Damaged Boeing E-3 Sentry spotted at Saudi air base and flood warnings issued across Puerto Rico as tropical wave approaches and Polish airports suspend flights.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-18 01:18Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A darkened airfield at dusk with a damaged Boeing E-3 Sentry in the foreground, its missing fuselage illuminated by flashing emergency lights, while in the background, a flooded road in Puerto Rico stretches into the distance, with people wading through the water, under a turbulent sky with heavy clouds and lightning.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A darkened airfield at dusk with a damaged Boeing E-3 Sentry in the foreground, its missing fuselage illuminated by flashing emergency lights, while in the background, a flooded road in Puerto Rico stretches into the distance, with people wading through the water, under a turbulent sky with heavy clouds and lightning. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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FAA's SMART routing tool set to debut for DC airports
The AI routing tool rolls out in coming days for the three airports serving the capital, with airlines still awaiting answers on how it will run.
By Gordon Frame · 3wThe FAA's Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) tool is set to debut in coming days, offering routing advice to air traffic controllers at the three airports serving the nation's capital.
The software analyzes flight schedules, weather forecasts, airport runway capacity and operational limits to predict traffic flows and spot potential bottlenecks ahead of time. It is part of a larger 12-year, $875 million contract effort to modernize air traffic control, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has touted it while hinting at modest ambitions for the initial rollout.
Industry officials said the tool is not expected to create new procedures for controllers or airlines; it will generate alternative route information passed through the FAA's existing systems. But the FAA has yet to answer some questions, including whether controllers will use the AI, whether the developer will feed routing information, and whether airlines can opt out, despite weekly meetings. Before the FAA eased concerns, a major worry was how extensively the AI would be integrated into day-to-day traffic management.
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told the Senate that the way traffic is managed today is chaotic and that the FAA needs to manage it rather than rely on commercial airlines.
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