I know you got soul: machines with that certain something (25 page)

Prince of Wales
, HMS,
210
,
211
,
212

Queen Mary
, SS,
68

radar, invention,
222

RAF.
See
Royal Air Force

Ragtown,
144
,
146
,
147

railway tracks, width,
75

Rainier, Prince of Monaco,
32

Ramillies
, HMS,
212

Range Rovers, desert driving,
37
,
39

Renown
, HMS,
212

Repulse
, HMS,
212

Rigg, Diana,
119

Riva, Carlo,
28
–34

Riva company,
28
–34

Aquarama speedboat,
26
–7,
31
–4

beauty,
26
–7,
34

customers,
31
–2

interior design,
27

prices,
32
,
33

stability,
33

rocketry

early,
78
–9

in satellite transport,
78
–80,
81

Rockwell engines,
188

Rockwood, Charles,
141
–2,
143

Roddenbury, Gene,
35

Rolls, Charles,
21

Rolls-Royce cars,
20
–5

Phantom model,
21
–5

Rolls-Royce engines,
224
,
226

Royal Air Force (RAF)

fighter planes,
224

Spitfires,
232

and
Tirpitz
,
213

Royal Navy

battleships,
206
–10

Dreadnought
,
206

and rate of fire,
209

and submarines,
178
–9,
185
–6

and U-Boats,
180

Royce, Sir Henry,
20
,
21

Russia, space programme,
78
,
196

Salton Sink,
142

San Francisco, Boeing 747 accident (1971),
92

satellites

geo-stationary,
80

numbers,
77

speed,
80

tracking,
82
–5

transport,
78
–80,
81

uses,
76
–7

Saunders Roe company,
52
–3

Princess flying boat,
52
–4

Schneider, Jacques,
223

Schneider Trophy,
223
–4

Schreuder, Willem,
90

seaplanes

jet-powered,
52

racing,
223
,
225

Second World War (1939–45),
49
,
99
–100

aerial dogfights,
9
,
228
,
229
–30

kamikaze raids,
219

naval battles,
210
–20

planes,
222
–3,
228
–31,
232
,
233

submarines,
179
–82

Zeppelins,
113

Sellers, Peter,
31

Shaw, George Bernard,
109

Sheffield
,
HMS
,
212

shipwrecks,
57
,
59
–65

Shorts company

Empire Flying Boat,
48

Sunderland Flying Boat,
49
–51

Sikorsky Flying Boats,
48

Skylab
crash,
78

sound barrier, breaking,
3
,
7
,
191

Soviet Union.
See also
Russia

Cuba missiles,
125

satellites,
78
,
80

supersonic aircraft development,
9

and
Tirpitz
,
215

space debris, dangers of,
77
–8

spaceships, cinematic,
35
–7,
40
–2

Space Shuttle

accidents,
190
,
195
–6,
197

engines,
188
–91

flights,
194
–5

grounding,
196
,
197

landing,
191
–2,
194
–5

launching,
189
–91

power,
189
–91,
197

problems,
77
,
193
–4

Space 1999
(TV series),
40

Spain

B-52 crash (1966),
132
–3

NASA emergency runway,
191

Sparrow Cove, Falkland Islands,
55
,
73

‘Spitfire Knuckle’,
227

Spitfires

ailerons, jamming,
9
–10

and altitude,
227
,
228

armour,
227

design problems,
224
–8

diving,
9
–10

engines,
225
,
227

and London Blitz,
230
–31

Mark IX,
231

production,
227
–8

and Second World War,
x
,
222
–3,
228
–31,
232
,
233

speed,
225
–6,
231

updating,
231

Sputnik
satellite,
80

633 Squadron
(film),
40

SR-71 (‘Blackbird’) spy planes,
26
,
173
–4,
176

crashes,
171
–3

engines,
170
–71,
173

flying height,
168

freedom,
176

heat generation,
174

power,
170

speed,
167
,
168
–9

Stalingrad, German advance to (1942),
99
–100

Star Trek
(film/TV series),
35

Star Wars
(films),
35
,
40
,
42

steamships

design,
58
–75

iron,
69
–70,
74

propellers,
69
,
70
–71

wooden,
69
,
70

stock market crash (1929),
144

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START),
128

Subaru cars,
18

submarines,
177
–86

accommodation,
178

collisions,
185

hunter-killers,
184
–5

nuclear power,
182
–5

secrecy,
178

size,
183
–4

speed,
184
–5

wartime,
179
–82

Sunderland Flying Boats,
49
–51

Supermarine company,
228

and Schneider Trophy,
223
–4

supersonic flight,
2
,
3
,
8
,
9
,
168
–9

atmosphere and,
7
–8

heat generation,
7
–8

problems of,
9
–10

shockwaves,
9
–10

speed,
3
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
169

television, satellite transmission,
81

Telstar
satellite,
81
,
82
,
83

Temple Meads station, Bristol,
58

Ten Go, operation,
219

Teutonic
, SS,
66

Thames tunnel,
57

Tierney, Patrick,
148

Tirpitz
, KMS,
213
–16

Titanic
, SS,
56
,
64
–5,
66
,
67

Titanic
(film),
61

Tokyo,
Graf Zeppelin
flight,
116

Top Gear
(TV series),
198

Tora! Tora! Tora!
(film),
218

Torrick, Ray,
173

Toyoto Mark One Land Cruiser truck,
37
,
39

Trafalgar, battle of (1805),
209

trains, cornering,
75

trainspotting,
118
–19

transatlantic travel, early,
58
–72

transportation, mass,
94

Trippe, Juan,
47
,
94
,
95

TWA Jumbo explosion (1996),
92
–3

2001: A Space Odyssey
(film),
35

Tyson, Geoffrey,
53

U-Boats,
50
,
179
–82

United States

battleships,
206
,
221

Concorde flights,
11
–12,
74

European emigration to,
63

flying boats,
46
–7,
48

friendly fire,
93
,
134

satellites,
80
–81

supersonic aircraft development,
8
–9

Vietnam War,
133
–6

and the
Yamato
,
219
–20

United States
, liner,
68

United States Air Force, plane storage,
127

U-2 spy planes,
175

Utah, Blackbird crash (1963),
171
–2

Vadim, Roger,
32

Van Damme, Jean Claude,
45

Vanguard
, HMS,
221

V6 engines,
162

V8 engines,
29
,
200
,
201
,
202

Vesta
, SS,
60
–61

Vickers company,
33
,
228

Victorious
, HMS,
212

Vietcong, arms,
101

Vietnam War (1955-75),
101
,
133
–6

Virgin airline, and Concorde,
14

Volkswagen Golf GTi,
202

V2 rockets,
79

Vulcan bombers,
10

weather forecast, accuracy,
76
–7

White Star Line,
67

Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
107

Wilman, Andy,
39

Winner, Michael,
4

Wreford-Brown, Chris,
186

Wright brothers,
111

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku,
218
–19

Yamato
(battleship),
x
,
216
–20,
221

Yom Kippur War (1973),
11

Zanten, Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van,
86
–91

Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von,
x
,
110
,
111
,
112

Zeppelin airships

bombing raids,
107
–9,
112

crashes,
111
–12

design defects,
107
,
110

development,
110
–12

first flight,
110
–11

LZ1,
110
–11

LZ
127
,
Graf Zeppelin
,
114
–15,
116
–17

majesty,
109

used in advertising,
113
,
116