Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oil tanker Maersk Trieste is fitted with "suction sails" - essentially a vertical wing that rotates to point into the wind, and then uses suction fans to keep the boundary layer of airflow pulled tight against the airfoil thereby increasing the lift coefficient and boosting the ship along. 030
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Lokomotywownia Krakow Plaszow - what remains of a split roundhouse and railroad graveyard in the Plaszow area of Krakow. 082
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Socialist realist should be called Soviet Sprawl. And that's not a neg, Nowa Huta is incredible and beats the heck out of our five-over-one hellscape. 052
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It's a tragedy that the Portland's Centennial Mills burned. There were a lot of really cool concept renders to reclaim and preserve and re-use the building. The past deserves better treatment than we give it. You will be missed. 062
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I listened to a pre-alzheimer's voicemail from my mom today, I think from around 2019, maybe earlier, and I fully realized that I will never really get to talk to her again. 060
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"You always told me to stay off the freeway." "Yes, that's true." "You said it was suicide." Managed to fly out to what remains of the fake freeway built for The Matrix Reloaded filming out at Alameda Naval Air Station. 050
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I got to see so many examples of goddamn wacky British engineering on this trip. I'll never say no to a ferry, and a CHAIN ferry, while loud as shit, is a pretty cool solution to ensure fast-landing in a narrow gap with big currents. CLANK CLANK CLANK - Sandbanks Chain Ferry - Dorset, UK 010
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Two Titans Antonov An-124 and a mothballed MD-11 at KBFI in Seattle 1183
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Antonov An-124 roaring out of Seattle - Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 060
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Goddamn what a cool day. What a wonderful noise. Ukrainian Antonov An-124 departing KBFI - Seattle for Leipzig. 2203
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 10/07/2026🇺🇦 Ukrainian giant visiting Seattle tonight! I really hope I can catch this thing taking off. 🇺🇦 216623
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I started travelling internationally to see Cold War wastelands, abandoned cities, and the sites of nuclear disasters - how did I turn into the type of dork that giggles gleefully and gets all fuzzy about visiting grocery stores in foreign countries? Does the arc of my life end at "konbini pics?" 060
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The weird mirrored timing of @wtyppod.bsky.social episodes and my own travels continues. Please rate this waste-to-power/heating steam plant I stayed a whole extra day in Krakow to see. I think it looks straight out of SimCity 4; we'd never use an aesthetic that goes this hard. 1121
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I have a shoe with soil samples from this crater permanent stuck to it, because I accidentally stepped on a gluetrap for rats inside the ICECAP drill tower while visiting the NNSS. I would die to put that shoe into a research-grade radiation spectrum analyzer. 150
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. Loving your country means fighting for the best version of it. Happy 250th from Seattle! 050
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of the Iowa-class battleships. Built for speed as well as firepower, she could reach nearly 33 knots, making her one of the fastest battleships ever built. 082
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 28/06/2026While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. 070
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 22/06/2026On this date in 1946, Harold Dahl claimed a man in a dark suit warned him not to discuss his Maury Island UFO incident from the previous day, creating the foundations of the Men in Black mythos. 040
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 22/06/2026So cool to see the business end of a heavy icebreaker when it is out of the water! - USCGC Polar Star in Seattle 071
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It could be that the entire purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. 192
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Cuck Fuckerburgs's yacht in Seattle, with cruise ship for scale. 042
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Russia hit the Pechersk Lavra monastery last night. Built in 1051, the Eastern Orthodox monastery is a UNESCO world heritage site. Firefighters put out the blaze this morning and discovered the remains of a shahed drone engine on the roof. 010
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Safeguard also controlled 4 Remote Sprint Launch sites. Designed to intercept ICBMs coming over the North Pole, the Sprint was a 2nd-to-last line of defense to protect North Dakota's Minuteman missile fields. Sprint carrier a 1-kt neutron warhead and accelerated to Mach 10 in about 5 seconds. 060
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'm a pretty lucky guy to get to see weird things I never thought I'd get to see with amazing people I never could have imagined I'd get to meet. 071
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The Tiger I was the best tank of World War 2 and other jokes you can tell yourself 130
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Did you know I have a youtube channel?youtube.comMy Hovercraft is Full of EelsYouTube video by Atomic Aerials 000
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 21/05/202680 years ago today, physicist Louis Slotin triggered a deadly radiation burst by hand while experimenting with a plutonium sphere at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The core was part of two fatal criticality accidents and was eventually dubbed the "Demon Core." 040
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Straight out of SimCity, one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. The Waste Thermal Treatment Plant ZTPO is the largest waste-to-energy in Poland, handling 220,000 tons of waste annually, producing 65k MWh of electricity and 280k MWh of district heating. Waste ash is used to build roads. 040
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Snaking through banded hills of green and gold is the village of Sułoszowa. The 1st historical mention dates to 1315. In the 14th century, King Casimir III built a castle called Pieskowa Skała on the edge of the village, along with fortifications to protect a trade route from Kraków to Silesia. 0102
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14/05/2026A year ago, I was cruising down across Poland in a RHD diesel Jeep when this spacey-looking building appeared out of the fog. I cannot begin to articulate the level of agony my ADHD-addled brain endured by being exposed to so many oddities and curiosities, without any time to investigate. 192
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"Jet Kiss" Two A-4 Skyhawks underground in Cap Hill. 051
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Loafin' around in my буханка. Encountered this guy while I was dodging trams in a rental car, only to come across him parked near Nowa Huta. Of course only now do I learn that it is owned by a guy who guides tours of Soviet architecture. 0111
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I love bridges. There is a particular thrill to discovering an interesting bridge I didn't know existed simply as it comes up on the roadway. Really wishing the skies hadn't immediately closed up as soon as I discovered this bridge that carries the S7 roadway over the River Vistula. 020
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The English Electric Lightning was designed for one task: kill Soviet bombers before they reached Britain. It had a unique, ungainly, appearance, but the British have always demonstrated a knack for beautifully gonzo and strikingly grotesque-looking aircraft that performed mightily. 130
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Imagine a city where the transit corridor is also an urban meadow, or a lush tunnel of greenery. We could do cool stuff, we just choose not to. 0152
Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Goddamn wikipedia nerds keep deleting my photo lol 070
