Author: Daniel Tom

What allows the C-130 to do short landings is the reverse thrust capability of the turboprop engines. These engines have the same power in reverse as they do forward. Totally giving this a thumbs up as I had no idea they landed C-130s on carriers… but somehow the last half of this video seemed to…

“Crystal Mountain”. Located within the white desert, 120 km from the Farafra Oasis and 160 km from the Bahariya Oases is one of the rarest mountains in the world, it is a mountain full of different crystal, where there are more than 12 types Crystal, clustered with each other in a huge mountain mass. The…

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Researchers investigating the submerged metropolis of Thônis-Heracleion, in the Egyptian bay of Abū Qīr, have discovered wicker fruit baskets dated to the fourth century B.C.E. Incredibly, the vessels still contain doum nuts—the fruit of an African palm tree considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians—and grape seeds. “Nothing was disturbed,” marine archaeologist Franck Goddio tells Dalya…

There is an asteroid drifting about in space named 16 Psyche that is believed to be worth $700 quintillion; if NASA were to capture it and split it equally among the people, each person would get almost $93 billion. While that is not NASA’s intention, the asteroid will nonetheless be visited, and much sooner than…

NASA verified that the biggest comet ever detected has a diameter of around 85 miles and is now officially the largest comet ever spotted after Hubble Space Telescope studies. C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB) was discovered in 2014 by two astronomers, Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, using Dark Energy Survey archived pictures. BB’s diameter was previously…

Basically, EC725 is the further development of Eurocopter AS532 Cougar, improving upon the design with a five-blade composite main rotor incorporating a new airfoil shape to reduce vibration levels. The EC-725 Caracal helicopter, with an estimated cost of $ 20 million each, is an Airbus long-range tactical transport helicopter. As the newest member of the…

The B-21 Raider first bomber of 21st century and the US Air Force’s next stealth bomber, will be unveiled to the public for the first time in early December, Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter said Tuesday. After 33 years of the huge gap, the world will finally see a new strategic bomber and stealth…

I build F-35s as a caгeeг. The B model does not noгmally do ʋeгtical takeoffs since this compгomises the suгface undeгneath, гisking damage and blowing FOD into the plane & engine inlets. As can be seen in the video, a shoгt takeoff гun is neaгly always peгfoгmed foг the F-35B. It can land ʋeгtically, howeʋeг,…

Bulgarian archaeologists discovered giant skeleton remains located at the Black Sea Bay city known as Varna. In the first reports, they suggested that a man lived in the 4th to the 5th centuries and were quite impressed by the size of the bone found in the area. Due to the size, they only concluded their…