MORE random pics......

[BRPORSCHE]

Then saw this! Type R baby!

[Slider79SC]

legion.....

a fellow buffy/angel fan....!!!

[Oracle]

Originally posted by MichiganMat

[/B]

WOW!! What a chick!! And the rack...

[masraum]

Originally posted by widebody911

Wow Thom, looks spectacular. Great job. Are you going to keep it or sell it?

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by Slider79SC
keeping with cashflyer's theme...

Looks like a blow up doll, especially the dead doll eyes. Freaking weird.

[ischmitz]

it IS a blowup doll

[Slider79SC]

I have other pictures that proves she is not a blowup doll but you are right..... freaky now that I look at it.....

[VINMAN]

[Erik Mckenna]

Originally posted by widebody911

Thm,
Is that a 55?
VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kach22i]

VINMAN, where did that picture come from?

Thom, excellent work - you are going to want to keep this one.


http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/art/2006_06_01_default.asp

GE Aircraft Engine's Jet Engine Fan Blade (2001) that the museum acquired just before reopening in fall 2004. That's the composite fiber resin, polyurethane and titanium blade

[VINMAN]

Kach, Got that from a boating forum i'm on. No story behind it.

[john70t]

If I could go back in time,Chicago1893 would be at the top of the list
http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/

[widebody911]

I'm not sure what my long-term plans will be for the ghia. I have so much into it that I'm better off just stashing it somewhere safe and waiting for the market to catch up to it.

Interior shot

[Moses]

Originally posted by widebody911
I have so much into it that I'm better off just stashing it somewhere safe and waiting for the market to catch up to it.

"Somewhere safe?" My garage would work! BEAUTIFUL work, Thom. I'm surprised how fast you moved on that project. Fantastic.

[}{arlequin]

+1 on the ghia... just recently you were taking a survey on color selection for the car... very cool car.... all it needs is a rough and gruff 912 motor

[kach22i]

Build your own.

DIY Magnetohydrodynamic Drive.
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/diy-magnetohydrodynamic-drive/



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

The first working prototype, the Yamato 1, was completed in Japan in 1991, by the Ship & Ocean Foundation (later known as the Ocean Policy Research Foundation). The ship was first successfully propelled in Kobe harbor in June 1992. Yamato 1 is propelled by two MHD thrusters that run without any moving parts.

In the 1990s, Mitsubishi built several prototypes of ships propelled by an MHD system. These ships were only able to reach speeds of 15 km/h, despite higher projections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_1

[BRPORSCHE]

ours...


theirs...

[cashflyer]

Sure, "back in the day"... but now:

On May 12, 2002, a hangar housing the Buran (airframe OK-1K1) orbiter collapsed due to incomplete maintenance. The collapse killed eight workers and destroyed the orbiter as well as a mockup of an Energia booster rocket.

This was the only Russian shuttle to ever be launched.

[kach22i]

UPDATE: 04/18/07

Personal hovercraft with stairway climbing
United States Patent 6695084
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6695084.html

A personal transportation apparatus has a frame defining a surface for supporting a load, and a plurality of air-cushion cells mounted to the frame and depending from a lower side thereof, the air-cushion cells each having a changeable height to accommodate variations in an underlying terrain during a translation of the frame over the terrain. A pressure source is mounted to the frame and is operatively connected to the air-cushion cells for supplying air under pressure to the cells, thereby generating an air-cushion support for the frame. An elevation mechanism is mounted to the frame for lifting the frame from one step to a next higher step of a stairway so that the frame ascends the stairway from a lowermost step to an uppermost step of the stairway.

[Gene Wilkes]