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Frosty, please do noy dive in the water near the boat to clean the props, I am sure that there are so many bad "things" in there we may not hear from you again! Send down a local, I believe there are plenty of spares!

 

Fantômas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantômas

 

George, Just where DO you come up with these photos, lad?

 

very nice.. made me spend some time away from work to day

 

I sometimes use Google as a quick "spell check" (does not always work as I'm not the only poor speller in the world), then I click "IMAGES" to see what comes up.

Image search on the word "retractable" gave us the flying car.
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From Physicsforms.com someone posted this 90- degree bend air flow AVI (velocity model of turbulent plug flow).

Link to AVI
http://www.cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/~sugiyama/squ180/douga1.avi

Link to original post:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=185436&page=2


Archibase has a series of photos of Hong Kong at different times.
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/01/21/hong-kong-at-different-times/




More here:
http://archibase.net/archinews/13892.html

 

Hey, George,

Check this out. David Drake, a very good writer of military science fiction, posited a future hovercraft to replace tread driven tanks. His version weighs 170 tons, has a 20 cm plasma cannon main gun, and can hit 100 mph on roads. Power (conveniently) comes from a small fusion reactor

Drake is a good writer; he served around the same time I did, so he has actual military experience. He does his research and pays attention to the details. Many of his stories have elements describing the peculiarities of a main battle tank that is also a hovercraft, which means armored rigid curtains. He has described stopping, turning, and following terrain contours in ways that make sense, given the known properties of hovercraft.

 

That is quite interesting Charlie, I hope I never get to see one in action......

 

So Safie, how does that Duchess stuff work? I mean, if you all hate her so much, why did you elect her duchess for Cornwall??

Maybe answer in drivel thread, don't want to hijack this excellent thread, one of the best here.

 

Looks cool.

The current hovercraft I'm building in model form (1"=1'-0" almost five feet long) started out seven years ago as a hover-tank. Many changes later it is no longer a hover-tank.

It's a nice fantasy but once you get serious and weight or the recoil of a gun (which is why I also had an electro plasma cannon) you just can't delude yourself for very long.

Of course I've had the advantage of experimenting with my own 10 foot long factory built hovercraft which has kept me grounded (groan).

The hovertank illustrated is more like a Hybricraft or skirtless hovercraft than what I fool around with.

HybriCraft™
http://www.walter-group.com/hybricraft.htm


Their POC machine may look more like the hovertank concept though.

http://www.walter-group.com/hybricraft_moments_in_history_92D.htm

 

Caption this!

 

The saying; "form follows function" takes on an unintended meaning.

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http://www.starshipmodeler.com/events/wfest2k5.htm



http://www.starshipmodeler.biz/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=43

 

"Chief put in his retirement papers, moved to Ohio, and bought that farm he used to dream of while pulling the midnight watch ... but his heart wasn't in it."

 

Could this be Frosty's new car?

 

Nah, He is getting one of those new Tata cheep cars - reminds me of a re-skinned 600cc fiat uno? the 0ne that the fast boyz used to hot up to buggery, and accelerate quicker than a F! to do 200kmh on the motorways of Europe before EU crap spoilt all the fun. If anyone is interested in a retro suzuki 4x4 with 2stroke engine, is also made - called Maruti, and affectionately called "kusuni" which I believe means fart..... To quote one of Australias famous bush artists, Pro Heart on flatulence - "A little bit more choke & it would have started"

 

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread....05&page=985

Iinflatable attachment to the CB90, I'm assuming it's to extend it's rough seas capabilities with extra buoyancy.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/06/navy...neboats_070616/



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