Byron May

Dad, husband, engineer, optimist, OE.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@frentzen_hh Believe 917s were the same. Legend, but don’t crash.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@JonahDispatch Beach Boys. Led Zeppelin.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@edokeefe @MajorCBS Wow. That was very good. Thank you.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@ebyesterday Where exactly was that?

[Byron May @byronmay]

@Out_of_Spec @itskyleconner @RivianTrackr @alex_bessinger @Rivian @Tesla Looking at all the variables, aside from aerodynamics, the much lower range could have easily been caused by a less than optimal car. Manufacturing tolerances. One car is one data point. May not be a problem with the EPA test.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@Noirchick1 It’s that from “Seven Brides…..

[Byron May @byronmay]

@Arkasiraee Pioneered by GE in their J79 turbojet fighter engine ~60 years ago. Maybe 70. Installed first I believe in the F104.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@303SnowWolf @ftukfgufyrdy Is a fantastic museum. Check it out!

[Byron May @byronmay]

@BartGonnissen But wasn’t hydrogen embrittlement also a factor?

[Byron May @byronmay]

@mdv19591 @MCCCANM Fantastic video that I thoroughly enjoyed (especially the superalloy metallurgy) but when they’re talking about thrust, it’s so unfortunate. They didn’t happen to mention Newton‘s third law, which is the basis for everything and why it works. But still a great video!

[Byron May @byronmay]

@MCCCANM @ShadowRangr1776 I believe you are correct, a Pratt PW1133 GTF. What is interesting about the Pratt GTF engines is that I believe the fan blades are aluminum. But I can’t even see the fan hub or the blades. Not sure where they are. Did they depart together?

[Byron May @byronmay]

@deltaIV9250 @Robotbeat Didn’t that happen at Sacto?

[Byron May @byronmay]

Sometimes we look at designs this old and wonder “what were they thinking” even though of course they did not have the benefit of the knowledge we have now. In this case, Strauss and his Team were clearly way, way ahead of their time.

[Kate Galbraith @KateGalbraith]

Scoop: We got ahold of a major new engineering report on the Golden Gate Bridge. Bottom line: a key bridge engineer said he was "very happy" it was so well-designed a century ago. https://t.co/1XpGLwRsKw

[Byron May @byronmay]

My god did Boeing design and build great airplanes in the 70s/80s/90s. @delta just retired a 767 with 140,000 hours. 140,000!

[AIRLINE VIDEOS @airlinevideos]

Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-200 on a sports charter to SFO wastes no time getting airborne—an absolute rocket departure out of LAX, seen live on Airline Videos Live on April 26th, 2026.

[Byron May @byronmay]

Is it me or does it u fortunately look dirtier than Apollo 8 photos from 1968?

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

Earth, rotating in full view, captured by NASA’s EPIC camera aboard NOAA’s DSCOVR spacecraft.

DSCOVR sits near Sun-Earth L1, about 1 million miles away, where it can continuously view the fully sunlit side of our planet. This is not composited, these are full Earth hemisphere photos assembled into a video.

EPIC takes 10 narrow-band spectral images of Earth, from ultraviolet through visible light, roughly 13 to 22 times per day. The public images are natural-color views assembled from that real data.

Frame after frame, Earth turns.

Cloud systems move. Continents rotate through sunlight. Weather evolves across a curved, spinning world.

This is what reality looks like. Flerfs in denial.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@CALFIRECZU Thank you for containing it so quickly.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@felipelourenco My wife and I just saw it too. Very unexpected, very high velocity and very green. We’re driving in Belmont, CA in front of Carlmont High School. Was precisely 8:18pm.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@PrincepsPinat Awww. My old fleet. 👍

[Byron May @byronmay]

@ron_eisele Whoa! Have never seen that shot before! Thanks.

[Byron May @byronmay]

@Blippedyblop @clark_aviation @Boeing Interesting! Thanks. Matches what I had heard, including that apparently the Hiller museum found it in a swamp in Florida for some reason.