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TheDreadShips
The trouble began with the reheat... Or maybe the trouble had really begun with the test pilot suggesting that as nobody was going flying today, the test could easily be
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Atmospheric railways suck. This thing here is the Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway. The idea was the carriage rolled into the tunnel under gravity, formed an airtight seal, and was then
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This here is a legend of British engineering.And I'm not talking about the bike.Let's meet Beatrice Shilling.#ALD2020 But first, let's talk about another hero who's less well known today.
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I'm sure we can all do better than this.Hit me up with the abominations that should have been left on the slips...,https://twitter.com/wren154/status/1308654136255303680 FWIW cattle carriers generally take all the indifference
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So my timeline is currently full of videos of a raging battle between the Russian Pacific Fleet and [checks notes] a floating dry dock, in which the unarmed dry dock
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The best aircraft names are of course those that tell you exactly what they're going to do. Spitfire? Excellent!Avenger? Yeah, let's go avenge!Fireball? Sorry sir. Washing my hair that day,
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This thing here, lurching across a beach with all the control, poise and decorum of a presidential debate, is the Panjandrum. It's worth reviewing how it got there... In the
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This thing here, looking like one half of a catamaran designed by Sir Mix-a-lot, is the City of Rotterdam. More importantly it's proof that naval architects can still produce terrible
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We really need to talk about the M-class.https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1126565091074293760 I mean, the British had already set a pretty low bar with the steam-powered, coal-firing K-class:https://twitter.com/Canocola/status/10903
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Alarmed by the number of novice drivers causing their tanks to topple over, the allied forces in WWII took the logical step of adding training stabilisers... Oh all right...This thing
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And so to the Japanese Matsushima class and their fearsome main armament of [checks notes] one gun.Ah. In the 1880s two facts dawned on the Imperial Japanese Navy.The first was
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If any of you have ever looked at a submarine and thought "If only they'd whacked a couple of funnels on that" then don't worry, the Royal Navy have your
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