come for a ride in the huge flying butt
come for a ride in the huge flying butt
http://www.snotr.com/video/619
and get this, it has no wheels - those are 4 hover-pads it's \"rolling\" along the runway on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-791
and get this, it has no wheels - those are 4 hover-pads it's \"rolling\" along the runway on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-791
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That looks cool... Weird design... but it works!
Imagine if the made it land like the harrier!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-8_Harrier_II
Vertical landing with little to no runway... That would be very sweet!
Imagine if the made it land like the harrier!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-8_Harrier_II
Vertical landing with little to no runway... That would be very sweet!
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Sedwick wrote:"It's still better than dealing with the airline companies!"
reminds me of the cargolifter project that they had a while back here in germany. they tried to build giant cargo-zeppelins for oversea containers, but unfortunately ran out of funds in dev-stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter
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no TIGERassault the hover pads are just there because it was easier than wheels - like a regular plane it still has to pick up speed on the ground to be able to fly.
when on the ground it does hover but it's not a hover vehicle, it's a plane - it flies high. This was just a low demonstration flight - it is flying however, it's not ground-effect. It may look like it's flying extra low because it's such a huge craft, it just looks odd to see something so huge.
it's a mixture of a blimp and plane. It gets some of it's lift from being a helium filled blimp - and some from it's lifting-wing-body design.
when on the ground it does hover but it's not a hover vehicle, it's a plane - it flies high. This was just a low demonstration flight - it is flying however, it's not ground-effect. It may look like it's flying extra low because it's such a huge craft, it just looks odd to see something so huge.
it's a mixture of a blimp and plane. It gets some of it's lift from being a helium filled blimp - and some from it's lifting-wing-body design.
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Oh. Well then it's a lot more interesting!roid wrote:no TIGERassault the hover pads are just there because it was easier than wheels - like a regular plane it still has to pick up speed on the ground to be able to fly.
when on the ground it does hover but it's not a hover vehicle, it's a plane - it flies high. This was just a low demonstration flight - it is flying however, it's not ground-effect. It may look like it's flying extra low because it's such a huge craft, it just looks odd to see something so huge.
it's a mixture of a blimp and plane. It gets some of it's lift from being a helium filled blimp - and some from it's lifting-wing-body design.
That thing reminds me of a giant inflateable toy you win at a fiar ground, with design influences taken from the ship out of the fim \"the navigator\" know what i mean?...
Pretty cool though, but i that \"air ships. AKA ZEPPELINS\" were old hat know, guess this aint know conventional air ship though is it. Hopefully no \"hindenburg\" re-enactments will happen with things like this... :/
Pretty cool though, but i that \"air ships. AKA ZEPPELINS\" were old hat know, guess this aint know conventional air ship though is it. Hopefully no \"hindenburg\" re-enactments will happen with things like this... :/
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a prancing purple propeller pooper.Red_5 wrote:Who eats propellers??Gekko71 wrote:...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.
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Has he heard those flying butt artifacts come in black?fliptw wrote:a prancing purple propeller pooper.Red_5 wrote:Who eats propellers??Gekko71 wrote:...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.