notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

sciencecenter:

Scientists study the phases of the moon on lunar models in preparation for an eventual manned flight to moon.

Love those circles-on-globes. Photographer: Fritz Goro.

“Avions à décollage et atterrissage verticaux” (via balnibarbi, Mondorama 2000)

Those planes in full: the Hawker Siddeley HS.141, Canadair CL-84 “Dynavert”, Hawker Harrier, and de Havilland Canada DHC-7. Only the last two entered production, but the concept used by the CL-84 is similar to that of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, now in use by US armed forces.

stml:

The red structure is the remains of the original Greathead shield used to tunnel the Waterloo & City. It was left in place in 1898 and rediscovered in 1987.

Nice tube geekery there.

Tube upgrade chart 2011 (by Darren)

I quite like this graph of the various upgrade programmes.

Who doesn’t like wireframes of spacecraft? Soyuz TM, from NASA by way of Wikipedia.

inkscar, via mappeal:

The End of the tunnel

A miner stands in front of the drilling machine that completed the world’s longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps.

[This is good.] Photograph: Christian Hartmann.

An ICE at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, as seen in this excellent Tony Judt article (to which I may return) in the New York Review of Books.

Photograph: Paul Langrock/Zenit/laif/Redux.

From The art of Norman Foster’s architecture in The Observer: “The Millau Viaduct, crossing the valley of the river Tarn in France, is the highest bridge in the world at 343 metres. It is composed of seven slender pillars and provides a direct route between Paris and the Mediterranean coast. Photograph: Jean-Philippe Arles/Reuters”