England
Sea Reclamation
Across the globe there are various land reclamation projects which aim to create new building sites by dredging up the seabed. However, in the small English town of Happisburgh that process is being reversed, as the waves tear apart the…
Mystery Military Satellite Calibration Test Card?
Alan Turnbull (no relation) contacted us to tell us about his bizarre find at RAF Feltwell in Norfolk, England, which at first glance looks like it might be the world's most complicated sports pitch. But what is it really? RAF…
Ultima GTR
Parked in this rather unassuming car park at a very boring-looking business park near Leicester, England, we find a surprisingly impressive vehicle - an Ultima GTR, which is capable of 0-60 mph in 2.6 seconds, and which the manufacturers claim…
World’s Biggest Aircraft Carriers
Following on from January's World's biggest passenger ships post, today we're going to be looking at the largest aircraft carriers on the water. These warships act as mobile airbases, allowing aircraft to be launched as close to the theatre of…
An Englishman’s Home is his Illegal Castle in a Haystack
In this Google image of a farm just north of Gatwick Airport, England, we can see a large, but not particularly unusual looking stack of hay bales, covered in blue tarpaulins. If however we look at the Microsoft Live Local…
The Red Arrows
Founded in 1964, the Red Arrows is the common name for the Aerobatic Team of the Royal Air Force. The team consists of nine BAE Hawk aircraft, with a tenth always carried to events as a backup. The ten craft…
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