Episode 406 - Project Habakkuk ft. Josh Boerman
From Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast by Lions Led By Donkeys
March 23, 2026 · 1h 11m
About this episode
Joe and guest Josh Boerman discuss the bizarre history of an attempted ice aircraft carrier during World War II.
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People in this episode
Host: Joe
Guest: Josh Boerman
Topics covered
- Project Habakkuk
- iceberg aircraft carrier
- World War II
- military history
- engineering failures
Keywords
- Project Habakkuk
- ice
- aircraft carrier
- World War II
- engineering
- military history
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Worst of All Possible Worlds, Ill Conceived
Books & works: Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy, Project Habakkuk’s Iceberg Aircraft Carrier, A Description of the Iceberg Aircraft Carrier and the Bearing of the Mechanical Properties of Frozen Wood Pulp upon Some Problems of Glacier Flow, The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada
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