Oddities: Pigeon-Guided Missiles
A little history Pigeon guided what? Yeah! Pigeon-Guided Missiles! Early 40s weren’t so good for the allies. Thanks to the Japanese, the war tension was at its height. The U.S. Army’s desperate need for a...
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How Fighter Jets Lock-on and Track Targets?
If you have ever played H.A.W.X or any military FPS games like Call of Duty or Battlefield, you might wonder how those fighter airplanes lock-on to their targets and track them continuously. If you haven’t...
Can a Commercial Airplane Fly Upside Down?
The answer is yes. Though a commercial airplane is capable of flying inverted, the flight mostly falls under theoretical paradigm. The reason I push the model towards a theoretical paradigm is because, such airplanes are...
Why Do We Laugh When We Are Tickled?
Before delving deep into the laughter part of the tickle, let us scratch the surface of the word ‘tickle’ first. Tickling can be stimulated in two different ways. A very light and subtle touch or...
