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Agnes Meyer Driscoll: The First Lady of Naval Cryptology
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (268+ words) Agnes Meyer Driscoll (24 July 1889 – 16 September 1971) was an American cryptanalyst who served during both World War I and World War II. She was known as “the first lady of naval cryptology” for her pioneering work breaking Japanese and German military codes....
‘Mayday’: Blithe Cold War thrills
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (606+ words) Don’t let government propaganda and assumptions about “the other” interfere with our individual ability to judge people based on their character and behavior. The year is 1987, toward the end of the U.S./Soviet Cold War. Despite U.S. President…...
His first season starts with a Cold War thriller and it’s not what you expect
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (391+ words) “Reykjavik86” is based on the historic 1986 summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in Iceland. Jaime Castañeda is ambitious. The new Enloe/Rose Artistic Director at the Dallas Theater Center is beginning his tenure at the Tony Award-winning theater company with a world…...
Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle That Flew Once
1+ week, 2+ day ago (366+ words) by Max Grünwald | 23 luglio 2026 | Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende | 0 comments On 15 November 1988, a spacecraft that looked almost exactly like the American Space Shuttle rose from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a pillar of flame, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself…...
During Battle of Britain it’s not true that ‘Hurricanes went for bombers and Spitfires for fighters.’ RAF Controller during BoB tells why.
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (279+ words) ‘The Spitfire has been moribund as a Home Defence fighter for two years and died when the Focke-Wulf 190 made an appearance.’ Whatever the truth of the matter, it is certainly the case that many would agree with the opinion that,…...
On April 26, 1971 an SR-71 Blackbird Flew More Than 15,000 Miles in 10 Hours and 30 Minutes With 5 Aerial Refuelings. The Limit Was Not Fuel, Not the Engines, and Not the Crew. It Was 212 Liters of Liquid Nitrogen.
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (515+ words) The SR-71 Blackbird fuel tanks were bare titanium with no bladders — nothing in the 1960s survived the heat. Nitrogen filled the space above the JP-7 so there was no oxygen left to ignite....
Sunday book pick: In ‘The Others’, immigrants’ fates hang in the balance as the Berlin Wall teeters
6+ hour, 48+ min ago (170+ words) “And it’s always at this point, the point of change, that we must take greatest care.” The most important incident in Sheena Kalayil’s novel, The Others, takes place in the first few pages. Lolita and Armando find a young man’s…...
In early 2026, NASA’s “Big Bang” reconfiguration freed nearly 10 watts aboard Voyager 2 by switching several powered systems to lower-energy alternatives simultaneously, buying its three remaining science instruments at least another year without generating a single additional watt.
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (815+ words) Voyager 2’s 2026 Big Bang power swap cut demand by nearly 10 watts, preserving its magnetometer, plasma wave and cosmic ray instruments for at least another year. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit Voyager 2 cannot…...
Supermarine Attacker: The Navy Jet With a Tail Wheel
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (872+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 13, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments The Royal Navy’s first jet fighter had a tail wheel. Two of them, in fact, tucked under the rear fuselage, so that the aircraft sat on the deck nose-high like a…...
Boulton Paul P.111: Britain's Yellow Peril Delta Jet
7+ hour, 20+ min ago (828+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 13, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Britain came out of the Second World War with a captured German idea it did not fully understand. The delta wing promised high speed and a strong, light structure, and the…...