Andras Sobester

❤️✈️ Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton

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The last Boeing 727 ever built is still airworthy and has a very important job (clue in the livery!). In this video you can see the combination of a team of three awesome aviators + 75t of deliciously analogue trijet skim the North Sea at 150ft and 170mph. Many thanks to @2Excel_Aviation and @oilspillexperts for this unique insight into their super cool ops!

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I have become rather fascinated with city centre airport terminals that served runways sometimes as far as 80 miles away. It’s a rather fascinating story spanning many decades and its ‘fossils’ are still around if you look closely - I made a short video doing just that 🕵️‍♂️

https://t.co/D63yakPAQ2

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My watch has two modes: bright mode (when it is in the ‘wrist up’ position) and a less bright, power save mode. 50% of these modes has successfully transitioned from BST to GMT overnight.

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@OnDisasters I’m afraid this will have to go to VAR. Was all of the aeroplane over all of the line?

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Competition time! Weirdest aviation fact? Copy of The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes for the three best ones. (Share your fact below then share this post to enter)

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@Hush_Kit The engines (and their thrust lines) on the Saab 340 and the 2000 are not parallel with the fuselage axis - both point to the right.

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@Tim_the_Pilot Is she going to get Starlink while she’s with Engineering?

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@elonmusk The great philosopher Emil Cioran would agree. He said “If there is anyone in this world who owes Bach everything, that is God."

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@KaleyGoode @TeslaJigsaw @elonmusk @woodhaus2 @larsmoravy Your guess seems to be confirmed by what Lars Moravy is saying in the Hagerty video (I just watched it) - an Optimus actuator allows them enough modulation on each of two valves for some yaw control on the ‘Thrust’ model.

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@Erdayastronaut Please do!

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Assuming that you’re subtweeting about the Tesla Roadster (apologies if not!) there is a fundamental difference between a just-about-functional car that also wants to be an aircraft in the sense of 14CFR91, and (in the case of the Tesla) a vehicle designed to be a supercar that can get airborne for a few moments as a party piece.

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@RAeSTimR Absolutely. In Lunar gravity this thing would be WILD. One triple kick flip for man, one great show for mankind…

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@RSymonsLTD Reversing down the ramp of an A400M in a low flypast above a runway, into a smooth touch-down and seamless drive-away 😎 Literally hitting the ground running…

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@GuyG_Boffin At least you prioritised the correct two, Guy.

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Stiff jet stream stretching out the high altitude clouds above the South of England this afternoon…

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In this fresh Design Deep Dive I tell the story of how the Soviets and the Japanese copied the DC-3 in the 1930s. I spent a zillion hours on this, so I hope that someone with a similar obsession with aviation history will find it interesting!

https://t.co/dhT7wzXuaD

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@PolitlcsUK @UKDefJournal Another two lives saved going up on the board at @MB_EjectEject, who are no doubt getting a pair of ties ready for shipping…

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If aircraft aerodynamics is close to your heart and you’d like to be involved in the development of the next generation of transports, the good folk in Filton have some rather appealing-looking vacancies

https://t.co/osUc68qpDH

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@TeslaJigsaw Great summary as usual, Will.