# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/9961 "2026-06-11T11:29:32Z")

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Here’s a fresh Dope topic that might be of interest to this audience:

> [@My current obsession: SkyCards! Anyone else play?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818):
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> It’s a game on your phone… basically, you use real-time flight radar to “catch” aircraft and add them to your deck of cards. In a radius around your real-world location, aircraft are identified by type, tail number, airline if applicable, and origin/destination. They’re also color-coded by rarity; blue for common all the way to red for the weird ultra-rare oddballs. You click on the catch button and play a little picture-taking minigame, and if you’re successful you add the aircraft to your deck…

I haven’t fiddled with it … yet.

  

As to airshows: Been a long time since I’ve been to one, or to a fly-in. Too long. My late wife was non-flying USAF and interested in airplanes. But it’s been a dozen-plus years now since she was last healthy enough to want to spend a day wandering around an airport in the sun. Subsequent ex-wives and ex-GFs weren’t into airplanes.

Airshows are not rare around here. The truly amazing **[SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo - Lakeland, FL](https://flysnf.org/)** is about 200 miles one way from me. But it’s a 6-day shindig, so the driving isn’t too disproportionate. _If_ one could withstand 6 days of concentrated GA. Or more like _if_ one’s SO could.

My current GF worked for the airlines in a non-flying role and is a bit of a plane nut. I think airshows are part of my near future. Yaay!

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