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Moses 04-18-2007 06:34 AM

Quote:

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.http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/...s/beerchug.gif

}{arlequin 04-18-2007 07:01 AM

+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 :D

kach22i 04-18-2007 07:04 AM

Build your own.

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


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

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
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176908632.jpg

BRPORSCHE 04-18-2007 07:19 AM

ours...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176909514.jpg

theirs...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176909537.jpg

cashflyer 04-18-2007 07:33 AM

Sure, "back in the day"... but now:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176919718.jpg
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 04-18-2007 08:52 AM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176915158.jpg

UPDATE: 04/18/07

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

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 04-18-2007 08:54 AM

How to hide from the wife
 
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176915266.jpg

wcc 04-18-2007 09:29 AM

The shoes will give you away! Then you'll get in trouble for trying to hide AND for having shoes on the couch! :rolleyes:

cashflyer 04-18-2007 10:07 AM

http://pargoo.customer.netspace.net.au/Area112.jpg
The hangar at Baikonour, which housed airframe OK-1K1 - the Buran.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176918841.jpg
Airframe OK-ML1 - a static test vehicle - in outdoor storage at Baikonour.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176919093.jpg
Airframe OK-TVA, static test vehicle; now a tourist attraction in Gorky Park

Second generation airframes:
OK-1K2 - Unofficially named "Baikal": Scheduled to be put on display in the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Germany. link
OK-2K2 - partially completed, then scrapped...
OK-3K2 - partially completed, then scrapped...


Excellent site with status of each orbiter and each test vehicle: link

BRPORSCHE 04-18-2007 10:26 AM

cashflyer, You truly are a master of the wikipedia.

kach22i 04-18-2007 10:49 AM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176922100.jpg

cashflyer 04-18-2007 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BRPORSCHE
cashflyer, You truly are a master of the wikipedia.
I guess this is a jab, but thanks or whatever.
What I seem to be a master of is f**king off at work.

My sources were:
www.wikipedia.org
www.englishrussia.com
rep-ua.com
www.k26.com
www.buran-energia.com
www.buran.ru
....and a few others.

And I didn't simply copy and paste like some people - I took the time to cross-reference information across the sources and also edited my post several times to give the most accurate info that I could dig up.

http://www.fmft.net/archives/bird%20flu/bird%20flu.JPG

kach22i 04-18-2007 11:23 AM

I'm going nuclear.:D

The potential of nuclear power for high-speed ocean-going air-cushion vehicles. (1969)
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=406&gTable=mtgpaper&gID=42016


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176923959.jpg



http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/references.html
http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/images/bk-flying.jpg

john70t 04-18-2007 12:11 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176927071.jpg
It's hard to argue with 400HP and 42mpg.
http://world.honda.com/Tokyo2001/auto/DUALNOTE/powerunit/index.html

911teo 04-18-2007 12:28 PM

I'll see the Honda and raise you with this..

0-60 in 4 secs

135mpg

200 miles per "tank"

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176928092.jpg

john70t 04-18-2007 12:46 PM

Ahh, the Teslamotors car :)

BRPORSCHE 04-18-2007 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cashflyer
I guess this is a jab, but thanks or whatever.
What I seem to be a master of is f**king off at work.

http://www.fmft.net/archives/bird%20flu/bird%20flu.JPG

I think ya took me the wrong way. Just trying to add some fun to my life today. Didn't think many people knew about the Buran. Glad to know I am not the only space freak out there. Since I am a tour guide of JSC I get to see the shuttle (just a trainer, but still) everyday.

Definitely no jab intended. Sorry about that.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1176930653.jpg

Steve PH 04-18-2007 01:49 PM

Some Ferrari related images....

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/518...ockpump2ga.jpg

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5416/496bu.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/do_ju/Flitzer/Ferrari/ferrwc.jpg

http://www.doubleard.co.uk/gallery/S...rrari_girl.jpg

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5356/539zz.jpg

Spede 04-18-2007 02:39 PM

Boy... those Ferrari guys take obsession to the next level! Kinda wacko if you ask me. ;)

cashflyer 04-18-2007 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BRPORSCHE
I think ya took me the wrong way.
Prolly* just me having a bad day.

Huffer
http://www.accurate-automation.com/T...art_Engine.JPG

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