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I realize this is a pretty niche topic but it's at least moderately uplifting how, sometimes, imagined capabilities drive technological development and once mature end up cycling back into props and replicas that inspired them. Tricorders, such as here, are an example though many professional...

Most TV and Film productions use real weapons or modify them like the Sterling SMGs in Star Wars. Now and again, however, a show decides to make its own props. In 1970 Gerry Anderson released his live action series "UFO" set in a fictional 1980 where a secret organisation called SHADO battled...

I've seen a few of these, examples being the Yak-15/Jumo Hybrids, the P-57 Airacobra, SAAB's J21R etc.. What others have you guys found across your researches?

Why were Amis so reluctant to adopt spinners in their radial-engined aircraft while everybody else had them?even supposedly clean designs like the F8F lacked one. Another question is why Amis stuck to the crudish outward opening circumferential cooling air flaps with their radials while many...