Thursday, 7 February 2013

Yesterday's Futures: Riding On Air

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There's been a bit of a hiatus, but Yesterday's Futures are back. Having concentrated mainly on military technology over the first f...
Friday, 18 January 2013

The Last People You Want To Be Rescued By

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The bloody (and as yet, unresolved) Amenas gas plant siege in Algeria has reminded me of some incidents in the 1970s/80s which demonstrate ...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013

A Short History of Alton Herd or, The Blog Goes Ever On

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When I started this blog, it usually matched a post with a piece of music from my Soundcloud account . I've stopped doing this over the...
Thursday, 13 December 2012

Yesterday's Futures V - The Tragedy of HMS Captain

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To sea now, in the latest tale of doomed (usually military) technology, as the Royal Navy's attempts to balance the advantages of turret...
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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Yesterday's Futures IV - The Battlefield of the Future, 20s Style

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Enough military aeroplanes for the time being. The time has come for ... tanks. And some spying. The picture above shows, I believe, a...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Destroying Surrey - Martian Style

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Whenever I travel through the affluent towns of Surrey, where Jenny has family, it amuses me to imagine these well-heeled places being dem...
Thursday, 29 November 2012

Yesterday's Futures III - The Most Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built

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Excuse me while I work through my obsession with the work of North American Aviation ... A few days ago I wrote about one of my favourite 19...