aeronautics

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Its Reach for the Sky festival, the aviation and aerospace festival for girls, has been held for the last three years at Spaceport Cornwall, the £20m centre for space and aeronautics near Newquay.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

At the same time, work accelerated across a wide range of priorities, including lunar exploration, Earth science, planetary defense, next-generation aeronautics, and technologies intended to support future missions to Mars.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

Bertrand Vilmer, an aeronautics expert and consultant at Paris-based Icare Aeronautique, said Athens' largely analog-based systems "are robust, but ones for which there's no longer really any possible maintenance because they're old."

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Born in Vienna to one of Austria’s wealthiest families, Wittgenstein began his academic studies in mechanical engineering and started a Ph.D. in aeronautics but became captivated by philosophy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

With the transmutation of her divisions priorities from aeronautics to space, however, her work was taking a particularly toothsome turn.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly