Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1819: Four Women on Hempstead Plains
Posted on · Episode: 1819 In which four women gravitate skyward on Hempstead Plains, L.I. Today, four women gravitate skyward.
Tag: airplanes
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1813: Raymonde de Laroche
Posted on · Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1813: Raymonde de Laroche
Posted on · Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1781: Flora Loughead and Her Sons
Posted on · Episode: 1781 Flora Haines Loughead, social change and airplanes. Today, airplanes and Flora Loughead.
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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 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.
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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.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1696: Harriet Quimby
Posted on · Episode: 1696 Harriet Quimby, first American woman licensed to fly. Today, Harriet Quimby.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.