1969 was a good year for technological advancements in both aerospace and space. On July 20th 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and promised to open the door to our exploration of not only the moon but also the solar system and just a few months earlier Concorde made …
Rolls Royce Crecy – The Most Advanced Piston Aero Engine Never Made.
We are all aware of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the driving force behind so many of the most important aircraft of world war two like the Spitfire, Mustang, Hurricane, Mosquito and Lancaster to name just a few. But behind the scenes, another Roll Royce engine was poised to take …
Proximity Fuze – The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2
In the realms of top-secret projects of world war 2 there are a couple which most people will have heard of, the development of the Atomic bomb and Radar but there was another that was ranked as equally secret and important and its effect on the war could be said …
Lockheed U-2 | Why Is It Still Flying & Still Spying 65 Years On?
We’ve looked at a couple of iconic planes on this channel recently that seem destined to keep flying long past their original design life including the Boeing B-52 and the Lockheed C-5 but there is one more that you would have thought that would have been made redundant long ago …
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 …
America’s lost stealth helicopter – RAH 66 Comanche
We’ve become accustomed to seeing stealth aircraft now for almost 30 years from the F117 night hawk to the B2 bomber to the F-35 but what about helicopters. They are an integral part of the military but the majority of them are hardly what you would call stealthy and ever …
Space Factories – Building 3D Printed Future SpaceCraft in Space.
While everyone has been wowed in the last couple of years by the new rockets from NASA, blue origin and SpaceX’s Falcons and more recently the tests of their Starship an equally important side to our long term space goals has been going on almost unnoticed. If you’ve ever watched …
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – Eyes on the Moon
With the new goal of NASA to get humans back on to the moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, we are back to a similar situation to when Apollo was getting ready to go to the moon in the 60’s. Basically, we needed to find somewhere to land and …
de Havilland Mosquito – Was It The Most Versatile Aircraft of WW2?
It was both feared and admired by it enemies but when the design for a fast unarmed bomber was proposed to the British air ministry it was met with scepticism and the project was very nearly scrapped before it had started in favour of the existing aircraft of the time. …
The Robots Return, How Have Atlas, ASIMO, Cheetah, Spot and Pepper fared 4+ Years On?
Just over four and half years ago, in what was my 8th video I looked at five of the most advanced robots at the time namely Asimo, Atlas, spot, cheetah and Pepper but just as a week is a long time in politics, four and a half years in the …