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+===== Boneyard =====
+== List and Map of Active and Post-WWII Aircraft Boneyards and Storage Facilities ==
+AirplaneBoneyards.com - (Viewed 5 July 2026)
+https://airplaneboneyards.com/airplane-boneyards-list-and-map.htm
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 https://longreads.com/2025/09/04/zeppelin-navy-aircraft-disaster/
+===== 1952 =====
+==== Pan Am (Puerto Rico) ====
+== Pan Am Plane Crash That Inspired Modern Safety Briefings Found After 74 Years ==
+Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday July 22, 2026 08:30PM
+Longtime Slashdot reader BeaverCleaver shares a report from the BBC:
+<blockquote>
+The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on April 11, 1952, following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off.
+Everyone onboard survived the impact -- but passengers struggled to locate life vests and rafts as the plane rapidly sank. Of the 69 passengers and crew onboard, just 17 survived. The disaster led to sweeping reforms in aviation safety, including compulsory pre-flight safety briefings on every commercial flight. [...] Today, before every commercial flight, cabin crew are required to outline where a plane's exits are, as well as the location of life vests and how to inflate them.
+</blockquote>
+https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/033235/pan-am-plane-crash-that-inspired-modern-safety-briefings-found-after-74-years
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+===== 2026 =====
+==== June - Delta (Midway / Chicago, IL) ====
+== Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July ==
+The aircraft landed safely, and the incident didn't result in an emergency landing, airline officials said.
+NBC Chicago Staff - July 4, 2026 / Updated on July 6, 2026 at 6:18 am
+A Delta flight arriving at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the Fourth of July made contact with a firework, the airline said.
+Delta Air Lines Flight 1076 departed Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta at 7:36 p.m. ET and landed at Midway Airport at 8:38 p.m. CT, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.com.
+Radio communication between the cabin crew and air traffic control captured the moments after the incident.
+“Tower, we just had a firework hit our plane, Delta 1076, we're continuing," air traffic control audio revealed. "We just heard a bang on the plane, so we'll have to look at it when we get to the gate. We're just hoping it was just a mortar that went off underneath, but definitely felt a big bang.”
+The aircraft landed safely, and the incident didn't result in an emergency landing, airline officials said.
+Delta said Sunday a post-flight inspection showed no damage to the aircraft.
+https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/delta-flight-hit-by-firework-while-landing-at-midway-airport-on-fourth-of-july/3957451/
+==== July - Ryan Air (Greece to Germany) ====
+== ‘There Was a Noise, Like a Tire Bursting’: Man Partially Sucked Out of Window on Ryanair Flight ==
+Thankfully, the passenger was wearing his seatbelt.
+Matt Novak - July 10, 2026, 1:15 pm ET
+A man was partially sucked out of a plane window on a flight from Greece to Germany on Friday after the window “detached,” according to a report from Ireland’s RTE. Passengers aboard the Ryanair flight described a loud noise, like a “tire bursting” before decompression of the cabin and masks dropping from the ceiling, the news outlet reports.
+“There were screams […] for a moment I thought someone had accidentally opened the emergency door,” one woman told RTE. “The masks dropped, and there was a strong smell; the head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window.”
+The man was wearing his seatbelt and wasn’t completely sucked out, according to RTE, and other passengers helped pull the man back inside the cabin. The terrifying incident occurred after a piece of debris detached from one of the Boeing 737-800’s engines, a claim that has not been verified by the airline.
+The passenger is a tourist from Serbia who was traveling from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, according to France24, and the incident occurred over North Macedonia. The man has not been publicly identified but is reportedly 61 years old and was hospitalized with friction burns, but has been described as in “good condition.”
+https://gizmodo.com/there-was-a-noise-like-a-tire-bursting-man-partially-sucked-out-of-window-on-ryanair-flight-2000784155
+== Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure ==
+Jake Hardiman - Jul 10, 2026, 8:15 AM EDT
+A graduate in German, Jake has a passion for history and regional aviation, and enjoys sampling new carriers and aircraft. He has visited OEM facilities as far and wide as Bristol, Toulouse, and Seattle, and recently enjoyed the milestone of flying his 150th sector as a passenger. Based in Norfolk, UK.
+Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:
+A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flying from Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) in Greece to Memmingen Airport (FMM) in Germany had to return to its point of departure on Friday after debris from a dramatic engine failure caused damage to the aircraft's window. The incident injured one of the plane's passengers, with some reports suggesting that they were even partially sucked out of the broken window.
+Despite the dramatic turn of inflight events, the flight's pilots were able to safely land the aircraft back in Thessaloniki. Ryanair has since confirmed that the injured passenger received medical assistance upon arrival back in Greece, and the carrier also arranged a replacement aircraft in order to get the flight's other guests back on their way with as little delay as possible.
+https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-thessaloniki-diversion-window-damage/
+==== August - (German Airport Drone) ====
+== Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport ==
+Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
+Jeremy Hsu – Aug 6, 2026 3:01 PM
+German police disarmed a drone carrying explosives after it was discovered near Ukrainian cargo aircraft parked at Leipzig airport—and authorities are looking into the possibility of a second drone after an approaching aircraft collided with something midair.
+The drone, first spotted by an airport employee, was hovering close to the ground between two parked An-124 cargo aircraft owned by Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines shortly before midnight on August 4, according to The Guardian. It had apparently been modified to help avoid detection by the airport’s drone defense sensors, said Alexander Dobrindt, federal minister of the interior for Germany, during a press conference.
+Dobrindt described the drone as carrying a fist-sized package of a substance believed to be the plastic explosive Semtex. Only a failed detonator prevented the drone from exploding near the Ukrainian cargo aircraft, he said.
+A bus driver managed to kick the flying drone and caused it to crash, according to Detlef Seif, a lawmaker and member of the German parliament’s interior committee. In an interview with Reuters, Seif described the driver’s actions as “very daring and courageous, but also very dangerous,” while acknowledging that “it is possible that his intervention prevented the intended attack.”
+German police used a bomb disposal robot to help disarm the drone and later carried out a controlled explosion, according to BBC News.
+Contrary to some media reports, the German Interior Ministry has denied that the apparently targeted Ukrainian cargo aircraft were carrying weapons or other munitions for delivery to Ukraine, according to Deutsche Welle. Instead, government officials described the aircraft as having been empty at the time of the drone incident.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/germany-disarms-explosive-drone-found-at-airport-hunts-possible-second-drone/
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+==== 2026 - New Mexico (GPS Interference / Drone) ====
+== A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? ==
+Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
+Jeff Wise - Jul 30, 2026 6:00 AM
+This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.
+But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
+The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more contested than ever, whether it’s civilian drones wandering out of the approved zone or US agencies getting their signals crossed, as happened earlier this year when New Mexico and Texas scared the public by temporarily closing their airspace. (It turned out that US Customs and Border Patrol were using anti-drone lasers in that area.) The GPS jamming exercise that led to this latest crash is not a singular event. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises. “As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone,” says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation.
+https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
 ==== John Denver ====
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 https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2025/06/26/concorde-supersonic-passenger-aircraft-to-return-in-2026/
+== The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow ==
+Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun’s corona.
+Dhananjay Khadilkar – Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM
+A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft of the past and the present are showcased in this museum, located at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. One of them is the legendary Concorde F-WTSS 001 prototype, the sight of which should give goosebumps to science enthusiasts as well.
+That’s because right behind its long nose is a painted map that traces the path of a June 1973 total solar eclipse across Africa. It’s there on the Concorde 001 prototype because a group of eight scientists set a new world record of observing a total solar eclipse for 74 minutes by flying this aircraft at more than twice the speed of sound.
+To put this figure into context, the maximum duration of totality on the ground is around 7.5 minutes when an eclipse is observed in the equatorial regions. For the upcoming solar eclipse of August 12, which can be seen from parts of Europe, the maximum duration of totality from the ground will be slightly more than two minutes.
+https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-ultimate-eclipse-chase-a-concorde-raced-against-the-moons-shadow/
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 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/01/0554258/dot-announces-return-of-supersonic-flight-for-commercial-airlines
+== FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet ==
+New US rules would legalize quiet supersonic flights without the sonic boom.
+Jeremy Hsu – Jul 2, 2026 10:29 AM
+A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of commercial supersonic airliners—as long as such aircraft can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms.
+The FAA originally banned overland supersonic flights by civil aircraft in 1973, following US military tests involving supersonic flights over US cities such as Oklahoma City, Chicago, and St. Louis in the 1960s. But the Trump administration has championed the repeal of the ban to pave the way for supersonic airliners that could operate without disruptive sonic booms. So the FAA’s new rulemaking action on June 30, 2026, follows the direction of an executive order issued by President Trump on June 6, 2025.
+The newly proposed rule would replace the 53-year prohibition with an interim “noise-based” certification standard requiring any sonic boom overpressure at the surface to be kept below 0.11 pounds per square foot. That proposed standard is based on the Colorado-based startup Boom Supersonic having demonstrated quiet Mach cutoff flights with its XB-1 aircraft—harnessing specific atmospheric conditions while flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes so that the aircraft’s shockwaves are refracted upward into the atmosphere rather than traveling to the ground.
+For comparison, the Concorde supersonic airliner that flew commercial transatlantic flights between 1976 and 2003 created a sonic boom overpressure equivalent to 1.94 pounds per square foot when flying at a speed of Mach 2 at an altitude of 52,000 feet.
+A NASA fact sheet suggests that “some public reaction could be expected between 1.5 and 2 pounds” but rules out damage to buildings and other structures at one pound of overpressure. It further explains that humans have experienced sonic boom overpressure between 20 and 144 pounds without injury when supersonic aircraft flew at altitudes below 100 feet.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet/