LOCAL: Raining, or deep in a haze that plunges the Mon Valley into a 19th-century industrial smog. The fires in Manitoba are making for a greasy blue flight experience. The river looks like a caramel sprinkled with plastic bottles, logs, and forest debris. I counted 5 bottles a minute in Monongahela, home of my favorite coffee shop, Little City. All I’m saying is Little City is the coffee shop I always wanted but could never find. Also, I like coffee, so it works outs.
DRONE NEWS: Make sure to meet Putin on the ground floor. Ukraine bagged a Shahed antenna factory, blew up an ammunition factory. North Korea, being North Korea, will help Un stay rich and drinking American whiskey while he, too, produces Shahed-style drones. Iran is spinning up a nuclear arsenal. Looks bad. It never looked good, so maybe not news.
There are timelines for domestic drone production and BVLOS. All-caps declaration from Mount Weirdness spells out the need for “drone dominance”. There is a 30-day window to baseline BVLOS at a time when mass-produced domestic production is basically zero. We should see the BVLOS laws go into effect by early next year. Trump will offer protectionist benefits for manufacturers of domestic to expand their capabilities to produce – but hold on, manufacturing in the US is dead – drones. Education is dead. Nevermind. Just protect the block chain. Just protect the supply chain, that sweet river of cash, or something like that. Also, add a little sprinkling of flying cars no one needs. EDIT: Hypersonic missiles, yes. VTOLS with people in them? The jury is out.
Picked up the Pittsburgh metro TFR on the VIP visit last week EDIT: at the site of a planned US Steel expansion project. Interestingly enough I am pretty sure I flew that location a couple of years ago in my first LAANC to Aloft ops waiver due to proximity to an airport. I basically did an up and down on the side of a road next to the gate closing in the sprawling undeveloped location, up to 250 feet or another. Currently there are restrictions around flying the Oakmont greens for the US Open event. A button on the FP&O home page takes you to the FAA notice.
I have yet to test my new strobe light for the drone on a night op, but I am waiting for dry weather AND the air to clear. Manitoba government urges tourists not to visit as 21,000 people flee wildfires. Out of the twenty-eight fires burning yesterday, 10 are out of control. No flying unless immediately following a downpour.
SCIENCE: The muon is having a moment right now. How big? It’s so big that we might get spintronics and magnonics in the realm of feasibility.
aμ = (g-2)/2 (muon, experiment) = 0.001 165 920 705 +- 0.000 000 000 114(stat.)
+- 0.000 000 000 091(syst.)
Give me interferometry.
Check out the sounds of peregrine falcons on the Aviary cam (button at bottom of front page) at the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh. The fledglings were banded last week. The camera was pointed at the side of the wall, so I called the Aviary and left a message. Last time I checked the nest was empty! Use the button on the FP&O home screen to see the new feathers of the three fledglings at the Cathedral of Learning. Where are the falcons? I can actually hear them off-screen yelling for food. Methinks they are perched on a ledge. They grow up so fast. I can also hear a very loud call of an adult falcon off-camera, a loud gravelly squeak.
Also check out the ocean current map button on the front page. That has to be the most beautiful oblate spheroid I ever saw.
ART: I am painting a rainbow over a Sheetz, as is tradition. I will use any leftover paint for a couple of cat vintage cat portraits and then paint something seriously beautiful again.
Check out the local Millvale Murals. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/god-pittsburgh-mothers-sistine-chapel-society-b2764267.html
Falcon P & O 
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