Gaël
@gaellebris.bsky.social
Aero & civil engineer. Planner. | VP & Tech Fellow at WSP. Groupe ADP alumnus. | Skeets reflect personal opinion. Following, likes & reskeets ≠ endorsements. | Talk about #airports, #aviation, #engineering, #infrastructure, #mobility & #transportation 🚁🛩️✈️🚀
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The US Government has criticised the proposed EU Space Act, calling its regulations “unfair and unwarranted” and warning they could harm transatlantic cooperation.
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US Government Calls EU Space Act Regulations "Unfair and Unwarranted"
The US Government has criticised the proposed EU Space Act, calling its regulations “unfair and unwarranted” and warning they could harm transatlantic cooperation.
europeanspaceflight.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The US Government has criticised the proposed EU Space Act, calling its regulations “unfair and unwarranted” and warning they could harm transatlantic cooperation.
europeanspaceflight.com/us-governmen...
europeanspaceflight.com/us-governmen...
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While the Administration is sending mixed messages (Duffy v Trump) about the controllers, this long piece looks at how a long list of presidential administrations have screwed over the FAA and its controllers. leehamnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
As ATC collapses, FAA modernization funding remains elusive - Leeham News and Analysis
By Colleen Mondor Nov. 4, 2025, © Leeham News: The US Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is melting down as the US federal government shutdown takes its toll on an already overstressed, understaffed, un...
leehamnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
While the Administration is sending mixed messages (Duffy v Trump) about the controllers, this long piece looks at how a long list of presidential administrations have screwed over the FAA and its controllers. leehamnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
When even Mother Nature fights against your now over 44-month-long "10 days" failed invasion... 🙄🇺🇦🦉 #counteruas #cuas #slavaukraini
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When even Mother Nature fights against your now over 44-month-long "10 days" failed invasion... 🙄🇺🇦🦉 #counteruas #cuas #slavaukraini
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UPS and FedEx's fleets of MD-11 planes are grounded, which can each carry thousands of packages. Logistics experts say some cargo could shift to passenger planes, trains and trucks. n.pr/3WOO6Ml
Some UPS and FedEx planes are grounded. What does that mean for holiday shipping?
UPS and FedEx's fleets of MD-11 planes are grounded, which can each carry thousands of packages. Logistics experts say some cargo could shift to passenger planes, trains and trucks.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
UPS and FedEx's fleets of MD-11 planes are grounded, which can each carry thousands of packages. Logistics experts say some cargo could shift to passenger planes, trains and trucks. n.pr/3WOO6Ml
O tempora, o mores! When I was a kid, I was fascinated by DIY empirical confirmations of scientific facts. Went to visit the local lab pointing lasers toward moon retroreflectors. Did the Eratosthenes experiment when visiting my grandparents on the other side of France. Good times. #ReadBooks
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
O tempora, o mores! When I was a kid, I was fascinated by DIY empirical confirmations of scientific facts. Went to visit the local lab pointing lasers toward moon retroreflectors. Did the Eratosthenes experiment when visiting my grandparents on the other side of France. Good times. #ReadBooks
Ok now this is very cool... 🏛️🚧 #civilengineering #engineering #infrastructure #transportation #viaeromanae
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Ok now this is very cool... 🏛️🚧 #civilengineering #engineering #infrastructure #transportation #viaeromanae
*With exceptions made for first responders, MIL, and also locals.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
*With exceptions made for first responders, MIL, and also locals.
Btw read this post literally. Statement is nonpartisan and applies to all situations where political demagogy and special interests conspire to kill #multimodality. 🙄 #mobility
My takeaway of this headline is that a multimodal nation is a resilient nation. We deserve good air, rail, and ground #transportation. When a mode or system is down, you can rely on others to get you where you need. And also it gives more choice to users/consumers. 🚲🚗🚋🚅🚁✈️ #mobility #resilience
As many as 20% of flights could be canceled if the government shutdown continues, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this week.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Btw read this post literally. Statement is nonpartisan and applies to all situations where political demagogy and special interests conspire to kill #multimodality. 🙄 #mobility
How are we supposed to call that app? Tabula Geographica Ocularium? 😜
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are we supposed to call that app? Tabula Geographica Ocularium? 😜
#Aviation saves lives. The lack of aviation facility can prevent lifesaving medevac to bring patients to 🏥 on time. That's one of the reasons why a well-thought aviation system serving all communities including the most remote ones is so important. Glad I live in North Carolina! 🚁 #verticalflight
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#Aviation saves lives. The lack of aviation facility can prevent lifesaving medevac to bring patients to 🏥 on time. That's one of the reasons why a well-thought aviation system serving all communities including the most remote ones is so important. Glad I live in North Carolina! 🚁 #verticalflight
No thanks. I like my beer well chilled. Maybe cellar temperature if we're honoring an old recipe. But definitively not body temperature. That's a sin. 🍻 #sláinte #yec'hedmat
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
No thanks. I like my beer well chilled. Maybe cellar temperature if we're honoring an old recipe. But definitively not body temperature. That's a sin. 🍻 #sláinte #yec'hedmat
Fun fact: The fear of the number 13 is called "triskaidekaphobia" (lol). 😱 Additional numbers may also be avoided in other countries due to local superstitions. 💀 Anyway... I'm an engineer. Within ℕ, after 12 comes 13. 🤷♂️ #ScientiaPotentiaEst
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Fun fact: The fear of the number 13 is called "triskaidekaphobia" (lol). 😱 Additional numbers may also be avoided in other countries due to local superstitions. 💀 Anyway... I'm an engineer. Within ℕ, after 12 comes 13. 🤷♂️ #ScientiaPotentiaEst
What is a STOLport? 🤔 ICAO states that "the STOLport design aeroplane is assumed to [have] a reference field length of 800 m or less". 📏 More about STOLports in the context of AAM at this link: buff.ly/cG63MJM. ✈️ #airports #airtravel #aviation #infrastructure #mobility #transportation
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What is a STOLport? 🤔 ICAO states that "the STOLport design aeroplane is assumed to [have] a reference field length of 800 m or less". 📏 More about STOLports in the context of AAM at this link: buff.ly/cG63MJM. ✈️ #airports #airtravel #aviation #infrastructure #mobility #transportation
What about this runner? Is he still running? He might reach Patagonia pretty soon... 🫤 #shutdown
He’s running an extra mile for each day the federal government is shutdown, blending a little politics and history along the way.
This is cool. My one gripe, he needs more vids outside the federal core. DC is so much more than the Mall.
#running #washingtondc
This is cool. My one gripe, he needs more vids outside the federal core. DC is so much more than the Mall.
#running #washingtondc
He is running his way through the shutdown. Will it outlast him?
Each day the government shutdown continues, Rob Perez adds a mile to his run.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
What about this runner? Is he still running? He might reach Patagonia pretty soon... 🫤 #shutdown
This rotund terminal by William Delano still exists today! You may walk through the beautiful art deco setting if you fly out of LaGuardia with Spirit Airlines. We were there a few years ago to work on GSE electrification. ✈️ #airports #airtravel #artdeco #aviation #nyc
1940 Marine Air Terminal - Postcard Set
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#NewYorkCity #Aviation #Avgeek #Postcards #Travel #LaGuardiaField #VintageAviation #AviationHistory #ArtDecoAirport #AirTravelHeritage #NYCAirportHistory #GoldenAgeOfFlight #AviationPostcard #RetroTravel #HistoricAirports
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#NewYorkCity #Aviation #Avgeek #Postcards #Travel #LaGuardiaField #VintageAviation #AviationHistory #ArtDecoAirport #AirTravelHeritage #NYCAirportHistory #GoldenAgeOfFlight #AviationPostcard #RetroTravel #HistoricAirports
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This rotund terminal by William Delano still exists today! You may walk through the beautiful art deco setting if you fly out of LaGuardia with Spirit Airlines. We were there a few years ago to work on GSE electrification. ✈️ #airports #airtravel #artdeco #aviation #nyc
More about this issue & mitigation in the Helicopter Rotor Downwash #Safety Guidebook: Preventing the Adverse Effects of Rotor
#Downwash released in 2022: www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
Version en français à ce lien : www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
#aviation #verticalflight #vtols
#Downwash released in 2022: www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
Version en français à ce lien : www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
#aviation #verticalflight #vtols
#OTD 2021: A passer-by was injured by downwash from an air ambulance AW139 on final approach to an elevated hospital HLS over a busy urban road in Melbourne. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #airambulance #helicopter #downwash #hospital #helip #helideck #heliport #atsb
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
More about this issue & mitigation in the Helicopter Rotor Downwash #Safety Guidebook: Preventing the Adverse Effects of Rotor
#Downwash released in 2022: www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
Version en français à ce lien : www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
#aviation #verticalflight #vtols
#Downwash released in 2022: www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
Version en français à ce lien : www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/defaul....
#aviation #verticalflight #vtols
FDOT is also expanding its SunTrax facility to incorporate the air #mobility component: suntraxfl.com. 🚗🚁🛩️ #airtravel #aviation #engineering #florida #innovation #transportation
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
FDOT is also expanding its SunTrax facility to incorporate the air #mobility component: suntraxfl.com. 🚗🚁🛩️ #airtravel #aviation #engineering #florida #innovation #transportation
I've seen that movie too... 😉 #TheMartian
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I've seen that movie too... 😉 #TheMartian
Quiz of the day: What kind of bike lane is @byerussell.com riding in this video?
1️⃣ Conventional lane
2️⃣ Buffered lane
3️⃣ Protected lane
4️⃣ Shared-use lane
More about bike facilities (and how to facilitate bicycle access to #airports) at this link: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/28600/c....
#mobility
1️⃣ Conventional lane
2️⃣ Buffered lane
3️⃣ Protected lane
4️⃣ Shared-use lane
More about bike facilities (and how to facilitate bicycle access to #airports) at this link: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/28600/c....
#mobility
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Quiz of the day: What kind of bike lane is @byerussell.com riding in this video?
1️⃣ Conventional lane
2️⃣ Buffered lane
3️⃣ Protected lane
4️⃣ Shared-use lane
More about bike facilities (and how to facilitate bicycle access to #airports) at this link: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/28600/c....
#mobility
1️⃣ Conventional lane
2️⃣ Buffered lane
3️⃣ Protected lane
4️⃣ Shared-use lane
More about bike facilities (and how to facilitate bicycle access to #airports) at this link: nap.nationalacademies.org/read/28600/c....
#mobility
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Driver error contributes to most road #crashes. Design & traffic operation features contribute to misperceptions, slow reactions, & poor decisions.
Applying psychology, physiology, sociology, biomechanics, & kinesiology to designs can help reduce human error.
https://ow.ly/bpjH50XkC4L
Applying psychology, physiology, sociology, biomechanics, & kinesiology to designs can help reduce human error.
https://ow.ly/bpjH50XkC4L
Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems: Third Edition
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
ow.ly
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Driver error contributes to most road #crashes. Design & traffic operation features contribute to misperceptions, slow reactions, & poor decisions.
Applying psychology, physiology, sociology, biomechanics, & kinesiology to designs can help reduce human error.
https://ow.ly/bpjH50XkC4L
Applying psychology, physiology, sociology, biomechanics, & kinesiology to designs can help reduce human error.
https://ow.ly/bpjH50XkC4L
My takeaway of this headline is that a multimodal nation is a resilient nation. We deserve good air, rail, and ground #transportation. When a mode or system is down, you can rely on others to get you where you need. And also it gives more choice to users/consumers. 🚲🚗🚋🚅🚁✈️ #mobility #resilience
As many as 20% of flights could be canceled if the government shutdown continues, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this week.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said she took Amtrak train instead as shutdown cancels flights
As many as 20% of flights could be canceled if the government shutdown continues, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this week.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My takeaway of this headline is that a multimodal nation is a resilient nation. We deserve good air, rail, and ground #transportation. When a mode or system is down, you can rely on others to get you where you need. And also it gives more choice to users/consumers. 🚲🚗🚋🚅🚁✈️ #mobility #resilience
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While not all of the canceled flights were caused by the FAA-mandated cuts, airlines have reported cutting hundreds of flights due to the order.
How many canceled flights? Daily tally crosses 1,000 as weekend begins.
While not all of the canceled flights were caused by the FAA-mandated cuts, airlines have reported cutting hundreds of flights due to the order.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
While not all of the canceled flights were caused by the FAA-mandated cuts, airlines have reported cutting hundreds of flights due to the order.
What is an electric #aircraft? 🤔 When it comes to e-#powertrains, there are many different architectures and hybridizations possible! 🔋 This fig. defines six families. 🛩️ And if you need a refresher on definitions and concepts, we got you covered: buff.ly/KqD7SPD. ✈️ #aviation #engineering @trb.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What is an electric #aircraft? 🤔 When it comes to e-#powertrains, there are many different architectures and hybridizations possible! 🔋 This fig. defines six families. 🛩️ And if you need a refresher on definitions and concepts, we got you covered: buff.ly/KqD7SPD. ✈️ #aviation #engineering @trb.org
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Part 2 of our history of the remarkable flight of the California Clipper in WW2 is now available.
To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before:
Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation
To get back to the US after Pearl Harbor, Ford and his crew are asked by Pan Am to do something no commercial aircrew or passenger plane has done before:
Circumnavigate the world. #history #aviation
Flying blind: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 2
What Pan Am were asking of Ford, his crew and his aircraft was to do something that no commercial flying boat had ever done before: complete a circumnavigation of the world.
theupfront.media
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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BREAKING: Boeing confirms recommendation to ground MD-11 fleet “while additional engineering analysis is performed” (via @theaircurrent.com)
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
BREAKING: Boeing confirms recommendation to ground MD-11 fleet “while additional engineering analysis is performed” (via @theaircurrent.com)