Aviation history is littered with hi-tech experiments that took the art of aerodynamics, aircraft size, structure and propulsion to the limit. Most passenger aircraft today have 2 or 4 engines, but in the past aircraft designers were sometimes prepared to experiment with much more complex configurations for insufficient power and/or performance of conventional designs. Some […]
Spanning the Impossible: A Guide to the World’s Longest Bridges
One type of structure that sparks fascination in our hearts is Suspension Bridge. These suspension bridges truly amaze people from around globe in terms of their span and capacity over oceans and valleys etc. The massive length and imposing structures help this to support by large cables and pillars with tremendous load. It helps not […]
Grounded Ambitions: 10 Visionary Spaceplanes That Failed to Launch
Spaceplanes are, and perhaps have always been, one of the most romantic future transport fantasies humans could conceive. Marrying aircraft and spacecraft together, they implied an accessible future where access to orbit could eventually be as mundane as flying, not a unique experience you achieve through a single, monstrously powerful rocket launch. Thanks to their […]
10 Experimental Aircraft That Pushed the Boundaries of Flight
Aviation is something that has always been driven by people being curious taking risks and having dreams about engineering. A time ago before we had the kind of planes we see today engineers were already trying out new shapes, engines and ideas about flying that seemed crazy at the time. There are planes called X-planes […]