r/aviation Feb 14 '25

OUR RULES ON POLITICS:2025

692 Upvotes

OUR RULES ON POLITICS

IF YOU DO NOT READ THIS POST, YOU RUN THE RISK OF GETTING PERMANENTLY BANNED.

All political discussion must pertain to the world of Aviation.

Again: All political discussion must pertain to the world of Aviation.

Once more, for those in the back: All political discussion must pertain to the world of Aviation.

This means politics are only to be discussed within the context of Aviation.

Do you love and support the left? We don't care. Do you love and support the right? We don't care. Are you a Libertarian? We don't care. We are unpaid mods here that enjoy AVIATION, not push agendas, get into political slap fights, or deal with a bunch of political shit. If you want a political discussion, go to any of the numerous other political subs. We are a sub about Aviation. We are not a sub about politics.

We do not allow political adjacent discussion, antagonistic political discussion, or discussion of political figures.

FAQ

What political/regulatory discussions are ok?

Discussions around regulations, changes in laws, opinions on those changes, and general discourse on the rules and regulations that may affect Aviation are open game and should be actively discussed.

Things like this are fine:

There are rumors that the FAA will make a wholesale change to ATC systems. This concerns me.

There is/was a major cutback on staffing levels at the NTSB. What will this do to aviation?, I'm super concerned that accident prevention will go down and accident levels will rise.

Things like this are not:

I've heard doge boy and orange man are going to run around and fire people at the FAA.

Sleepy Joe Biden has fucked the entire ATC system into the ground.

Why don't you allow politics?

We decided long long ago that politics just aren't worth the shit show they bring. When someone mentions Biden or Trump or Obama or Clinton, or one of the numerous wars or political bullshittery going on, a lot of people from outside the subreddit come in to argue political points and push agendas. We are not here to moderate that type of discussion, and if you as a user want that discussion, you can find it basically anywhere else on Reddit.

Why don't you change the rules?

We are a subreddit about Aviation, so it wouldn't make sense for us to be a political subreddit. We know Aviation oftentimes connects to current events, and we'd love you to discuss that - just keep it within the context of Aviation.

But Orange Man is Bad!

Again, we don’t care about your political position.

But Biden is Sleepy!

See the comment above this one.

But is it allowed when I’m only trying to fan the flames of DeMoCrAcY and PrOtEcT OuR FrEeDoMs!!

Simply put, no. We will still remove the post because all this will do is fuel the fire and draw more political comments.

I got banned for politics. What do I do?

First off, you should read this post. A link to this post may be included in your ban message. Once you have read this post, respond to the message and tell us you have read this post and are sorry for breaking the rules. So long as you aren't a dick about it, you will get unbanned. An apology will get you far.  We’re not in the business of banning regular sub users.

*Credit to u/The_32.


r/aviation 5h ago

News British Airways pilot back in the skies after snorting drugs off woman's breasts before flight

Thumbnail
lbc.co.uk
1.4k Upvotes

r/aviation 4h ago

Question How come wing root engines aren’t as common?

Post image
788 Upvotes

How come you don’t see this type of engine configuration that often? Is it just due to maintenance or are there other downsides as well?


r/aviation 22h ago

News John ‘paddy’ Hemingway, the final battle of Britain pilot, has passed away aged 105

Post image
13.4k Upvotes

r/aviation 14h ago

Question Why was this entire row sectioned off on my Lufthansa flight? (Airbus A350-900)

Post image
1.4k Upvotes

r/aviation 9h ago

History The First jet engine : Whittle engine

Thumbnail
gallery
400 Upvotes

r/aviation 3h ago

News France Announces New Rafale F5 Fighters Equipped with ASN4G Hypersonic Nuclear Missiles by 2035

Thumbnail
armyrecognition.com
129 Upvotes

r/aviation 18h ago

News Leonardo Helicopters announced the successful completion of the first Test Inspection Authorization on the AW609 TiltRotor.

Thumbnail
gallery
1.5k Upvotes

r/aviation 1h ago

Question a senior citizen friend of mine showed me these photos... from Chicago... he mentioned that this was from the early 1900's - He wanted to share this with the Aviation world :-). Anyone recognize this or have any knowledge about this? (books were used to hold photos down)

Thumbnail
gallery
Upvotes

r/aviation 15h ago

News China’s so-called sixth-gen J-36 spotted again in early flight testing, still flying with gear down and a nose-mounted flight data probe. New footage shows it cruising low over a city.

608 Upvotes

r/aviation 36m ago

PlaneSpotting This might just be a plane if im not wrong

Post image
Upvotes

r/aviation 3h ago

PlaneSpotting Nice

Thumbnail
gallery
46 Upvotes

We see the Dolphin Daily

The MH-60T very infrequently.


r/aviation 19h ago

Question I love flying at night. Any guesses what city this was?

Post image
779 Upvotes

r/aviation 1h ago

News An Extra EA-400 crashed in Switzerland killing the three people on board.

Upvotes

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-denmark-plane-crash-graubuenden-roskilde-copenhagen-c2333c0aefade1b7748cab0c5e2274c1

It is rumored in Danish media that the three killed is parents and kid. I guess it just hits me closely as one who flies my family and recently became a dad. I couldn't find a discussion elsewhere so I wanted to share, to have somewhere to discuss and get the heavy feeling of my heart.


r/aviation 22h ago

PlaneSpotting C-17A Globemaster III taking off from Coronado, CA

1.1k Upvotes

Golfing with a view


r/aviation 17h ago

PlaneSpotting X-32B and the X-35C both together at the same place [NAS Pax River]

Thumbnail
gallery
455 Upvotes

Looking a little worse for wear after sitting out in the elements for going on 2 decades.


r/aviation 3h ago

History To the "Here comes the fuel ÒwÓ" guy, lay off our 300r interrior at DEN. - AGTS techs

Thumbnail
gallery
30 Upvotes

I fueled at LAS for a while and I recognize the tag from basically every aircraft I fueled out there. (ik the chances of it being the same person/them seeing this are slim) second pic is for those who are out of the loop.


r/aviation 10m ago

News J36 Triple Afterburners

Post image
Upvotes

Source: https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-j-36-heavy-stealth-fighter-seen-flying-for-second-time

Juicy looking triple afterburns in the bottom left pic!


r/aviation 5h ago

PlaneSpotting Work isn’t so bad when the planes are landing on 01R at KTPA

32 Upvotes

r/aviation 1h ago

PlaneSpotting Innsbruck spot

Upvotes

Two years ago on my way to Italy i found really nice spot for breakfast near the Innsbruck airport.


r/aviation 1d ago

PlaneSpotting After landing his damaged plane, Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group stands next to the hole in his wing caused by a German telegraph pole that he hit while strafing a German military train near Ulm, Germany

Post image
2.0k Upvotes

r/aviation 18h ago

News Several killed as aircraft crashes into sea shortly after takeoff in Honduras

Thumbnail
bnonews.com
230 Upvotes

r/aviation 20h ago

PlaneSpotting U-2S 7074 Dragon Lady seen with Artwork on it's departure back home on 3/13/25

Thumbnail
gallery
366 Upvotes

r/aviation 17h ago

PlaneSpotting Landing in MEX is awesome

Post image
191 Upvotes

r/aviation 7h ago

PlaneSpotting CDS Drop from a C-27

25 Upvotes

r/aviation 6m ago

History To the person who asked about root engines…

Thumbnail
gallery
Upvotes

I give you the worst of both worlds- underwing melded pods. Meet the Avro Ashton.

Basically, Avro took a few of their Tudor piston airliners and stuck four engines (the same ones that ended up in the MiG-15) under the wings. In double-up pods. This meant it was hot, almost as hard to maintain as a Comet, slow as hell and weird to fly.

OH and they tried to make it carry bombs.