Engines Podcast
Engines of our Ingenuity 2138: P-39, Bell Airacobra
Posted on · Episode: 2138 The P-39, Bell Airacobra: lemonade from a lemon. Today, we’re given a lemon, and we make lemonade.
Tag: WW-II
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2130: Before GPS
Posted on · Episode: 2130 Before GPS: airplane directions painted on rooftops. Today, what did we do before GPS?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2114: Blimp
Posted on · Episode: 2114 A house for the blimps that saved us from submarines. Today, blimps and houses made to hold them.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3258: Karl Plagge
Posted on · Episode: 3258 In which a Nazi is named Righteous Among the Nations. Today, righteousness in a strange place.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2068: Of Pandas and Airplanes
Posted on · Episode: 2068 The Westland Lysander: Of Pandas and Airplanes. Today, pandas and airplanes.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2044: Kettering’s Buzz Bomb
Posted on · Episode: 2044 Kettering’s failed guided missile — a 1918 Buzz-Bomb. Today, Kettering’s Buzz Bomb.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2029: The Polikarpov Fighters
Posted on · Episode: 2029 The last great biplane fighter — the Polikarpov beyond its prime. Today, an airplane in the shifting skies of war.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2023: George Hubert Wilkens
Posted on · Episode: 2023 George Hubert Wilkins: a life brimful and running over. Today, we risk our lives.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple
Posted on · Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1871: PBY Catalina
Posted on · Episode: 1871 The PBY Catalina, a very special old airplane. Today, the last great seaplane.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel
Posted on · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.
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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.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3217: Model Airplanes in 1937
Posted on · Episode: 3217 Two 1937 booklets reveal a shift in the art of model airplane building. Today, I look through a window into another time.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1758: Sinking the Bismarck
Posted on · Episode: 1758 Sinking the Bismarck: What is important in history? Today, we wonder how the Bismarck was sunk.
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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.