How It Works issue 17 is on sale tomorrow, so get yourself in the mood for our ‘Superbikes’ feature with a look at the Dodge Tomahawk
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Top Five Facts: Autopilot
Using it in planes is all well and good, but I won’t be happy until a computer can drive my car…
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Top Five Facts: SR-71 Blackbird
Behind the, uh, joystick of this legendary high-speed aircraft
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Video: Helicopter opens beer bottles
“Waiter! Waiter! There’s a helicopter in my soup.”
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Question Of The Day: What keeps submarines submerged underwater?
Rik Sargent comes up to the surface to give us the answer
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Video: Recreating the James Bond barrel roll
Watch the guys at Top Gear attempt to recreate the famous scene from The Man With The Golden Gun
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Top Five Facts: Harriers
With the Harriers on their way to being cut you might want to brush up on your knowledge
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Top Five Facts: Hypercars
Straight from our latest issue out 4 November, have a read of five interesting facts about these amazingly fast cars
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Top Five Facts: Speed
Here’s a quick look at five fast facts to keep you on your toes
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How do you land a plane?
If you’re ever in the unfortunate position where you’re at 30,000 feet and you realise that your airline pilot is an inflatable toy, you’ll need to know how to get the plane down from the sky safely all by yourself
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Video: Train crashes into nuclear container at 100mph!
Watch as a train pile-drives into a crash-proof nuclear container to test its impact threshold in a 100 MPH head-on collision.
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Why do car wheels look like they are spinning backwards at high speed?
Discover why wheels that a blatantly spinning forwards give off the impression that they’re spinning backwards
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What does a car handbrake actually do?
How does a car come to a stop?
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Solar Impulse makes 24 hour flight
Find out what happened here.
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How does the speedometer on an aeroplane work?
The official name for an aircraft speedometer is an Airspeed Indicator or ASI
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Solar Impulse takes off
Find out all about it here.
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An early prototype of the V-22 Osprey – 40 years earlier!
The world’s first vertical takeoff passenger liner
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Clarkson test drives the G-Wiz automatic electric vehicle – with bizarre results
Find out what Top Gear stalwart Jeremy Clarkson thinks about the G-Wiz electric car
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Concorde’s final flight
On 26 November 2003 Concorde officially retired
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Abrams M1 tank shell – In slow motion!
Whatever that hits is toast