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Meet “Roadrunner,” a new 15kg (33 lb) bipedal wheeled robot prototype featuring multi-modal locomotion: side-by-side and inline wheel modes and and stepping. Its symmetric legs articulate at the knee for obstacle avoidance.

@scottiebateman @RAeSTimR I have similar feelings about the incoming evtols. @RAeSTimR excellent article in Aerospace mag highlighted the economics. There’s a big difference between a taxi driver and a pilot and a Mercedes and a Joby. We will NOT be catching them like we do taxis!! Will remain exclusive.

@scottiebateman @RAeSTimR I'm with you Scott, for the very same reasons, more so in this brave new world. The older I get the more accurate my gut feelings and hunches get. It seems a bit too niche with a few major drawbacks. It would be cool to see it succeed and I wish it the best but...

"There is a real sense of optimism that... a new generation of airships will return lighter-than-air flight to the heart of the wider aviation industry" #avgeek #aviation ow.ly/KotU50Yv8t8

@Saul_Sadka @grok does the debris from these space interceptions pose a threat to satellites?

INSANE VIDEO of an Iranian missile getting destroyed in space. Twelve hours in, this battle that the IRGC prepared for over 40 years is a total humiliating farce for them. They have fired 200 missiles at Israel and caused damage to a few buildings and minor injuries. They have clearly lost control of their own airspace, and hundreds of enemy jets are flying overhead hunting missile launchers. Of those 200, only 35 even made it into Israeli airspace. Their only hits have been on civilians in Arab states, ensuring they will always be remembered as the evil goons that they are across the region. Their best chance to cause major pain was in the first hours—before they started losing launchers and stockpiles, and while they still at least had some control of their own airspace. If they could have fired enough in a single volley to overwhelm the defenses arrayed against them, they could have reduced the interception rate to under 50% and led to hundreds of dead in Israel. But they clearly couldn’t, and with every hour that passes they are increasingly attrited. Soon, in a matter of days at most, Iran’s ballistic missiles will no longer—and never again—pose a strategic threat. There have been dumb and paid-off pundits arguing that Iran was a mighty power, that they were going to sink US carriers, even after the twelve-day war. But now the rubber hits the road. All their predictions have been disproven—exposed for the propaganda they were.

@AurelienL7 @senpire_ @Hitchslap1 The two tests are from different occasions and we don’t know the water level in the test with multi choice answers so can’t draw these conclusions. Look at the bottle design, specifically the lids.

@senpire_ @Hitchslap1 Looking at volume ansewer D has too much water. Some answer are more realistic in term of volume.

Related test here shows similar sex differences. Participants are asked, “Which bottle correctly shows how the waterline would look?”

@SCShipyards Have you tried flinging a pumpkin from the treb? photos.app.goo.gl/k7pGfLALMwwiva…

It's all fun and games until your recursive trebuchet needs a recoil-mitigating mount.

Dear @Tesco why, for the love of god, is the 250g Marmite no longer available? It’s in other supermarkets. I won’t be dm’ing you, let’s have it out right here in public please!

@PolePositionist It’s like a game of ‘pick up sticks’.

Look at how small the airbox is. Compared to the Racing Bull, it's like night and day.

Wondering if this @Tesco offer is actually worth anything?

@scottiebateman Beautiful and majestic. The aurora didn't look too bad either.

Last night, over the high latitudes of northern Canada, the sky reminded us who is really in charge. As we passed near Iqaluit, the darkness above the Arctic began to move. Curtains of green and violet light rose, folded, and dissolved again, four fleeting scenes from a phenomenon that is as old as the planet itself, yet never loses its ability to stop you mid-sentence. Iqaluit sits at the edge of the inhabitable world, on Baffin Island, shaped by ice, sea, and resilience. For centuries it has been home to Inuit communities whose understanding of sky, weather, and judgement was born not from instruments, but from survival. Long before satellites and forecasts, the heavens were both guide and warning. The aurora borealis is born far from here. Charged particles from the Sun stream toward Earth during periods of heightened solar activity, and this week’s geomagnetic storm has been an exceptional one. As those particles collide with our magnetic field and are funnelled toward the poles, they energise gases high in the atmosphere. Oxygen glows green. Nitrogen adds reds and purples. Space weather, rendered visible. What struck me wasn’t just the beauty… it was the contrast of our journey. Only hours after this show, our flight from London Heathrow Airport to Vancouver ended in forecast dense fog and a CAT III automatic landing. A very different natural phenomenon, demanding the same respect. One mesmerising and untouchable. The other invisible, operational, and decisive. I’m acutely aware of the privilege of seeing moments like this. Not everyone gets that view. Not everyone gets that choice. Feeling humbled. Four images. One planet. Many ways nature asks us to pay attention. #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #PilotLife #AvGeek #FlightDeckView #AboveTheClouds #Iqaluit #SpaceWeather #AviationLife #Judgement #LongHaul #EarthFromAbove #RareViews

@Jimbomcg987 @chunder10 It's not often the aurora blows out!!

Holy shee... @chunder10

Some decent aurora from #Ellesmere in Shropshire tonight. I saw more than I photographed and didn't catch the real peak.

@scottiebateman I'm liking the slightly retro look of the book, to suit the era of the aircraft I assume. I'm sure the contents will be fine too!!

Today felt quietly momentous. The first printed copies of JUMBO landed on the desks at Penguin this morning. A book that has lived for years as notes, memories, cockpit conversations, and late-night drafts is suddenly… real. The Boeing 747 has always been more than an aircraft. When it first flew in February 1969, it didn’t just change aviation — it changed the world. It made long-haul travel accessible, shrank continents, reshaped global trade, and defined the look and feel of flight for generations. For over half a century, the “Queen of the Skies” has carried presidents, pilgrims, freight, families, and dreams, and she did it with elegance, power, and unmistakable presence. JUMBO tells that story from the flight deck. From the perspective of pilots, crews, engineers, designers, the moments that made the 747 a cultural and technological icon. From someone who grew up looking up at her, and later flew her successors across the same skies, it’s been a passion project. The book is released on 18 February 2026, just over a month from now, and is available to pre-order on Amazon now. If you love aviation, engineering, history, or the stories behind the machines that shape our lives, I hope you’ll come along for the journey. Thank you to everyone who has supported this project, this one really means a lot. ✈️📖 #Jumbo #Boeing747 #QueenOfTheSkies #AviationHistory #AviationBook #NonFictionBooks #AviationGeek #AvGeek #FlightDeck #Aircraft #AviationLovers #Bookstagram #NewBook #AviationPhotography #PenguinBooks

Hi @elonmusk @X #Grok agrees with me that the recent X Video UI tweaks have ruined the user experience. I often admire your management style of getting stuff done quickly and efficiently but how are the huge backward steps acceptable to you?

@scottiebateman Might it have been STEVE? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE

A picture of last nights sky, taken mid-Atlantic, at the darkest part of the flight. The dark blue streak was visible by the naked eye, a phenomenon that I’ve not seen before. It changed shape, I’ve got lots of photos of it, can anyone help me understand what it is please? More pics below. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #skyatnight #Space #STARGAZER

@HillF1 @matoxley

@matoxley Celebrate the light! Its coming back! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤪

Merry winter solstice, all you filthy pagans 😎✊

@chinnychick Went to see what was left of the band a few years back. Covid delays twice. Then the train tracks got set alight on the way down to London. Had to come home. Lost the hotel and some train fees. Had to threaten the specific ticket insurance with court to get refund!! GUTTED.

Due to absolutely ZERO good stuff on the telebox I randomly found a new Queen documentary on Prime… GETTTTTTTT IN!!! What a band 🙌👊🤘 The best in history in my opinion.. Wish I was born 20 years earlier and had got to see them??? Did any of you?!

@AlexBrundle If the testing method hasn’t changed are we to assume some teams were using the loophole in this season’s engines? I don’t think so, but why?

For those delving into F1 tech news today. Compression ratio - volume of engine cylinders at their maximum vs at their minimum (with the piston closest to the top) Very basically considered, a bigger ratio means more air and fuel in a smaller space before detonation, a bigger 'bang', and more power.

@JohnNicholRAF @SuzannahNichol @Ralph_Retriever But to answer your question my aspiring Typhoon pilot son made us a Chat GPT inspired slow cooker chicken and rice dish ce soir.

Mrs @SuzannahNichol out with ladies at panto tonight (oh YES she is!) so me & @Ralph_Retriever enjoying homemade lasagne, wedges, thyme & red wine gravy (in usual 20-yr-old Pyrex jug). Nb; no greenery! 2 tins Stella down, & a robust Argentinian Cab/Sauv to lighten the load. You?

@JohnNicholRAF @SuzannahNichol @Ralph_Retriever All good households have a Pyrex jug like that. So used you can’t read half the scales but after 20 years you can guesstimate well enough.