#bleriot

[postcard-from-the-past]

Aviator Paillette on a Blériot monoplane at the Bourges airbase, Berry region of France

French vintage postcard

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Salon de Locomotion Aerienne, 1909 Grand Palais Paris by Chris Protopapas Via Flickr: Found this amazing photo on Wikipedia and could not resist posting it here. Public Domain.

[knitjumpergames]

Little progress update:

-Started modeling additional islands

-Flight trail

-Wind wisps'

-Engine/sea noise (sorry, couldn't capture it!)

-Tree sprites (need to get them billboarding)

I'll be honest, I'm doing everything I can outside of the coding I need to do...I really hate coding.

[coffeenuts]

Stockholm Technical Museum's Bleriot XI SE-AEC by Ben Stanley Hall https://flic.kr/p/2fkJLoM

[thestonecuttersguild]

Bleriot XI, Oshkosh 2017

[jareckiworld]

Wang He  -  Bleriot XI    (shan shui, 2016)

[thewartoendwars]

Bleriot monoplane.

[the-telescope-times]

Checking in on Bleriot

What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings scientists have dubbed "propellers."

This particular propeller, named Bleriot, marks the presence of a body that is much larger than the particles that surround it, yet too small to clear out a complete gap in the rings (like Pan and Daphnis) and become a moon in its own right.

Although the moonlet at the core of the propeller is itself too small to see, the disturbances in the rings caused by its gravity betray its presence.

Cassini scientists have been tracking propeller features like this one for years in order to learn how their orbits change over time. From this, they hope to gain insight into how forming planets migrate in the disks in which they form.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 59 degrees above the ring plane.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 9, 2017.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 223,000 miles (359,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 73 degrees. Image scale is 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) per pixel. ~ SaturnDaily

For more on Bleriot, see PIA12792.

Above image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. For a larger version please go here.