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storage tanks, shipbuilders minimise the effects of sloshing (see ‘Slosh dy namics’ box). While a smaller tank filled to capacit ...
Anatomy of a supertanker How It Works takes an exploded diagram of one of these mighty vessels and details the key parts Double ...
Pump room Supertankers are equipped with three or four steam-powered centrifugal pumps that suck oil from the cargo tanks and pu ...
O n 26 March 2012, director James Cameron ascended from the deepest part of the deepest oceanic rift in the world: the Mariana T ...
“ A manned submersible needs great compressive strength to maintain the habitat inside” LIFE IN THE TRENCHES We know very little ...
T he dream of a fully functional amphibious vehicle dates back to the mid-1700s, when an Italian prince drove a modifi ed land/w ...
© Gibbs Spor ts A mphibians Inc need a lot of water displacement, which demands a bulk y body that looks odd on the road. Today’ ...
A conventional seaplane is nothing more than a Cessna outfi tted with fl oats. Exposed to seawater, metal seaplanes corrode quic ...
© US Nav y; Dorn ier; R inspeed Zero emissions Rinspeed stripped the Toyota engine from the Lotus Elise and replaced it with thr ...
112 24 Spies in the sky The spy planes cruising the skies to keep civilians under close observation 120 Sea Harrier Learn how th ...
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MILITARY TOP-SECRET THE TOP-SECRET MILITARY TECH THAT’S WATCHING YOU RIGHT NOW MILITARY ...
Blackbird’s successor has a combined cycle propulsion system for reaching hypersonic speeds Inside the SR-72 O n 1 May 1954, the ...
top-of-the-range photographic equipment for the time, Blackbird captured images of the ground from an altitude three times the h ...
DID YOU KNOW? In 2014, P-8 spy planes were used to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 Stealth subs For every ad ...
imagine a top-level spy plane to look. It has a bulging front profi le and a somewhat chunk y tail end, but this amazing surveil ...
DID YOU KNOW? ‘Surveillance’ is monitoring a person or place, ‘reconnaissance’ is an observational mission © WIKI As well as the ...
different gadgets and gizmos that can be attached, built in, added or upgraded in order to turn an ordinary military aircraft in ...
DID YOU KNOW? U-2 pilot helmets have feeding tubes through which they squeeze special puréed meals Named ‘Dragon Lady’ by the US ...
T he British Aerospace Sea Harrier was the purpose-built naval variant of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier strike fi ghter, an aircra ...
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