FGM-148 Javelin: Saint Javelin, the Soft Launch and the Top-Attack Dive
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The FGM-148 Javelin, the launcher cradled by the viral Saint Javelin icon of the Russo-Ukrainian...
21 Okt 21min
Bell UH-1 Huey: Vortex Slap, 151 TOW Hits and Rhodesia's Smuggled Cheetahs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!More than 16,000 Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters have been built since 1960. In the early 1950s t...
21 Okt 26min
Exocet: The Flying Fish That Hit HMS Sheffield and MI6's Fake Arms Deals
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Exocet, French for flying fish, was named by Jean Guillot, technical director at Nord Aviati...
21 Okt 21min
Applebee's: The Dollarita, a Pastor's Receipt and the $300 Date Night Pass
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Brothers Bill and T.J. Palmer opened the first restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, in November 1980 ...
21 Okt 15min
C-5 Galaxy: Cracked Wings, a $1 Billion Overrun and a Midair Minuteman Drop
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy's cargo hold is one foot longer than the Wright brothers' entire first f...
21 Okt 23min
UH-60 Black Hawk: The Abbottabad Stealth Tail and a 30-Minute Dry Gearbox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a helicopter clipped...
21 Okt 23min
Clifford Stoll: A 75-Cent Error, a Fake SDI Honeypot and a KGB Hacker
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clifford Stoll, born in Buffalo, New York, in June 1950, worked as assistant chief engineer at p...
21 Okt 18min
Atlas Rocket: WD-40 Balloon Tanks, John Glenn's Orbit and Russia's RD-180
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!WD-40, short for water displacement, 40th formula, was created to keep the Atlas missile's bare,...
21 Okt 26min
