Geoffrey Andrews

Engineer and pilot; possibly in the wrong century. Slightly odd, mostly harmless. Definitely not THAT kind of doctor.

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@Astro_JulioH Good luck!!

[Geoffrey Andrews @AFlyingGeoffrey]

Some recent experiments in low Reynolds number flows…

[Geoffrey Andrews @AFlyingGeoffrey]

So great to catch up with old research group comrades, colleagues, and friends from @PurdueAeroAstro. The company is as good as ever, but the food and scenery here in San Diego are ever so slightly better than Indiana.
@JPoggie @akshaysd1993

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No longer a grad student, but still worrying my grad advisor by showing up to everything at the very last minute. Plus ça change… 🙃

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I am really trying hard to be a good mentor to my intern but today she helped me with a menial task and the power has already gone to my head. #PandorasBox #worktweets

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Driving through NJ and I accidentally pumped my own gas. Am I even *from* New Jersey any more??

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Today was picture day at work; while I truly intended to be on time, what I *actually* did was run in wearing my (admittedly dashing) tailcoat just as the picture was being taken shouting “I’M HERE, WHERE DO YOU WANT ME??” in front of our entire assembled staff. 🙃

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@tj_astro Genius! That sounds much easier than my current spreadsheet-based approach.

[Geoffrey Andrews @AFlyingGeoffrey]

Writing my first proposal as a PI. I have spent about 20% of my time writing and 80% coming up with a cool-sounding acronym for the title. I assume that this is the correct approach. #research #priorities

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Spoiler alert: nobody is capable of defending against a hypersonic missile 🙃🙃🙃

[NPR @NPR]

Russian forces fired several hypersonic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday — a weapon that can travel four times the speed of sound and is thought to be nuclear-capable.

Ukrainian forces say they’re not capable of defending against a hypersonic missile. https://t.co/TOwM2QzzGI

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My Saturday night: shooting vortex rings across a water tank in my kitchen using some pipe fittings, a vinyl tube, and a latex glove. And literally yelping with excitement at the results. Science can be so beautiful. #fluidmechanics

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What’s this, you ask? This is what the fine people at Porsche considered “access” when they installed the engine of the 986 underneath the roof (and the glovebox). German engineering at its finest!

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Scotland, are you even trying?

[Geoffrey Andrews @AFlyingGeoffrey]

Commercial pilot students: “when are we ever going to have to fly turns on pylons??”
U2 pilots: 😎

[Geoffrey Andrews @AFlyingGeoffrey]

@DrChrisCombs From personal experience, it's all fun and games until a ruptured municipal water main causes your computer to shut down for a few months.

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Happy President’s Day from me and my periodic realisation that if I get this annoyed trying to remove and retorque bolts, it’s probably a good thing that I stick to computations.

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WFH is all well and good until you accidentally miss a meeting because you spent two hours super-focused on making the perfect taco for lunch 🤦‍♂️

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Nothing says “whiplash” quite like a high school girls’ volleyball tournament taking over a hotel right as the aerospace industry’s top executives and engineers check out!#AIAASciTech

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@peter62710 Just the kind of name you want for someone doing high-level defense engineering research 🙃

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I've never loved my current twitter handle and am thinking of changing it. In the spirit of indecision/democracy, I'm putting it to a [non-binding] vote! #tweetymctweetface