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#Communiqué 🗞️ Une page que l’on croyait définitivement perdue du palimpseste d’Archimède, l’un des manuscrits antiques les plus célèbres au monde, vient d’être identifiée au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, en France, par un chercheur du CNRS. 📜🔎

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...

Construction images at Gander airport, started in 1937 in the middle of the Newfoundland wilderness , the railway, the only infrastructure providing material, equipment & workers. The town would come some 20 years later. For more images & info www.ganderairporthistoricalsociety.org/_html_thirty...

[Aviation] 8 mars 1910 / 2026 • Élise Deroche (1882-1919) - connue sous le pseudonyme de baronne Raymonde de Laroche - est la première femme au monde à décrocher son brevet de pilote ✈️ - brevet de l'Aéro-Club de France n°36 daté du... 8 mars 1910 ! #JournéeDesDroitsDesFemmes #8mars

Italy: "Leonardo reveals tiltrotor ambition with new design concept"

Vertical Plus with the March 2, 2026 article:
verticalmag.com/news/leonard...

#rotorcraft #tiltrotor #VTOL #NGRC #nextgenerationrotorcraftcapalities

Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challenging the definition of where our world begins to end

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challenging the definition of where our world begins to end

#OTD in 1836, Davy Crockett died at the Alamo. His descendant Lt. Davy Crockett was a U.S. Navy Hellcat pilot during WWII. After being shot down and captured in France in 1944, he was taken to Toulon where the German commander surrendered the arsenal and his 500 men to Crockett.

That's how you do a celebratory livery! 🥰

📸: Musée Air France. Or else... 🤷‍♂️

Wait, what?! That's it? 😧 All U.S. aircraft operators should proudly compete for the most magnificent special livery and take the French Revolution bicentennial livery of Concorde as a benchmark! ✈️ #avgeeks #aviation

a woman is holding a glass of wine and sending healing juju ! ALT: a woman is holding a glass of wine and sending healing juju !

Hope surgery went well... Sending healing vibes. Take care!

All-737 operator GOL is adding five A330-900s to its fleet. Deliveries are expected to begin this year.

Jet fuel prices soar as Iran war squeezes supply More flights resume across Middle East despite some refuelling disruptions in Oman

Jet fuel prices soar as Iran war squeezes supply ft.trib.al/Pkkk3nZ

90 years ago today, the Spitfire prototype made its first flight, which lasted eight minutes. Captain Joseph Summers was the pilot. “Don't touch anything” was said by Captain Summers at the end of the flight. This led to the myth 1/2

#Spitfire90

US and Mideast countries seek Kyiv’s drone expertise as Russia-Ukraine talks put on ice Ukraine announced earlier this year that it would begin exporting low-cost interceptor drones specifically designed to hunt and destroy Iranian Shaheds.

Ukraine announced earlier this year that it would begin exporting low-cost interceptor drones specifically designed to hunt and destroy Iranian Shaheds.

Embraer and Valkyrie Aero expand A‑29 Super Tucano capabilities for C-UAS mission New AI-based technology provided by Valkyrie Aero to be added to the comprehensive A-29 sensors and weapons used to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems

New AI-based technology provided by Valkyrie Aero to be added to the comprehensive A-29 sensors and weapons used to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems:
www.embraer.com/media-center...

Join Jack Christine leader of the multibillion-dollar Destination CLT expansion at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, for a keynote at the TRB Symposium on Aviation Innovation & Research, June 8–11 in Dayton, OH. Register to hear more about workforce partnerships: https://ow.ly/98Zp50Yok1a

Flight paths of evacuation flights via Muscat from Smartwings, Enter Air, and Lufthansa.

Some of the evacuation flights operating through Muscat, where airspace has remained open. flightradar24.com/multiview/3e...

a man is sitting at a desk with the words you 've lost another submarine ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with the words you 've lost another submarine

I lost count of how many times I've watched this movie. 👍

Some (faded) Art Deco splendour from Brighton City Airport (terminal building 1936). Oldest purpose built airport in the world & oldest airport in the UK

Le prochain SNLE 4G sera « l’Invincible et naviguera en 2036m, annonce le PR depuis la base de l’Ile Longue qui prévient qu’il faut « rehausser » nos moyens nucléaires 1/

Graphic showing closed airspace in red, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, Qatar, and Bahrain. Active Conflict zone airspace in Orange: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Restricted airspace, but not formally closed in yellow: Lebanon, Jordan, UAE.

Airspace status as of 1500 UTC.

Atlanta airport leaders unveil exhibit showcasing 100 years of history The exhibit comes just months before hundreds of thousands of fans from around the world will descend on Atlanta for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Airport leaders are showcasing Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s (ATL) 100-year history. The new exhibit connects Concourses D and E, featuring various milestones and ATL’s role during the Civil Rights Movement www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/02/27/a... #ATL #airport #avgeek

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success."

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program this morning, including an increased cadence of missions and the cancellation of an expensive rocket stage.

Hostomel Airport, north of Kyiv, 4 years ago today.

A pair of Ukrainian Air Force Su-24M tactical bombers drop 500 kg parachute-retarded bombs onto Russian VDV airborne infantry assaulting the airfield.

BREAKING: ROTOR ACT FAILS TO PASS HOUSE AFTER NOT RECEIVING TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE IN STUNNING SETBACK FOR FAMILIES & SENATE AUTHOR CHAIR TED CRUZ.

Airbus unveils next generation rotorcraft concepts for NATO studies Airbus Helicopters has unveiled its next generation rotorcraft concepts to address the NATO NGRC study requirements.

fly.airbus.com/3MCmlFl

Quite obvious... Either the horse or the aliens. Or both, in cahoot with the Illuminati operatives hiding in the APM tunnels. 🤷‍♂️🐴👽🛸 #airports #DEN

The ice runway at Alton Bay Seaplane Base (B18) on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee has set a new seasonal landing record. https://bit.ly/4qKcMlB

NASA declares Boeing’s botched Starliner flight a mishap on-par with deadly space-shuttle disasters NASA leadership on Thursday outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the space agency’s culture of safety and accountability

NASA leadership on Thursday outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the space agency’s culture of safety and accountability