or have a backyard wedding at your new house
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23428 Getting Married in a California State Park
commercial is mostly 30cm. Albedo is trying to do 10cm by flying in VLEO, but they haven't delivered any commercial imagery yet.
It highly depends on route and geography, but the answer is usually no, and no. Boston-NYC (equivalent to Paris-Antwerp), or NYC-DC (similar)? Take the train--it's not much slower since it's such a pain to get to/from the airports, and it's more comfortable than flying. San Francisco-Los Angeles (equivalent to Paris-Toulouse)? Take a plane (or drive). For some intercity travel (San Francisco - San Jose, for example, a similar distance to Amsterdam - Rotterdam, or San Francisco - Sacramento, a similar distance to Amsterdam - Antwerp), trains are a perfectly reasonable choice. For those distances though, many (most) will choose to drive. The city pair equivalents that I just mentioned above may put into perspective how large the distances we're talking about in the US are, which contributes to (but is far from the only factor in) the relative convenience of train travel. San Francisco-Boston, one of my other common routes back in the day? That's like from the top of Norway to the Strait of Gibraltar. No way I'd do that with a train. Buses? For travel between major metropolitan areas? They're certainly not my favorite way to traverse routes of the above mentioned city pairs. They're longer, less comfortable, and smellier. And even now that I live in the EU, there are still some city pairs where it makes more sense for me to fly than to take the train, unfortunately. I travel quite frequently between Brussels and Toulouse, and it's an 8 hour train ride at best (with having to change between Gare du Nord and Gare Montparnasse in Paris, on top of that), with a price that is usually (at least) double that of the corresponding flight (triple, if I'm willing to fly Ryanair to Charleroi, which is usually not worth the price savings), whereas the plane is only 1.5 hrs (3 even if you count travel to/from the airport) Are US trains notably cheaper or more convenient than airlines or buses?
happy new year! -- keys to my own apartment. in france. (i'm no longer renting)
made it. definitely delicious.
beans, you say? that recipe sounds delicious. I'll have to try it.
is this where I put the news that I'm the commissioning lead for our next satellite to launch? transporter-11, be there or be square
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=transporter11 Friday August 16th: 18:20 UTC / 11:20 PDT / 14:20 EDT / 20:20 CEST
launching a satellite next week. as flight director.
keys to my own apartment. in france. (i'm renting) (there's a terrace)
can you get this data from your battery supplier rather than testing it yourself?
we're flying aboard SpaceX Transporter 10 from Vandenburg SFB in California.
stay tuned. i may have a update soon also this totally says September 23 jobski jobski from the future
ah man, we just missed each other. I moved to France almost a year ago. lemme know if you're back in europe sometime!
i am moving to France for work (same company) and a new adventure/chapter of life in early september. don’t hesitate to reach out if you’ll be in the Toulouse area! also had lunch with c_hawkthorne !
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I had a great series of exchanges with an air traffic controller recently when I was giving my friend an air tour of the Bay Area. I was flying a Citabria--tailwheel airplane that's less common (and more fun ;) ) than your typical Cessna. Dude must have been excited to hear one on frequency on one of the first nice flying days in a while (torrential rains in California recently). He called me a "Citaaaaaahhbria" every single time he had a traffic alert for me. I responded in kind. It was a nice bit of levity in the sky. https://archive.liveatc.net/koak/KSFO-KOAK-Dep-Apr-09-2023-0000Z.mp3 (20:32)
I've been learning to fly tailwheel airplanes for the past 6 months, flying roughly once a week. Now I've got 42.3 hours of flight time, with 0.5 hours of that now being PIC--pilot in command! Frankly, flying solo was not as nerve-wracking as I expected it to be. I've been learning new things each lesson with my instructor, but I haven't had to be corrected on stick-and-rudder pure flying technique in a while, so I didn't feel the absence of my instructor's remarks. We flew a couple laps in the pattern (takeoffs and landings in loops, in the airport vicinity) and then he got out, took his stuff out of the plane, and sent me off! I did three landings (and one go-around), and that was that! I did get the feeling of "hey, I'm flying an airplane--by myself. sweet!" This is the type of plane I fly, a Bellanca Citabria. Many of them are around 50 years old. Fabric wings and fuselage! Roughly 110 horsepower! a 4-cylinder engine with a carburetor! Two seats, in tandem (rather than side-by-side) As you can see, the little wheel is in the back ('tailwheel')--it's a more traditional gear setup (most modern planes have a nosewheel) and is harder to fly (takeoffs and landings). The word on the street is that tailwheel pilots generally have better "stick and rudder" skills (i.e. flying technique). I can't really be the judge of that, but it's kind of the equivalent of learning to drive a manual/standard transmission car. Because it's fairly straightforward for a tailwheel pilot to transition to nosewheel aircraft, and not the other way around, you must have a "tailwheel endorsement" on your license to fly tailwheel airplanes. I had to earn that endorsement (even though my license is a student license) to fly solo--so yes, I can do wheel landings. I've also gotten very proficient at performing slips, because there are no flaps on this model. Here's what I see inside. Notice that there isn't even an attitude indicator (also called an artificial horizon)! (Yes, I've had to do my simulated instrument training "partial panel" by default, learning to fly the plane without looking outside and without an attitude indicator) I've got a few things left to do to earn my private pilot certificate-- get 10 hours total solo time, get 5 hours total solo cross-country flight time, do my long cross-country solo, do 3 hours of night flight, and prep for (and pass) the oral exam and checkride (flight exam)! I can't wait for electric airplanes to become more common (https://www.diamondaircraft.com/en/service/electric-aircraft/ !!), but in the meantime I buy carbon offsets because the one thing that really makes me ambivalent about pursuing this as a hobby are its carbon emissions...
Flew a plane solo for the first time today!
gregory also has a lifetime warranty. i've lived a cumulative few weeks out of their Border 30 and Border 18 bags, with no complaints (ok onetime i got caught in a massive downpour and umbrella priorities went to a girl i was with and not my bag and my computer took one for the team, but that's on me) never had a backpacking bag from them though. i have a newer rei trail 40 and it's fine but i'm a pretty casual backpacker. last trip was a 1 nighter in Point Reyes and it was great. also only worth it if you find it on sale. the older version was better and i regret returning it.
it was fun meeting c_hawkthorne in person!
I don't mind that this is a slower place on the internet. Not everything needs to be breakneck content content content. No, scratch that. Nothing should be breakneck content content content but that's what most of the internet has turned into lately. It's the town square. Sometimes there are parades, sometimes there are protests, sometimes there are unsavory types who wander through. But usually there's just a slightly warm breeze, leaves rustling, people walking their dogs, someone sitting on a bench reading a book, some lovers on a picnic blanket, and a few old friends catching up over a coffee. Even the town square can't prevent the sky from raining sometimes. Open an umbrella. Or step inside the pubski for a pint.
As of yesterday, I've published my first technical paper! (2nd author)
Two satellites I've worked on for the past year are launching Friday soon. Early Saturday some morning in the coming week I will be in the hotseat, flying one of those satellites as a satellite operator, using satellite control software our team and I built. Very, very excited! PS: mk there's still the #bugski of editing a post with a Twitter embed; the rest of the post text is not present in the edit box when it first loads.
I'm in France! It's been a week so far and I'll be here for 10 more (crazy to write that out). c'est merveilleux !
I'm at SpaceOps 2023 in Dubai, where I just gave two presentations (my colleague couldn't make it so I presented his paper as well since I was a coauthor). The most amazing thing is that as I was wandering around the conference afterwards, meeting people, I'd go to introduce myself and they'd tell me they'd attended one of the two presentations and wanted to talk about it. Super crazy feeling.
here's a representative sample: In my case, a satellite mission patch (image / physical embroidered patch / stickers / etc), representing a particular satellite mission that I've worked on / flown.
I have no words for the horror that Ukrainians are living through right now. threw this together the other night
That article is quoting the Washington Post's original reporting. here's a free-access link Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands. The people who described some of the material that agents were seeking spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation. Nor did they say if such documents were recovered as part of the search. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment. Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.