Posts tagged ‘aircraft’
Weapon Of Last Resort: How The Soviet Union Developed The World’s Most Powerful Bomb
Republished with permission from RFE/RL. See the original article. On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever […]
08/20/2022. Category: war. Tags: aircraft, bombs, nuclear
Extreme STOL aircraft
Those daring men in their magnificent flying machines! The brave Canadian bush pilots, the South American jungle pilots and the freight pilots operating […]
01/24/2014. Category: vehicles. Tags: aircraft
Record for most passengers on an airplane
It is not clear who was the first to fly an airplane: Richard Pearse, Gustave Whitehead or Orville Wright. Whoever it may […]
10/28/2010. Category: vehicles. Tags: aircraft, airplane, passengers, travel
Man ate aircraft
An inquest into the death of Brit Frederick Edwards in 1933 found 200 nails, 36 staples and 3 penknives in his stomach. […]
08/02/2010. Category: odd. Tags: aircraft, metal
Were the Wright Brothers the first to fly?
Wilbur and Orville Wright weren’t just lucky to make the first flight. They played with flying paper models in their youth, and […]
02/08/2010. Category: vehicles. Tags: aircraft, airplane, flying, wright
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