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What happened with this superjet? 1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. The mach 3 bomber concept was clearly obsolete with the advent of the Atlas and Titan ICBMs. Kennedy allowed two of them to be built to stud...

Other blunder of the movie is that it shows people as living on Krakatoa, which was untrue. Anyway, I loved the movie when I was a kid. It had all the elements of adventure: balloon, batisphere, diving girls, steam ship, volcano, tsunami.

Hi, I couldn´t find curves, but I have stability data on Hood: around 35° for maximum GZ and 70° for vanishing stability. There is some variation for different weights, I can post them detailed if you like.

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I don´t know Robert. Airships are quiet unwieldy to drive. In the US it was not the hydrogen that ultimately doomed the US Navy program (they were filled with helium), but the loose of the Shenandoah, Akron and Makon, all due to bad weather. In paper an airship of the day could lift heavier loads, h...

Karl, about Krakatoa the movie, be aware that the volcano was actually located to the WEST of Java. That is a movie blunder far worst that the Japaneses "nuclear" carriers attacking Pearl.

The Krakatoa history is quiet amazing, I came to it a few years ago reading the book by Simon Winchester. The vulcan was located in an unoccupied island, between Sumatra and Java. Some days before the explosion it started vomiting smoke, so thick it became at last that the vulcan was unseen from the...

The only country to produce helium in significant quantities until 1945 was USA. And of course, Germany was not willing to ask for it. Besides, the need to use hydrogen made the lifting force stronger. On the other side I don´t think it would make it a better weapon: a hole is a hole, and despite th...

I think that the copyright ends after 50 years.

It seems like another instance of Latin macho face-saving which some Argentines have specialised in since 1982, a bit like that utter guff about the Invincible being blown up/damaged/sunk/whatever and a replacement built in secret Excuse me, this was for me? I have never supported the theories of t...

Robert, Argentina declared war on Germany in April, because of the international pressure I think.

I started this thread to keep undisturbed the Yamato vs. Iowa discussion. Thanks to Bgile and Tiornu I noticed that a new book on naval gunnery is on the move: Norman Friedman´s Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591145554/105-03798...

Guys, thanks both to bring this book to my atention. Notice that it can be preordered in amazon at 44 bucks.

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Ok Karl, but what about the merchant ships? The Germans were winning here too?

September 1st, 1939. The German troops invaded Poland, starting World War Two, the most bloody war ever. So bloody in fact that the previous "Great War" had to be renamed just as "World War One". When I was a kid and started reading about WWII, I used to ask myself "why Worl...

We had a case here in Argentina in 1993 I think. A draftee was beaten to death by two draftees under the orders of a young lieutenant, then the body was abandoned in the wild and the dead was declared desertor. A search was initiated until the body was found, and the three men were taken to court an...