Top Fuel dragsters are the fastest accelerating ground vehicles in the world and have power outputs of upto 11,000 hp but how do they that and still stay in one piece and how do they put that amount of power down to the ground without destroying the tires in an …
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 …
The Scale of Everything – The Big, the Small and the Planck
There is something both calming and therapeutic about looking up at the night sky and even though the milky way makes for a stunning view of the heavens its easy to forget that what we can see with the naked eye is an incredibly tiny, tiny fraction of the Universe …
NASA’s Mega Hubble – The Roman Space Telescope
Space telescopes are expensive things to develop and build and can take years to finish, just look at the James Web Space Telescope, that started development in 1996 for a launch in 2007 on a $500 million budget, its now looking at a launch in 2021 and the budget has …