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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum
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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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Explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship found off Labrador's south coast, says expedition
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Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago
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The forgotten Roman roads
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka
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The Vikings and the Muslim scholar
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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What happened to flying wings?
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Landseaire, the crazy Catalina flying camper of the 1950s
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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My ex-father-in-law, the Japanese radical who opposed Narita Airport
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What happened to the Antarctic Snow Cruiser?
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The strangest aircraft ever built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14
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ValuJet Flight 592
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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Why this enormous plane really exists: The An-225 Mriya
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A sea story
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A plane without wings: The story of the C.450 Coléoptère
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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How did traffic law come to be?
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This plane tried to do the impossible: The Caproni Transaereo
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Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
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The farmer that lives in the middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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What happened to giant flying boats? Saunders-Roe Princess story
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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Remembering the forgotten Chinese railroad workers
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Inside Robert Ballard's search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened.
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A sea story
4 votes