Civil War, but the fixed-wing airplanes of World War I were able to fly deep behind enemy lines to track troops movements and map terrain. “These were two-seater aircraft with a pilot to do the flying and an observer up front to man the binoculars and take notes,” says Guttman. The...
How Fast Did Planes Fly In World War I & II ? Compared to today’s planes, the planes used in WWI were much slower. The top speeds were usually between 100 mph to 150 mph. In 1918, Knoller 70 and Sopwith Dragon reached speeds of about 149 mph (240 km/h). During WW2, Messerschm...
Airplanes are still allowed to use leaded gasoline (known as AvGas), and octane ratings of 100 or more are commonly used in super-high-performance piston airplane engines. In the case of AvGas, 100 is the gasoline's performance rating, not the percentage of actual octane in the gas. The...
Airplanes are still allowed to use leaded gasoline, and octane ratings of 115 are commonly used in super-high-performance piston airplane engines (jet engines burn kerosene, by the way). Another common additive is MTBE. MTBE is the acronym for methyl tertiary butyl ether, a fairly simple ...
The life at home during WWI was in a dire situation due to this being Canada’s first war. Canada used tactics such as censorship to hide what the war was really like, and kept on glorifying war. The economy was also in a dire situation with the massive amount of debt Canada kept on...
scanning the horizon for enemy ships. But as it turns out, periscopes have a much more varied history than I imagined. They’re used in tanks and armored vehicles, and were employed by soldiers in WWI both to see out of their trenches in general, and as rifle scopes that enabled them ...
How many Camerons died in the Battle of Culloden? How many ships did John Cabot have? How many torpedoes did the IXB long-range boat carry? How many ships did the Dutch East India Company have? How many died in the Battle of Stirling Bridge? How many airplanes were used in the landing...
As incendiaries rained down on the harbor, turning night into day, gunners aboard the anchored ships scrambled to shoot down the enemy—too late. The attacking German airplanes fled into the night. The raid lasted less than 20 minutes. ...
small army again. The Soviet leaders were very apprehensive about this, especially with WWI and WWII still fresh in mind and decided to get security measures in place in the shape of a political and military alliance. The pact however only lasted until 1991, when the Soviet Union came to ...
do some things right. Upon entering my PhD this year, though, I’ve decided to cast my fears of failing aside. This does not mean that I’m going to jump out of airplanes or perform in The Nutcracker, it simply means that I’m going to try to push myself a little bit further int...