6, 97: Why scorpions?
A fascinating and inspiring meditation on aerodynamics.
Link tags: aircraft
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B612 – The font family
B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
Helium Dreams - The New Yorker
This article on airships has my new favourite sentence in the English language:
During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England.
Of course it was Simon who pointed me to this. Of course.
concept ships
An online animated spaceship and experimental aircraft art magazine. Gorgeous.
Ezprezzo.com - Aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego
It's an aircraft carrier. Made entirely out of Lego.