TheActualSparky

a series of threaded replies: - my post: who up waning they gibbous - Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY - my post: who up waxing they crescent

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

Great show, thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s always fun to shout ‘Uranus’

A small fighter jet is head on to the camera, banked over on its side and trailing engine smoke

F86 Sabre displaying. I think was Duxford one year
#avgeek

Big love to you

Sharp as a pin 🙌

It shows two what?

This.
I went over to the bird place and it was rife with d*ckheads talking utter b*llocks about stuff they know nothing about. Let’s keep the butterfly place free of that nonsense

Are you twitching, yet? 🤔😉🖖

An army of snow plows attacking the runways at YYZ tonight. So freaking cool that GPS and ADS-B reporting is accurate enough that we can see their left-to-right staggered plowing formation

Is that second picture showing it with one engine running?

‘Danny Elfman did the soundtrack’

Yeah I know. Bonkers. I work a lot on GE90 and RR Trent and they are just incredible bits of engineering

Go right ahead. Bypass ratio is a measure of volume

I think that was the scariest thing about his character

A head on view of a large jet engine intake. The large fan blades normally present at the front of the engine are missing

Had to do a fan blade lube and install on a RR Trent the other day. Here is the engine with the blades removed. Just look at how small that core is. The engine has a 6.4:1 bypass ratio- for every one ‘unit’ of air that goes in to the core, 6.4 ‘units’ go down the bypass
#avgeek #rollsroyce

Post your favourite star trek character but wrong answers only

McHolly

Interesting. Will it happen?

An empty runway heading towards the horizon

Just hanging out on a runway #avgeek

And I have to spend a lot of my time smelling of Aeroshell 33 grease and jet fuel. Cheers lads

Around now in 1903 Orville Wright made the 1st ever heavier than air, powered flight, going 37 metres in 12 seconds.

Now, 121 yrs later, we have a robot flying a drone on Mars, another one which has just scooped a bit off a passing comet and another one 15 billion miles away.

Well that guy seems totally normal and not overly angry at all 🙃

#OTD in 1945, illustrious Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown became the first pilot to land on and take off from an aircraft carrier in a jet-engined aircraft when he flew a De Havilland Sea Vampire to HMS Ocean. #HISTORY

Do you want ants?!

The "Balzac V" and the "Mirage III V" were two experimental aircraft designed to validate the architecture of future vertical take-off and landing fighter aircraft.
The Mirage III V is still the fastest VTOL in the world and the only one to have reached Mach 2.
The programme was cancelled 1966.

*The Dam Busters March plays*

(Note accurate bouncing bomb)

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Show me an unusual photo of yourself and an aircraft

Straddling the world’s largest production turbofan, the GE90-115B, to service the PDOS

colour photo. an Industrial Light and Magic man from the early 80s on a tight fitting blue t-shirt is screwing something in the centre of a very large X-Wing “skeleton” - of metal tubing and fibreglass(?) fuselage and wings. next to him is a smaller scale X-Wing model - fully built and painted etc. It n the background are various wooden workbenches and tables, and a Raiders of the Lost Ark poster on the wall

model maker Paul Huston, working on a large-scale Return of the Jedi X-Wing

I love looking for scale model kit boxes in these ILM photos - parts of which were used to add realistic/gritty detail to the vehicles ("greebles")

but wait - something interesting is hanging from the ceiling…?

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