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The US Army Ripsaw
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Remote or manned vehicle with 0-60 in a claimed 3 seconds 😀
Also comes with a big gun on top instead
I always love how the primary design brief for airport fire trucks is 'make it look like it was designed by Jerry Anderson'
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The new ones are nice.
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But I prefer the old ones.
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Is it just me that finds this fascinating and terrifying?
almost eerily lifelike
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Thread winner!
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Then the little gun on the front of it.
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piedi di formaggio I got to sit in one of those as a kid. A family friend got an obsolete one from the RAF, all he had to do was pay to get it transported away! I don't suppose you could do that these days!
He was part of a group who dug up WWII aircraft around Sussex and Kent, I still have a 20mm cannon shell from a Spitfire he gave me but I can't find the bullets from the Stuka he also gave me. He also had a .5" Browning machine gun tucked away in barn on the farm where he kept the Lightning. His prize possesion though was a Spitfire Gun-sight
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more napier madness 🙂
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the difference engine
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though i'm not to sure about the g-clamps 🙂
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Southern Pacific AC-12 Cab Forward:
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more napier madness
I saw two Deltics being hauled on the West Coast Main Line near Crewe a few weeks back!
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ED-209.! We have a winner.
And technically not a machine but he was a machine and pretty f'kin cool.
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RustyS, that orange and black 8-wheeler; what [i]is[/i] that? Looks like something from the Department of WTF!
Love Macc's Fire trucks, especially the first one; I'd have a decommissioned one sans all the fire fighting equipment as personal transport; seriously cool.
As is the EE Lightning, and the Porsche 917!
Great stuff. 😀
IIRC the most complicated machine ever made
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This machine justifies having a Navy
Always loved the little Hagglund articulated tracked vehicle, but then I discovered this:
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http://www.army-technology.com/projects/dt-30-vityaz-articulated-tracked-vehicle/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
Even got it's own song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
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More creepy looking than cool but amazing for its age ... 240yo automaton
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Countdown to someone posting the ekranoplan...
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First time I saw one of these, I couldn't stop making the transformers ckkkk-ckkkk-ckkkk-ckkkk noise.
I always loved amphibious planes.
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piedi di formaggio I got to sit in one of those as a kid.
Meh. My uncle used to fly them!
Ok SaxonRider, I'll see your amphibian, and raise you this one, and you get another, [i]seriously[/i] cool machine thrown in, one I've actually flown in:
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Northwind- an ekranoplan, now that is a fabulous beast! Not sure it is as cool looking as it actually is though... I keep thinking of cool machines, like a mechanical calculator, but it doesn't actually look that cool. Not like that difference engine anyway.
Wayne Gardner's Honda NSR500 from 1987.....
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I swear I almost jizzed my pants when I watched him race at Donnington 8)
Still the coolest race series (Moto GP) in the world FACT
Bertha, although heavily damaged after less than 200 rings drive in December 2013, and still sitting there after a single ring advance in February 2014...
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Not only cool looking and hugely powerful, but smooth, controllable and over one hundred years old. The River Don Engine at Kelham Island (at least, that's what I think it's called, I just remember watching it).
Love Macc's Fire trucks, especially the first one; I'd have a decommissioned one sans all the fire fighting equipment as personal transport; seriously cool.
Its a long shot but.... I do have a project proposal in the pipe line that involves buying one. Waiting to see if the client is nuts enough to go for it.