Nooh’s Substack
My personal Substack where I intend to explore everything from aerospace innovations to naval strategy, sovereign space access, and the cultural and geopolitical forces that shape them.
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A Fantasy of Flight (opens the original)
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Since time immemorial humans have craved the ability to fly, long before we understood any of the physics behind it. Every civilisation on the planet has produced someone who looked at birds and wondered how incredible it would be to soar the heavens just like them and what it would actually take to achieve that feat. Now what I find more interesting is not that this happened, I mean it is natural for curious people to imagine and innovate. Instead, I am more driven to what shape this wanting an
The Great Scattering (opens the original)
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Picture it, Germany, 19451. Allied armies are marching deeper into the heart of Nazi territory. Every city liberated by British, American, and Soviet forces discovered scores of German scientists and engineers working tirelessly on projects that could further the Nazi war effort. From rockets and missiles to jet and rocket-propelled aircraft, these wunderwaffe (miracle weapons) were meant as a last ditch effort to turn the tide against the Allies, but they were too late and too few to have a sig
Protecting the Pearl (opens the original)
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Now, I am mainly writing this piece because I feel homesick. I haven’t set foot in Bahrain in over a year now, and while I was supposed to be home a couple of months ago, the outbreak of regional war between our larger neighbours stopped me from doing so, and that in turn has made this feeling much much worse. It isn’t just things like food, the sights and smells in Bahrain that I miss, it is the feeling of being surrounded by thousands of years of history you can witness in any direction you tu
Too Big To Fly (opens the original)
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If you were to pull up an aircraft tracking app right now, you’re bound to see thousands of aircraft flying from west to east, and back. There are plenty of established airlines in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific which cater to the needs of all kinds of passengers, funnelling them through their mega-hubs connecting the ends of the Earth. But between these nodes of aviation, in the centre of these routes lies a great source of these passengers, the Indian subcontinent. Despite being one
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