Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1984: You May Go Dancing
Posted on · Episode: 1984 Burt Rutan’s airplanes: You may go dancing, by I’ll play the tune. Today, you may go dancing, but I’ll play the tune.
Tag: airplanes
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1960: Inventing Speed
Posted on · Episode: 1960 Speed: the grand nineteenth-century invention. Today, we invent speed.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1967: Félix Tournachon–Nadar
Posted on · Episode: 1967 Of clouds and birds: Meet Felix Tournachon — Nadar. Today, birds vs. clouds.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3240: Origins of Engines’ Ingenuity
Posted on · Episode: 3240 An Inventive Mind Reaches a Milestone. Today, The Engines of Our Ingenuity honors its own inventor.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1852: Doolittle’s First Airplane
Posted on · Episode: 1852 Popular Mechanics and Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane. Today, Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane.
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.
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.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1738: Maxim’s Airplane
Posted on · Episode: 1738 Maxim’s airplane. Today, two early not-quite-airplanes.
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