GPS2K? GPS Week Rollover April 6th 2019
Does not quite have the same significance as 31 December 1999, but I’m sure someone in the mainstream press will soon draw the parallels with Y2K with stories of Airliners getting lost or Trading systems failing due to timing errors, April 6th 2019 is the date when GPS systems reset ! Actually for the second …
photos.edparsons.com
Take a look at my portfolio of aviation pictures if you are interested – it”s the summer so I will be spending some of my free time with fellow avgeeks who have all spent large sums of money on long lenses ! photos.edparsons.com It’s harder than you might imagine, I’m doing well if I get …
Never have so many people understood so little about so much…
What inspired you as a child ? A child today hopefully seeing the exploits of Elon Musk and Space-X launching and recovering rockets with showmanship seldom demonstrated by serious rocket scientists may have their interest sparked in science and technology? Personally my love of technology came yes from rocket science, but also crucially from growing …
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The Romance of Airport Codes
LHR – JFK don’t those six letters cause some excitement to even the most seasoned traveller, there is still just a little romance left in air travel. Romance here is the “feeling of mystery, excitement and remoteness from everyday life” as opposed to love ! For me part of the romance comes from the Airport …
Earth Engine Workshop – London
Register here to attend a free workshop on Google Earth Engine at Google’s London Office on the 15th November. Earth Engine is Google’s cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google’s computational capabilities to bear on a variety of high-impact societal issues such as deforestation, drought, disaster, disease, food security, water management, climate monitoring …
The Last Concorde
Back in June of last year I visited the now disused Aerodrome at Filton to visit Concorde 216 G-BOAF as part of my quest to visit all the Concordes in a year. Then Alpha Foxtrot was a rather sad sight parked in a remote corner of the airfield visible only from a Car Showrooms car …
If you can’t link to it… does it exist ?
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” So goes the well-known philosophical thought experiment, however rather than a discourse on observation and perception I’d like to hijack the experiment for an argument I have been making on and off for the last …
The sign of the times..
You might notice a redesign of my site today, nothing major really a little less clutter hopefully, but the reason for the change is really behind the scenes. This site is now using the encrypted version of the web protocol https. Once only a requirement for sites taking payments and banking increasingly all types of …
Data driven development in Kenya
If you are interested in finding out how data can make a real change to peoples lives in Kenya, come along and find out about Gather a startup I have been helping over the last few months… Gather is holding its first public launch on Tuesday 20th June at 7.00pm at the Urban Innovation Centre …