Taylorcraft Auster AOP Mk.III – The Taylorcraft Auster AOP (Air Observation Post) was a British military liaison and observation aircraft produced by the Taylorcraft Aeroplanes Limited company of England during the Second World War,...
M.A.G.-Fokker D VII – The D.VII was such a formidable aircraft that the Armistice ending WWI specifically called for all surviving D.VIIs be delivered to the Allies. The United States pick up a few...
Nieuport 11 The Nieuport 11 ‘Bebe’ was a French WW1 single seat fighter aircraft designed by Gustav Delage, it was an improved version of the two seat Nieuport 10. The Sesquiplane design, in which...
The Scrovegni Chapel (Italian: Cappella degli Scrovegni, also known as the Arena Chapel), is a church in Padua, Veneto, Italy. It contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed about 1305 and considered to be...
The Sopwith Baby The Sopwith Baby traces its origins to the two-seat Sopwith Tabloid (or Scout) built by Sopwith in November 1913 and introduced into RFC service in the following month. It gained fame...
Isle of Ischia Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 km (19 miles) from the city of Naples. It...
1956 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition – The 1956–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to...
The AWS factory – AWS Shopper (A.W.S = Automobilwerk Walter Schätzle) was a German Automobile manufactured in West Berlin, in Rudow (at the borders of West Berlin with East Berlin and 3/4 of its...
The so-called New Collective Locomotion Bidding System, popularly known as the “micros amarillas”, was the public transportation system of the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, launched in 1991 and finally replaced by the...
Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly designated Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer. Headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, the company is a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America (the parent company of Freightliner). While...
Appearances can be deceiving. The rolling embodiments of that principal we call “sleeper cars”: ordinary-looking vehicles that pack a much bigger punch than you’d get by just looking at them. Take this classic VW...
