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Interesting trivia thread
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Floki’s shipbuilding equipment
The World’s strongest beer is called “Snake venom” & is brewed in that Country where men prance around in skirts, & cut their toenails by dancing over crossed swords
What a clever chap.
1962: A black bear named “Yogi” became the first living creature ejected from a supersonic aircraft when the USAF tested the B-58’s escape capsule. Ejected at 35,000 feet from a B-58 flying at 870 MPH, the bear landed unharmed 7 minutes 49 seconds later
I bet he was pissed off though.
In the mid-1950s, Hiller Aircraft constructed a series of flying platforms for an Army-Navy program. The pilot simply leaned in the desired direction and the platform would follow. Hiller Aircraft incorporated twin counter-rotating propellers in a round housing (ducted fan). Sixty percent of the platform’s lift was generated by thrust from the counter-rotating propellers and 40% was generated by air moving over the ducted fan's leading edge. Another terrifying contraption: https://planehistoria.com/xron-helicopter/
The Worlds oldest nature reserve is Waterton park in Walton, Wakefield, established by the eccentric (batshit crazy) Charles Waterton