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100 years ago today Alcock and Brown arrived in Ireland having completed a truly horrendous and terrifying flight to become the first people to fly the Atlantic non-stop. True pioneers and heroes. A piece of digital aviation art for @HistoryInTheAir a few years ago
The colossal Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park Berlin. Extraordinary
A graphic from 2015 for a feature on the increasing wireless connections between our cars and the outside world
A set of in-depth graphics from 2018 looking at how the company Planet manages to photograph the entire Earth's surface once a day using an ingenious mix of small satellites called cubesats and the Earth's rotation
A suitably big graphic from 2013 about a big job: the construction process for the Royal navy's new aircraft carriers, their largest ships ever
Repercussions from 2008's financial crisis: one, a five-segment venn, shows failed banks/brokers and the complex combinations of reasons why they did so and the other, from the tenth anniversary of the crisis shows how Chinese banks (in red) rose into the top ranks as a result
In 2011, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's first flight with an in-depth look at the ISS, the 400,000kg object that passes over the heads of most of earth's population twice a day at 27,000 km/h
Another graphics-led feature, this time from from 2013, about the shift in global growth to emerging economies in general and China and India in particular
@bluebirdk7 Thought you might like to see this: an illustration I did for @FlyPastMag a few years ago. Congratulations on your restoration job, it's beautiful
In the late 50s-early 60s Avro Lancaster PA474, now flying with @RAFBBMF was used as a flying test bed by what is now @CranfieldUni investigating boundary layer control. Here's recent art by me for @HistoryInTheAir showing how they did it plus a drawing of the aircraft now #PA474