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Mark Piesing

Mark Piesing

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The company taking a gamble on the world's biggest plane

The WindRunner is an ambitious aircraft project that could make it easier to use larger wind turbines. The company behind it, however, has never built...

31.07.2025 70

BBC

Mark Piesing

Books / Remembering Hiroshima 80 years on

05.06.2025 10

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

The space archaeologists saving cosmic history

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. A new generation of "space...

17.05.2025 40

BBC

Mark Piesing

Why Norway is bringing back Cold War bunkers

Norway's proximity to the USSR during the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases for planes and ships....

31.03.2025 200

BBC

Mark Piesing

The airship that may usher in a new era

Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, is it a safe-enough bet? ...

16.02.2025 60

BBC

Mark Piesing