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A German Luftwaffe A400M 54+40 @ @flyLAXairport the other day 10-26-26
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A US NAVY P-8 Poseidon #169329 passing over OTT @ Home southbound, no candy bar 10-26-26
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anyone have a good rbf tag manufacturer?
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A US NAVY P-8 Poseidon #169329 passing over OTT @ Home southbound, no candy bar 10-26-26
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UPDATE 2: @SpaceX is now targeting TUES, Oct 27*, at 12:25am PT (3:25am ET; 0725 UTC) for launch of the Starlink 15-16 (CA) mission.
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Musk now aiding Russia's space terrorism to take town Ukraine's defenses.
Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.
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Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.
SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see. On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior) Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable. The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran. SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon. $SPCX $TSLA Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
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#NationalAviationDay Me landing a Gulfstream G650ER in Van Nuys
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Say good bye to FedEx MD-11F, N613FE, "KIRSTA" Scheduled for retirement, teardown, and demolition due to extensive and severe structural corrosion. Ferry flight was denied. #AvGeek @AvWeekGuy 10-26-26
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A German Luftwaffe A400M 54+40 @ @flyLAXairport the other day 10-26-26
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LULA 13 NOW
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LAX FIRST ARRIVAL ALERT! 💛✈️ Making its first arrival at LAX tonight, October 26th, 2026, it’s the STARLUX Airbus A350-1000 in the AIRSORAYAMA Gold livery! A golden addition to tonight’s LAX action! Seen LIVE on the 24/7 Airline Videos Live broadcast from the H Hotel. No one covers LAX like AVL! – at Los Angeles, CA
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You are relieved, Commander Chekov, we have the watch 🫡 #StarTrek
This one hurts. Walter was a kind, humble and loving man…and a friend. He will be missed by so many. My dad is joined with his friend in heaven.
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Say good bye to FedEx MD-11F, N613FE, "KIRSTA" Scheduled for retirement, teardown, and demolition due to extensive and severe structural corrosion. Ferry flight was denied. #AvGeek @AvWeekGuy 10-26-26
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YOUR MILWAUKEE BREWERS HAVE SCORED 8 RUNS IN THE 5TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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