Mark Piesing
@MarkPiesing
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I write about sci, tech, history + books @airandspace @BBC_Future @HISTORY @spectator | Finalist Aviation Media Awards | Author N-4 DOWN @marinerbooks
Oxford
Joined April 2011
Read my latest feature article for @smithsonian @airandspace Air and Space magazine… The Secret History of Drones Pilotless aircraft have been around longer than you might think... #aviation #history #avgeeks #uav
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RT @the_transit_guy: The “golden age of America” had a rail system that literally looked like this:
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RT @SWDevonRebecca: I still can’t make sense of why two ships capable of being sold to other countries to use are not worth keeping for our…
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RT @MarkPiesing: What really happened in Calvine? The mystery behind the best UFO picture ever seen
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What really happened in Calvine? The mystery behind the best UFO picture ever seen
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RT @ArmandDAngour: Brilliant scholar A.S. speaking fluent ancient Greek just as an Italian might have done in the 1st century BC.
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Alarming 3 problems this 1 Ukrainian robot/ drone startup apparently face -Must overcome Ukraine’s complicated bureaucracy and a sometimes corrupt market. -Raids by rivals and founders arrested -Engineers are mobilised and sent to the front #Ukraine
“We witnessed their first platoon-scale assault” Russian men v Ukrainian robots: watch the future of war begin #Ukraine
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RT @ThePCCLondon: As part of #SaveThePCC, we are looking to cement our status as a culturally significant institution. We need examples as…
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RT @MarkPiesing: “We witnessed their first platoon-scale assault” Russian men v Ukrainian robots: watch the future of war begin #Ukraine…
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“We witnessed their first platoon-scale assault” Russian men v Ukrainian robots: watch the future of war begin #Ukraine
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RT @MarkPiesing: Echoes of today, perhaps? Even in this censored form, the play of her novel The Crocked Cross went on to draw protest fro…
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RT @MarkPiesing: Rediscovered and republished, a young English novelist’s electrifying warning of the Nazi threat from 1934.
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RT @emilysheffield: The inside story of this Govts failure to clinch £450mn AstraZeneca deal via @FT Having agreed £90 million in subsidi…
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RT @Elwick70: Very sad news There has been railway engineering at the Doncaster Works ‘The Plant’ since 1853. Many world famous locomotiv…
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RT @TimothyDSnyder: Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.
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RT @Gabriel64869839: "We'll drive Catterick to Tallin in wheeled APCs (and wait for AJAX to follow on trailers)", said British Army. And de…
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Echoes of today, perhaps? Even in this censored form, the play of her novel The Crocked Cross went on to draw protest from rightwing factions in Britain, who viewed it as anti-German propaganda and argued it was too negative about the Nazi government.
Rediscovered and republished, a young English novelist’s electrifying warning of the Nazi threat from 1934.
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