Popular Mechanics - USA (2021-11 & 2021-12)

ALL ENGINES ON FIRE. M LAND. How Flying Tiger 923 and its “miracle pilot” made an impossible ocean landing. BY ERIC LINDNER Nove ...

a thousand miles from land on the way to Frankfurt from New- foundland, a red f lash on the instrument panel caught Captain John ...

O P P O S I T E : The Flying Tiger 923 plane in 1962, prior to its ill-fated flight over the Atlantic. BELOW: Captain John Murra ...

A 1962-era Super H Constellation cockpit. shouldn’t try to make it all the way to Frankfurt, so he laid out three alternatives: ...

HOW TO DITCH A PLANE, ACCORDING TO PHYSICS by RHETT ALLAIN Landing a plane on a runway is simple. A backward-pushing force, such ...

LE F T: Survivors of the Flying Tiger crash are shown at the rail of rescue ship Celerina, Sept. 28, 1962, as it neared Antwerp, ...

The Daily News front page on September 24, 1962, the day after Flying Tiger 923 went down. into a horrifying cartwheel, breaking ...

52 November/December 2021 HOW TO BUILD A B AC K YA R D CHICKEN COOP PHOTOGRAPHY BY HENRY HUNG ...

OUR DESIGN KEEPS YOUR FLOCK SAFE AND COMFORTABLE. HERE’S HOW TO PUT IT TOGETHER IN A WEEKEND November/December 2021 53 BY JOSEPH ...

More than 13 million homeowners raise backyard chickens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that number is exp ...

STEP 1 Cut the Rafters Start by using a power miter saw to cut the six 2x4 rafters to length. Cut the bottom end of each rafter ...

above the collar ties with three pieces of pine 1x8 channel siding cut to fit. Miter-cut the ends of the siding to 30°, and slid ...

nails [ 8 ]. Next, make t wo 11-in.-wide x 43½-in.-long nesting boxes out of pine 1x3s. Set the boxes along the sides of the roo ...

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IF YOU WANT A GREAT PET: SULTANS These were originally bred in Turkey as orna- ments for the Sultan’s gar- dens. Today, they are ...

We have the science and technology to bring animals back from extinction. But should we use it? The $20 Million Bioengineering G ...

last photos taken before the rhino’s death.Sudan and one of his caretakers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, in one of the ...

AT AGE 45, SUDAN WAS THE FINAL progenitor of Earth’s most endangered animal species: the northern white rhinoceros. As the last ...

will bleed to death. And preserving a species through bioengineering is a fraught, messy process, one that calls into question t ...

determined that neither is capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. It’s a foregone conclusion then, yes? The line of northern w ...