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Zippo boat
http://www.rivervet.com/training_boats.htm


http://www.rivervet.com/others.htm




http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_Air_Cushion_Vehicle



http://www.panzerbaer.de/helper/us_pacv.htm


Saturday, April 07, 2007
Lockheed Martin & Gibbs To Develop Military Amphibians
http://www.fahad.com/labels/cars.html



http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/04/02/when-20-foot-amphibians-attack/

 

Remember MLK day.
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news1206/news1206-1.html

 

Good thought, George.

That was a bad page in the book of the history of ship design.

Hopefully, with all our blundering about, we humans continue to make progress toward a better society.

 

George,

That Zippo might make a good post for the Dealing with Pirates thread; matches (oops, sorry!) the direction that thread has taken lately.

I read the specs on those early river boats on the rivervet website. It's easy to understand why the Navy went to Uniflite for a rugged hull for a "high speed river patrol craft". One word description for those early armored troop carriers, on a river, with their speeds of 8.5 knots peak, 6 knots sustained: targets.

 

Two vets work down the hall from me, one said a general tried putting guys on a bardge towed by a boat/troop carrier.................it did not end well.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread236040/pg1

http://www.wci-productions.com/infopg.htm




http://www.warchina.com/jstupian.html

 

http://www.reallygoodfriend.com/index.php?d=20&m=10&y=07&category=1

 

Nice stowage tho' you gotta admit that!

 

Aren't Wooden Boats Great!

Found on the web in a photo contest. No info of any sort, but certainly a testimonial to the buoyancy of wooden boats.

 

Who'd have thought a boat of that size would have it's own swimming pool?

 

[Designer] : Damm!! Typo in the spreadsheet program. Density of water is 1025 NOT 102

 

'Heavy water' for nuclear
'Light Water' (as here density 102) for ??

So what is 'light water' used for? come on Trev you got me intrigued

 

If water was 1/10 the weight (density) we are used to the boat would float deeper. So the typo should have been the other way?

 

I use it all the time... When you feel light headed, it is the accumulation of this water on the brain... As you know we are about 60% water & in gravity the light water rises, . . . . %hit wrong thread - continues in "drivel"

 

Hay raggi, can it get any deeper? air balloons etc., inside to make the picture work - yeisch - I thought I was the pedantic one around here

 

I will drink som more red wine and come back in a better mood
After I paid some bills.