Building a rocket is one thing and launching it is another but what about the bit in between, moving it to the lauchpad? Rockets like the Saturn 5 and the new SLS for the Artemis program were and are massive. The SLS is about the same height as a 30 …
Ferdinand Porsche – A Man ahead of His Time
Think of the name Porsche and invariably you’ll think of sports cars, the boxter, Taycan and others but ultimately 911, the car which put the modern day Porsche name on the map but the man who founded the brand in 1931 Ferdinand Porsche already had a long and varied history …
Will The Army Get Electric Tanks?
As many will have seen recently and in particular since the rapid rise in petrol and diesel prices, sales of electric cars are booming with year to date sales in 2022 of Battery Electric Vehicles up to 14.4% and if you add plugin hybrids it’s up to 21% in the …
America’s Failed High Speed Tilting Train – The UAC Turbotrain
Whilst the US doesn’t spring to mind when you think about high-speed rail, in the late 1960’s it was the first place along with Canada to have a advanced commercial high-speed tilting train service Capable of 170 mph or 274km/h. It was powered by multiple gas turbine engines, built like …
Aerotrains – The Forgotten Train Experiments
Planes, trains and automobiles, well if we leave out the automobiles, we’ve seen a few variations on the theme of how trains have been powered from steam, to diesel and now electric but there was a time when several experimental trains used engines from planes as there main propulsion, so …
How Safe is Nuclear Transportation?
Every day tens of thousands of shipments of radiative materials are made by road, rail, air and sea around the world with everything from the smoke detectors that contain americium-241 to the refurbishment of nuclear warheads but how safe is the transporting of these materials either from accidental damage or …
What happened to the Trans Europe Express? – The TEE
The Trans Europe Express was the first international railway service to link up major cities in western Europe with high-speed trains, crossing borders with minimal stops and disruption and allowing business people and wealthy travellers to travel from one country to another and back again within a single day. All …
USS Gerald R Ford Vs HMS Queen Elizabeth – Nuclear vs Non-nuclear
The USS Gerald R Ford and the HMS Queen Elizabeth are the latest and most modern aircraft carriers in the world. Both use the latest technology to support planes like the F-35 but why has the British carrier not followed in the footsteps of the American carriers and used nuclear …
Shinkansen vs TGV – Is One Better Than the Other?
The Japanese shinkansen or bullet train and the TGV from France are the original high-speed rail trains and although they provide a similar service they are quite distinct in their own right and yet they have a common starting point but is possible to say if one better than the …
How do you make Invisible Ships, Planes & Tanks?
To the ancient Greeks it was called the Helm of Hades or the cap of hades, a special helmet that would make the wearer invisible. In Welsh and Germanic folklore as well as our modern day fictional equivalent of Harry Potter there is the “cloak of invisibility”, a magical …
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