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PP-ASEL IR Busily retired. Ashburn, VA. I'm a docent at a large aerospace museum located in DC.
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fivebooks.com/best-books/m... Nice article that’s forcing me to think. #milhist #histbookchat

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Thread worth your time.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Way too good to check whether it's true:

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A backup for Dr. Carruthers' UV telescope that flew on Apollo 15 is displayed at NASM's museum on the Mall in DC, in the Destination Moon gallery.

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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

Sometimes I don’t understand how Jim Henson ever sold his absolutely wild ideas to colleagues and gatekeepers alike, but then I look at a picture of him and am like “yes, I also would have done whatever he told me to do.”

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

Best advertisement for Systems Engineering ever*. *quality of marketing is not indicative of projected results. See NMCI, for which EDS was the prime.

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Not on my 2025 bingo card: Canadian raccoons interrupting the manufacturing of aircraft. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

Ahoy, @edashtonwriting.bsky.social, just finished Antimatter Blues having got it from my county library after a longish wait. Seems a fair lot of folks saw the movie, read M7, and queued for the sequel. I'm still liking Mickey a lot and will be happy for volume 3!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Check the forward-swept wing config of the model in the right pic. (Dates to late '46, early '47 I think. Many thanks to Thanos for turfing this up.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

On this Memorial Day I shall raise a glass to the memory of my uncle, T4 Edmund J. Peters, Jr. of Paterson, NJ. He was an 11th Airborne Div. trooper, KIA on 2/17/1945 at Manila, Luzon, PI in the assault on Ft. McKinley. He was 21 years old. #AATW

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Total competence and professionalism on display here from pilots and a superb controller. Well worth a listen.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Ouch!

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Hero & legend

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Some fantastic photos here. The subject of the article is full-scale mockups as tools for aircraft development (addressing ergonomics, accessibility, etc before producing an actual aircraft).

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments