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    1 : 10000 Description This is a c. 1957 Chanrai's Men's Shop and British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.) map of Singapore. Streets throughout the city are illustrated, although only major streets and avenues are labeled. The Central Fire Station, Fort Canning, King George Park, the Raffles Hotel, and the Clyde Terrace Market are all noted. A further twenty-nine locations are identified numerically and correspond to a table along the right border. Dating the Map with AircraftAs this map is undated, but the verso advertisements allow us to assign an approximate date. The B.O.A.C...

(Courtesy photo) Dec. 12, 1955: First prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell. A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull, or air cushion, that is slightly above atmospheric pressure. The pressure difference between the higher pressure air below the hull and lower pressure ambient air above it produces lift, which causes the hull to float above the running surface. For stabili...

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What's called visual flight rules, otherwise known as see and be seen. >> think of it as driving your car. you avoid traffic by seeing it and not putting your car where there's another car. the airplane works in visual flight rules the same way. >> see and be seen is a catastrophic failure in two deadly collisions between the same two airlines, twa and united. the first crash is over the grand canyon on june 30th, 1956. >> these two pilots were having to deviate around thunderstorms, build-ups that were occurring. you can't fly through them. so, they were deviating around them. they actually d...

Air traffic control system, the burden of maintaining separation between commercial aircraft fell mainly on pilots. they kept their distance using what's called visual flight rules, otherwise known as see and be seen. >> think of it as driving your car. you avoid traffic by seeing it and not putting your car where there's another car. the airplane works in visual flight rules the same way. >> see and be seen is a catastrophic failure in two deadly collisions between the same two airlines, twa and united. the first crash is over the grand canyon on june 30th, 1956. >> these two pilots were havi...