Radio controlled Turbine Model Jet flies 744 kmh (462 Mph). The Pilot is Niels Herbrich. The flight is amazing and very very fast. The Model has a weight from 7,5 Kg and flies with kerosene. Turbine is a Behotec 180. The Jet is the world's fastest RC model turbine jet currently.
An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle that is a
means of transport, viable on land as well as on water. Amphibious
vehicles include amphibious bicycles, ATVs, cars, buses, trucks, military vehicles, and hovercraft.
Check out some of the strangest amphibious vehicles ever made.
Python - The World's Fastest Amphibious Vehicle
WaterCar‘sPython
is the world’s fasts amphibious vehicle to ever be designed and built.
The Python can reach up to 60 mph of water speed, and mid 12 second ¼
mile times and 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. For those of you who don’t speak
“car stats”, the translation is simple: it’s FAST!
The engine is based on the famous aluminum LS Corvette power train. The
doors are built to keep water out and allow easy access from the water.
The interior of the vehicle resembles a boat with captain chairs in the
front and wrapped bench in the back. [link]
Gibbs Technologies recently introduced an amphibious vehicle called Quadski. This Quadski has four-wheels like a car, but it can be folded / retracted naturally once you’ve entering to the water mode.
It truly is an All Terrain Vehicle, capable of attaining speeds of 45
mph on both land and water. The performance and comfort of the ride are
the result of a lightweight composite hull, wide track and low centre of
gravity, which gives the Quadski excellent stability on land and water. [link]
The Amphicar is an amphibious automobile, the first such vehicle
mass-produced for sale to the public starting in 1961. The German
vehicle was designed by Hanns Trippel and manufactured by the Quandt
Group at Lübeck and at Berlin-Borsigwalde. Its name is a portmanteau of
"amphibious" and "car".
The Amphicar was designed to be marketed and sold in the USA. Compared
to most boats or cars, its performance was modest, and only 4000 were
produced by 1965. Nevertheless, it is still among the most successful
amphibious civilian autos of all time, and still often prized and
preserved as novelty collectible automobiles today. [link]
VW Beetle creator Ferdinand Porsche produced the four-wheel-drive
Kübelwagen for the German Army in WWII. He then made an amphibious
version of it in 1941, followed by a smaller version of the first
amphibious car called the Schwimmwagen. It was powered by a
1.2-liter air-cooled flat four, which also drove a single propeller. The
amphibious car used the front wheels as rudders when in the water. On
land, the propeller would swing up, disengaging it from the engine. The
Schwimmwagen was heavy and slow but had good traction off-road. [link]
Well-known Swiss sportscar tuning firm Rinspeed built an amphibious car
in 2003 that can go 120 mph on land and 45 knots on water. Under 30
knots, the Rinspeed can cruise in water like a conventional boat. Above
30 knots, fold-down hydrofoils raise the car's a lightweight carbon
composite body shell 12 feet above the water. A single propeller lowers
into water with the foils, and the wheels can lift out of the water.
It is known as a "Cyclomer" and has two large drum-shaped wheels
to each of which are attached two smaller spheres which can be raised or
lowered. When lowered the auxiliary rollers serve as stabilizers for
water travel. On land the small spheres are raised and the vehicle
travels like an ordinary bicycle. [source: Popular Mechanics, december
1932]
The Terra Wind RV is a first class motor coach that is as
comfortable on the lake as it is on the land with a highway speed of up
to 80 mph and up to 7 knots on the water. [link]
LARC-V (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 5 ton), is an
aluminium-hulled amphibious cargo vehicle capable of transporting 5
tons. It was developed in the United States during the 1950s, and is
used in a variety of auxiliary roles to this day. [link]
The LARC V was 35 feet long, 9.9 feet wide, and 12 feet high with its
top erected. It could go 28 mph on land and 12 mph in water. With a
gross weight of 19,000 pounds, it could carry five tons of cargo or 40
soldiers, plus a crew of two. It could navigate shallow water with a
draft of only 3 1/2 feet. [link]
LARC-V comes ashore on Vietnam beach.
458th Transportation Company (Light Amphibian) LARC-V at South Beach, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. [images source]
Bridge layers have to be about the closest thing in the real world to
a Transformer, giant fold up, extendable instantly deployable bridges
that are most often fixed to modified tanks.
This is a list of the 9 unique military vehicles that carry its own road. These vehicles we don't usually see every day.
The M60A1
armored vehicle launched bridge (ALVB) is exactly what it sounds like: a
mobile, armored bridge. There's not always time to wait around for
engineers to erect a crossing, so the AVLB carries on its back a 60-foot bridge strong enough and wide enough to support just about every land vehicle in the arsenal — including itself.
The EFA or Engin de Franchissement de l'Avant
(forward crossing apparatus) is a field-deployable river crossing
apparatus, used by combat engineers in the French Army. It may either be
used as a bridge (deployed in a series), or as a ferry.
The EFA is the heir of the first self-propelled bridging vehicle
invented in 1955 by the French military engineer and general Gillois
Jean. Tray Gillois entered service with the French army in 1965. A
version modified by EWK was successively adopted by the American,
British and German militaries. At the time of its introduction it was
able to carry vehicles up to a maximum weight of 25 tons, the current
version supports loads of about 50 tons. It takes between 45 and 65
minutes to form a bridge 100 meters long. Tray Gillois avoids the heavy
and bulky convoys, barges brought in by road, which are sensitive to
enemy attacks. It takes about half a day to create a 100 metre deck.
(link)
Trenches and water obstacles won’t stop the MTU-72,
an armored bridgelayer introduced by the Soviet Army in 1974. Based on a
medium-sized battle tank, this design folds out a horizontal
cantilevered bridge, as opposed to a vertical bridge that could easily
be spotted by the enemy from far away. It can span a gap of nearly 60 feet and takes just 3 minutes to deploy. (link)
What’s
the military to do when a gap is just too broad to span with a
conventional bridge vehicle? Inflate a bunch of balls and top them with
sections of road, of course. The Lightweight Modular Causeway System was
first tested in 2010 and may be used for earthquake response when other
structures are damaged. (link)
Insanely long, the LEGUAN Armored Vehicle-Launched Bridge can span up to 85 feet,
and multiple units can be used to create even longer tandem bridging.
It’s fully automatic with electronic controls and it takes just a single
operator to lay the bridges in less than five minutes. With a few
pieces of extra equipment, it can even be turned into a ferry. (link)
A variant of the Churchill tank, the bridge layer was created by the Royal Engineers
and carried a 30ft long Small Box Girder (SBG) bridge. This proved
invaluable for crossing many water filled obstacles as the Allies
progressed across Western Europe after D-Day.
WFEL
Limited returns to Defence Services Asia DSA 2008. WFEL are a team
specialists who understand what military users need from tactical
military bridges and have consistenly exceeded therir expectations over
the last 40 years. The company is a prime contractors to the UK ministry
of Defence, US Department of Defense and supplier to 38 armed forces
worldwide. One of the product of WFEL is the M18 Dry Support Bridge.
The US Army chose the M18DSB as it preferred bridging solution after a
rigorous international selection process. The DSB underwent Operational
Testing with repeated missions at Fort Hood, Texas, after which the WFEL
DSB achieved : full materiels release in April 2003 and M18
classification. With over 50 systems on order and a total requirement of
well in excess of 100 systems the DSB is set to become the new world
leader.(link)
The bridge option Valentine tank was used for the transportation and installation of the Bridge, the length of the haul amounted to 10 meters. The maximum load the bridge was 30 tons.
The vehicle became useful not only in the British army's operation in
Italy, Burma and northwestern Europe, but 25 aircraft were also sent to
the Soviet Union.
The
M3 is the world’s most modern, most efficient and fastest amphibious
bridging and ferrying system, it reduces construction time dramatically
and provides increased maneuverability and mobility in the water. The M3
is currently used by the armies of Germany, UK and Taiwan ROC.
Powered
by a diesel engine (Euro III standard) and equipped with two water pump
jets for marine operations, M3 provides wet gap crossing capability for
today’s highly mobile ground forces and a wide range of missions.
State-of-the-art technology, easy handling and supportability and a high
system reliability allow the construction of a 100 m (328 ft) floating
bridge in less than 15 minutes by 24 soldiers only. Four-wheel drive and
two-axle steering, a tire-pressure adjusting system and a climbing
capacity of up to 60 % allow M3 to follow combat troops wherever they
go.(link 1, link 2)
The
bridge itself has no servos and takes about a minute to be deployed.
Once it’s in place, the vehicle can step aside to let other vehicles
cross, cross the bridge itself and then retract the bridge. (link)
It’s believed that the ancient Polynesians (progenitors of Hawaii) started the act of surfing. The first written record was by Joseph Banks aboard the HMS endeavor in 1779, although the cultural custom of surfing most likely predates this record. The ancient Hawaiians regarded surfing, or he’e nalu (wave sliding), as an almost sacred activity to communicate with the ocean and pray for their protection and strength. I bet every single one of the surfers on this infographic were praying as well. Most likely praying for their life not to end after riding these giant tsunami-waves.
As you can see, this infographic uses the friggin’ Statue of Liberty as a scale for how massive these waves are. EFF THAT’S HUGE. You can even see all of the puny air we’ve gotten through other methods – snowboarding, skating, jumping, etc. Nothing can quite get you higher than that thing that takes up about 70% of earth. [link]
This home was built by the late Curtis W. King in 1970, around the time the original Star Trek series ended. It sits on a road leading to Chattanooga's Signal Mountain and features a retractable staircase, like any good UFO should. The three-bedroom, two-bath house was sold in 2008 for $130,900, after Cleveland, Tennessee's Crye-Leike Auctions posted it for sale on eBay. [link]
In the late 2005 Astana was the landing site of a UFO in the shape of a huge “flying saucer”. But soon it became clear that it was not a visit of an extraterrestrial civilization but the new capital circus. Thanks to its space-like architecture the building stands out against the urban background. The building is adjoined by the hotel complex, the administration premises, the arena, pens and other circus related building.
The circus can seat 2,000 spectators. In the center there is a classic 13-m arena, which is equipped with modern machinery for the different acts: flights, ice shows, arena, etc. [link]
The Sanzhi UFO houses, also known as the Sanzhi pod houses or Sanzhi Pod City, were a set of abandoned pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
The UFO houses were constructed beginning in 1978. They were intended as a vacation resort in a part of the northern coast adjacent to Tamsui, and were marketed towards U.S. military officers coming from their East Asian postings. However, the project was abandoned in 1980 due to investment losses and several car accident deaths during construction, which is said to have been caused by the unfortuitous act of bisecting the Chinese dragon sculpture located near the resort gates for widening the road to the buildings. Other stories indicated that the site was the former burial ground for Dutch soldiers.
The pod-like buildings became a minor tourist attraction due in part to their unusual architecture. The structures have since been subject of a film, used as a location by MTV for cinematography, photographed by people, and become a subject in online discussions, described as a ghost town or "ruins of the future"
As of 2010, all UFO houses have been demolished and the site is in the process of being converted to a commercial seaside resort and water-park. [link]
The so-called Spaceship House is currently the Pensacola Beach Preservation and Historical Society’s headquarters. Having survived Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Dennis with nary a scratch, the southern Florida Futuro house sits atop a more traditional blockhouse structure with a permanent ramp to ground level. [link]
The Universum Bremen opened in September 2000 near to the University of Bremen, Germany. Covering over 4,000 m² the exhibition contains exhibits related to one of the three topics: mankind, earth and the cosmos. The science center building, with its 40,000 stainless steel scales, resembles a mixture between a whale and mussel. It was designed by the Bremen architect Thomas Klumpp. [link]
The building stands on the San Fernando Valley side of the Hollywood Hills, just off of Mulholland Drive. It is a one story octagon with around 2200 square feet (200m2) of living space. Most distinctively, the house is perched atop a 5-foot-wide concrete pole nearly thirty feet high. This innovative design was Lautner's solution to a site that, with a slope of 45 degrees, was thought to be practically unbuildable. Because of a concrete pedestal, almost 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter, buried under the earth and supporting the post, the house has survived earthquakes and heavy rains. The house is reached by a funicular. Chemosphere is bisected by a central, exposed brick wall with a fireplace, abutted by subdued seating, in the middle. [link]
Buzludzha (Turkish: Buzluca - lit. meaning "glacially/icy") is a historical peak in the Central Stara Planina, Bulgaria and is 1441 metres high. In 1868 it was the place of the final battle between Bulgarian rebels led by Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha and the Turks.
This flying saucer building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini. It is 16 meters high and the cupola has a diameter of 50 meters. It is set on a cliff, with offering views of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountain. Completed in 1996, the modernist structure is one of the city’s main landmarks. [link]
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