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Some world scenery featuring my Characters:
Feli, Rebecka, Lui, Wutz, Fred
I FINALLY FINISHED THIS SHIT
Do yall ever wanna fly away into the sky with no responsibilities and listen to music
Everyone needs to calm down when the plane lands. You will get off, don't worry! I know the buckle seatbelt sign turned off, and that makes you very excited, but you don't have to jump up and push your way through the aisle yet. The door hasn't even opened! Wait your turn! Complaining and pushing each other won't make the process go any faster
Mi segunda... 22.- Ave favorita Propuesta por: @miguelcasv #vdink #vdink2020 . . #digitalillustration #bird #digitalartist #design #artistsoninstagram #flying (en My Phone) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGp5koQBTqk/?igshid=1is59pn2xpaef
Thank you @rainyjays so much for this amazing art! I'm so happy to have people like you to talk to and stuff! I genuinely can't thank all of you guys enough for supporting me on my artistic journey and just responding to me in general. I had an amazing time drawing for rainyjays and they are an amazing artist and person in general. Go and check their page out they have genuinely amazing art.
Here is their character for my end of our art trade!
Here is their character Smoke! I had a great time drawing her! Hope you like this art!
My half of an art trade with @spookys1fan !!! I had so much fun drawing them and spooky was an amazing person to work with :D their wings were definitely my favorite part to draw and color <3<3
Don’t worry, he’ll catch you when you fall.
Children of Dionysus have sharp teeth. Either Alastor or Charlie type teeth. Dez and her twin brother have these and black wings. Their mother, Roxanne, is a child of Thanatos. Since he's a minor god, monsters are less attracted to her, so she never knew, but the black wings were in her genes. Roxanne did not have them, though.
They also have horns, pointy ears, and grapevines that randomly grown in their hair and around their body when they feel an extreme emotion they can't handle very well. Yeah, they're good actors, but it's chaos when they get extremely happy or mad. Or express any emotion that deeply affects them. And maybe strawberry vines. They pull a Charlie Morningstar when they're mad; horns grow, eyes light up in anger, wings grow in size. They hide most of their traits if possible. They can hide their wings, but it takes up too much energy to do that. The only times they need to is when they're leaving camp, the likely chance they'll need their powers. Hiding their wings doesn't take up too much energy, but if they use their powers while hiding wings, it drains twice as fast. They don't hide em' at camp. They don't leave camp much, so they don't worry about it too bad. Until they have to leave. They choose not to hide them, and cover em' up with a jacket or something and hope no mortal notices. They are definitely obsessed with Maximum Ride and hawks.
Their cabin marvel person is Wolverine. They claim Deadpool, but Apollo cabin and the rest of the cabins agreed that Deadpool is off limits but, much like their father, they're not a stickler for rules and off-limits things. Like certain nymphs... and Deadpool.
Small art i made for smaugust. It is Cloud Dancer from short cartoon named Dragon Friend. I like these character and he deserves some love in my opinion. For this art i decided to make dragon much less cartoonish.
Skephalo Week Day 7: Flying
god damn it, I'm late aGAIN- (and I missed like two days in a row oops-)
anyways, I decided to go with the fluff one for today! the bloodvines makes me kind of emotional and I don't like letting that out much heh-
anyways, please enjoy the art! love you all!! <3 <3
![PostyBirb Test / PinkiePie And Balloons [16/10/18]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/37b331ba9c9b1b9b5b9d346cec6b8763/tumblr_pjdzbqWTOe1wwg5ozo1_540.jpg)
PostyBirb Test / PinkiePie and balloons [16/10/18]
A post PostyBirb test, I found its principle not uninteresting, enough to try it... I hope it will work, because if it does.... Oh, my God, that'll be great!
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Guysss chapter 6 of Skyborn is out as promised!!!(once a promose, I can't bear break it) Now there's a sweet twist to yall's interactions and experiencing. Read the chapter to know what it is~~(Yes I'm kudos hunting) Check it out!!
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I could've sworn I've posted this here before.
I'm so confused with many places to post things.
Quetzal #Acuarela sobre papel 50 x 25 cm (60 x 36 ya enmarcada) Y la vamos a rifar!. Sólo 25 números y ya se fue el 3 y el 13. Sólo $130 el número y la rifa se hace el miércoles en vivo. Info por DM. . . . . #watercolorart #quetzal #contemporarywatercolour #nature #figurative #watercolor #mediumformat #artstagram #flying #oportunidad #isaacCM (en Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoUG6inh4Kv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jikb1am3xkg9
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Private flights are so much more fun
Always wanted to do this. Still might someday.
Laying the Groundwork for a New Generation of Commercial Supersonic Aircraft
Cabin crew, prepare for takeoff. Engines roar; speed increases. You sip a cold beverage as the aircraft accelerates quietly past Mach 1 or around 600 mph. There’s no indication you’re flying over land faster than the speed of sound except when you glance at your watch upon arrival and see you’ve reached your destination in half the time. You leisurely walk off the plane with ample time to explore, finish a final report or visit a familiar face. This reality is closer than you think.
We’re on a mission to help you get to where you want to go in half the time. Using our single-pilot X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) research aircraft, we will provide rule-makers the data needed to lift current bans on faster-than-sound air travel over land and help enable a new generation of commercial supersonic aircraft.
The X-59 QueSST is unique in shape. Each element of the aircraft’s design will help reduce a loud sonic boom, typically produced by conventional supersonic aircraft, to a gentle sonic thump, making it quieter for people on the ground. To prove the quiet technology works, we will fly the X-59 over select U.S. communities to gauge the public’s response to the sound.
We are working with Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, California, to manufacture the X-59 and are making significant progress, despite the pandemic.
We finished the majority of work on the wing and closed its interior, marking the halfway point on construction of the aircraft.
The X-59 team at Lockheed Martin completed the final touches by fastening skins to the wing. A special sealant is applied so that fuel can be carried in the wings of the aircraft.
Moving at a steady pace, technicians continue to work on many parts of the aircraft simultaneously. The forebody section of the aircraft will carry the pilot and all the avionics needed to fly the aircraft.
Because of the X-59’s long nose, the pilot will rely on an eXternal Vision System (XVS), rather than a window, for forward-facing visibility. The XVS will display fused images from an advanced computing system and cameras mounted on the upper and lower part of the aircraft’s nose.
The aft part of the aircraft will hold an F414 GE engine and other critical systems. Unlike typical aircraft, the engine inlet will be located on the upper surface of the X-59 and is one of many features that will help reduce the noise heard on the ground.
Over the next several months, the team will merge all three sections together. After final assembly in 2021, the X-59 will undergo numerous tests to ensure structural integrity of the aircraft and that ¬its components work properly. First flight of the aircraft will be in 2022 and community testing will start in 2024, making way for a new market of quiet commercial supersonic aircraft.
Want to learn more about the X-59 and our mission? Visit nasa.gov/X59.
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What is the best and worst thing about being in a zero gravity environment?
What is the best and worst thing about being in a zero gravity environment?
How does flying feel?
NASA’s 60th Anniversary: The Leading Edge of Flight
Aeronautics is our tradition. For 60 years, we have advanced aeronautics, developed new technologies and researched aerodynamics. Our advancements have transformed the way you fly. We will continue to revolutionize flight. Since we opened for business on Oct. 1, 1958, our history tells a story of exploration, innovation and discoveries. The next 60 years, that story continues. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/60
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Ten Observations From Our Flying Telescope
SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP aircraft with a 100-inch telescope used to study the solar system and beyond by observing infrared light that can’t reach Earth’s surface.
What is infrared light? It’s light we cannot see with our eyes that is just beyond the red portion of visible light we see in a rainbow. It can be used to change your TV channels, which is how remote controls work, and it can tell us how hot things are.
Everything emits infrared radiation, even really cold objects like ice and newly forming stars! We use infrared light to study the life cycle of stars, the area around black holes, and to analyze the chemical fingerprints of complex molecules in space and in the atmospheres of other planets – including Pluto and Mars.
Above, is the highest-resolution image of the ring of dust and clouds around the back hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The bright Y-shaped feature is believed to be material falling from the ring into the black hole – which is located where the arms of the Y intersect.
The magnetic field in the galaxy M82 (pictured above) aligns with the dramatic flow of material driven by a burst of star formation. This is helping us learn how star formation shapes magnetic fields of an entire galaxy.
A nearby planetary system around the star Epsilon Eridani, the location of the fictional Babylon 5 space station, is similar to our own: it’s the closest known planetary system around a star like our sun and it also has an asteroid belt adjacent to the orbit of its largest, Jupiter-sized planet.
Observations of a supernova that exploded 10,000 years ago, that revealed it contains enough dust to make 7,000 Earth-sized planets!
Measurements of Pluto’s upper atmosphere, made just two weeks before our New Horizons spacecraft’s Pluto flyby. Combining these observations with those from the spacecraft are helping us understand the dwarf planet’s atmosphere.
A gluttonous star that has eaten the equivalent of 18 Jupiters in the last 80 years, which may change the theory of how stars and planets form.
Molecules like those in your burnt breakfast toast may offer clues to the building blocks of life. Scientists hypothesize that the growth of complex organic molecules like these is one of the steps leading to the emergence of life.
This map of carbon molecules in Orion’s Horsehead nebula (overlaid on an image of the nebula from the Palomar Sky Survey) is helping us understand how the earliest generations of stars formed. Our instruments on SOFIA use 14 detectors simultaneously, letting us make this map faster than ever before!
Pinpointing the location of water vapor in a newly forming star with groundbreaking precision. This is expanding our understanding of the distribution of water in the universe and its eventual incorporation into planets. The water vapor data from SOFIA is shown above laid over an image from the Gemini Observatory.
We captured the chemical fingerprints that revealed celestial clouds collapsing to form young stars like our sun. It’s very rare to directly observe this collapse in motion because it happens so quickly. One of the places where the collapse was observed is shown in this image from The Two Micron All Sky Survey.
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What's Inside SOFIA? High Flying Instruments
Our flying observatory, called SOFIA, carries a 100-inch telescope inside a Boeing 747SP aircraft. Having an airborne observatory provides many benefits.
It flies at 38,000-45,000 feet – above 99% of the water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere that blocks infrared light from reaching the ground!
It is also mobile! We can fly to the best vantage point for viewing the cosmos. We go to Christchurch, New Zealand, nearly every year to study objects best observed from the Southern Hemisphere. And last year we went to Daytona Beach, FL, to study the atmosphere of Neptune’s moon Triton while flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
SOFIA’s telescope has a large primary mirror – about the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope’s mirror. Large telescopes let us gather a lot of light to make high-resolution images!
But unlike a space-based observatory, SOFIA returns to our base every morning.
Which means that we can change the instruments we use to analyze the light from the telescope to make many different types of scientific observations. We currently have seven instruments, and new ones are now being developed to incorporate new technologies.
So what is inside SOFIA? The existing instruments include:
Infrared cameras that can peer inside celestial clouds of dust and gas to see stars forming inside. They can also study molecules in a nebula that may offer clues to the building blocks of life…
…A polarimeter, a device that measures the alignment of incoming light waves, that we use to study magnetic fields. The left image reveals that hot dust in the starburst galaxy M82 is magnetically aligned with the gas flowing out of it, shown in blue on the right image from our Chandra X-ray Observatory. This can help us understand how magnetic fields affect how stars form.
…A tracking camera that we used to study New Horizon’s post-Pluto flyby target and found that it may have its own moon…
…A spectrograph that spreads light into its component colors. We’re using one to search for signs of water plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and to search for signs of water on Venus to learn about how it lost its oceans…
…An instrument that studies high energy terahertz radiation with 14 detectors. It’s so efficient that we made this map of Orion’s Horsehead Nebula in only four hours! The map is made of 100 separate views of the nebula, each mapping carbon atoms at different velocities.
…And we have an instrument under construction that will soon let us study how water vapor, ice and oxygen combine at different times during planet formation, to better understand how these elements combine with dust to form a mass that can become a planet.
Our airborne telescope has already revealed so much about the universe around us! Now we’re looking for the next idea to help us use SOFIA in even more new ways.
Discover more about our SOFIA flying observatory HERE.
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Chasing the Shadow of Neptune’s Moon Triton
Our Flying Observatory
Our flying observatory, called SOFIA, carries a 100-inch telescope inside a Boeing 747SP aircraft. Scientists onboard study the life cycle of stars, planets (including the atmosphere of Mars and Jupiter), nearby planetary systems, galaxies, black holes and complex molecules in space.
AND on Oct. 5, SOFIA is going on a special flight to chase the shadow of Neptune's moon Triton as it crosses Earth’s surface!
In case you’re wondering, SOFIA stands for: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Triton
Triton is 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, making it the largest of the 13 moons orbiting Neptune. Unlike most large moons in our solar system, Triton orbits in the opposite direction of Neptune, called a retrograde orbit. This backward orbit leads scientists to believe that Triton formed in an area past Neptune, called the Kuiper Belt, and was pulled into its orbit around Neptune by gravity.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune and Triton in 1989 and found that Triton’s atmosphere is made up of mostly nitrogen...but it has not been studied in nearly 16 years!
Occultations are Eclipse-Like Events
An occultation occurs when an object, like a planet or a moon, passes in front of a star and completely blocks the light from that star. As the object blocks the star’s light, it casts a faint shadow on Earth’s surface.
But unlike an eclipse, these shadows are not usually visible to the naked eye because the star and object are much smaller and not nearly as bright as our sun. Telescopes with special instruments can actually see these shadows and study the star’s light as it passes near and around the object – if they can be in the right place on Earth to catch the shadow.
Chasing Shadows
Scientists have been making advanced observations of Triton and a background star. They've calculated exactly where Triton’s faint shadow will fall on Earth! Our SOFIA team has designed a flight path that will put SOFIA (the telescope and aircraft) exactly in the center of the shadow at the precise moment that Triton and the star will align.
This is no easy feat because the shadow is moving at more than 53,000 mph while SOFIA flies at Mach 0.85 (652 mph), so we only have about two minutes to catch the shadow!! But our SOFIA team has previously harnessed the aircraft’s mobility to study Pluto from inside the center of its occultation shadow, and is ready to do it again to study Triton!
What We Learn From Inside the Shadow
From inside the shadow, our team on SOFIA will study the star’s light as it passes around and through Triton’s atmosphere. This allows us to learn more about Triton’s atmosphere, including its temperature, pressure, density and composition!
Our team will use this information to examine if Triton’s atmosphere has changed since our Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past it in 1989. That’s a lot of information from a bit of light inside a shadow! Similar observations of Uranus in 1977, from our previous flying observatory, led to the discovery of rings around that planet!
International Ground-Based Support
Ground-based telescopes across the United States and Europe – from Scotland to the Canary Islands – will also be studying Triton’s occultation. Even though most of these telescopes will not be in the center of the shadow, the simultaneous observations, from different locations on Earth, will give us information about how Triton’s atmosphere varies across its latitudes.
This data from across the Earth and from onboard SOFIA will help researchers understand how Triton’s atmosphere is distorted at different locations by its high winds and its strong tides!
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