Awesome.

I’m quite liking the Blackbird

‘We drive any car dot com”

Way too much choice on youtube.

I love this stuff too when it goes wrong

The world’s most powerful electric locomotive. The Novocherkassk 4E5K has diesel / electric generators that have an installed capacity of 13 mW. Enough to power over 2000 homes. This equates to a mountain pulling 1,356 kN of tractive effort from 17,838 Russian horsepower.

Countdown to ekranoplan…

I love this thing, and I love this video even more because it makes it more Thunderbirdsy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0ChljgWCQ

An early analogue Drum Machine

I love this picture and thinking of the engine it came out of

Did someone turn the boost up a bit high?

The HP Victor was such an extraordinary looking aircraft, with that pointed faceted nose, the crescent-shaped swept wings and that beautiful swallow v-tail. Almost Art Deco. There’s one up at Bruntingthorpe, I spent a happy hour or so one afternoon wandering around the aircraft there.

Any excuse to post Bagger 288…

The designer of the Victor was a German who was interred during the war.

true story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Lachmann

He was buried during the war?

There was a good program on BBC2 Sunday about the history of the V bombers. Cold war, hot jets. It’ll be on the iPlayer no doubt. The Victor airframe wasn’t robust enough for the low level approach that was needed once they realised they weren’t flying above the range of USSR ground to air missiles apparently.

Not quite so awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMM48cKNh_M