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6 Metre Waves. All Engines On Fire. 1 500 Km From Land.
Eric Lindner’s book Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival tells the story of pilot John Murray’s 1962 lifesaving ‘ditch’ of an L-1049H Super Constellation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The barely co
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The Key To Finding This 'Impossible' Material Might Be A Nuclear Explosion
ADECADES-LONG QUEST TO FIND quasicrystals – a crystal-like material with a seemingly impossible structure – has led researchers to an unlikely location: the site of the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb blast. When the US military detonated a pluto
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How To Ditch A Plane According To Physics
Landing a plane on a runway is simple. A backward-pushing force, such as friction, between the tyres and the ground, or the engines’ reverse thrust, slows the plane, while lift from the wings and the natural reaction force from the ground counter the

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