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David Graham passes away
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RIP James Earl Jones (1931–2024)
The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:( Sources: View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19 View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19- fightingirish
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- 20th century actor cold war early 21st century egot fantasy golden age korean war movie star oscar popular culture post-cold war sci-fi science fiction star wars technothriller tv series united states united states army
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Spaceballs
While visiting the Fireball XL5 thread on Facebook I have the BBC Radio news trying to explain what is happening to get two astronauts down from the International Space Station. Flipping to an old episode of Stargate SG1 I listen to the USAF heroes explaining to a bemusec Extra Terrestrial ally... -
Unbuilt Architecture and City Plans
that a Novum in this Forum we talk allot about Aircraft, but not much about Airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was original planed as Aéroport de Paris Nord in 1966 with 4 runways of 4000 meter length and 6 big Terminals like Terimal One, but with 6 floor multi-storey car park for 4000...- Michel Van
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- 20th century architecture arcology city cyberpunk early 21st century floating arcologies floating city futuristic concepts megastructures paper architecture public transport railways science fiction space age space colonies unbuilt buildings urban area
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The extinct Olympic sport of 'Plunging for Distance'
Otherwise known as Distance Plunging. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240720-the-extinct-olympic-sport-that-was-the-dullest-of-all-time- Grey Havoc
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- 1900s 1980s 20th century bbc early 20th century late 19th century olympic sports olympics pre-world war i swimming the modern olympic games
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Agusta Aircraft & Helicopters
Hi, Agusta was an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It was based in Samarate, Northern Italy. The company was founded by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923, who flew his first airplane in 1907. The MV Agusta motorcycle manufacturer began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company at the end of...- hesham
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- 20th century agusta cold war helicopter interwar period italian republic kingdom of italy training aircraft transport aircraft world war ii
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- Forum: Designation Systems
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Learn to Test, Test to Learn: The Empire Test Pilots School 80th anniversary
The worlds first test pilots school, our Empire Test Pilots School opened its doors for the first students in 1943, with the first fixed wing course and 2 decades later the first rotary wing course started. One of the graduates of the 1960s course was the late NASA Astronaut Al Worden who passed...- RavenOne
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- 1943 2023 20th century british commonwealth british empire cold war cold war ii early 21st century farnborough air show great britain jet age nasa post-cold war royal air force royal aircraft establishment royal international air tattoo test pilots training aircraft united kingdom world war ii
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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French never built and preliminary designs since 1880
Hello As part of my shipbucket hobby, I've been collecting as much references as possible of french never-build and preliminary ship designs. I must say that its not been an easy task, sometimes I think that french stuff is more mystical and hard to find than Russian/soviet stuff of which i've...- gollevainen
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- 1880s 20th century cold war cruiser destroyer french fourth republic french third republic interwar period ironclad late 19th century marine de vichy marine nationale post-world war ii vichy france world war i world war ii
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Dutch 20th Century designs
A few years ago when researching the photo archive of Kon. Mij. De Schelde succeeded by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding I traced the next dia's, probably part of a lecture although without technical details- Roodbaard1958!
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- 20th century amphibious warfare vessel area air defence cammenga jachtbouw cold war corvette damen schelde naval shipbuilding fast attack craft fast patrol vessel fleet replenishment oiler frigate kingdom of the netherlands koninklijke maatschappij de schelde replenishment oiler royal netherlands navy royal schelde surface effect ship
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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British Broadcasting Company
A day late, but better late than never. Via Slashdot: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63583081- Grey Havoc
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- 14th november 1922 20th century british broadcasting corporation british commonwealth british empire great britain interwar period radio broadcasting wireless
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Some of the World's Most Bizarre Construction Projects (Sideprojects Youtube channel)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnMkGZJ9DnE- Grey Havoc
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- 20th century early 21st century
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Rock Mortars
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F2odr2MsQ From the comments thread: By any chance does anybody have pictures of this, or other attempts to weaponise the rock cannon concept?- Grey Havoc
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- 19th century 20th century great britain napoleonic wars rock cannon
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JCII Camera Museum
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14724794 A few photos at the link.- Grey Havoc
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- 19th century 20th century cameras chiyoda ward early 21st century japan tokyo
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- Forum: Museums, Events & Shows
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The Maine lake full of sunken steamboats (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220919-the-sunken-steamboats-of-maines-moosehead-lake- Grey Havoc
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- 1830s 1930s 19th century 20th century moosehead lake moosehead marine museum steam steamboat era steamboat katahdin united states
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Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96
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BAE Systems Hägglunds AB/FMV/Bofors CV90 family
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The Biggest Planned Trains?
What Hitler planned for German Railways had they won the war... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkuEP5iMRiM- Graham1973
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- 20th century 21st century nuclear powered vehicles railways train
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Venezuelan warships to be built by Dutch shipyards in 1950s
Archive Kon. Mij. De Schelde 1970-1975 inv.no. 1656 (stored at Zeeuws Archief). There is some correspondence preserved dating 1949-1950. The launches were never built. In December 1949 was the shipyard informed that the Commander in Chief of the Venezuelan Navy wanted to purchase 3 diesel...- Roodbaard1958!
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- 1950s 20th century cold war fast patrol vessel kingdom of the netherlands koninklijke maatschappij de schelde late 1940s navy venezuela
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Air India: The iconic maharajah returns home (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778273 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58778274- Grey Havoc
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- 20th century 21st century british empire british raj interwar period republic of india
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Synthetic Kerosene
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/10/04/2236211/germany-unveils-worlds-first-commercial-plant-for-making-synthetic-kerosene- Grey Havoc
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- 20th century 21st century
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- Forum: Aviation & Space