…otypes crashed, but the XB-15 was used as the basis for the B-17, and wing design used on Pan-Am’s China Clippers. Russia, as far as I know, never went on to produce any bombers worth the name. But in some respects they look remarkably similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:XB-15_Bomber.jpg Just sayin’. CK Except perhaps that the MG looked to be powered by washing machines… Brett Holman Shouldn’t you have posted these comments at The Avia-C…
…e the vastly changed environment for teaching and research. The MONIAC was designed by A. W. Phillips, (an engineer turned economist of “Phillips Curve” fame) who constructed a working model of the Keynesian System utilising coloured water (representing incomes, expenditures, etc) flowing through pipes. Only 3 or 4 models were built and this is the only known model in Australia. A working model is located in London. The cost of restoring this MONI…
…rving and helped to cost him his case. Irving’s case was that he told the truth, Evans’s case was it was incomplete truth. So there is a form of dishonesty in certain circles, consisting of witholding facts… Alan Allport Sorry, I’ve read Lying About Hitler, and your characterization of it is just plain wrong. As Evans recounts in great detail, Irving did far more than simply choose quotes selectively, which might have been mischievous but would…
…ybe it’s because I’ve never had a proper long-term IT job that I’ve got a frustrated urge to write code, design databases and fiddle with Apache servers. But then I also had an awful civil service data entry job which hasn’t put me off entering historical data. Could be. I could see myself wanting to do those things more if I didn’t have to do them as my day job. A bit like how I occasionally get the urge to crunch some numbers and put up a blog p…
…for commercial purposes”. (Quoted by John G. Slater in his introduction to Russell’s ’A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927–42’.) I assume Russell believed the very existence of aircraft would lead to the kind of war that, in turn, had led to the setting up of the World State in BNW. This seems highly ironical, given Russell’s demand for a world government to prevent the outcome. I completely agree with JDK that the aircraft in the poster is a Hawker F…
…y was the best-known practicioner; but while the paratrooper looks vaguely Russian in uniform, the aircraft are too small to make out. Quite possibly meant to be generic. 11 June 1938: ‘THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE’, in cutaway! All helpfully labelled, too. The big cutaway is a Savoia-Marchetti SM.81, the little one is a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79B (normally three-engined, this was a twin-engined variant for export). Making up the numbers are a Meridionali R…
…in 1930. Peter Lewis. The British Fighter Since 1912: Sixty-seven Years of Design and Development. London: Putnam, 1979. 4th edition. A companion to The British Bomber, which I already have. W.J. Reader. Architect of Air Power: The Life of the First Viscount Weir, 1877-1959. London: Collins, 1968. A Scottish industrialist, Weir was the second Air Minister (1918-9) and in the late 1930s came back to help plan the RAF’s expansion. It’s clearly an au…
…limb, reasonable manœuvrability and gun-power. It should be simple in design and cheap to produce, because it will take the actual brunt of all air fighting. Its top speed means absolutely nothing, for unless it can get into the sky quickly — and often — and engage the enemy and prevent him from carrying out his mission, you might as well place it alongside Lindbergh’s We in the Smithsonian Institute, or with the model of the original Wright…
…thought, it should have to be concluded that a main part of the strategic design was a belief that the new weapon could procure victory before the war settled down to the long struggle of armies and blockade assumed by French and British strategy.7 So it seems that prior to 1940, the knock-out blow and the blitzkrieg were pretty much the same thing. In the previous post, I suggested that the Blitz was not a corruption of blitzkrieg as the British…
…nt. That’s the Edwardians for you — I rather liked it. The Fountain Court, designed by the astronomer Christopher Wren. In the Tudor Kitchens with the experimental food historians. This was a highlight of the day (somewhat surprisingly, as I’m not exactly a foodie) — these chaps prepare, cook and ear a meal following the recipes and etiquette of the Tudor period, while one of them gives a running commentary to the crowd. It was most entertaining a…
