Professor of Mechanical Engineering, & Associate Dean, at UC Santa Barbara. I like airplanes and old cameras.

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Birder. Northern California Native plant gardener. Fujifilm, mainly straight out of the camera: X-T5 and X100V. GIS professional. I switched from a career in geology. AvGeek. Many posts auto self-destruct. https://distortions.net
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Ground Theory Instructor RMIT Aviation Academy Pilot, Australian Correspondent for Aerospacenews.com, Love to travel and learn of the wider world

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