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Early Japanese embassies to the US are... surprising... in that their perspectives give an interesting look at the US.

A little-known embassy between Japan and Rome. An interesting tale where Jesuit missionaries kept trying to convince the Pope of the sheer beauty of Japan despite the Waring States Period warfare being waged on it while the missionaries tried to convince Japan of the splendor and monuments of...

A lot of the problem is that such things would have been installed anyway but some bright penny pincher decided to force the manufacturer to dump those elements to 'save money'...

That would get fun corrosion maintenance problems, especially as you get closer to the coasts. That and aluminum is heavier than fiberglass.

That isn't the case, I'm afraid. Adding anti-icing measures not only costs a pretty penny but also causes problems with the materials used. Most of these things use materials like fiberglass...

This is the strangest thing that I've ever seen: Japan trying to make a historical account of the American Revolution from their cultural perspective (or, at least, during Meji Japan). Although, please note at the 15-minute mark that there is something quite unusual in terms of historical...

Well, I asked the artist when I first received them about that, it was a combination of perspective and that it was his very first designs using such a rotor system. The thing is almost no one outside of the hardcore helicopter community and a (comparative) handful of US Army pilots knew such a...

It's called 'intermeshing rotors', and surprisingly they're far more effective than you would think. The K-MAX uses this rotor arrangement and can lift itself in an undersling. That's how capable it can get.

Just two helicopters that I've got requested. ;) One is an intermeshing Chinook/Sea King hybrid and the other is an intermeshing AH-1 Viper with elements of the AH-56 Cheyenne. ;)

Who says Planetside 2 is dead? ;)

An interceptor variant of the MR-01. ;)

Just going around randomly at Deviantart oddly enough. The artist made some good art and I decided to favorite the art and the artist.

Transformation equipment takes up too much base and makes it harder to armor. ;)

Finally, my aircraft request came in. :) 27 metric tons fully loaded, capable of Mach 2 at full burn but capable of cruising at Mach 1.2, has a 30mm electrothermal chemical autocannon and enough ordinance to make an A-10 blush. Can operate on Mars, Titan, and Titania as well as Earth thanks to...