OT: Fancy some 100mph water skiing?

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:31 pm

minivin wrote:

Kewl

Caspian Sea Monster.

minivin · Post by **minivin** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:40 pm

Merecat wrote:How about

http://www.yachtboutique.com/Designers/ ... noplan.htm

If you have a few coppers to spare?

Mick

And did you know the Russians still hold the record for producing the most powerful turbo-prop engine ever built and the biggest load-lift capability for a helicopter as well, Russians are blooming good at design, just vastly under financed

minivin · Post by **minivin** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:42 pm

Gromit wrote:
minivin wrote:

Kewl

Caspian Sea Monster.

amazine beasts, 8 engines to lift it out of the water, and then only the need for two to keep it going at silly speeds just above the water

got the Americans scared when they first saw the spy satellite pictures ("what the eff is that!" I think was the term first used

)

Merecat · Post by **Merecat** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:54 pm

minivin wrote:

And did you know the Russians still hold the record for producing the most powerful turbo-prop engine ever built and the biggest load-lift capability for a helicopter as well, Russians are blooming good at design, just vastly under financed

Ill take your point about the Kuznetsov NK-12MV and the Mil MI 26................But what happened with the Cossack??

Mick

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:59 pm

Merecat wrote:
minivin wrote:

And did you know the Russians still hold the record for producing the most powerful turbo-prop engine ever built and the biggest load-lift capability for a helicopter as well, Russians are blooming good at design, just vastly under financed
Ill take your point about the Kuznetsov NK-12MV and the Mil MI 26................But what happened with the Cossack??

Mick

It was severely vastly under financed

Chris H · Post by **Chris H** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:34 pm

Video of flying on water

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogalle ... rvards.wmv

minivin · Post by **minivin** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:46 pm

Chris H wrote:Video of flying on water

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogalle ... rvards.wmv

excellent

rogerslater · Post by **rogerslater** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:14 am

That is very impressive. I am a qualified seaplane pilot and it is very difficult to judge your height above the water when it is smooth and glassy like that. Of course, if there are waves and you catch one, you are suddenly in a 450hp radial engined submarine....

Ah, the Harvard. You can get the propeller tips to go supersonic in a dive and they make a loud rasping noise you can hear in the next county. Bit like my S on the overrun

Roger