jul 2023
So it appears the T signage is happening, frankly I am happy. We should have a unified transit symbol across the region.
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A train to @TheTorngats? I’d take it.
lumberjack "migrate off this platform" wharfie (@lumbjackwharfie) profile picturelumberjack "migrate off this platform" wharfie@lumbjackwharfie20 Jul 2023
hey guys check out my thoroughly researched Amtrak expansion proposal
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A smoky sunset over Toronto Pearson airport tonight #ONwx
Sunset over Toronto Pearson airport's Terminal 1. The top half of the sun is visible, and the bottom half is hidden by smoke and clouds.

ALT Sunset over Toronto Pearson airport's Terminal 1. The top half of the sun is visible, and the bottom half is hidden by smoke and clouds.

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Had to use manual focus because autofocus couldn't lock on to any part of the skyline 😵‍💫 #ONSmoke
Faintly visible Toronto skyline including the CN Tower in thick wildfire smoke

ALT Faintly visible Toronto skyline including the CN Tower in thick wildfire smoke

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Memories of July 2021 (but the autofocus worked that time) xitter.gq/MattHintsa/status/1417…
Matt Hintsa (@MattHintsa) profile pictureMatt Hintsa@MattHintsa20 Jul 2021
It's...uh...smoky out there. #ONwx
Toronto's skyline shrouded in wildfire smoke

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This is CT erasure
Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) profile pictureTerrible Maps
@TerribleMaps28 May 2023
Pizza in America
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New go-to background listening? Live ATC layered over lo-fi ✈️🎶 #avgeek lofiatc.com/?icao=CYYZ

Listen to live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hop

Live radio from SFO, LAX, and other airports...

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Long live the Q400
A side-on view of a Horizon Air Dash 8-400 with a special Oregon State University livery taking off in rainy conditions from Portland International Airport in Oregon.

ALT A side-on view of a Horizon Air Dash 8-400 with a special Oregon State University livery taking off in rainy conditions from Portland International Airport in Oregon.

Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) profile pictureFlightradar24
@flightradar2427 Jan 2023
The number of airlines in the United States with turboprops in their fleet shrinks by 1 this evening as @AlaskaAir subsidiary Horizon Air operates its final Dash 8 flight. flightradar24.com/QXE2400/2e…
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VARIG, LAN, TAM, LACSA, Northwest, Virgin America, Jet Airways, Tyrolean🪦
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me, but from Toronto
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From idea to launch in under three months —practically a land speed record in higher ed. Proud to have been a small part of the team that pulled this program together, and grateful to the students who shared their stories with me.
U of T Department of Computer Science (@UofTCompSci) profile pictureU of T Department of Computer Science@UofTCompSci18 Oct 2022
In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the @UofTCompSci community stepped into action, quickly developing and launching a summer research program that welcomed 26 Ukrainian students to Toronto over the summer months. Read more ➡️ uoft.me/8pJ
Photo of students from Ukrainian universities in the Bahen Centre.

ALT Photo of students from Ukrainian universities in the Bahen Centre.

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Wow this is a throwback
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When I say this was the roughest flight of my career so far, I mean it. I have never seen the bunks come out like that. There was coffee everywhere. I have never felt such lateral motion. Aboard Kermit (#NOAA42) this morning into Hurricane #Ian. Please stay safe out there.
Tropical Nick Underwood (@TheTropicNick) profile pictureTropical Nick Underwood@TheTropicNick28 Sep 2022
I have flown storms for the last six years. This flight to Hurricane #Ian on Kermit (#NOAA42) was the worst I’ve ever been on. I’ve never seen so much lightning in an eye. This was the eye. You can see the curvature. Understand this is at NIGHT. The light is from LIGHTNING.
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Highlights from Day 3 of @CIASToronto — what a show. ✈️🏙
C-130 Hercules banking left in front of the CN Tower

ALT C-130 Hercules banking left in front of the CN Tower

Royal Canadian Air Force CC-150 Polaris banking right under overcast skies, from head-on perspective

ALT Royal Canadian Air Force CC-150 Polaris banking right under overcast skies, from head-on perspective

US Air Force F-35 Lightning II jet flying in front of skyscrapers, with two flares recently deployed

ALT US Air Force F-35 Lightning II jet flying in front of skyscrapers, with two flares recently deployed

Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet pulling a hard right bank under overcast skies, seen from below

ALT Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet pulling a hard right bank under overcast skies, seen from below

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Ontario peaches were honestly one of the biggest surprises of moving to Canada (3 years ago this week!)
Alex Bozikovic (@alexbozikovic) profile pictureAlex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic17 Aug 2022
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
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