Rulers of the Ancient World: period correct measuring tools(burn-heart.com)

101 points by maxwell 2 years ago | 59 comments

Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures(coca11272000.wixsite.com)

174 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 24 comments

NYC Subway Station Layouts(projectsubwaynyc.com)

310 points by gregsadetsky 1 year ago | 102 comments

A kids traffic mat in Elm(matiasklemola.com)

168 points by eliasson 2 years ago | 14 comments

Ford 021C Concept Car (1999)(marc-newson.com)

74 points by spking 3 years ago | 54 comments

Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died(marcthorpe.com)

90 points by batguano 2 years ago | 17 comments

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane(prospect.org)

735 points by doom2 2 years ago | 446 comments

American Prospect article by Maureen Tkacik on how Boeing's management drove out experienced engineers and workers who knew how to build planes.

Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone(tsungxu.com)

391 points by tsungxu 1 year ago | 140 comments

A Substack post by Tsung Xu describing a 3D printed VTOL drone with 130-mile range he built in 90 days as a CAD beginner, with an embedded YouTube video.

Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report(ainonline.com)

327 points by elorant 2 years ago | 268 comments

AIN news article on an FAA expert panel report finding Boeing lacks key elements of a safety culture, including employee awareness of how to report safety concerns.

Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers(wsj.com)

496 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 352 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that missile shootdowns have become the leading cause of airline passenger deaths; the page loaded a captcha instead.

I built a drone with only one motor [video](youtube.com)

624 points by hakonjdjohnsen 7 days ago | 139 comments

YouTube video by Joshua Bird showing how he built and flew a drone that uses only a single motor.

300k airplanes in five years(construction-physics.com)

339 points by juliangamble 2 years ago | 494 comments

Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how the US ramped up aircraft manufacturing to build about 300,000 airplanes during World War II.