#SpreadYourWings

[rabbitcruiser]

National Aviation Day

National Aviation Day on August 19 should make us stop and think about the power of flight. Yet, some scientific and technological marvels become so commonplace that we seldom take the time to re-examine their revolutionary impact with an open and inquisitive mind.  In just a handful of generations, aviation went from pure, pie-in-the-sky speculation to a mundane reality that inspires about as much wonder as a trip aboard a Greyhound bus.

It’s that ho-hum attitude to the miracle of flight that makes National Aviation Day such an excellent national observation.  Plus, it takes place on  Orville Wright’s birthday!

Let’s take a closer look.

National Aviation Day timeline

1st Century ADChinese emperor

Legend has it that Chinese Emperor Wang Mang ordered a soldier to strap two wings to his back, who then flew 100 meters.

9th Century ADAn Andalusian takes flight

Abbas ibn Firnas is said to have covered himself with feathers, attached wings to his body and (according to Algerian historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari) "flew a considerable distance."

1799Cayley is the "father of aviation"

Sir George Cayley, an English engineer, described the model for a modern airplane — a fixed-wing machine with lift, propulsion and control mechanisms.

August 19, 1871Brother Orville is born

Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio. His older brother, Wilbur, had been born in Millville, Indiana, on April 16, 1867.

December 17, 1903Orville pilots a plane

The Wright Brothers — with Orville at the helm and Wilbur making a final wing adjustment — completed the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft on a spit of land four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

National Aviation Day Activities

Take a trip to North Carolina

Build your own airplane

Go "planespotting"!

What better way to commemorate the achievements of the Wright brothers than by flying to North Carolina and visiting the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills? Think of it as a pilgrimage to the spot where American flight first took off.

It doesn't have to be a real one, of course. You can build an airplane using Legos. Or, you can go for that old school-days standby — the paper plane.

Gather with a group of friends where you can watch airplanes taking off and landing. Bring food if the spirit moves you — a "planespotting" picnic!

5 High-flying Facts About Aviation

There aren't that many aviophobes

Maybe that's because so few have flown

A president flies

It started with bicycles

Who needs an engine?

Although it may seem like a lot of people are afraid to fly, aviophobia afflicts only about 6.5 percent of the population.

Worldwide, only about 5 percent of the population has been on an airplane.

The first U.S. president to fly in an airplane was the adventurous Theodore Roosevelt, who flew in a Wright Flyer on October 11, 1910.

The Wright Brothers got their mechanical training as owners of a bicycle shop.

A Boeing 747 without engine power can glide about two miles for every 1,000 feet or so that the plane is above the ground.

Why We Love National Aviation Day

We always choose the window seat

Space is the final frontier

The proclamation is simple and beautiful

Yes, some of us still stare in wonder out the plane's window as we ponder something that seems delightfully impossible. We are, after all, sitting inside a giant flying machine traveling many hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above the landscape below. How can this be?

Many of the mechanical, technological and scientific breakthroughs in space travel would be unthinkable without the advancements inspired by the Wright Brothers' original experiments on a sandy strip of North Carolina coastline.

The National Aviation Day proclamation invites "the people of the United States to observe National Aviation Day with appropriate exercises to further stimulate interest in aviation in the United States." In short, it's a day to keep planes on the membrane!

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[binibinisugbu]

Butterfly #Butterfly #SpreadYourWings #FlyLikeAButterfly #CebuWhiteSandsResortAndSpa #francheskadora #binibinisugbu (at Cebu White Sands Resort and Spa) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7UzfmSH6L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[queenforeverblog]

Il 10 Febbraio del 1978 i #Queen pubblicavano il singolo #spreadyourwings, uno dei brani di #johndeacon più amati dai fans. Un vero capolavoro, secondo me ingiustamente sottovalutato all'epoca dell'uscia e che ancora oggi non gode del successo che meriterebbe #queenforeverblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CoeTpblsi74/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[may-stuff]

I LOVE LONG FICS. I’M CRAVING A LONG FRANCO X READER FIC. Plz feed me May 🥺

I'll try, I promise 🥺😭

[destielomegaversebigbang]

Astra Inclinant, Sed Non Obligant

Author: SpreadYourWings

Artist: adromelke

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Dean just wants to be happy, something which seems so simple in theory, but so painfully out of reach in reality. The secrets he carried weighed on him constantly, and it’s hard to feel loved when he never even feels seen.

After a beautiful omega saves him from an alpha who believes having an alpha voice makes him king, Dean’s inner omega is left swooning. The college is so big though, and he has no idea who the other omega is, so he assumes that is going to just be the end of that and he’ll never get another chance to talk to the omega, who for a moment made him feel so safe.

A little bit of friendly meddling, and a thank you dinner turned date later, and Dean is starting to think his inner omega might be onto something with the swooning.

In a land where Omegas who love other omegas are seen as wrong and taboo, some things, and some people, are worth risking everything he knows for.

Warnings/Tags: Omega Dean/Omega Cas, Dom Cas/Sub Dean, Dean in panties, shibari, Attempted Rape/non-con, Protective Cas, Nesting, Cuddly Destiel, First Kiss, Family Issues, Taboo Relationships, Nightmares, Hurt Dean Winchester, Switching, First Date, Getting together, Secret Relationships, Awkward Family Dinners, Coming out, supportive friends, Messed up society, College AU, Thanksgiving, Dean’s Birthday, Stargazing, Dating, Anti-True Mates, Fuck Fate, Alpha voice, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Domestic Destiel, baking, Dean and Cas in love.

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[userscuderia]

hey can you tell me if the tickets you have for sale are like allocated seating, or do you just show up on the day to the section you're in and find a seat? never been to a gp before so idk how it works

Hi, I believe the Monza grandstands are mostly bleacher style seating, and you would just go to the allocated grandstand and find a seat. This is different to other grands prix which have normal seats and are numbered

[fcaruana]

"Do you miss Twitter?"

rip my favorite chronically online driver 🕊

@spreadyourwings-my-smiling-angel

[destieltaggedfic]

Hi! Do You Know Any Fics Where Dean And Cas Are Already Dating And Sam Finds Out? Bonus Points If Sam Doesn’t Know Who Cas Is And Meets Him As Dean’s Boyfriend

ok, so obviously if Sam has never met Cas before that kind of leaves AUs or at least Alternate Canonverse, so I'll do a mix of the two.

To The Famous Final Scene - sandean_cas   Ao3

Set S15x20 didn’t happen.  After everything Dean moves away from Sam so they can live their own lives.  But today is the day Sam is coming to see Dean’s house for the first time.  Unfortunately for Sam he decides to sneak in to snoop instead of knocking on the door and learns more than he wanted to about what (and who) Dean is doing now.  (Cas is spelled Cass)

Word Count: 1k                                 Non-Graphic Sex

The Secret Boyfriend - fangirlingtodeath513   Ao3

AU.  It was confusing when Dean and Cas were sent separate invitations to Sam’s wedding, but they don’t realise just how out of the loop their families are when they question the engagement rings.

Word Count: 3k                                 No Sex

you don't know what you're missing, now - Steerpike13713   Ao3

Set S1 AU.  When Sam’s apartment is broken into he wasn’t expecting his brother and his brother’s… hunting partner?

Word Count:4k                                 No Sex

Family Matters – Aeronwy   Ao3

Nonspecific timeframe.  After Sam’s wife got turned into a vampire he’s been on the hunt to put her down.  It leads him to reconnecting with Dean whose life is much different than he would have expected with his angel husband and kids.  But vengeance comes first for Sam and he’s having trouble adapting to Dean’s new mindset about hunting and supernatural creatures.

Word Count:  17k                             Non-Graphic Sex

Hive – SpreadYourWings   Ao3

AU.  When Sam’s car breaks down in a strange town, he isn’t expecting the local B&B owner to be the brother who went missing years earlier, presumed dead.

Word Count: 5k                                 No Sex

[rabbitcruiser]

National Aviation Day

National Aviation Day on August 19 should make us stop and think about the power of flight. Yet, some scientific and technological marvels become so commonplace that we seldom take the time to re-examine their revolutionary impact with an open and inquisitive mind.  In just a handful of generations, aviation went from pure, pie-in-the-sky speculation to a mundane reality that inspires about as much wonder as a trip aboard a Greyhound bus.

It’s that ho-hum attitude to the miracle of flight that makes National Aviation Day such an excellent national observation.  Plus, it takes place on  Orville Wright’s birthday!

Let’s take a closer look.

National Aviation Day timeline

1st Century ADChinese emperor

Legend has it that Chinese Emperor Wang Mang ordered a soldier to strap two wings to his back, who then flew 100 meters.

9th Century ADAn Andalusian takes flight

Abbas ibn Firnas is said to have covered himself with feathers, attached wings to his body and (according to Algerian historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari) "flew a considerable distance."

1799Cayley is the "father of aviation"

Sir George Cayley, an English engineer, described the model for a modern airplane — a fixed-wing machine with lift, propulsion and control mechanisms.

August 19, 1871Brother Orville is born

Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio. His older brother, Wilbur, had been born in Millville, Indiana, on April 16, 1867.

December 17, 1903Orville pilots a plane

The Wright Brothers — with Orville at the helm and Wilbur making a final wing adjustment — completed the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft on a spit of land four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

National Aviation Day Activities

Take a trip to North Carolina

Build your own airplane

Go "planespotting"!

What better way to commemorate the achievements of the Wright brothers than by flying to North Carolina and visiting the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills? Think of it as a pilgrimage to the spot where American flight first took off.

It doesn't have to be a real one, of course. You can build an airplane using Legos. Or, you can go for that old school-days standby — the paper plane.

Gather with a group of friends where you can watch airplanes taking off and landing. Bring food if the spirit moves you — a "planespotting" picnic!

5 High-flying Facts About Aviation

There aren't that many aviophobes

Maybe that's because so few have flown

A president flies

It started with bicycles

Who needs an engine?

Although it may seem like a lot of people are afraid to fly, aviophobia afflicts only about 6.5 percent of the population.

Worldwide, only about 5 percent of the population has been on an airplane.

The first U.S. president to fly in an airplane was the adventurous Theodore Roosevelt, who flew in a Wright Flyer on October 11, 1910.

The Wright Brothers got their mechanical training as owners of a bicycle shop.

A Boeing 747 without engine power can glide about two miles for every 1,000 feet or so that the plane is above the ground.

Why We Love National Aviation Day

We always choose the window seat

Space is the final frontier

The proclamation is simple and beautiful

Yes, some of us still stare in wonder out the plane's window as we ponder something that seems delightfully impossible. We are, after all, sitting inside a giant flying machine traveling many hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above the landscape below. How can this be?

Many of the mechanical, technological and scientific breakthroughs in space travel would be unthinkable without the advancements inspired by the Wright Brothers' original experiments on a sandy strip of North Carolina coastline.

The National Aviation Day proclamation invites "the people of the United States to observe National Aviation Day with appropriate exercises to further stimulate interest in aviation in the United States." In short, it's a day to keep planes on the membrane!

Source

[labelleizzy]

when they want to

control you

they do not come

with shackles

made of iron

they come instead

with cages made

of shame and story

like the one

about the woman

who earned crisis

for her curiosity

so tempted by a life

of wisdom and independence

she caused the downfall

of all civilization

women are dangerous

says the shame story of Eve

they cannot

be trusted and

should not

trust themselves

give a woman

free choice and

she’ll eat the fruit

tempt the man

enrage the god

she’ll destroy us all

with her mad desire

to know

to discover

to understand

her self

her world

her maker

give a woman any freedom

and she’ll follow

her curiosity

shape her

own story

seek truth beyond

the dictates

of order and obedience

she will wreck

your carefully controlled mandates

your reign of tightness

she will unmake

your holy wars

of right and wrong

and infuse the realm with

choice and instinct

empathy outranking rules

creativity eclipsing war

sovereignty subsuming

blind servitude

when you want to know

like Eve

when you have a taste

for truth

and a hunger for wisdom

you have to question

the stories

test the facts

rattle the cage

who profits from you

believing a lie?

who benefits because you

believe you are both

cause and curse?

they have tried

to burn you

with their shame

strip you

violate you

shrink you

silence you

but they could not break

your phoenix spirit

its fierce heat

will melt old regimes

and enflame a generation

who will not settle

for smallness

for submission

for shame

sink your self into

the feathered

red sleeve

of your ancestors

and rise, woman

rise again

for you are

Persephone’s Daughter

Lilith’s lover

Eve’s heir

find the truth

eat the fruit

unmask the myth

let it burn

BUY THE POSTER & ORACLE DECK Link in bio. www.witchoracle.com poem by @angisullins

Art #YuriKlapough

#poetry #poetryisnotdead #writingcommunity #eve #noshame #youarepowerful #womenrule #womanpower #spreadyourwings #riseup #goddess #youreagoddess #myths #feels #metoo #witchesofinstagram

[kiki-lee-dreams]

Get Yours today 🔗 in my bio 💕 Feeling #spring in the air already 🌸 perfect gift for #springday celebrations, Easter or #mothersdaygift jowbcam you go wrong with a beautiful flower tail of this lovely peacock. #redbubbleshop #redbubble #digitalart #perfectgift #new #shopping #onlineshopping #worldwideshipping #spring #peacocklove #peacock #spreadyourwings #vibrant #mothersday #gift #springflowers (at Kharagpur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5WHb5SHPb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heavypedia]

Lançado em 28 de outubro de 1977, News of the World é o 6° álbum de estúdio do Queen. Com faixas que se tornaram clássicos da banda, como "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions" e "Sheer Heart Attack" no tracklist, alcançou a 3ª posição na parada de sucessos Billboard 200 e foi certificado 4x Platina pela RIAA.

Qual sua favorita desse disco?

Tags: #Queen #QueenBand #NewsOfTheWorld #FreddieMercury #BrianMay #RogerTaylor #JohnDeacon #MikeStone #WeAreTheChampions #WeWillRockYou #SpreadYourWings #ItsLate #UKAlbumsChart #Billboard200 #Rock #ClassicRock #1970s #70s #1970sMusic #1970sRock #70sMusic #70sRock #Heavypédia #Heavypedia #Heavycast #WilliamWayne #GaleriaDoRock #NaçãoRoqueira.

[fountainpenguin]

Out of context fanfic doodles (ft. abridged comments on Dog's Life Chapter 8 that made me laugh)

[SpreadYourWings]: I do not trust anything authority says but also Scott is authority and I trust him. 😂

[Wingheart]: is that author's note joking about martyn eating his shirt sleeves or is he just...buying non-t-shirt shirts and eating the sleeves until they're t-shirts????

[Wingheart]: also hypothesis: joel is at least somewhat fine and the soul surgery worked but sniff ate etho's comm and/or etho

[Wingheart]: ... a Sniff hungry enough to attempt eating the soul surgery patient is one who might not wait ...