TRAINS
This luxury passenger train, whose name became synonymous with murder mysteries, originally connected Paris with Constantinople.
What is the Orient Express?
Before becoming the world's first operational jet fighter, this German aircraft was delayed partly by problems with its Junkers Jumo 004 engines.
What is the Messerschmitt Me 262?
In this common truss design, diagonal members generally slope downward toward the center and carry tension under typical loading.
What is a Pratt truss?
Before his rebellion against the dragons, this dragon served as Alduin's lieutenant and later teaches the Dragonborn atop the Throat of the World.
Who is Paarthurnax?
Before it was reforged as Andúril, Aragorn's sword was known by this name.
What is Narsil?
Completed in 1904, this railway crosses Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok over roughly 9,000 kilometers.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Nicknamed the “Connie,” this distinctive triple-tailed airliner was designed by Lockheed.
What is the Lockheed Constellation?
This truss reverses the usual diagonal orientation of a Pratt, placing its diagonals primarily in compression.
What is a Howe truss?
The Dwemer disappeared during the Battle of Red Mountain after Kagrenac used his tools on the Heart of this dead god.
Who is Lorkhan?
The Doors of Durin instruct visitors to “speak, friend, and enter”; this Sindarin word for “friend” opens them.
What is mellon?
Britain's 1938 steam locomotive speed record of 126 mph was set by this streamlined A4 locomotive.
What is Mallard?
Howard Hughes piloted this enormous wooden flying boat on its only flight in 1947.
What is the Hughes H-4 Hercules, or Spruce Goose?
Patented in 1848, this design uses a lattice of diagonals forming a series of equilateral or near-equilateral triangles.
What is a Warren truss?
This Dragon Priest, encountered in Skuldafn, possesses the staff needed to open the portal to Sovngarde.
Who is Nahkriin?
Théoden's sword, whose name means approximately “battle-friend,” bears this name.
What is Herugrim?
This French engineer developed the compound steam-locomotive system bearing his name, using high- and low-pressure cylinders on separate engine units.
Who was Anatole Mallet?
Britain's TSR-2 strike aircraft was intended to replace this English Electric bomber before the project was cancelled in 1965.
What is the Canberra?
This truss, patented in 1844, resembles a Pratt but adds counter-diagonals so stresses can reverse under moving railroad loads.
What is a Whipple truss?
The Dragonborn DLC reveals that Miraak originally served this Daedric Prince before rebelling against the dragons.
Who is Hermaeus Mora?
Before taking the name Gollum, Sméagol belonged to this Hobbit-related people living near the Gladden Fields.
Who are the Stoors?
Britain's unusual 0-4-4-0 locomotive Leader was an experimental design by this engineer, better known for his rebuilt Merchant Navy and West Country locomotives.
Who was Oliver Bulleid?
Only one prototype of this Soviet supersonic strategic bomber, designed by Pavel Tsybin's bureau and sometimes called the RS, was completed before the project was cancelled.
What is the Tsybin RSR?
Pennsylvania Railroad engineer Albert Fink gave his name to this unusual 19th-century truss characterized by diagonals radiating from the tops of its towers.
What is a Fink truss?
According to Nordic tradition, this legendary figure supposedly founded the Companions after arriving in Skyrim with the Five Hundred Companions.
Who is Ysgramor?
During the Council of Elrond, this Elf recounts how his companion was lost while escaping Sauron's forces near the Gladden Fields.
Who is Legolas?