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chaoticelegant · 5 months

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Rare academia aesthetic: Aeronautical History

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #historycore #aeronautical history #dark academia aesthetic #classic academia #history #aircraft

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the-cricket-chirps · 6 months

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Tullio Crali

Incuneandosi nell'abitato

1934

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semioticapocalypse · 3 months

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Zissou takes off his ‘ZYX 24’. Rouzat. 1910

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empirearchives · 7 months

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Sophie Blanchard

1811 Performances in Paris:

#Sophie Blanchard #blanchard #napoleonic era #hot air balloons #aeronaut #ballooning #balloons #napoleonic #first french empire #napoleon #Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes #Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era by David L. Bristow #Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows #napoleon bonaparte #19th century #aviation #france #french history

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rabbitcruiser · 20 days

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Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970.

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lindahall · 11 months

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Wilbur Wright – Scientist of the Day

Wilbur Wright, the elder of the aviating brothers, died May 30, 1912, at age 45.

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rhapsodynew · 2 days

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The Beatles

Great Essence (part 2)

#book "Balloon. Aeronauts and artifacts - Boris Grebenshchikov"

For the rest of their lives, each of them gave the impression of a man who flew too close to the stars and returned to earth burned – but saw something that people had never seen.

And we all listened to them from afar, in different parts of the World – as if we were looking at the receding lights of a flying saucer.

We felt that someone was saying goodbye to us. How they sang themselves (most likely, having no idea why such words were chosen):

"Once upon a time there was a way to return home..."

The end has come.

And at the end of the very last song they recorded for their most recent album, they summed it up:

And in the end, the Love you accept is equal to the love you create.

That's such a fairy tale. But this tale is not sad at all.

This has become part of the genetic code of humanity and remains with us. Their music has changed life on earth. And since then, the doors have been reopened, and to enter them, you only need to want to.

And – "I do not know why you say goodbye, I say hello."

Beatles after the Beatles.

When the Beatles ceased to exist as a united front in 1969, the nations held their breath, waiting to see what the artists would do now, left alone. Yes, the Beatles were significantly more than the sum of the parts, and – being the voice of nature and time – they promptly left. They left together with the magic ray that shed its light on Great Britain in the 60s. As Philip Larkin said

(Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985) – British poet, writer and jazz critic.)

"When you get to the top, there's nowhere to go from there except down. But the Beatles couldn't go down."

The magical long-haired kings of the Golden Age became four ordinary people. But the magic of their music has not disappeared.

After the breakup of the band in 1969, all four of its members quickly released an album each. Most of all, George Harrison surprised critics – when he was a Beatles guitarist, he always remained a little in the shadows; Lennon and McCartney considered him to be the youngest, did not treat him very seriously and reluctantly put his songs on albums. Having become independent, George turned around with all his might and right in 1969 released as much as a triple album "All Things Must Pass". It has been three years since he became deeply immersed in Indian philosophy, and, being free from the Beatles, he suddenly bloomed like a rose on which the rays of the sun fell. And he began to broadcast this solar energy to all of us.

And his colleagues began to get what they lacked in terms of employment during their service in the long–suffering team.

John Lennon (who, in fact, once founded this band, and then broke it up) Back in 1968, at the London exhibition, he met the Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, and she taught him the mind. He suddenly realized that besides the Beatles, there are other values in the world, and another art, there is something else, and he went all out, because he never did anything by halves.

Having recorded together with Yoko several sound collages that were not too popular with the people, he assembled a virtual plastic ono Band and recorded a simple and strong album "John Lennon – Plastic Ono Tape".

The song is beautiful. But there are problems with There were a lot of John and Yoko, because the young couple was so desperate to make themselves known that there wasn't a week that they didn't get on the pages of the newspapers with some kind of prank. And very soon the British press hounded them so that they moved to New York. But even there they began to actively participate in all local guerrilla gatherings and were quickly taken under surveillance by local state security agencies. John was locked up in America – if he had left there even for a day, they would not have let him back in.

Well and Paul McCartney, accused by the world of all sins, including the collapse of the Beatles (although he was the one who tried his best to keep the band afloat), around the same time met the girl of his dreams – photographer Linda Eastman.

As opposed to He did not seek to arrange constant happenings with John and Yoko – on the contrary, he even grew a beard in order to walk the streets unnoticed. Linda did not strive for fame either, she offered her fragile shoulder to him and offered to go to the village.

The Maharishi and George

In the village, Paul, furnished with all the instruments (after all, at first he was the lead guitarist of the Beatles, Ringo always resented him for the fact that Paul taught him how to play the drums, he could play the piano since childhood, and as for playing the bass, Jimi Hendrix sincerely called him the best bass player in rock and roll), so: Paul single-handedly recorded an album with the original name "McCartney", praising what he always It was best to sing the praises of home warmth, peace and comfort.

We must give Paul his due: he has talent (as well as John) did not decrease. And although he undoubtedly became much more pop without the help of old friends, from time to time he managed to write masterpieces.

The continuation of the fairy tale follows.....

Part 1📌

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jcmarchi · 1 month

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Mars Sample Return a top scientific priority, Lunine testifies - Technology Org

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Mars Sample Return a top scientific priority, Lunine testifies - Technology Org

At the western end of Mars’ Jezero Crater, a river channel and pile of sediments resembling river deltas on Earth hold clues about how Mars evolved from a more Earth-like world to the barren, inhospitable surface seen today.

Since 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected more than 20 samples of rocks and sediments from the crater floor, delta fan and hills above it – resources that could answer crucial questions about what happened to the red planet’s climate and geology and improve understanding of our own.

But those samples could be stranded on Mars if Congress fails to provide adequate funding for the space agency to design and build the Mars Sample Return mission, Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, testifiedm before a congressional subcommittee reviewing NASA’s science programs.

“The benefit of succeeding in bringing back rock and soil from an ancient riverbed on a planet 140 million miles away is that it will tell the world that this nation has the imagination, will and courage to accomplish just about anything,” Lunine said in written testimony. “And that message is priceless. To not complete Mars Sample Return – to leave the samples stranded on Mars – would be … a national disgrace.”

Lunine was one of four experts invited to testify at the U.S. House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics hearing titled, “Advancing Scientific Discovery: Assessing the Status of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.” Watch a replay here.

Earlier this year, budget uncertainty led NASA to plan for the lower of two proposed funding levels for the mission and to lay off staff at its Jet Propulsion Lab in California. Current appropriations bills defer a decision on funding, which could range from $300 million to nearly $1 billion, while the agency reassesses the mission’s architecture.

Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said that after an independent review board’s “sobering analysis” of the mission’s costs and challenges last fall, the agency would complete its internal reassessment this spring.

“It’s our willingness to acknowledge these challenges and overcome them, to conduct science in ways that have barely been imagined, that makes us NASA,” Fox testified.

Lunine called Mars Sample Return the most ambitious robotic program the United States has ever attempted, requiring challenging new technology and involving multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency.

But having served as a member of an independent review board that examined the mission last year, Lunine said he’s “supremely confident” that it can and will be done despite budget pressures requiring difficult choices.

“It can be done because American engineering prowess is up to the task,” he told lawmakers. “It will be done because as a nation we surely will not simply walk away from a daring, highly visible and scientifically important challenge.”

Successive National Academies of Sciences decadal surveys have identified the mission as the top priority in planetary science, Lunine said, to help answer the questions: Did life begin on Mars? How did Mars dry up? Exactly when did it dry up?

Only instruments in laboratories on Earth, instruments far more precise and powerful than those carried by the Mars rovers, can precisely analyze the collected rock and soil samples to determine their composition and age, Lunine said. In the same way, the samples Apollo astronauts returned from the moon established a definitive chronology for the earliest history of the Earth-moon system – the program’s most profound scientific achievement, Lunine said. More than a half-century later, moon samples continue to be studied by increasingly capable instruments.

“The samples returned from Mars in the coming decade will be analyzed not only by scientists active today, but by scientists who are not yet born, using laboratory techniques not yet invented,” Lunine said. “These precious records of early Mars will be a lasting scientific treasure and a legacy of American technological prowess.”

Source: Cornell University

Mars gifts – the best space gifts from the Red Planet, ranging from Mars-themed clothes to genuine, certified meteorites from Mars.

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scotianostra · 7 months

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October 5th 1785 saw a spectacular balloon flight by Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriot's School, Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife, the first Scottish hydrogen-filled balloon take off.

The 46 mile flight over the Firth of Forth ended at Coaltown of Callange in the parish of Ceres, Fife. There is today a commemorative plaque nearby. At the time, The Scots Magazine reported:

'The beauty and grandeur of the spectacle could only be exceeded by the cool, intrepid manner in which the adventurer conducted himself; and indeed he seemed infinitely more at ease than the greater part of his spectators.'

The Glasgow Mercury newspaper ran adverts the following month announcing Lunardi's intention to 'gratify the curiosity of the public of Glasgow, by ascending in his Grand Air Balloon from a conspicuous place in the city'. Vincenzo made five flights in Scotland in his Grand Air Balloon—which was made of 140m2 of green, pink and yellow silk, and which was exhibited, 'suspended in its floating state' in the choir of St. Mungo's Cathedral in Glasgow for the admission charge of one shilling.

The weather was fine at about 14:00 on 23rd November 1785 when The Daredevil Aeronaut 'ascended into the atmosphere with majestic grandeur, to the astonishment and admiration of the spectators' from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow. The two-hour flight covered 110 miles, and passed over Hamilton and Lanark before landing at the feet of 'trembling shepherds' in Hawick near the border.

A couple of weeks later, in early December, a local 'character' called Lothian Tam managed to get entangled in the ropes and as the balloon ascended—again from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow, Tam was lifted 6 metres before being cut loose and falling—with apparently no serious injury. The weather was worse on this flight—which had to end after just 20 minutes, with the Grand Balloon landing in Campsie Glen in Milton of Campsie—just over 10 miles from Glasgow. His landing, on 5th December 1785, is commemorated by a small plaque in the village.

However, the next flight on 20 December 1785, was a disaster, though he survived. Seventy minutes after the ascent from the grounds of Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh, Lunardi was forced down in the sea. He spent a long time in the North Sea until rescued by a passing fishing boat which docked at North Berwick. The diary of the Rev John Mill from Shetland states:

'A French man called Lunardi fled over the Firth of Forth in a Balloon, and lighted in Ceres parish, not far from Cupar, in Fife; and O! how much are the thoughtless multitude set on these and like foolish vanities to the neglect of the one thing needful. Afterwards, 'tis said, when soaring upwards in the foresaid machine, he was driven by the wind down the Firth of Forth, and tumbled down into the sea near the little Isle of May, where he had perished had not a boat been near who saved him and his machine.'

A short time later, in 1786, Lunardi published 'An Account of five Aerial Voyages in Scotland' in a series of letters to his guardian, Gherardo Campagni.

#scotland #scottish #Balloonist #Aeronaut #edinburgh #history

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aercnaut-archived · 10 months

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I love that his hat isn’t even on right half the time. sir you could at least pretend to be a professional

actually, since his aesthetic is more 40s inspired, his hat is likely tilted the way it is to make it easier to aim his rifle while it's on, like riflemen in wwii. several of the other male characters, like john faa, also wear their hats in this way!

#*001. ham is my jam // ooc.#*002. hire yourself an aeronaut // answered ask.#*003. the land of the dead // anonymous.#{casually flexes my fashion history special interest}

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“Miss Eleanor Flint of Winnipeg tinkers with an aeroplane engine at Los Angeles high school, the only one in the United States where aviation is taught. The Canadian girl hopes to become a pilot.”

- from the Toronto Star. April 6, 1932. Page 21.

#winnipeg #los angeles #aeronautics #aviation #high school students #technical school #airplane engine #life of the automobile #women in history #canadians abroad #the great depression

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chaoticelegant · 1 year

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