Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1738: Maxim’s Airplane
Posted on · Episode: 1738 Maxim’s airplane. Today, two early not-quite-airplanes.
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Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1731: To Kill a City
Posted on · Episode: 1731 Why bombs can’t kill a city. Today, we try to kill a city.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1729: Looking Down From the Sky
Posted on · Episode: 1729 The wide angle lens: looking at earth from on high. Today, we look upon Earth from above.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1696: Harriet Quimby
Posted on · Episode: 1696 Harriet Quimby, first American woman licensed to fly. Today, Harriet Quimby.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1536: Old Airports
Posted on · Episode: 1536 A seventy-year old picture of transcontinental flight. Today, let’s fly across American in 1930.
News
Pathogens On A Plane: How To Stay Healthy In Flight
Posted on · We all think of airplanes as hotbeds for diseases. But how easily do pathogens spread on jets? Now scientists have created "Fantasy Flights" to find the risky seats
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1436: Adding It Up in 1910
Posted on · Episode: 1436 Adding it up in 1910: A book grapples with the coming 20th century. Today, a world prepares to be transformed.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1429: Russian Air Records
Posted on · Episode: 1429 Joseph Stalin and Russian aircraft records in the 1930s. Today, Joseph Stalin tries to set flight distance records.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1395: Worst Airplanes
Posted on · Episode: 1395 The World’s Worst Aircraft: learning what constitutes bad. Today, the worst airplanes ever built!
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1225: The First Daredevil
Posted on · Episode: 1225 Lincoln Beachey, first great daredevil of heavier-than-air flight Today, the death of Lincoln Beachey.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1223: Ghosts From the Sky
Posted on · Episode: 1223 Ghosts from the sky: a visit to the Oshkosh Fly-in Today, a surprising way to preserve our past.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1193: West with the Night
Posted on · Episode: 1193 Beryl Markham flies out of Africa, and across the Atlantic Today, a daring flight and an unlikely book.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1178: Aeronautics: 1897-1910
Posted on · Episode: 1178 The Encyclopaedia Britannica before/after the Wright Brothers Today, we see what happens when an old goal is reached.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3036: The Ghost of St. Louis
Posted on · Episode: 3036 A fine replica is truly the ghost of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis Today, the ghost of St. Louis.
Good, Bad and Ugly
Coming Out in the NFL, Summer Fest Lineup & Laser Strikes: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Houston News
Posted on · Former Hitchcock High School Bulldogs defensive end Michael Sam this week announced he is gay; the performers at this summerâs Free Press Summer Fest were announced this week; and the FBI is cracking down on people aiming laser pointers at airplanes: It’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Houston news. Our panel of non-experts convenes […]