Author: Nick

Have you ever heard of the Antonov An-225? The Antonov An-225 Myriad was an aircraft that should never have existed. By nearly all forms of convention, it’s a bad idea, but to the Soviets, it was the perfect plane for transporting space aircraft across the vast empire of the USSR. Originally, the Soviets would transport […]

i found my password Have you ever heard of the F-15 streak eagle? It is the United States’ way of respectfully telling the Soviet Union that we are better than them. In the late 1960s, the Soviet Union showed of the MiG-25 “Foxbat”, which promptly made every single military commander very worried. This jet (according […]

Ever heard of the one time the USSR stole a bomber from the Americans and just straight up copied it. The Tu-4 is a one to one copy of the American Boeing B-29. It was done after a B-29 was forced to land on to a Soviet Navy airbase 18.6 miles east of Vladivostok, on […]

Did you know that there was a plane that shot itself down? The Grumman F-11 Tiger was a fighter aircraft that was intended to improve on a carrier jet design. It was extremely fast and reached Mach 1 without its afterburner during its first test flight. On the 21st of September, 1956, the prototype Tiger […]

The SR-71 “Blackbird” is the air forces brute force answer to intelligence. During the cold war, the US used U-2 spy planes, which went on a different route. Rather than going extremely fast, they went extremely high. Going up to 70,000 feet, they assumed that it was too high for Soviet radars and surface-to-air missiles. […]

Zippo lighters are one of the most robust and reliable designs known to man. They have been produced for over 80 years and are some of the most popular lighters in the world. Over 600 million have been produced worldwide and it is the epitome of the idea of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix […]

Did you know that the F-15 Eagle was created because the Soviet Union was to good at propaganda? It’s true! The United States thought that the Soviet Union’s MiG-25 Fox-bat was a Multi-role fighter that was really good. So the US made one of the most successful fighters of all time, the F-15 Eagle. When […]

Took me way to long to figure out my password but I DID. Now this website will be more active-ish. Stay tuned for useless non-sense that you will wish you did not waste your precious time with!