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^Good stuff Kach.

Imagine if someone dared to prototype something to make it better.
Like a vehicle that can do everything but swim and fly....

When I was 13 years old back in 1973 I had the idea of arms at the side of a hovercraft that would explosively swing down and enable the hovercraft to jump or hop over dry land (to get over a trench or gully). Worked a little different than Speed Racer's car, but same idea.

As one gets older one realizes that if you want to jump over something all you have to do is get a ramp or ride on a horse. It kind of sucks getting old and losing some of your imagination in exchange for pragmatism. :(

2012
Driving The World's Only Official Street Legal Speed Racer Mach 5
https://jalopnik.com/5968238/driving-the-worlds-only-official-street-legal-speed-racer-mach-5/
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520858594.jpg

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Rumor has it though that a future release of a new video of The Real Mach 5 may actually show it with working jacks and actually jumping. Hmmmmmmm.

kach22i

03-12-2018 05:57 AM

ExoMars 2016 bound for Mars after smooth Launch on Proton/Briz-M
March 14, 2016
ExoMars 2016 bound for Mars after smooth Launch on Proton/Briz-M – ExoMars | Spaceflight101
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520859053.jpg

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ExoMars 2016 has been sent on its way to Mars on Monday after a day-long ascent mission atop a Proton-M/Briz-M launch vehicle taking the heaviest craft to visit Mars three times around planet Earth before being injected onto its Trans-Martian Trajectory...................

The multi-billion Euro ExoMars project is a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Roscosmos State Corporation for a pair of missions – the first in 2016 to fly an orbiter and landing demonstrator to Mars, and the second in 2018 or 2020 to deliver a rover and instrumented lander to the surface to look for signatures of past and present life as the first mission with this explicit goal. ..............

Initially starting out as a project between ESA and NASA, the mission went through a number of designs of different orbiter and rover combinations before it became clear that the U.S. could not finance its side of the project. ESA and Roscosmos then partnered up for the two ExoMars missions, also leading to the switch to the Proton rocket.....................

..................lasting until Briz-M was over central Kazakhstan, from where it had launched four hours earlier................

The seven-month journey of the ExoMars spacecraft will first take the vehicle through detailed testing operations, powering up and checking out the instruments, before a major Deep Space Maneuver occurs around July 28 to set ExoMars on its final course towards Mars.

On the news this morning, all I hear is Tesla, Tesla, Tesla has a Mars project planned.............welcome to 2016?

I don't recall the press gushing all over that 2016 event.

ARCA Space Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCA_Space_Corporation
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nt_vehicle.jpg

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Orizont suborbital vehicle

kach22i

03-12-2018 06:11 AM

https://starcarcentral.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/car-show-mania-huntington-beach-bretwoodvalleysimi-starcarcentral-com-is-everywhere-at-once-mach-5-is-not-just-a-car-its-the-speed-we-are-moving-at-every-weekend/
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http://speedracer.wikia.com/wiki/File:ALSO_MACH_4.jpg
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120116032445

http://speedracer.wikia.com/wiki/Mach_4
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120116032421

porsche930dude

03-12-2018 03:51 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520895054.JPG
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520895054.JPG

kach22i

03-12-2018 04:48 PM

Wheel Horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_Horse
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._tractor-s.jpg

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Successor The Toro Company
Founded 1947
Defunct 1986
Headquarters South Bend, Indiana, USA

I would think that those belts would get wet and slip, sort of a problem with some small hovercraft too.

Indonesian Hovercraft
Kartika: Hovercraft Buatan TNI-AD
Februari 21, 2011
http://defenseph.net/drp/index.php?topic=2756.0
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https://indonesiaproud.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/kartika-hovercraft-buatan-tni-ad/

URY914

03-12-2018 05:17 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520900244.jpg

URY914

03-12-2018 05:25 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520900736.jpg

URY914

03-12-2018 05:30 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520900941.jpg

URY914

03-12-2018 05:31 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520901120.jpg

dad911

03-12-2018 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by john70t (Post 9957574)

^Good stuff Kach.

Imagine if someone dared to prototype something to make it better.
Like a vehicle that can do everything but swim and fly....
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520813525.jpg

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Originally Posted by kach22i (Post 9957960)

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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520900988.jpg

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URY914

03-12-2018 05:35 PM

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kach22i

03-12-2018 05:53 PM

Air casters: 7 reasons to take a fresh look at an existing technology
https://www.plantengineering.com/single-article/air-casters-7-reasons-to-take-a-fresh-look-at-an-existing-technology/3e3a47f8359ca6d4110b89d6094208a1.html
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Although air caster technology was originally developed in the mid-1950s, recent changes in the industrial landscape are making them a modern means to consider for moving machinery, equipment, product and cargo...........

Like a hovercraft, the load floats on this nearly frictionless layer and can be moved in any direction. Depending on the size of the air caster, it can lift the load up to 3.5 inches. The size and weight of the load will determine the number and size of air casters needed.

SRN4 systems tour
SRN4 systems tour:: jameshovercraft.co.uk
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520902276.jpg

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Underneath the craft, whilst on jacks. Again a rare experience, this shows one of the seven hydraulic jack rams raised. .......

The rubber pad onto which the jack ram (rusty) is placed. This is one of the seven landing pads underneath the SRN4 - on landing it didnt sit on the skirt or even have a metal-to-ground contact. Instead it was placed down on these giant rubber biscuits, engineered to be the strongest points of the craft's structure.

kach22i

03-12-2018 05:59 PM

Объект 760
https://42.tut.by/480963
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/0c/f/obekt_760_1.jpg
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/0a/b/obekt_760.jpg
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/06/8/brdm_vpk_3.jpg
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/07/2/brdm_vpk_2.jpg
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/0c/5/brdm_vps_1.jpg
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No joke.

http://mongol.su/forum/index.php?topic=2842.40
http://zonwar.ru/images/news5/news-921_1.jpg
http://zonwar.ru/images/news5/news-921_4.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...craft_tank.jpg

kach22i

03-12-2018 06:02 PM

Hovercraft tank
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Hovercraft+tank&uid=1575
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History

First successful experiments with hovercraft in the USSR date back to the mid-1930s and are tightly connected with the name of a talented engineer and designer Vladimir Levkov, who substantiated the possibility of hovercraft as far back as in 1925 in his treatise named The vortex theory of the rotor (Russian: Вихревая теория ротора). In 1934 the L-1 hovercraft boat which is sometimes referred to as the first hovercraft boat in the world was designed and built in his laboratory, with the L-5 fast-attack boat soon to follow. It became obvious that there was a great potential in further development of this technology of transportation.

BELOW: There are videos on Youtube of the actual skirt-less hovercraft in operation in the early 1930's - it was fast too.

https://42.tut.by/480963
https://img.tyt.by/620x620s/n/it/0a/...icle_1937_.jpg

So yes John, it's all been done before. And that's no joke.

Never think small, others aren't and they make things happen while the fools laugh.

kach22i

03-12-2018 06:12 PM

This is the craft you can find on Youtube, designed to go over marshlands and shallow waterways.

Советский торпедный катер на воздушной подушке Л-5
Òàíê íà âîçäóøíîé ïîäóøêå - Îáúåêò 760
http://zonwar.ru/images/news5/news-922_1.jpg

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/290060032240632816/
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/31/ce/58/3...a04d1b5577.jpg
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kach22i

03-12-2018 06:17 PM

NSU Trapeze Concept (Bertone) (1973)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/236509417906691133/
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/39/20/df/3...ept-s-cars.jpg

http://www.conceptcar.ee/conceptcars/364-nsu/4365-nsu-trapeze-concept-bertone-1973.html
http://www.conceptcar.ee/images/conc...ne-1973-05.jpg

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/558868634981111677/
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/558868634981111677/
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/32/72/ff/3...lian-style.jpg

kach22i

03-12-2018 06:26 PM

https://www.pinterest.com/andresimpson/retro-future-water-world/
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/18/bd/7...ng-forward.jpg

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/nifty_futuristic_images_from_maos_china
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