Mastodawn

The parabolic arch of the terminal at Renfrew Airport, Scotland. Designed by William Kininmonth and opened in 1954, it stood as a striking gateway to Glasgow before the airport’s closure in 1966.
@airportarchitecture.byerussell.com
#Postcard #Aviation #ScottishAviation #travel

The Air Whisperer Apr 27

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116470566667001541

Very capable lifting platform

- but it's been the butt of many jokes from the outset...

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

Galactic Stone Apr 25

Here, take this on #Caturday

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

petersuber Apr 25

"A Swedish Library Forgot to Close Its Doors and Something Beautiful Happened."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/public-library-restoring-trust-in-humanity-repubz/

I love this story -- about libraries and the people who use libraries.

#Libraries

A Swedish Library Forgot to Close Its Doors and Something Beautiful Happened

They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. In the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, that's definitely true.

ZME Science

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

Grickle Apr 25

Sailing the high seas for pizza. #grickledoodle #TMNT #turtles #pirates #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor #mutiny

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

Nonilex Apr 25

#Trump ousts National #Science Board members
 Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation [#NSF] said they received a notice from the White House that their positions were being terminated.

Multiple #scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

The Washington Post

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

The Air Whisperer Oct 30, 2022

The Pneumofoil is a constantly renewed body of air travelling briefly with a wing before falling away behind.

Pneumofoils really cause many of the aerodynamic effects that are mistakenly attributed to the wing itself.

#Aerodynamics

# Aviation

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

Will 2026 be the year when Aerodynamics WAKES UP...?

Or will it continue to SLEEPWALK through the rest of the 21st Century...?

The Air Whisperer Apr 25

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The Air Whisperer Mar 4, 2023

One Aerodynamic concept the Wright Brothers WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH is the 'Flow Field'

- an array of 'streamlines' around an aerofoil, supposedly describing the way it interacts with air.

Their carefully preserved archive contains a SINGLE INSTANCE of Flow Field sketches.

#Science
#Aviation
#SciComm
#Aerodynamics
#FluidDynamics

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The Air Whisperer Apr 25

Following Wilbur Wright's untimely death in 2012, Aerodynamics too declined steeply, crossing the line into ridiculous-beyond-parody TWADDLE in the late 1920s. Other Air Whisperers have emerged from time to time, but their contributions have been constrained by an Academic and Industrial environment where bizarre 'alternative facts' are held to be proven truth.