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 …
LIVE – USO’s Unidentified Submerged Objects with Marc D’Antonio – Replay
In this live stream, we will be looking at USO’s or Unidentified Submerged Objects and what scientific explanations could be behind them. These could also be known as but technically incorrectly underwater UFO’s. These USO’s are objects which have been tracked by the world’s navies since the advent of modern …
What happened to the Ekranoplan? – The Caspian Sea Monster
In 1967, whilst the U.S’s first spy satellite ‘Corona’ was busy photographing the Soviet Union, something unusual was spotted. It looked like a massive plane, but its wings were too short, it also sported the Soviet Navy Flag on it fuselage, so what was it? Maybe an unfinished aircraft or …
What Happened to the Giant Hovercraft SR-N4? – The Concorde of the Seas
They were once known as the ‘Concorde of the Seas’: mighty flying boats that ferried their passengers with speed and style. Hovercraft were a symbol of national innovation and represented the future of transport in the 20th Century. And yet, like the Concorde, the huge iconic ‘Mountbatten-class’ hovercraft that once …
Zeppelins of Mars – HAVOC on Venus : NASA’s new Planetary Airships
If you thought airships like the Zeppelin were a thing of the past and consigned to the history books for their dangerous ability to burst into flames, then think again because NASA is looking at using them to explore Mars and Venus. On March 21st, 1999, a giant silver …
Secret Soviet Lunar Rovers and Extra Terrestrial Cars
For the last 50 years or so we have been using wheeled robots and vehicles to explore other worlds from secret Soviet lunar rovers to the first lunar car to the latest Mars Rovers, we owe a lot to our extra-terrestrial wheeled helpers. NASA recently released new concept art for …
Nuclear powered trains, planes and automobiles
To quote L.P Hartleys 1953 book “The GoBetween”, “The past is a different country, they do things differently there”. That’s definitely something that could be applied our attitude to the newly discovered atomic power in the late 1940’s and 50s. Within just a few years after the first atomic bombs …
5 Supersized Drones You Can Ride – 2016
Over the past few years, some people have taken drones from small almost toy devices for carrying a cameras to mini aircraft that are capable carrying a single person or more and now these supersized drones are touted as a possible future for person transportation or both civilians and military …