A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat(bbc.com)

227 points by toss1 11 months ago | 187 comments

Thames Tideway Tunnel super sewer completed(bbc.com)

19 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 28 comments

The hovercraft's time might have arrived(bbc.com)

96 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 130 comments

'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 26 comments

The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany(bbc.com)

6 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 0 comments

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed(bbc.com)

69 points by peutetre 1 year ago | 12 comments

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.

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left(theguardian.com)

673 points by mazokum 1 year ago | 501 comments

Guardian news article reporting a Ryanair flight landed in Manchester with about six minutes of fuel left after three failed landing attempts in Scotland during Storm Amy.

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway(cnn.com)

320 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 262 comments

CNN/AP news story about an unexploded American WWII bomb detonating at Miyazaki Airport in Japan, leaving a large crater in a taxiway.

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.

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.

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites(bbc.co.uk)

1100 points by mattcollins 1 year ago | 3239 comments

BBC News live coverage page on US airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites, with Tehran warning of 'everlasting consequences'.