TAIWAN, WITH A POPULATION OF JUST 23 MILLION, HAS SURPASSED INDIA TO BECOME THE WORLD’S 5TH LARGEST STOCK MARKET — DRIVEN LARGELY BY THE GLOBAL AI AND SEMICONDUCTOR BOOM.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Big day for India and @airindia as it's first retrofitted B787-8, VT-ANT has departed from San Bernardino and is enroute to Delhi.
The aircraft features brand new seats in a 3 class layout.
It's scheduled to land in Delhi at 2255 local tonight.
#AvGeek
⚡️ This is what pilots sometimes see above thunderstorms.
They’re called Red Sprites — massive electrical discharges that appear 30–50 miles above storms near the edge of space.
They last only milliseconds… which is why capturing them on camera is extremely rare. Nature still has secrets above the clouds.
On swept-wing or semi swept wing jets, stall speed rises sharply with bank, and a circling approach at low altitude leaves zero margin for recovery.
Tight turns, high bank angles, or pulling to “stretch” the glide can rapidly bleed airspeed.
🛩️ An aerodynamic stall is when the wings lose lift because airspeed is too low or the angle of attack is too high, causing loss of control.
Jets like Learjets aren’t optimized for very low approach speeds making them more sensitive to speed and angle changes.