AvGeeknologist
AvGeek, aviation professional, 🇪🇺, tweet in EN, DE, FR. Structural dynamics, aeroelastics and aircraft performance. Turboprop aficionado.
- I guess someone in Fraport is now considering relocating Frankfurt to Romania.
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- Reposted by AvGeeknologistHad a request for the Lego post from our FB account. The format here on B'sky is a little different, so we'll do it in 🧵 form. One of the most common questions we get is, “How can I help? What can I do against (gestures around) all of this? I’m only one person." And variations of this theme.
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistAfter six years of investigating and over a month of research and writing, it's finally time to tell the story of Aeroflot flight 1492, and the plane, pilot, and airline that came together to cause it. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/trial-by-fir...
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- Reposted by AvGeeknologistTrump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.” Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
- Would go well with area-rule-based narrowing of the fuselage 😁
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistI am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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- Genius. Pure... Genius. youtu.be/Wv7WVaoJJ0Y?...
- For some reason, I want chocolate.
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistWenn ICE-Beamte Leute von der Straße kidnappen, dann zeigt das klar: Totalitarismus entsteht nicht bloß, indem ganz oben jemand Diktator spielt, sondern indem totalitäres Denken tief in die Gesellschaft einsickert und auf unterster Ebene Handlanger findet. Wir alle gemeinsam haben das in der Hand.
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- Both points Flight International raises can actually be explained by the onlooker misinterpreting the angle at which the rudder is positioned. I don't think their points are valid.
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistMajor development inside Boeing today: Brian Yutko is leaving Wisk as its CEO to become vice president of product development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, representing a generational changing of the guard inside the plane maker.
- Wisk CEO Brian Yutko, 38, departs to lead commercial product development at Boeing theaircurrent.com/industry-str... (via @elanhead.com) #staycurrent
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- Reposted by AvGeeknologistTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistGrok's rather unhelpfully telling people AI generated videos related to the India-Pakistan clashes are real videos.
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistThis article has a lot of detail on how Stanford's new GPS/GNSS interference site, rfi.stanford.edu, works: insidegnss.com/q-what-has-b...
- Quick reminder: "Underpowered" is often the airframer's way of saying it's overweight - not surprising for a steel airframe. Climb performance is essentially thrust over weight minus 1 over L/D. If thrust over weight (T/W) is too small, it's a result of low T OR/AND high W....
- Reposted by AvGeeknologist🧵 There is an airplane exhibited in the open space area of the Pima Air & Space Museum that is surprisingly shiny despite having been manufactured during WWII. This is the Budd RB-1 Conestoga. 🔗📷 pimaair.org/museum-aircr...
- Fully concur with "it’s always best to use the right tool when appropriate, and LLMs are just another tool in that toolbox" AI is just another software: flawed, but sometimes helpful. No need to have any hard feelings.
- Reposted by AvGeeknologistMEGATHREAD™ the Star Wars original trilogy movies are strewn with objects that are aeronautical in origin. let's try and round up as many as we can not covered: prequels, sequels, spin-offs main credits/links at the end 1/
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- Remove a letter, ruin a movie Tar Wars
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- I think it's fair to say that in the last ten years, in the US, machines have learned and shown more intelligence, in the sense of learning from mistakes, than the electorate.
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- Reposted by AvGeeknologistLast year, Pakistan installed an incredible 22GW of solar—more than Canada has ever built! Pakistan initially committed to slash emissions 20% by 2030. But in 2021, it upped that commitment to 50%, as it's a win-win: switching to clean energy addresses poverty too. Read more:
- "See, kids, even if you mess up, there will always be a job for you in the Army..."
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- Humans as seen through the eyes of a vampire, maybe?
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