Transport: Planes, Trains, Boats, Autos, and Rockets

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Antonov 225 Arriving in Calgary March 13 2012

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too cool! prior to wathing this I was impressed that an A-10 Warthog was able to stay airborne at what seems like 30 mph.

I didn't get to see the Antonov myself, and it only comes in here every few years (principally to ferry oil and gas equipment to other continents, in this case Africa). The current* main runway at YYC is 12,600 feet, and apparently it took the whole thing to get that pig of an aircraft airborne again.

*14,000 ft. runway is in the works.

That would be even more impressive if that landing was fully loaded. Where are you located?

Our company AREVA, has hired them to transport nuclear reactor vessel closure heads. No where near the weight capacity of 550,000 lbs according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225

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Bottom Line | Get with the times: You're driving all wrong.

As cars have become safer over the years, "the steering wheel and associated mechanisms (have) changed dramatically," it says, meaning the familiar driving maneuvers "needed to turn the wheel have all changed." Principal among the changes is the incorporation of airbag modules in the steering column, which are designed to deploy upward to protect your head and chest.

That means the higher up the wheel your hands are, the more likely they are to be directly over the plastic cover when it opens — that is, when superhot nitrogen gas flashes and inflates the bag at 150 to 250 mph.

Among the injuries the NHTSA reports from improper placement of the hands when an airbag deploys are amputations of fingers or entire hands, traumatic fractures and a particularly stomach-churning injury called "degloving," which — trust us — you definitely don't want to look up.

AAA says the bags can also slam your hands directly into your head, causing broken noses and concussions.

"If the bag is going to go, it's going to take my hand and put it into my face — either one of my hands," Bob Hendrickson, head of AAA's network of driving schools in central Indiana, told NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis.

Experts also say new research in ergonomics suggests that what's called "parallel position" makes for safer driving in general.

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Bottom Line | Get with the times: You're driving all wrong.

As cars have become safer over the years, "the steering wheel and associated mechanisms (have) changed dramatically," it says, meaning the familiar driving maneuvers "needed to turn the wheel have all changed." Principal among the changes is the incorporation of airbag modules in the steering column, which are designed to deploy upward to protect your head and chest.

That means the higher up the wheel your hands are, the more likely they are to be directly over the plastic cover when it opens — that is, when superhot nitrogen gas flashes and inflates the bag at 150 to 250 mph.

Among the injuries the NHTSA reports from improper placement of the hands when an airbag deploys are amputations of fingers or entire hands, traumatic fractures and a particularly stomach-churning injury called "degloving," which — trust us — you definitely don't want to look up.

AAA says the bags can also slam your hands directly into your head, causing broken noses and concussions.

"If the bag is going to go, it's going to take my hand and put it into my face — either one of my hands," Bob Hendrickson, head of AAA's network of driving schools in central Indiana, told NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis.

Experts also say new research in ergonomics suggests that what's called "parallel position" makes for safer driving in general.

Great tip! thanks! Yet another example of the compromises inherrent in mandating standards.

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Antonov 225 Arriving in Calgary March 13 2012

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too cool! prior to wathing this I was impressed that an A-10 Warthog was able to stay airborne at what seems like 30 mph.

I didn't get to see the Antonov myself, and it only comes in here every few years (principally to ferry oil and gas equipment to other continents, in this case Africa). The current* main runway at YYC is 12,600 feet, and apparently it took the whole thing to get that pig of an aircraft airborne again.

*14,000 ft. runway is in the works.

That would be even more impressive if that landing was fully loaded. Where are you located?

Our company AREVA, has hired them to transport nuclear reactor vessel closure heads. No where near the weight capacity of 550,000 lbs according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225

I'm in Calgary. I don't think it delivered any cargo here, so the aircraft would have been essentially empty.

Will you get a chance to see the Antonov when it takes your company's cargo?

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finally, seems, we found somebody with conscience

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BBC - Top Gear | Dutchmen invent plausible flying car

[Given the date of the video upload, I thought this might be yet another flight prank, but perhaps it is real.]

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[Azrael]

Columns are to assist with power; they do the work of sails. Operates via the Magnus effect.

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Look to Lockheed for Leadership (ca. 1940)

http://archive.org/details/0545_Look_to ... Leadership

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Promotional film about Lockheed aircraft using test pilots and speed records to show how Lockheed is at the forefront of aviation technology. Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes are shown....

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Evacuated tube transport

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Evacuated tube transport

Might not jibe with OSHA......

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Rare Titanic Film
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The Archive.org version is clearer and full length:

http://archive.org/details/RareTitanicFilm

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Dryden: 60 years of flight research

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Self-driving cars. I call it railroads by stealth!

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This video is a Japan Rail Kyushu commercial. It was created to commemorate the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen on March 12 2011.
However, because of the earthquake on March 11, the broadcast was canceled.Was taken from a camera mounted on the train.

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Volvo's self-drive 'convoy' hits the Spanish motorway

A convoy of self-driven cars has completed a 200km (125-mile) journey on a Spanish motorway, in the first public test of such vehicles.

The cars were wirelessly linked to each other and "mimicked" a lead vehicle, driven by a professional driver.

The so-called road train has been developed by Volvo. The firm is confident that they will be widely available in future.

The project aims to herald a new age of relaxed driving.

According to Volvo, drivers "can now work on their laptops, read a book or sit back and enjoy a relaxed lunch" while driving.

The road train test was carried out as part of a European Commission research project known as Sartre - Safe Road Trains for the Environment.

The convoy comprised three cars and one lorry.
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"Driving among other road-users is a great milestone in our project. It was truly thrilling," says Linda Wahlstroem, project manager for the Sartre project at Volvo Car Corporation

"We covered 200km in one day and the test turned out well. We're really delighted," she added.

The cars are fitted with special features such as cameras, radar and laser sensors - allowing the vehicle to monitor the lead vehicle and also other vehicles in their immediate vicinity. Using wireless communication, the vehicles in the platoon "mimic" the lead vehicle using autonomous control - accelerating, braking and turning in exactly the same way as the leader.

The vehicles drove at 85kph (52mph) with the gap between each vehicle just 6m (19ft).

"People think that autonomous driving is science fiction, but the fact is that the technology is already here. From the purely conceptual viewpoint, it works fine and road train will be around in one form or another in the future," says Ms Wahlstroem.

"We've focused really hard on changing as little as possible in existing systems. Everything should function without any infrastructure changes to the roads or expensive additional components in the cars.

"Apart from the software developed as part of the project, it is really only the wireless network installed between the cars that set them apart from other cars available in showrooms today."

The three-year Sartre project has been under way since 2009. Other partners include UK car technology firm Ricardo UK, Tecnalia Research & Innovation of Spain, Institut fur Kraftfahrzeuge Aachen (IKA) of Germany and the Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

All told, the vehicles in the project have covered about 10,000km on test circuits.

The eventual aim of the project is to have lots of cars "slaved" to a lead vehicle and travelling at high speed along specific routes on motorways.

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Evan Ackerman, Boeing's Chubby Hydrogen-Powered UAV Makes Its First Flight

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo ... rst-flight

Most unmanned aerial vehicles are sleek, streamlined affairs that look like they belong in a science fiction movie. Not so with Boeing's Phantom Eye UAV: it's got long skinny wings sticking out of a body shaped like a chronically overfed gerbil. This is because it's stuffed full of hydrogen, allowing it to stay airborne for days at a time.

Phantom Eye is not a small aircraft: it's got a wingspan of 45 meters, and that gigantic belly it's got going on holds two about-half-as-gigantic tanks of hydrogen. With 200 kilograms of payload, Phantom Eye relies on all of this hydrogen to keep its engines and electronics running for days. Four days, that is, non-stop without having to land. Phantom Eye cruises up at 65,000 feet (about 20,000 meters), which is well above weather and any other aircraft, and Boeing plans to deploy it as a long-duration surveillance platform....

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Man stranded in desert builds motorcycle out of his broken car

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Jalopnik | Why Russians Are Obsessed With Dash-Cams

поциент – "Patient." The poor bastard, the dumb durian in the video getting pulverized, run over or smashed into. A wordplay of "potz," the Russian translation of the Yiddish "schmuck."

летчик – "Pilot." The durian who zooms by and crashes in the grand finale of a video.

слабоумие и отвага – "Courage and dementia."

последние секунды жизни – "Last seconds of life." Videos featuring persons before and after fatal accidents.

кетай как всегда пиздец – "China is always fucked." Clips from China that feature severe crashes and frequently feature passerbys ignoring the bodies and car debris.

кирпичи – "Bricks" (as in "shitting bricks.") The audio track often features the driver panting or shouting the entire Russian vocabulary of swears at the top of their lungs. Used for videos with near misses or close shaves.

железобетонное очко – "Anus of Concrete." Honorific given to drivers who, faced with sudden danger like a huge truck coming head-on, remain calm, only saying "shoot" or "darn" quietly in the background, and efficiently steer away from danger, displaying some seriously genuflecting great driving skills.

наварра – The infamous video featuring a certain black Nissan Navarra pick-up swerving to the oncoming freightliner and being smashed into a cloud of small particles. The metaphor for a gruesome, intense, fatal accident.